Sports
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 26, 1991
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Seniors prepare for final home game
By S. J. Bailey
Kansan sportswriter
You can never go home again.
That simple phrase might be in the minds of seniors Mark Randall, Mike Maddox, Terry Brown and Kirk Wagner tonight as they step on the floor to play their final game in Allen Field against the Iowa State Cyclones.
Junior forward Alonzo Jamison said he thought tonight's game would be better.
Although their 11-17 over record and 5-7 conference mark would not seem to indicate it, the Cyclones have played some inspired basketball of late. Tonight, Kansas will face an Iowa State team brimming with confidence after a 97-88 victory at Oklahoma on Wednesday and an 89-76 triumph over Missouri on Saturday afternoon.
“This is going to be one of the biggest games of the season for us because we have to send the four players out with a bang.” Jamison said.
The Jayhawks, 20-5 overall and tied for first in the Big Eight Conference at 9-3, dropped from No. 8 to 10 in The Associated Press college basketball rankings yesterday after defeating Oklahoma last week.
Kansas coach Roy Williams said yesterday that he planned to start all four seniors against the Cyclones.
Senior forward Mike Maddox said the Cyclones would be ready to challenge the Jayhawks after their two impressive victories.
"They are much better than their record shows," he said. "They've
The Top Twenty Five
The Top Twenty Five teams in the Associated Press 1990-1992 basketball season, including eight that scored through FF, 24 total points based on 25 points for a first place vote through one point for a second.
| | Record | Fish | Pts | Avg |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1 UNLV (63) | 25-0 | 157 | 1 | 1.0 |
| 2 Ohio St. | 24-5 | 150 | 1 | 1.2 |
| 3 Arkansas | 27-2 | 1,455 | 1 | 1.2 |
| 4 North Carolina | 21-4 | 1,345 | 1 | 1.6 |
| 5 Indiana | 23-4 | 1,277 | 4 | 1.6 |
| 5 Syracuse | 23-4 | 1,277 | 4 | 1.6 |
| 6 Hawaii | 22-5 | 1,198 | 9 | 1.2 |
| 8 Duke | 23-6 | 1,108 | 1 | 1.2 |
| 9 Utah | 25-2 | 1,042 | 10 | 1.2 |
| 10 Oklahoma St. | 20-6 | 1,010 | 12 | 1.2 |
| 11 New Mexico St. | 21-3 | 822 | 12 | 1.2 |
| 12 Oklahoma St. | 21-3 | 822 | 12 | 1.2 |
| 13 Kentucky | 20-6 | 767 | 12 | 1.2 |
| 13 Southern Miss | 20-4 | 767 | 12 | 1.2 |
| 13 LAKES | 23-5 | 664 | 14 | 1.2 |
| 18 UCLA | 20-7 | 637 | 17 | 1.0 |
| 17 St. John's | 19-6 | 637 | 18 | 1.0 |
| 19 E Tennessee St | 19-7 | 637 | 18 | 1.0 |
| 19 E Tennessee St | 24-4 | 722 | 17 | 1.4 |
| 20 Seton Hall | 18-7 | 358 | 17 | 1.4 |
| 21 Princeton | 20-2 | 317 | 17 | 2.2 |
| 21 Pittsburgh | 19-9 | 165 | 21 | 2.2 |
| 21 Tennessee St | 18-7 | 165 | 21 | 2.2 |
| 21 Albania | 17-8 | 129 | 20 | 2.1 |
| 21 Virginia | 19-9 | 105 | 20 | 2.1 |
had a tough schedule but have had some big wins lately. They'll be coming in here with a lot of confidence and ready to play."
GAME26
Kansas Basketball
All-conference center Victor Alexor landles the Cyclones with 23.8 points and 9.2 rebounds a game against the St. Louis Cardinals in the of the week after scoring 29 points
Other receiving votes: N. Carolina St. 84, Ixora 64, Georgia Georgenburg 4, Georgia Tech 84, Indiana Indianapolis 4, Mexico 13, Fordham 10, Michigan St. 6, Furman 5, Iowa 5, Bail St. 4, DePaul 6, Arkansas St. 2, Brigham Young 2, Cincinnati 7, Delaware 4, Wake Forest 2, Houston 1, Southern Cal St. 1
IOWA STATE
CYCLONES
Coach: Johnny Orr
Record: 11-17
PROBABLE STARTERS
Player Ht. PPG RPG
F-Kirk Wagner 6-7 3.2 1.8
F-Mike Maddox 6-7 7.5 3.4
F-Mark Randall 6-9 15.4 5.8
G-Terry Brown 6-2 17.6 3.7
G-Adonls Jordan 5-11 12.0 2.8
Game Notes: Kansas will play Iowa State tomorrow in Allen Field House at 6:35 p.m. Kansas leads the series against the Cyclones 137-46, including a 69-12 record in Lawrence. The Jayhawks have won six of the last seven against the Cyclones. Kansas fell from eighth to 10th in The Associated Press poll released yesterday. Iowa State's Victor Alexander was named Big Eight player on the week yesterday. Alexander ranks second and Kansas
Player Ht. PPG RPG
F-Norman Brown 6-6 3.1 1.8
F-Brad Pippett 6-5 2.5 2.6
C-Victor Alexander 6-9 23.8 9.2
G-Doug Collins 6-1 14.5 3.7
G-Justus Thippen 6-2 11.9 3.0
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and pulling down 25 rebounds against Oklahoma and Missouri last week.
