University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 9, 1990
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Jayhawks to challenge Cyclone curse
Kansas could regain top rank if six-year streak can be ended
By Paul Augerl
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas could return to the top spot in the Associated Press college basketball poll if it wins at Iowa State tomorrow.
Kansas, 23-1 overall and 6-1 in the Big Eight Conference, plays Iowa State at 3:10 p.m. tomorrow in Ames.
"That is something for their fans to think about and for the media to pick on," Gueldner said, "Since I have been here, they've played completely out of their heads and hit all their shots."
With Kansas State's 65-58 victory last night against top-ranked Missouri, Kansas could regain the No. 1 spot in the NCAA with a 95-47 loss to the Tigers in Columbia.
The Jayhawks have not beaten the Cyclones at Hilton Coliseum since 1983. But the six-game losing streak in Ames hardly bothered Jayhawk starting guards Kevin Pritchard and Jeff Guelder.
"I think we go out and play the best when we play our game and don't worry about anything else," Pritchard said. "What happened last year is not going to affect what happens this year."
Kansas players said yesterday they were concerned more with Wednesday night's second-half collapse at Oklahoma State than with their unsuccessful history in Ames. Kansas led by 24 points with 10:21 left in the game and had to shake off a late Cowboy rally for an 83-76 victory.
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"I think Jeff said it best that the team got a little complacent," forward Mark Randall said. "Instead of playing to win, we were just playing to lose."
"I believed Johnny when he said on media day that they could be the best team since he has been there," Williams said. "They seem to be one of those teams that gets a little more enthused, a little more fire and spirit when it plays."
KANSAS
JAYHAWKS
Coach: Roy Williams
Record: 23-1, 6-1
Kansas coach Roy Williams said Cyclone coach Johnny Orr has a much better team than its 7-12 and 2-5 record indicates.
Kansas has won its four Big Eight Conference games since the loss to Missouri. Iowa State has lost nine of its last 12 games, including an 86-81 loss to Oklahoma on Wednesday. The Cyclones have defeated Colorado and
IOWA STATE
CYCLONES
Coach: Johnny Orr
Record: 7-12, 2-5
PROBABLE STARTERS
| Player | Ht. | PPG | RPG | Player | Ht. | *PPG | *RPG |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| F-Mark Randall | 6-9 | 14.2 | 6.1 | F-Doug Collins | 6-1 | 10.4 | 4.9 |
| F-Rick Calloway | 6-6 | 13.0 | 4.8 | F-Victor Alexander | 6-9 | 21.2 | 8.9 |
| C-Pekka Markkanen | 6-10 | 7.6 | 4.3 | C-Phil Kunz | 6-9 | 7.2 | 4.2 |
| G-Jeff Gueldner | 6-5 | 11.4 | 4.8 | G-Terry Woods | 5-9 | 17.9 | 3.3 |
| G-Kevin Pritchard | 6-3 | 13.9 | 2.7 | G-Brian Pearson | 6-2 | 3.8 | 0.7 |
"The fact that we have not won there is a little incentive just because we have not played well each time we've gone down there." Randall
Iowa State boasts forward Victor Alexander, the Big Eight's second leading scoring with 21.2 points a game. The 6-foot-9 junior also leads the conference in field goal shooting
"He's going to be out there battling the whole game," Randall said. "It is tough to completely stop a guy like that, but if we slow him down, that's to help to us."
The second-ranked Jayhawks' last victory in Ames, Iowa on Feb. 23,1983 was a 74-60 victory, a game in which Iowa State lead 52-38 at halftime. The Cyclones beat Kansas 98-99 last season at Ames.
[sample notes]: Kanaus and Iowa State will meet for the first time this season at 3:10 p.m. tomorrow at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa.
Cyclone guard Terry Woods averages 17.9 points a game but scored only four against Oklahoma.
"I have played against Woods for three years now and he is so quick and explosive." Pritchard said. "But
The Jayhawks lead NCAA Division 1 teams in field goal shoot percentage with 53.7 percent leader, KU (19.8%) TV Big 8 Raycom Network, KMBC (Channel 41) Kansas City, WIBW (Channel 13) Topeka
"figures do not include Wednesday's game
we are going to stay with our main defense. Why go away from something that's been successful?"
Pritchard said Kansas will play defense the same way it did against Oklahoma State: double-tame any big man once, the ball is passed inside. The Jayhawks also will try to cut off any routes Iowa State's guards could use for penetration.
spurt should quiet a capacity crowd at Hilton.
Gueldner said Kansas had to score early as it has in its past three games. He said an opening scoring
"We have to try and match their enthusiasm," he said. "They are going to be fired up. We are the No. 2-ranked team in the nation and the fans are going to pick up on that. Hopefully we'll be out in front when we get going and won't let the fans become a factor."
Gueldner said he was worried about Kansas' foul troubles. The Jayhawks averaged 26 fouls a game
in their last three games.
