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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 12, 1991
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Rebounds key to 'Hawks battle plan
By S. J. Bailey
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas basketball coach Roy Williams has said all season long that the one thing the Jayhawks needed to improve the most was their rebound
Tonight, Kansas, 17-4 overall and 6-2 in the Big Eight Conference, will travel to Columbia once again to try to conquer the Missouri Tigers and avenge the beating the Jayhawks by boards Jan. 19 at Allen Field House.
Big Eight Standings
The Jayhawks dismantled the Tigers 91-64 in the game, but they were outbounded 42-23 by the taller Missouri squad. Of their 23 rebounds, the Jayhawks pulled down only three from the offensive glass. The Tigers
Conference All Games
Conference All Game
W L W L
Kansas 6 2 17
Nebraska 6 2 19
Okla State 5 3 14
Missouri 5 3 13
Oklahoma 4 3 17
Indiana 4 3 9
Colorado 2 6 12
Kansas State 2 6 12
skied for 25 offensive boards
"I got down on my knees." Williams said. "I told them, I did this when I got married, and I'll do it again now if you want me to — just get position and box out. Whatever you have to do, do it."
After that game, Williams told the team that if it planned to be successful in conference play, it would have much more competitive on the boards.
His pleading has done the trick. Since that game, the Jayhawks have
Men's Basketball
outbreded their opponents in five of their last six games by a combined total of 227-193. Only Nebraska has played all seven hawks during the past six games.
"I think with each game we've worked hard on rebounding, and we have improved," senior forward Mike Maddox said. "But I think we can still get better, and we'll have to the rest of the year, especially in
Last night, Williams said he thought rebounds would play an important role if the Jayhawks were to defeat the Tigers.
"We've emphasized rebounding a lot in practice and worked very hard on it," he said. "It will be a factor. That has to be the primary emphasis for us. We have to do a good job on the backboards."
Kansas Basketball GAME 22
Since the last game, the Tigers have lost forward Jevon Crudup to a season-ending injury, and guard Anthony Peeler has played only sparingly since injuring a knee four games ago. Peeler is expected to play against Kansas, but he is not expected to start.
Missouri has gone 3-2 since the Jan. 19 game, and injuries have played a significant role in the Tigers' inconsistent play.
KANSAS
JAYHAWKS
Coach: Roy Williams
Record:17-4
The Jayhawks, No. 11 in The Associated Press college basketball spring this week after consecutive victories over 158-ranked Nebraska and Oklahoma, won their last eight games, but the Tigers recently have had problems.
PROBABLE STARTERS
MISSOURI
TIGERS
Coach:Norm Stewart
Record:13-7
Player Ht. PPG RPG
F-Alonzo Jamison 6-6 11.2 6.7
F-Mike Maddox 6-7 7.9 3.2
F-Mark Randall 6-9 15.4 5.6
G-Terry Brown 6-2 17.8 3.6
G-Adonis Jordan 5-11 11.9 2.9
Player Ht. PPG RPG
F-Jamal Coleman 6-5 9.6 5.2
F-Jeff Warren 6-8 6.6 3.8
C-Doug Smith 6-10 23.9 11.0
G-Melvin Booker 6-1 8.1 2.3
G-Reggie Smith 6-2 2.7 2.5
Game Notes: Kansas will play Missouri tonight at 6:30 in Columbia. The Jayhawks lead the series with the Tigers 139-82, including a 53-45 record in Columbia. Kansas coach Roy Williams has not won in his only two attempts in the Hearnes Center. Following victories over two ranked teams last week, the Jayhawks moved to 11th in this week's Associated Press Top 25. Mark Randal fielded some shots at 892 Missouri's.
reuse the Confluence in multi-gig performance.
Doug Smith leads the Big Eight in scoring and is second
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averaging 19.6 points before the injury, a larger burden falls on All-Conference forward Doug Smith to lead the Tigers. However, Smith has had his troubles as well. He and teammate Jamal Coleman were accused of credit-card fraud last week.
Without Peeler, who had been
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will affect Smith's play tonight in the Tigers' first game since the story became public, but Williams said he Jahywah would have to stop him to
Missouri had defeated the Jayhawks in four straight contests before this season's battle in Lawrence, including knocking the
Jayhawks out of the AP's top spot last season. Maddox said Kansas would have to be at its best to prevent the Packers from beginning another winning streak.
It is unknown how the allegations
"No matter how each team is playing, it's always tough to go into Columbia," Maddox said.
Injury stops doubles team
Kansan sportswriter
By Mark Spencer
The Kansas men's doubles tennis team of Chris Walker and Craig Wilde is wondering what could have been after this weekend's Rolex National Indoor Intercollegiate Tennis Championships in Minneapolis.
The two Kansas seniors appeared to be on their way to an outstanding tournament finish after defeating Alabama's Ellis Ferreira and Rick Witsken, the No. 1 ranked doubles team in the nation.