However, Alexander is not the Cyclones' only threat.
The Cyclones' backcourt tandem of Doug Collins and Justus Thipken began in 1972.
game, respectively.
Senior forward Mark Randall said the Jayhawks knew they could not afford to look past the Cyclones to Saturday's game with 15th ranked Nebraska, which could decide the conference championship.
"It will definitely be a big game for us," Randall said. "Iowa State is a very talented team, Victor is very strong in the middle and they have some good guards outside. It will be a nice game, but one we'll definitely be on for"
Julie Jacobson/KANSAN
Back to the basics
Injuries plague men's tennis team
Shelly Sack of the Kansas softball team takes aim during a team practice at Anschutz Sports Pavillion. The team, which has practiced for more than four weeks, will travel to Texas A & M over spring break for a week-long tournament.
Bv Mark Spencer
Kansan sportswriter
The 200-ranked Jayhawks, however, are missing one part of that equation as several key players are nursing some nagging injuries.
Kansas men's tennis coach Scott Perelman has the perfect formula for the Jayhawks to succeed this season. "If everyone is healthy, we can play with anyone in the country," Perelman said.
"We have our own set of concerns." Perelman said. "Patrick Man is coming off a broken foot, Craig) Widely has his arm problems and (Rafael) Rangel is coming back from mono."
The Jayhawks are currently without senior Chris Walker, also. He is expected to return soon from an arm injury that prevented him from play. The Jayhawks will play at National Indoor Team Championships in Louisville, Ky., Perelman
Despite Walker's absence and the less-than-normal physical condition of the other players, Kansas placed 18th in the 32 team tournament that featured the country's top-ranked teams.
The Jayhawks defeated 17th-ranked Arizona between losses to 13th-ranked Notre Dame and 16th-ranked Pepperdine.
The Jayhawks responded well to the defeat in a 5-4 victory over Arizona the next day and were in a tie against Pepperdine, Perelman said.
said.
Perleman said the Jayhaws' loss to Notre Dame took less than two hours, an unusually short time for a match.
"Against Notre Dame, I would say it was a very poor effort," he said. It was a combination of things, but ultimately I take the blame for it.
The Jayhawks hope their injury problems improve before the Big Eight Conference season opens April 2, Rangel said.
Kansas junior Rafael Rangel said the Jayhawks tried not to let their injury problems affect their play.
The Jayhawks are trying not to think about how much better they would have placed in the tournament with a healthy line. Wilde said.
"That's why we're a team," he said. "We won't lose because one guy isn't, there."
"The younger guys are going to have to step up," he said. "I guess we're looking for some leadership from down low."
Wildey said the Jayhawks were talented enough to work through most of their injury problems.
Kansas anticipates Big Eight tourney
"You can always say you would have done better, but injuries are part of sports," he said. "That's when other guys need to step up."
By Rick C. Honish
Kansan sportswriter
Tricia Prowall still swims for the Kansas swim team, but instead of swimming sprints, she swims from underneath the one- and three-meter
The senior was freestyle, but before her junior year Kansasury Kempf asked her to try diving.
senior was recruited as a
"We needed another diver, and she had done
said. "She was getting a little state
challenge, so we gave her a new
challenge."
Kempf said that swimmers rarely switched to diving but that Powell had done a good job of making the transition.
Powell said that her first year of diving was a learning year.
"I dove in high school, but I only trained for about 15 minutes a day," she said. "I had never even dove from a three-meter board."
She said she spent the season her junior year trying to relearn diving techniques and in the process learned a great deal about herself.
Powell trained five hours a day last summer and said the work had paid
"I learned that I could really do anything if I really wanted to," she
With her season behind her except for the big Eight Championships,
Swimming
Powell said she had two goals left in her swimming career.
She said she wanted to place in it top four at the Big Eight meet and make the zone competition. Divers must qualify for zone meets to compete for a spot at the NCAA meet
Lori Kampschroeder
Powell said that when her KU swimming career ended, she would like to go back with her father.
Lori Kampschroeder also has had an interesting swimming career with the Javahaws.
She came to Kansas as a walk-on in the butterfly and individual medley events, but she said she had reservations about her team's temp after attending a team meeting.
"He was intimidating, and I really didn't think I wanted to swim for him," she said.
Kampschroeder decided to go to the first practice, but it did not go any better than the meeting.
