Thursday, November, 11, 1976
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University Daily Kansan
That student is a coach
By ERIC MARTINCICH
Sports Writer
He is no ordinary student.
Sure, he takes 14 hours and has to study nightly, but how many students at the University of Kansas have played professional basketball for a living?
After nine years in the Natoma Basketball Association, Wesley returned to KU this semester to complete work on his senior year in physical education. He is a senior.
"TEN YEARS is a long time to be away from school," Wesley said yesterday. "It's been a long time since I've put down in class to take notes."
Wesley is also different from other students in another way. He is an assistant basketball coach to Ted Owens.
From that point on, he might as well have lived out of a suitcase. In nine years in the NBA he played for eight teams.
AFTER PLAYING for the Royals, he was traced to Chicago. After one brief walk toward home, he was the expansion draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers, where he had his two best years. In a game against the Royals, Wesley scored 50 points, a personal record.
"After talking to Ted (earlier this summer) and finding that I could still be associated with basketball, not as a player but as someone to come down for Kaysa," he said.
His name isn't unfamiliar to KU basketball fans. As a player here from 1964 through 1966, Wesley proved basketball to be his game.
HE LEED The Big Eight in scoring in 1965 and was named to the all-conference team his junior and senior years. The 6 feet 11 center, together with Jo WO. John, let the Jayhawks to the finals of the NCAA tournament during his final year at Kansas.
Then, it was back to school to continue studying and possibly to begin a new career in coaching.
Don’t think that the pro scouts weren’t impressed, either. Wesley was drafted in the first round of the NBA draft by the Kansas Royals (now the Kansas City Knicks).
After Cleveland, it was on to Phoenix,
Washington, D.C., Philadelphia,
Milwaukee and, finally, Los Angeles,
where he was released last fall.
"I want to stay within the realm of basketball," he said. "When I get through with school I would like to do some coaching of my own."
RIGHT NOW, though, his thoughts are on practice and the upcoming season.
"The club is coming along; it's improving," he said. "With the new moving offense, I think we might see a little more individuality this season."
Wesley has been around long enough to know that you really can't determine how successful a team will be by merely watching preseason practices.
"The ultimate test is the game situation. When you come out of
Wesley, back, coaches on the court he used to play on
scrimage, you can look great or you can look bad. What it all comes down to is getting it all together for the actual game."
the jayhawks face their first test at 7:30 in the annual Crimson and Blue game.
Coach Wesley will be watching when
Once the game's over, though, Wesley
the student will go back to the classroom.
Mark Littell named Royals' top pitcher
KANSAS CITY, MO. (AP) - Relief pitcher Mark Littell, who had an 8-3 record and 16 saves in 1976, was named the pitcher of the year by the Kansas City Royals yesterday.
Littell, 23, was selected the Royals' top pitcher by the Kansas City Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America. He is the first relief pitcher to be selected
"Without Mark Littell, we never would have made it as far as we did," Manager Whitey Herzog said. "He is the first relief pitcher in Royals' history who was consistently able to come in and really slam the door."
Littell, whose 2.06 earned average was the best among American League pitchers with a minimum of 75 innings of work, attributed his success to confidence.
"I really developed it about halfway through the season and things got easier for me."
Littell will receive the award at a baseball awards dinner in Kansas City Jan. 28. Winners in previous years have been Dennis Spiittorz, Splitorz, Roger Nelson and Dragg R.
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Each school will play two games today and one game tomorrow morning. Besides Southwest Missouri State, KU will play football and Bendiji State at 9:30 a.m., tomorrow.
The teams were split into two pools and the winner and second place teams in each pool will advance to the playoff games tomorrow afternoon and Saturday morning.
THE SCHOOLS play in the tournament are: Bemidji State College, Bemidji; Minn.; Southwest Missouri State; KU; Graceland College, Laramie; Iowa; Central Missouri State; Carleton College, Northfield; Minn.; Alabama University; and Nebraska University.
AT 3:30 P.M. tomorrow, the winner of the first pool will play the second-place finish of the second pool, while the winner of the first pool will play the second-place team of the first pool.
Field hockey begins regional play
The Jayshaws opened the Association of intercollegiate Athletics for Women Region (ICARW) in 2014.
Downstairs at the Eldridge
By DAN BOWERMAN
Damna Beebe isn't talking about first, second or third place. The only the KU field hockey coach is hoping for that is her team's southeast Missouri State this morning.
"The whole key is the first game," Beebe said yesterday. "If we can beat Southwest Missouri, we have a very good chance of taking second in the tournament."
Eight schools from six states are participating in the tournament, which began today and will finish Saturday. The tournament is being hosted by William Jewell College and played on the Barstow High School fields in Kansas City, Mo.
The losers of those two games will play for third place at 10 a.m. Saturday, and the winners will play at 11:30 for the right to go to the AIAW national tournament at the Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pa.
The Jayhawks have played four of the teams in the tourney and have beaten two and lost to two, KU beat Graceland once and Nebraska twice, and lost to Southwest Missouri State and Central Missouri State once each.
TWO OF THOSE teams are in KU's pool-Graceland and Southwest Missouri. Beeeb said that the Jayhawks should be able to beat Graceland, who they beat earlier this week, 3-0, and that she is hopeful of beating SMS, who beat KU, 3-1, on Oct. 8.
Bebe also said that Bemidji State—the other team in KU's pool—was the defending champion of Region Six and placed seventh in the division. The game ended when the State lost to Nebraska, 1-0, in earlier year. KU tied with Nebrasha, 2-2, on Oct. 2, when Jaywahs won the game on perusal.
BREBE SAID she thought KU would
be able to rest in its pool, but she
want's not yet.
KU fullback Marcelle Gober,left,works hard on defense
Beebe said that since the tournament was
count anybody out," she said. "Southwest Missouri, Central Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Graceland have all had their ups and downs this season. It just depends on who has it on Thursday, Friday and Saturday."
She said if the forecasts prove right and it snows, the northern schools would have the advantage, but if it's hot the southern schools would have the advantage.
"Field hockey is a sport where you can't
being played on a neutral field, the only team in the team would have would be with the weather.
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