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Thursday, March 21, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
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Hoosiers mirror Kansas style
By S. J. Bailey
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — When the Kansas basketball team faces Indiana tonight for the right to advance to the championships of the southeast region, it might find it is playing a carbon copy of itself.
Kansan sportswriter
"Peace through Solidarity"
The second-seeded Hoosiers, 29-4 and Big Ten Conference co-champions, play nearly the same type of aggressive defense and efficient defense that has made the Jayhawks successful throughout the season.
Kansas coach Roy Williams said yesterday that he thought the Hooliers' most dangerous weapon was their versatility.
"They play aggressive man-to-man defense, and offensively they are patient and shoot over 50 percent of the ball." That was said. "That's a great deal of balance."
Williams likened Indiana's tough defensive assault to that of Big Eight Conference co-champion Oklahoma State.
But the Hoosiers could present problems for the Jayhawks on the offensive end of the floor.
"We haven't played anyone that does the things offensively, like back screens and all, that India does." he said. "The team that we played that has done most of that is ourselves in practice."
Sophomore guard Adonis Jordan said he did not think the two teams' similar playing styles would make a difference for the game any more difficult.
"We're just going to go out and prepare hard, the same way we have in our other 90 practices this season," Jordan said.
Indiana forward Eric Anderson said he thought the game would be an exciting match-up for the fans as well as the players and coaches.
"It's going to be a very physical game, no doubt," Anderson said. "There's going to be a lot of cutting and screening going on. There will definitely be bodies flying everywhere. It could get pretty rough."
Anderson, a junior forward who has averaged 14 points and seven rebounds a game this season, is only one weapon in the Hoosier arsenal. Sophomore forward Calbert Cheaney averaged 21 points a game on his way
Probable Starters
Kansas
F-Alonzo Jarnison(6-6)
F-Mike Maddox(6-7)
C-Mark Randall(6-9)
G-Terry Brown(6-2)
G-Adonis Jordan(5-11)
Indiana
F-Eric Anderson(6-9)
F-Calbert Cheaney(6-6)
C-Matt Nover(6-8)
G-Greg Graham(6-4)
G-Jamal Meeks(6-0)
"I don't talk a hell of a lot about coaches, but I'll tell you one thing.
to be named first team all-Big Ten to the coaches and the media. Despite his own team's talent, Indiana coach Bobby Knight said he respected the way Williams had motivated his players this season.
He's the kind of guy that if he had played or coached under me, I'd sure as hell be proud," Knight said. "He's a little bit charming in across many in years of coaching."
Williams had similar accolades for Knight and his coaching achievements.
"I have so much respect for him that when I lay in bed at night, I'm trying to think of ways I could be doing something, because I know he's over there in the other room thinking of ways to beat us."
Williams said he thought the match-up of himself vs. Knight might have been blown out of proportion by the media.
"I know that it's not just me against Coach Knight," he said. "I might be in a little better shape than he, is he's probably a little more aggressive, but Roy Williams is not playing Bobby Knight."
The Kansas-Indiana game will begin about 30 minutes after the Arkansas-Albama game at about 11 a.m. on CBS (local channels 5 and 13).
Bob Knight continues to reign in center court
By S. J. Bailey
Kansan sportswriter
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It is 2:40 p.m.
Ten minutes ago, Kansas basketball coach Roy Williams finished his tour of duty with the throngs of media people who have descended upon Charlotte Coliseum for the NCAA southeast regionals.
Alabama coach Wimp Sanderson and Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson served their 30-minute sentences with the news media earlier in the day. Only one question remains in the minds of the dozens of reporters hovering around the Coliseum media room: Where is the coach of Kansas' next opponent, the second-seeded Indiana Hoosiers?
Anxious chatter quickens as the minutes pass 2:41 2:42
At 2-4 24, the idle chitchat is broken by an ominous sound.
game against Florida State got started at 10:14, so I thought maybe the whole year was running behind me. "I wanted to want to do anything to disrupt that."
Enter the clown prince of college coaches Hoosier field marshal Bobby Hosier
"We have been here on time, but the NCAA rule book states that all games should start before ten o'clock," the voice began. "Our last
"Jesus, it would be tough to catch a fly ball in here," he quips, wincing as he tries to field questions that seem out from under the interview lights.
A brash honesty
He's bras, he's bold, and he says whatever is on his mind. Love him or hate him, you must admit that Bobby Knight is a man of fierce honesty who's not afraid to say what he thinks.
For example:
'Other than Dean Smith, I have more respect for Bobby Knight than any other coach in basketball. You don't need me to praise the things that Bobby Knight has done.'
■ On star forward Calbert Cheaney learning the Indiana system: “He’s doing well, but he’s got a ways to go yet. He has to learn to read defenses better. He has to do a better job playing defense” . rebound
Roy Williams Men's basketball coach
better . . . block-out better
Damn, come to think of it, there's a
lot of things he's got to do better."
On ways the NCAA could save money: "You'd better hope I never get in charge of anything. I'd start charging the press to go to games. I really burn your asses. Those would have the high-priced tickets for you guys."
On the NCAA rule book: "We ought to scrap it and start all over again and something concrete back and kick it all understand what the hell is
expected of us and what we can and cannot do."
Outrageous but respected
The Knight mystique is unlike that of any other coach. He has alienated star players, thrown chairs across the playing floor and offended nearly every journalist that he has come across. But Knight also has won three NCAA championships, an NIT title and the Pan-American and Olympic gold medals. Most recently, Knight was selected for induction into the National Basketball Hall of Fame this year.
"Other than Dean Smith, I have more respect for Bobby Knight than any other coach in basketball." Williams said. "You don't need me to praise the things that Bobby Knight has done."
And how. In his 20 years with the Hoosiers, Knight has built a record of 459-152, a 751 winning percentage. He also was honored as the AP and
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