However, Walker suffered an arm injury during the team's second match against Duke, and the team was prevented from advancing any further.
"I had a little rheumatism in my arm." Walker said. "I had no juice in it. It just completely locked up on me."
Kansas coach Scott Perelman said that Walker's injury was disappointing but that the victory over Alabama was still impressive.
"To beat the top team in the country reaffirms my thinking that Chris and Craig are one of the best, if not the best, in the country." Perel-
Walker said he did not think the injury to his arm was serious.
Kansas junior Eveline Hamers and senior Jeff Gross also competed in the Rolex Tournament.
"I'm going to give it some rest and hopefully fire it up for the Team Indoor in Louisville." Walker said. "That's a big tournament."
matches in the consolation bracket before she lost to Florida's Holly Lloyd 6-4, 3-6, 5-7 in the consolation finals.
Hamers was forced into the consolation bracket after losing to Notre Dame's Tracy Barton in the first round, 2.6-3.6.
Hamers is ranked eighth in the country in women's singles with an all-around record.
Gross was defeated 5.7, 7-6 (7.5), 3-6 by Harvard's Mike Shyjan in the first round.
Hamers won three straight
Gross was eliminated from the consolation bolt after losing 1-6.
Perelman said that Gross was fatigued in the late match.
"I thought the first match was a good hard fought tennis match until Jeff ran out of gas in the third set," Perelman said.
Gross' second match was later the same day, and he had not regained all his strength from the first match, Perelman said.
Top Syracuse booster to resign
The Associated Press
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — As a result of Syracuse's investigation into improprieties in its basketball program, the president of the school's primary basketball fund-raising organization, Michael J. Reagan, the New York Times reported today.
The newspaper said that in a letter dated Friday, the university had informed Joseph Gianuzzi, head of the Hardwood Club, that he was being removed from any association with the school's athletic programs.
That includes removal as president and director of the club.
"We felt it was in the best interest of the university to dissociate Mr. Gianuzzi from the program based on information we have obtained through our ongoing investigation of the basketball program." Robert the university's vice president of public relations, was quoted as saving.
The report said that, according to Hill, the action also disassociated Gianuzzi from any of the three other
Syracuse's internal investigation is expected to be finished by the end of the spring semester in late April, said Syracuse representative Robert Hill. A team of Syracuse lawyers has been working past and present players and athletic booster since the inquiry was announced last month.
A week of off-the-court turmoil has taught Orangemen coach Jim Boeheim the meaning of helplessness.
primary athletic booster organizations.
Julie Jacobson/KANSAN
Kansas basketball coach Roy Williams explains offensive questions during a live broadcast of Hawk Talk at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union. An audience of about 100 asked questions about subjects ranging from recruiting to student seating. The weekly talk show was aired by KLZR 105.9 FM.
Swim captain is all heart in pool
By Rick C. Honish
Radio Roy
Kansan sportswriter
Lauri Hill has a strategy that she says helps her win races.
"While I am swimming, I say over and over again, 'I have more heart, I have more heart,'" the senior said.
"I have been through all the technical stuff in swimming, the lastate tests."
different techniques, everything," Hill said. "I would rather be a swimmer with guts and heart than be a great technical swimmer."
It is a different swimming style than Hill was used to before she transferred from New Mexico State University two years ago.
"At New Mexico I was a very good swimmer because my competition was not as good," she said. "I have always been good, but when I came to KU I had to be that much better."
Hill said that after transferring she had to re-evaluate the way she swam to fit in with Kansas coach Garve Kemf's program.
She said she had to adjust to the disciplined training and attitude
Lauri Hill
that Kempf teaches After the adjustment, Hill helped the 400- yard freestyle team place 18th at NCAA championship last year.
Hill, who started competitive swimming at age 7, said she got off to a less than successful start.
"My dad got me involved because he thought I would be safer in a pool than I had been so far." she said.
Hill said she was accident-prone before she began swimming. She already had broken her arm after tripping over a hose and had broken her collarbone after falling off a playground slide.
Once in the water, she said she proved her father's safety theory wrong. She scrapped her nose on the bottom of a pool and dove onto a lane line, but she stuck with swimming.
She went to the Junior Nationals 10 times between the time she was 12 and 18 and raced against 1984 Olympic Gold Medalist Carrie Steinseifer in high school. During high school, she was coached by Skinner, a former world record-holder in the 100-meter freestyle.
Since then, Hill has competed against and has been trained by some distinguished athletes.
Sports briefs
Nebraska center named Big-8 player of week
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Nebrasa center Rich King was named player of the week in the Big Eight Conference yesterday after he led the 17th-ranked Cornushers with 49 points and 21 rebounds last week.
King, 7-foot-2, shot 63 percent and had a career-high 25 points in a loss at Kansas and taded a career high with three hits in a victory against Colorado.
