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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 16, 1991
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Miami to face Kansas threat
By S.J. Bailev
Kansan sportswriter
Miami basketball coach Leonard Hamilton is no stranger to the Big Eight Conference or the Kansas Jayhawks.
Men's Basketball
In four seasons as head coach at Oklahoma State, Hamilton was able to defeat the Jayhawks only one time in 10 attempts.
Hamilton returns to Allen Field House tonight to try to improve that record against a Kansas team smart-er, more aggressive overtime loss at Oklahoma State.
Despite Miami's record, Kansas basketball coach Roy Williams said the Jayhawks would not take the struggling Hurricanes lightly.
"Leonard Hamilton is a fine coach," Williams said. "His teams always play tough and are very competitive. They have a lot of athletes, and a tremendous player in Joe Wylie. Some people think he will have a chance to play in the pros, so they challenge for our big guys to stumbo him."
As for the Jayhawks backcourt, Adonis Jordan is listed as a probable starter after missing his last two games. Baltimore's Timberline County and Oklahoma State
Jordan was benched by Williams for the first half of the Maryland-Baltimore County game after he overstept and missed the team flight from Norman, Okla., after the Jan 8 game with Oklahoma.
However, Hamilton, who is in his first year with the Hurricanes, could have trouble raising his victory percentage against the Jayhawks as his team comes into the game with a 3-12 loss and lost five of their last six games.
Kansas Basketball GAME 15
Wylie, a 6-foot-10 center averaging 17.6 points per game, is the nucleus of the Hurricane offense. He is complemented by a backcourt duo of 6-3 Jerome Scoff and 6-3 Trevor Burton, who have averaged double figures in scoring.
KANSAS
JAYHAWKS
Coach: Roy Williams
Record: 9-4
MIAMI HURRICANES Coach: Leonard Hamilton Record: 3-12
PROBABLE STARTERS
Player Ht. PPG RPG
F-Doug Ellott 6-6 6.5 2.6
F-Justin Caldwell 6-7 5.0 4.1
C-Joe Wyle 6-9 17.6 10.1
G-Jerome Scott 6-3 13.8 3.4
G-Trevor Burton 6-3 11.0 2.5
Player Ht. PPG RPG
F-Mike Maddox 6-7 8.4 3.1
F-Alonzo Jamison 6-6 11.4 6.2
C-Mark Randall 6-9 15.0 5.6
G-Terry Brown 6-2 18.7 3.7
G-Adonis Jordan 5-11 10.5 2.8
Game Notes: Kansas will play Miami (Fl.) at 7 p.m. in Allen Field House. Miami is coached by former Oklahoma State coach Leonard Hamilton, who had a 1-9 record against Kansas in his 4 years with the Cowboys. Kansa leads the series with the Hurricanes 2-1. Miami returns four starters from last year's 13-15 team, including senior center Joe Wylie, who leads the team in scoring and rebounding. The Jayhawks are 0-2 in the Big Eight Conference after road losses to Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.
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Jordan then did not make the trip to Oklahoma State because he was late arriving at Allen Field House and was scheduled to leave for Stillwater.
"It is a shame because it is going to look like he is a discipline problem, and he's not." Williams said after the Oklahoma State game. "In the two years that he's been here, this is the same thing we have since that we have had with him."
"I've got a long, long memory but I don't hold grudges. If he comes in and works his tail off in practice this morning, starting lineup Wednesday night."
Kansas Notes
tradition-rich field house. A new scoreboard will be in use in place of the old board, which has been in operation for the past 15 years.
Jayhawk fans at tonight's game will notice a new addition to the game
According to Floyd Temple, assistant athletic director in charge of operations, the new scoreboard is approximately four feet wider and five feet taller than the old model, and will include an extra column for player stats and a larger color matrix message center.
Temple said the old board was dismantled beginning Saturday after the Kansas-Oklahoma State women's game while the new board was being installed Sunday by its manufacturer, Fairtron-Fairplay Corp. of Des Moines, Iowa.