"I was riding around on my bike looking for the public pool," she said. "I finally got there, but I was late, and Coach Kempf told me I had to be at that Saturday's optional practice."
Kempf said she walked on the team, then walked off.
Kampschroeder said that the initial intimidation she felt from Kempf had since turned to respect.
"I had to track her down on campus." he said. "But I got her back."
'Hawks lose season finale to Shockers
Kansan sportswriter
By Lana Smith
The Kansas Jayhawks lost to the
Wichita Shockers 74-57 last night in Wichita
In its last game of the regular season, Kansas shot only 31 percent (23 of 75) from the field and 50 percent from the free throw line.
The Jayhawks lost their last lead of the game only nine minutes into the first half and never got closer than three points the rest of the game.
Kansas junior forward Terrilry
Johnson bid the team with 13 points
down the stretch.
Second in scoring is junior guard Kay Kay Hart with nine points.
Kansas sophomore center Lisa Tate grabbed five rebounds before she fouled out near the end of the game.
Top scorer for the Shockers was forward Lisa Klaassen with 20 points.
Women's Basketball
Wichita State shot 40 percent from the field for the game, and Shocker guard Keen Dean-Johnson hit three of four from three-point range.
Wichita State forward Gina Johnson ran into foul trouble with only two minutes left in the second half. She scored eight points and grabbed four bounds before she exited the game.
Kansas finished the regular season 16-11 overall and 7-7 in the Big Eight Conference.
Earlier yesterday, three Lady Jayhawks were honored on the all-conference team.
Kay Kay Hart and sophomore guard Stacy Truitt received honorable mention on the team.
Terryll Johnson was named to the All-Big Eight Conference's second team. Johnson averaged 9.1 points and scored 9.6 points a game this season.
Hart averaged nine points and 3.1 rebounds a game. Trait averaged 10 points and 3.9 rebounds for the Lady Jayhaws.
Amateurs belong in Olympics
Chris
Oster
Associate
Sports Editor
Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Karl Malone, Patrick Ewing, and Charles Barkley.
Sports Illustrated last week named its projected 1992 Olympic basketball team. Included were the best basketball players in the world, mostly
So why use them?
We were hurt that badly by the loss in 1987? Is there anyone who doubts that the United States is home to the best basketball in the world? Who do we want to coach this team, Ronald Reagan?
Despite what Al McGuire claimed during the broadcast of the Kansas-Oklahoma game (Al? Come to your senses, AlS). this team would not lose. They could not lose. I don't care what sort of Serb-Croatian behemoths you send against that; the pros would make everyone look silly.
Since the U.S. switched to using its best college basketball players to staff its basketball team, it has been an honor for the players to represent their country. Every four years a player is given the opportunity that today's college players will not likely get if we send the pros.
It seems Reagan-esque to want to use these players to overmatch the world and kick some tail. I know that amateurism is dead and likely has been for quite some time in Earley. We've learned that we use our bug guns just to save face?
Are we so proud that we do not want risk to enter into the Games?
Because if we do send the best, who else could possibly go? Of the twelve we send in 1992, as many as eight of them could go again in 1996. Not exactly spreading the wealth. Even Reagan pushed the trickle-down
Let's send some no-names out there.
To bring the matter closer to home, do you think Mark Randall would have been on a national team last fall if the pros had been eligible? No.
In the recent past, Darnell Valentine and Danny Manning also have given us a link to our national teams.
And we lost. But Randall played and gave us a representative to the games.
But even a player of Manning's ability would be left off the Olympic squad if the current approach is taken
Why bother? Leave Magic and Michael and the Mailman at home.
We have a strong shot at winning every four years without the pros. Have we forgotten the 1984 team that crushed its opponents and took the gold? Are we so proud that we do not want risk to enter into the Games?
There are those who argue my side of this debate and say it shouldn't matter because the U.S. would win either way. But our involvement in the Olympics should not hinge on our guaranteed victory.
Who would you rather see as the point guard in '92? Adonis Jordan or Isaiah Thomas?
Who should coach in '96, Roy Williams or Cotton Fitzsimmons?
I know — not fair. It may be that neither the Kansas players nor their coach will be chosen for the Olympics because of its possibility exists, and it should exist.
Try as I have to find a reason to send the pros, there is but one
Win it. And don't make us worry about it.
Some point fingers and make accusations of professionalism in other countries. But if it's wrong for them to be doing it, why should we stoop to clear their lowered standards? To win, of course.
Let's do it with the air war and forget about the ground battles.
It is the American way of life. Win.
But I am not saying that winning isn't our goal. Let's win if we can, but let's not change our rules to do it. Don't gun down the opponent to avoid a confrontation.
This debate is not about amateurism, or money or the purity of the Olympic way. It's simply about who we are going to send to represent our country in the Olympics. Send the best. But choose the best from a new group each time. Send the best of the future. Stick with what has worked.
And what has worked is not neces sarily what will win every time.
Chris Oster is a Topeka senior majoring in journalism.