University Daily Kansan / Friday, December 7. 1990
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Sports
Lady Jayhawks face new challenges in Dial Classic
By Juli Watkins
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas women's basketball team will play host for its first regular-season home game tonight in the first round of the Dial Classic.
Women's Basketball
The Jayhawks have won the Dial Classic four times with three consecutive victories in the past three seasons in a tournament with a 3-1 record this season.
Kansas will play St. Louis at 8 p.m. after the Wichita State-Texas Christian game, which starts at 6 p.m.
The winners of tonight's games will play in the final game tomorrow at 4 p.m. A consolation game will be at 2 p.m.
Coach Marian Washington said the team was looking forward to the tournament. Of the three teams, Kansas has faced only Wichita State in the past. The Jayhawks hold a 26-5 record against the Shockers.
"We don't think we'll be facing an Iowa program, but we're going to be facing some good teams," she said.
Washington said that she did not know a lot about the teams in the tournament, but from what she had heard, she expected that Kansas would have to play an up-tempo game with aggressive defense.
Probable starters are guards Kay Kay Hart and Stacy Truit, forwards Danielle Shareef and Terrill Johnson and center Lisa Tate.
Johnson is the Jayhawks' leading rebounder with 9 rebounds per game. Tate is second with 6.5 followed by Truitt adding a 6.3 average.
Johnson said that the team was expecting a victory and that she had gained confidence from her rebounding success.
"I think it plays a major impact as far as winning," Johnson said. "Defense is just as important as the offense. Our motto is 94-40. Ninety-
four feet, 40 minutes for full court defense."
The Jayhawks wear their motto,
"9440," printed on the seat of their
practice shorts.
Washington said she was not looking for one particular player to shine in this weekend's tournament, but rather to put forth a team effort.
Washington said she was hoping for a big turnout at the tournament.
"I am excited that we have had several players step up for the team this season," Washington said. "We have several who are developing well and showing confidence in their games."
“It’s a real family-type atmosphere.” Washington said. “With the economy the way it is today, we are one of the best bets in Lawrence for entertainment. We have young people who want to move out. The cost is lower than a movie, and I think that’s a great way to spend an evening.”
Tickets are $3 for a single game and $5 for the entire tournament.
Dave Glatt, Wilmette III., senior, fields the ball during an exhibition match between the Kansas Lacrosse Club and the Kansas City Lacrosse Club at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo.
KANSAS
JAYHAWKS
Coach: Roy Williams
Record: 3-1
Kansas Basketball
Game 5
KENTUCKY
WILDCATS
Coach: Rick Pitino
Record: 3-0
PROBABLE STARTERS
| Player | Ht. | PPG | RPG | Player | Ht. | PPG | RPG |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| F-Mike Maddox | 6-7 | 7.0 | 2.0 | F-Jamal Mashburn | 6-8 | 14.7 | 5.0 |
| F-Alonzo Jamison | 6-6 | 9.8 | 6.5 | F-John Pelphrey | 6-7 | 12.7 | 6.0 |
| C-Mark Randall | 6-9 | 16.3 | 4.0 | C-Reggie Hanson | 6-7 | 17.3 | 5.0 |
| G-Terry Brown | 6-2 | 18.8 | 5.3 | G-Sean Woods | 6-3 | 6.3 | 2.0 |
| G-Adonis Jordan | 5-11 | 9.0 | 3.0 | G-Jeff Brassow | 6-5 | 11.0 | 3.3 |
Game Notes: Kansas will play Kentucky at 6:30 tomorrow night at Rupp Arena in Lexington, KY. Kentucky leads the all-time season 16-3, but Kansas has won the last two games. Last year, the Jayhawks set a school record for most points in a half (80) and in a game in a 150-95 blowout against the Wildcats in Allen Field House. Kansas has won three straight games after opening the season with a loss to Arizona State. On Tuesday, the Jayhawks downed
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Williams expects to encounter riled team, crowd at Kentucky
By Derek Simmons
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas basketball coach Roy Williams expects a number of things from tomorrow's game at Kentucky.
Men's Basketball
He expects a rabid crowd of 24,000 at Rupp Arena, a charged atmosphere and an emotional Kentucky team
The first one he isn't too worried about.
"I don't think you can compare going to different places to play," he said. "It's a tough place to play, but go to Oklahoma. It's a pretty good place to play and we go play at Mississippi. It's even better like playing in our own backyard."
The atmosphere and competition Williams likes, but not for the reasons they will be there.
"Too much was made of the score of last year's game," he said. "I said last year at this time, and I'll say it again, in no way did we have any idea of trying to run the score up. We'll have a difficult time trying to conquer 8000 people of that on Saturday. When I see the caliber of Kansas and Kentucky, there should be excitement just because it is Kansas and Kentucky."