Temple said he anticipated the scoreboard would be in working order by game time tonight.
Kansas and Miami have had one common opponent this season. Southern Methodist University. The
Jayhawks defeated SMU 86-40 Dec. 4 at the field house. The Hurricanes lost at SMU 93-88 in double overtime Dec. 19.
With his next two points, Mark Randall will become only the 12th player in Kansas history to score 1,300 points. Rand needs 18 points to pass Walter Wesley for 114 place on the all-time Kansas scoring list.
Jayhawk freshmen Richard Scott, Patrick Richey and Steve Woodberry played a combined 65 minutes against Oklahoma State.
Jayhawks have rough start to new year
Kansan sportswriter
Bv S.J. Bailev
The beginning of the new year has not been kind to the Kansas basket-
Both losses came on the road, one
Jan. 8 at Oklahoma and one Jan. 12 at
Oklahoma State, and both were
hawks. Hawks could just as
easily have won.
During the past 10 days, guard Adonis Jordan was suspended for a game-and-a-half for disciplinary reasons, forward Kirk Wagner underwent knee surgery, and the team lost two important Big Eight Conference games, dropping the team to 0-2 in the conference and 9-4 overall.
After a 97-46 drubbing of Maryland-Baltimore County, the Jayhawks again took to the road, looking for their first conference win against a feisty Oklahoma State.
Kansas led Oklahoma for most of the second half before finally succumbing to the Sooners' pressure defense in the last five minutes. Oklahoma defeated the Jayhawks 88-82 in front of a national television audience to put them 0-1 in the conference.
The results were the same, yet even harder to swallow.
The Cowboys held an eight point lead at 60-52 with 7:54 to play. However, Kansas clawed its way back to 64-44 with 1:31 left in regulation.
After a free throw pulled the Cowboys to within one point, Oklahoma State took the lead with 25 seconds remaining after a Byron Houston dunk, which brought thunderous applause from the capacity crowd.
Tunstall missed both free throws, which sent the game into overtime. In overtime, the Cowbys took over and came out on top 78-73.
But like the game in Norman just last year, Kansas would not emerge victorious.
After the game, Williams was despondent.
"We had a chance to win the game, but we just didn't get it done," he said. "I'm not going to say it was just missing the free throws because that puts the blame on the kids, and I don't want to do that."
To compound matters, Jordan missed the first half of the game with Maryland-Baltimore County when he was benched by Williams for missing the team flight back from Norman. Jordan then missed the game at Oklahoma State when he was late for the team bus leaving for Stillwater.
More bad news for the Jayhawks came in the form of missing players.
Senior forward Wagner had expior attery knee surgery Jan. 5, and it was found he had a strained medial femur. The surgeon surgery was successful. Wagner is expected to miss another three weeks before returning to the rotation.
But the holiday season was not without its share of high points.
Three Kansas freshmen, Wood-berry, guard Patrick Richey and forward Richard Scott, have been receiving more and more playing skills. Alonzo Jamison would help the Jayhawks later in the season.
Senior guard Terry Brown hit 11 three-point field goals and finished with 42 points in a 105-94 victory against North Carolina State on Jan. 5. Also, freshman guard Steve Woodberry tallied 11 assists in 23 minutes of play in the Jayhawks lopsided win against Maryland-Baltimore County.
Although the team goes into its next conference game Saturday against Missouri with an 0-2 conference loss, the Big Eight was still anyone's race.
"It's a learning experience," Jamison said. "Now, further on down the time, will have had some game time, and will not be nothing but a plus for us."
"I still believe that Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Missouri and Nebraska are the top teams now because they have proven they belong at the top of the conference," he said. "The only way we can live lives, haven't anyonet yet."
Whims agreed.
"It is a boost to the program when these kids can come in and get some experience," he said.