King has 48 blocks this season, two short of the Nebraska record he set two years ago. He is tied for sixth on 202-195 and second on scoring list with 1,269 career points.
He also made the first three-point goal of his career against Colorado.
Tubbs wastes no words at weekly conference
As public relations director Jeff Bolig posed questions during the Big Eight's weekly coaches teleconferencing, because less and less willing to talk.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Billy Tubbs, whose Oklahoma team has lost five of its last six games and disappeared in the wake of the team's collapse, have to lose his tongue yesterday.
After a lengthy buildup, Bollig asked if an injured player might be back soon.
"No," was the Oklahoma coach's one-word reply. Bollig then asked
when another player might return.
"I'd say in a couple of years,"
"Tubbe said."
Bolig said Mike Harris, a young player, had been put into the lineup and had done well.
"He's done nothing for us," Tubbs said. "I had no choice."
Becoming slightly flustered, Bolig noted Oklahoma plays on Oklahoma State and Nebraska this week and had to be careful because was the key to beating the Cowboys.
"I think the key is scoring more points," Tubbs said.
As Bolli began asking about Nebraska, Tubbs said, "The key will be the same. That it? Thanks," and hung up.
Ben Johnson continues on the winning track
OSAKA, Japan — Ben Johnson edged out the Cubas Andres Simon in a photo finish today and won the Yomu Doorn Indoor Track and Field Meet.
Both Simon, the 1989 world indoor 60-meter champion at 6.52 seconds, and Johnson were clocked at 6.64 seconds in the 60-meter dash.
It was the second first-place finish in four starts this season for Johnson, who is trying to make a comeback after a two-year ban from track for failing a drug test at the Seoul Olympics in 1988.
Alums need more spirit less power
From staff and wire reports
Chris
Oster
Associate
sports editor
I've finally found the perfect rationalization for returning for my sixth year as an undergrad at KU.
The reason that I will soon enroll for my third (and counting) senior year is that I have no desire to return. I would meddling, sports-crazy alumnus.
As critics recently have pointed accusating fingers at the NCAA, blaming it for all the evils in college sports, a group that has taken less steps to blame the blame for the problems in the equation are victory-hungry alumni.
While the NCAA consistently has come up with wrong answers to correct the problems with big-time college sports, the alumni are a significant use of the original and certainly had ways to make the problem worse.
I have no intention of singling out the alumni at Kansas. Nor am I saying that all of the alumni are to blame. The great majority have little to do with the problem. But the way things are done in college athletics has forced the level of competition for the sporting dollar to become more intense and for the alumni dollar to become more influential.
I do not know where or why the trend in college athletics began, but the bottom line in major college sports (football and basketball) has become a program's ability to win. If programs don't succeed spectacularly, the coach is gone. If a program continues to fail, the next coach and possibly the athletic director are next to go.
Where does this great pressure to win come from? Not the students. The students do shake the stands more violently with victories, but administrative heads do not roll on the whim of angry students.
Alums crave victories. When a basketball team doesn't reach the NCAA tournament, their thirst for a coach's blood requires quenching that passion — not go boating in or on case, best K-State) the heat from alumni is fueled.
When Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz says he feels intense pressure not just to win but in them all, who do you think supplies that presuppose your team's national athletics to be required to win national championships to succeed?
Kansas is fortunate to have winning coaches who also are concerned with the academic progress of their athletes. But when a coach like Bob Valesite emphasized grades and lost games, he quickly was out of a
In the past, alumni for schools have supplied athletes with phantom jobs, been involved in illegal payments to athletes, be the source of new cars for athletes and dabbled in recruiting them they have not been needed or allowed.
Generous alumni have made great contributions to build universities, including the extremely successful Campaign Kansas, whereby alumni have pumped nearly $200 million into our school.
But there exists the species of alumnus who controls the purse strings of his or her contributions to their alma mater's teams.
Donating money to your former school for the sole purpose of getting basketball seats does not seem to be a bad idea. It seems to reason to support higher education.
One effect of that sort of donation has been the loss of student seating. The "benth hog" wagers that have recently taken place are, in part, due to ex-students receiving what is now ex-student seating.
Student-athletes should perform in front of students. Giving students the corners and nose-bleeders of Allen Field House may increase revenue, from the spirit of the crowd and the intimidation factor of the field house.
Physical impairments aside, would it hurt the alumni to stand up and cheer? The ridge between the student and alumni sections at games is sad testimony to the gap in enthusiasm between the two groups.
I don't mean to lump all of them into one heaving mass of doom for athletic programs. But allowing the alumni to take a larger role in athletic programs introduces a variable that is lacking in control. Alumni need to be more concerned with the academic success of a school than the achievements on the playing field.
Chris Oster is a Topeka senior majoring in journalism.