"Those are mistakes that really concern me," Gueldner said. "All of a sudden in the last five games or so in the Big Eight, everybody's playing with two or three fouls in the first half. Then they have to worry about getting their fourth."
"That makes it tough. But we have overcome that and still been able to win. That's a testament to the guys coming off the bench and doing their jobs."
Football players from Denver, Florida recruited
By Brent Maycock
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas football team has received two more oral commitments from prospective recruits, bringing its total number of known commitments for next year's squad to ten.
Dan Eichloch of Northeast High School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Brent Willeford of Thomas Jefferson High School in Denver have orally committed to attend Kansas next year. The two recruits join eight other high school players who have chosen Kansas.
Eichloff, 6-foot-1 and 210 pounds;
was a first-team All-County kicker last year. Northeast coach Lynn Stickford said he was disappointed that Eichloh wasn't named to the All-State team.
"He's as good as any kicker in the state," Stickford said. "But the selection process is very complicated. It's all politics."
Stickford said Eichloff, who came to the United States from Germany six years ago, was not like other kickers.
"His biggest asset is power," Stickfort said. "He is by far the most powerful kicker we have ever had here. And we've had some pretty
good kickers."
Stickford said Eichloff could squat 550 pounds and bench press 280 pounds. Eichloff's longest goal last season was 49 yards. Eichloff kicked the ball through the uprights on a kickoff three times last year.
"There have been games when every one of his kickoffs would go out of the end zone." Stickford said. "He is capable of kicking 60-yard field goals, even off of the artificial turf."
Eichloff, who verbally committed over Christmas break, chose Kansas over West Virginia, Rutgers, Harvard and Princeton.
and showed interest in him right away," Stickford said. "He came back after his first visit and told me everything at Kansas was exactly what he wanted. Bob Fello did a superb job of recruiting him."
"Kansas listed him as a priority
Bob Fello is Kansas' assistant coach.
Kansas also received a verbal commitment from Brent Willeford of Thomas Jefferson High School in Denver. The 6-foot-4 210-pound tight end made the Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post's first team All-State squad, with Herman Motz, football coach at the school.
"He was the best blocker on our state championship team," Motz said.
Willeford was the leading receiver and captain for the team, which had a record of 13-1. Motz said Willeford had played tackle before playing tight end.
"He has great hands and he is starting to develop into an all-around player." Motz said. "Kansas is getting him at the right time."
Willeford also had been considering Iowa State and Colorado State before he decided to commit to Kansas, he said.
Men's swim team prepares to meet Cornhuskers
Kansan sportswriter
By Molly Reid
Kansas swimming coach Gary Kempf said the men's team would not be intimidated by Nebraska this weekend when the Cornhuskers pit their experience against the Jayhawks' youth.
The meet will begin at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Robinson Center. The women, continuing to prepare for the Big Eight Championships from 20-23, will host an all-day weekend
"Our team just takes it as it comes," he said. "We don't know any better. We've gone into every meet and competed well. We haven't been
intimidated, and we won't be now."
The 22nd-ranked Jayhawks beat
12th-ranked Southern Illinois in a
three-day Southern Illinois Invitational last weekend, 1,035 to 885.
Nebraska is ranked 13th in the men's division and has won every men's swimming conference title in the 1980s.
Kempf said he split the men's and women's practices up this week and reduced the team to scoring capacity. The scoring team consists of 17 swimmers and two divers rather than the season number of 25 and four.
"This is something I just started
doing this year because I think their actual meets are a little bit different," he said. "We've started our last stage of preparation. We're not necessarily doing anything different for Nebraska."
for review and.
Senior Scott Berry said that despite the fatigue from last week's road trip the team would be ready to compete.
respectively. Berry won the 1,650-
meter freestyle in 15:49:6 and Kevin
Toller placed first in the 100-meter
breaststroke with a time of 58.29.
In diving, Andy Flower placed on top
in both events. He won one-meter
diving with a score of 527.2 and won
the three-meter diving with 568.2.
In Illinois, Kansas had winning performances from four different swimmers on the men's team. Jeff Stout won the 200-meter backstroke and the 100-meter backstroke in 1 minute, 54.05 seconds and 52.46
"We're all a little tired, but I think we can swim well," he said.
Kempf said that the level of ability on Nebraska's team had made him concentrate on strategy for the meet.
"When two really good teams hit, you have to take your chances as to where people are going to swim." Kempf said. "Sometimes you don't have any options, but in this meet there are options I can choose. If I
choose the wrong ones we won't come out where we want to. I expect them to come in here with every gun loaded."
One of Nebraska's best swimmers is Jan Bidman from Sweden. He is one of the top-ranked swimmers in the nation. Bidman holds this year's conference-best times in the 500-meter freestyle, 1,000-meter freestyle and 100-meter backstroke. He is second behind Kansas swimmer Zhawn Stevens in the 200-meter breaststroke, and third in the record times for the 200-meter butterfly.