Dec.15  RIDER W103-51
Dec.22  TEXAS-SAN ANT. W101-69
Dec.28  at Hawaii Loa W111-58
Jan.2  at Pepperdine W8-62
Jan.5  N.C. STATE W105-94
 Jan.8  at Oklahoma L82-88
Jan.10  MD.-BALTIMORE W97-46
 Jan.12  at Oklahoma St. L73-78
Hc -e games in caps
Maryland-Baltimore County guard Spencer Ferguson attempts to steal the ball from Kansas forward Patrick Richev during Thursday's game.
Winter Break Wrap-up
Williams agreed.
NFL begins search for new Super Bowl site
Melissa Unterberg/KANSAN
NFL vice president Joe Browne confirmed Tuesday that Commissioner Paul Tagliabue will ask team owners during their mid-March annual meeting in Hawaii to move the 1993 Super Bowl from the Phoenix suburb of Tempe to either Pasadena or San Diego.
The Associated Press
PHOENIX — The NFL is starting the process of looking for a new site to play the 1993 Super Bowl.
San Diego voters three years ago used the initiative process to overturn their City Council's decision to rename a street after King and restore its original name, Market Street.
The pressure is on Phoenix despite the city's paid holiday for Martin Luther King and in apparent regard to San Diego's record regarding King.
Then the San Diego Unified Port
District, which finance the $165 million project, rejected a council proposal to name the city's new convention center after the slain civil court.
Nevertheless, Bob Payne, man of San Diego's Super Bowl Task Force, said he felt San Diego had an even chance of landing the 1983
"I certainly hope if it's a problem, it can be overcome," Payne said,
New NCAA rules create time limits
By Lana Smith
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas coaches and student athletes will be seeing some changes in their programs because of time limitations and cuts in coaching staffs, recruiting time and scholarships from the rules adopted last week at the NCAA convention in Nashville, Tenn.
According to constraints in the new rules, the time student athletes can participate in their sports has been limited to four—hour days or 20—week periods from one week from the athletic-related activity during the regular season.
Exceptions to the rule were made. Student athletes can volunteer to practice more, but coaches can participate rather than instruction during this time.
Richard Konzem, assistant athletic director for Kansas, said the playing and practice time limitation was designed to make enforcement, but it had to be done.
“If we in athletics don’t adapt to get athletics under control, it will be mandated from a federal legislative body. We’ll have to change then we would have less of an input.”
"It is probably good to have some logical limitations because some schools have gone too far." Konzem some real problems and abuses."
The time demand was based on a 1988 survey of athletes and has been positively accepted by those involved in making the decision.
Konzem added that the new rule was an attempt to create a level playing field for everyone.
Kansas Athletic Director Bob Frederick agreed that the time limitations stemmed from abuse.
"Unfortunately for most, the rules legislated were to solve the abuses of a few." Frederick said.
However, Frederick said he did not agree that the rule could not be enforced.
"We will have to figure out in the next few weeks how we are going to do it," Frederick said. "They are encephalable, and KU will follow them."
Frederick voiced concern about cuts in coaching staffs, another decision made at the convention.
"They are real people who have real jobs," Frederick said. "It's unfortunate, but I understand it in a certain way of education and the economic situation."
The NCAA voted to reduce coaching staffs from 10 to nine for all Division I-A football teams, including full-time coaches, and limit all other Division I-A sports staffs to three full-time and one part-time coach.
Marian Washington. women's
basketball coach, also was concerned about the reduction in coaching staffs.
"There has been a real lull in the number of women coaches for a long time," Washington said. "More men have been getting involved with women's soccer, but there has been a real conscious effort to try to get more women groomed to coach."
Washington said more women were just starting to get involved, and she was afraid the new rule demanded them from pursuing their interests.
The NCAA also limited the number of paid visits schools can offer a prospective athlete, the number of trips they can make and how many trips they can make.
However, after last week's changes, personal-contact recruiting trips are now limited to three per year, and evaluation trips are limited to four per year, with no more than one per weekend at anytime.