Kansas defeated Kentucky 159-95 last year, set school records for most points scored in a game, most points scored in a half (80) in the first half and most field goals in a game (52)
"They're going to be extremely enthused," Williams said. "They're going to be very emotional, and it's going to be a charged atmosphere, but our guys have played in tough places before. We're going to try to execute out on the court and not concentrate on everything that is gone on around the court. It still gets played with a basketball, and it still has goals at either end, and they have five players and we have five."
Kentucky fans were angry after last year's 150-95 pound by Kansas, and many charged in letters to Kansas that Kansas had run up the score.
"I've been called a few names I didn't know existed," he said. "There were a few things that happened in the game that I wish had not been so, but I stand by the statement that we did not try to run the score up.
"We played 11 people in the first half, and the tempo of the game was very high. I continued pressing until the very instant, and I don't think you can tell
the kids to take the ball in bounds and hand it to the other team. Some people said Mark Randall shouldn't have played 28 minutes, but Terry Hollins and scored 31 points. All I suppose to tell him can't he shoot the ball?"
Williams said he expected the 25th-ranked Wildcats to challenge the Jayhawks.
"They understand their game," he said. "They know their strengths and their weaknesses. Their strength is outside shooting, so they are going to shoot a lot outside. Those kids know how to play basketball, they know what to stay for them, and they know how to stay away from those other things.
"They're a sound team and they're going to play unbelievably hard Saturday. We have to be ready to play just as hard, just as motivated and with just as much enthusiasm as they have."
Kansas will start Mark Randall,
Alonzo Jamison and Mike Maddox as
forwardes and Terry Brown and Adonis
Jordan as guards.
Brown set a school record last season by hitting seven of 10 three-point attempts.
The game will be televised at 6:30 p.m. on ESPN.
Coaches, athletes think that Proposition 42 judges ability inaccurately
By Juli Watkins
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas forward Terrilyn Johnson could not play basketball her freshman year under the guidelines of Proposition 48, but she recently earned Jayhawk Scholar honors for successful success in the Spring semester.
Student-athletes receive Jayhawk Scholar honors if they maintain at least a 3.0 grade point average along with the least of 12 credit hours a semester.
About one-third of Kansas student-athletes receive the honors each semester, said Paul Buskirk, assistant dean of the Student's charge of the Student, Support Services.
Buskirk said that 135 student athletes out of 410 to 420 total received Jayhawk Scholar honors for Spring 1990.
Johnson, now a junior, was one of the recipients.
She said she chose to remain at Kansas because of a love for the team and the coach.
"It was a challenge." Johnson said. "It was something that I really wanted to do. I knew I had it in me."
Women's basketball coach Martin Washington said that Johnson's honors exemplified that the guidelines under Proposition 48 were not true indicators of a student-athlete's ability to succeed in college.
Washington said that Tate was
"I think it has been proven that it is not valid," Washington said. "We have two Props 485 who have been tested at the University of Kansas."
Sophomore center Lisa Tate was a Proposition 48 casualty also. Tate said she was ineligible because of her ACT test score.
She said she did not think that her score was an accurate measure of her abilities or intelligence.
"I don't think they can just have a test to show how you are going to perform in college." Tate said.
Tate said the Athletic Department provided great academic support that was important in making the adjustment as a freshman.
She chose to attend Kansas and sit out a year rather than go to a junior college.
doing fine academically and that she was fortunate to have Johnson as a role model.
"She's one of the hardest working student-athletes that we've got," Washington said. "The example she sets for all of our student athletes is to be durable. She's done what a lot of student athletes who qualify don't do."
Proposition 42
Modications made by Proposition 42 replaced Proposition 48 in August.
The validity of the academic requirements and the financial stipulations of both propositions 48 and 42 are determined from both coaches and educators.
The numbers of student-athletes affected by Proposition 42 nationally have not been determined yet for this year, said Todd Petr, assistant director of research for the NCAA. In the past, the guidelines set have affected between 600 and 700 athletes each year. This translates to a 4.5 percent of all student-athletes who are given athletic scholarships, Petr said.
When Proposition 48 was first passed, Gregory R. Amig, the president of the Educational Testing Service, wrote a letter to the NCAA expressing concern about the use of athletic indecision in deciding athletic eligibility.
Anigr's letter stated that the fixed requirement of a 700 on the SAT was unfair to student-athletes, and he offered free assistance of the Educational Testing Service to help make improvements.
He wrote, "The particular use of a fixed cutoff score as contained in the adopted resolution, however, may undermine the overall effectiveness of this worthy effort to raise standards for athletes."