R. D. Helt, Kansas recruiting coordinate this kind of limitation which produces problem
The old rules allowed football coaches 14 recruiting trips when personal contact could be made with the prospective athletes. All other sports were allowed six trips. All varsity basketball teams attended school as often as they wanted for purposes of evaluation, including attending practices and games.
"It gives us less time to evaluate the athletes," Helt said. "We do not have a good feel of what kind of a person they are."
Helt said that this rule helped bigger schools who already had name recognition, and that Kansas have to adapt and work harder
Another obstacle Kansas faces is the loss of scholarships during the next four years. Football scholarships will be reduced from 95 to 85 by the 1994-95 academic year, basketball scholarships will fall from 13 over two-year period and all other sports will see a cut of 10 percent.
Roy Williams, men's basketball coach, agreed that the limited number of scholarships would affect Kansas.
Although the football program did not extend all 95 scholarships last year, Helt said he had hoped to offer at least 90 scholarships next year, and he said the rule would eventually limit the Kansas team.
"Scholarship cutbacks will have a big impact not only on the basketball program but also on the kids." Williams said. "We now are denying the opportunity to play to people, and I don't like that idea at all."
Kansan sports report
Men's tennis splits matches at tourney
The trip was beneficial to the team, although the Jayhawks had hoped to finish higher in the tournament, Perelman said.
The Kansas men's tennis team defeated Mississippi State 5-4, and todd in Indiana 6-3, at the O'Charley's game the weekend in Knoxville, Tenn.
The Jayhawks, ranked 20th in the Volvo/ITCA rankings, were seeded second in the tournament.
"The win over Mississippi State was impressive, but I was a little disappointed with the loss to "Mau," KU coach Scott Perelman said.
"We went to Knoxville early on the eighth and practiced twice a day until the 12th," Perelman said. "It
was an event where the team really meshed."
The doubles team of seniors Chris Walker and Craig Wildley, ranked 12th in the nation, won both of its matches during the weekend.
The team's next match will be at the Jayhawk Tennis Classic, feb. 13, when Tennessee and Wisconsin come to Lawrence. Perelman said the match should be one of the best of the year.
"Tennessee is probably the best team to ever come to Lawrence," he said.
Perelman said he was not concerned about the long lay-off before
"It won't hurt us at all," Perelman said. "It's kind of a plus. It will let the guys settle in with their classes."
MU wins against OU
COLUMBIA, Mo. — For heated athletic competition between young men, there was a basketball game.
For angry bickering between middle-aged men, there was the Norm Stewart-Billy Tubbs squabble that ragged between the two coaches throughout Missouri's 80-72 victory last night against No. 11 Oklahoma.
"What was it about?" said Oklahoma's Tubbs, who had lost six straight to his old rival at Hearnes Center. "Ask Norm. He started it.
"Last year he attacks my manager and trainer," Tubs said. "Now I guess he's working up to coaches. Ask him about it. Iup respond the same way he requested. But he got his way tonight. What does he want? He got his way."
It was the 200th Big Eight victory for Stewart, the dean of Big Eight coaches, who preferred to talk about his team and not his feud with Tubbs.
"Billy had given me a pleasantry
some time earlier in the ballgame,
Stewart said. "He kind of lost control, it seemed to me. Just an exchange of pleasants. He got his in the first part and I got mine in at the end."
Stewart had plenty to say about Doug Smith, who had 31 points and 14 rebounds, and Anthony Peeler, who had 19 points. The Tigers are 7-0 since Peeler returned from first semester academic problems.
"Doug is playing within himself, except for a few times," Stewart said. "And you get Anthony in there, they work real well. The other players are starting to play off them."
Missouri, 10-4 overall and 3-0 in the Big Eight, erased a seven-point half-time deficit and beat the Sooners (13-3, 2-1) for the sixth straight time at home. Oklahoma shot only 36 percent.
"We played hard tonight," Tubbs said. "I was proud of our team's effort."