Amrig also said in his letter that although he agreed with the motives of propositions 48 and 42, he did not agree with NCAA was using to attain its goals.
Coaches of college athletics are
Arigri again wrote to the NCAA in January 1989 after Proposition 42 was passed. He again offered assistance to the NCAA, as did ACT and the College Board.
obviously affected as well as the student-athletes.
"I see no positives with Proposition 42." Washington said. "Now we can't even assist them in an effort to get that education. Young people are of poor educational backgrounds and are financially penalized.
"If they manage to find a way to make it to school and are successful, we penalize them again by not being able to use that year. I think that if they are successful, they shouldn't lose that year."
Kansas lost one of the most highly recruited high school players in the nation to Proposition 42. Tawanna Jackson did not meet the standards and attended a junior college instead of Kansas because of financial reasons. Washington said in a news conference earlier this fall.
Washington said that she understood what the NCAA was trying to accomplish but that she questioned its means of going about it.
Cortez Barnes, a forward from Wichita Heights High School, decided to attend Hutchinson Community College when he became academically ineligible because of Proposition 42 in late August. Barnes had signed a letter of intent to play for the Jayhawks.
The women's basketball team is not the only part of Kansas athletics to lose potential athletes.
Basketball coach Roy Williams said that two current players, Malcolm Nash and Sean Funtshall, who are coming along fine academically.
Effects on men's basketball
"Both of our girls have done pretty well," Williams said. "I think that we've done a good job encouraging them to do what they need to do."
Williams said that he opposed certain provisions of Proposition 42.
"I am for the idea of a required core curriculum in high school," he said. "I expect the players to do that. I ... am not for the test scores. I don't think that test has proven to be a true indicator of how a young man or a young woman is going to do in college."
Freshmen sit-out rule
On the positive side, the proposed rule might eliminate the discrepancies in test scoring and the unavoidable variations in educational backgrounds. On the other hand, student-athletes who are capable of making the adjustment from high school to their sport would be punished.
A rule that would require all freshmen student-athletes to sit out their freshman year has been under discussion with the NCAA and most likely will be brought up at its convention in January.
Kansas coaches take different sides on this issue.
Williams said he was in favor of such a program but doesn't think it stands a chance of passing.
Tim Allen, academic counselor for football at Kansas, said that the football team practically operated that way anyway.
"It's something our program has started to lean toward," he said. "We redshirts most of our freshmen class. I think it's always an advantage for freshmen to at college and not have to compete at the college level right away."
Allen said that he opposed some of the provisions of Proposition 42.
"I think the problem is the test scores," Allen said. "I think that all school districts are different, so the quality of education isn't equal. Kids who are in inner-city districts may not be prepared for the standardized tests."
"Sometimes it's hard to tell how a kid is going to respond to college. Scores and class ranks don't always show how a student is going to respond to college situation. It comes down to what skills you can make it. They can if they want to."
Allen said he questioned the financial stipulations of the proposition.
"I think for the most part it's a negative thing," he said. "You have a young man who's losing out on going to college."
Two members of the Kansas football team, defensive tackles Kyle Moore and Dana Stubblefield, sat out last season under Proposition 4.
"They're both making excellent
Student-athlete eligibility
If student-athletes take 24 hours during their freshman year and maintain a certain GPA - 1.6 in the Big Eight - then they may compete during their sophomore year. Prop 42 replaced Prop 48 this fall.
Proposition 48 requirements:
2.0 high school grade point average
15 ACT or 700 SAT
Student-athletes are classified in one of three ways: qualifiers, non-qualifiers or partial qualifiers. Qualifiers receive four years eligibility. Non-qualifiers lose a year. Partial qualifiers, those meeting only one standard, are eligible for athletic scholarships.
If student-athletes don't meet these standards, they must sit out their first year. One year of eligibility is used up and three remain.
Proposition 42 requirements:
2.0 high school grade point average
18 ACT or 700 SAT
Student-athletes must also take 11 core courses in high school. These classes include three English, two mathematics, two social sciences and two natural or physical sciences with at least one lab class, if offered. The remaining two must come from the following: foreign language, computer science, philosophy or non-doctrinal religion.
Student-athletes are classified only as qualifiers or non-qualifiers. Student-athletes must be qualifiers to receive any money.
Before Jan. 10, 1990, student-athletes could not accept any money, but an amendment stated that the student-athlete could apply for need-based financial aid through government programs.
The requirements to regain eligibility are the same as Proposition 48.
Source: NCAA Rules and Guidelines
academic progress," Allen said "They really came back and performed at the Big Eight level. It was
KANSAN
a pleasant surprise. Athletes tend to
See PROPOSITION, p. 14