"It's going to take all of us to win," Berry said.
Jayhawk women hope to avoid sweep by Cowgirls
By Brent Maycock
After avenging one of its four Big Eight Conference losses Wednesday night against Iowa State, the Kansas women's basketball team is looking for a repeat performance Saturday when they meet Oklahoma State at Allen Field House.
Kansan sportswriter
"In the last game, we faced the same challenges that we did against Iowa State away from home," Washington said. "We came out flat, really flat and that really hurt us. We'll be a lot sharper than the first time around."
The Cowgirls defeated Kansas 77-68 Jan. 13 at Stillwater. Kansas coach Marian Washington thought the Jayhawks started very slowly in that game.
The Jahayaks enter the game with a 16-7 record overall and a 5-4 conference record. Oklahoma State is 14-7 and 7.2. Kansas is tied with Colorado for fourth place in the conference and Oklahoma State is tied for second with Missouri.
against them.
"It was our best inside game that we have had all season, both defensively and offensively," Washington said. "We're going to work to have to a little more
washington said the team's post defense will have to play as well as it did in Kansas' 74-67 victory against Iowa State.
Washington said the Jayhawks would be concerned with Oklahoma State's guards, who both average in double figures. Liz Brown averages 12.7 points a game to lead the Cowgirls and Althea Cox adds 11.4 points a game.
effective in the lane. If we can do that, it will help us keep pressure on the perimeter."
"We are going to have to contain Brown," Washington said. "She is one of the best guards in the nation."
Although Kansas used a zone defense for most of the Iowa State game, guard Kay Kay Hart said the Jahways would probably play a man-to-man defense against Oklahoma State.
Bloxom scored 21 points in the last meeting between the two teams. Washington said Bloxom had taken the keys to beating the Cowbirds.
Kansas is led in scoring by guard Lisa Bradley, who is averaging 13.8 points a game. Guard Shannon Blossom is averaging 12.6 points a
"We'll trade defenses to contuse them," Hart said. "But we need to keep Brown from getting the ball."
Kansas will be without the services of forward Tanya Bonham for 10 days. The 5-foot-8 sophomore broke her thumb before the Iowa State game while catching a pass.
Guard Kay Kay Hart scrambles on the floor after forcing a turnover in the victory against Iowa State.
K-State topples Missouri
The Associated Press
MANHATTAN — Coach Norm Stewart knew exactly what he felt like doing last night after his No. 1 Missouri Tigers shot a miserable 29 percent and lost 65-58 to a fired-up Kansas State basketball team.
"I's a hard thing not to cry," Stewart said. "We didn't play well, but good golly, Kansas State played their hearts out. Give them credit."
The Tigers, 21-2 overall and 7-1 in Big Eight Conference games, had won four in a row since wrestling the top ranking from Big Eight rival Kansas. K-State is 13-12 overall and 3-4 in the Big Eight.
Missouri held an eight-point second half lead when junior guard Jean Deroillere and senior guard Steve Henson triggered a decisive 18-2 run for the Wildcats.
Henson, 0-for-6 from the field in the first half, made six of the points in the winning run and Derenouillere made eight.
we haven't had a game all year when three of us played poorly," said Missouri senior forward Nathan Buntin. "But tonight we had five guys—all the starters —play poorly. It just wasn't our night."
a tew of those shots in the first half were not shot with a lot of confidence." Henson said. "But whatever I lost in the first half, I got it back in the second."
"Teams have been trying to shut Steve down and I'm trying to take up the slack," said Deroille.
In the second half, our defense picked up and we got a good run at the right time," said K-State coach Lon Kruger.
Missouri was held to 32 points below its season average and watched its 12-game winning streak, the longest in the nation, end. It was the Tigers' lowest point since January 1986.
A wild scene engulfed the floor at the end of the game with students pouring out of the stands and attempting to carry players and coaches away. School and security officials needed several minutes to clear the floor.
Missouri, whose only previous loss was to Illinois in December, made only one basket, a tip-in by Doug Thornley. The team shot 19 percent. They shot a season-low 29 percent.
Missouri led 47-39 when Derouiller's basket ignited the winning spree, putting the Wildcats ahead 50-49 with 5:35 remaining, their first lead since the first half, 6-5.
Freshman forward Askia Jones blocked a Missouri shot after Henson's go-ahead basket and then made a pair of free throws when Missouri sophomore guard Anthony Peeler committed his third foul.
Henson, who scored all his 18 points in the second half, rebounded another Missouri miss a moment later and passed to Jones for a 54-49 lead. Henson rebounded Travis Ford's long miss, was fouled and then made the free throw.
Missouri, which led by as many as eight early in the second half, closed to within four points at 57-53 on Smith's two free throws. But Henson's 12-footer made it 59-53 with 1:03 left.
sports briefs
KANSAS TENNIS FALLS: Injury and hardship struck unexpectedly for three Kansas tennis players yesterday during the first round of the 1990 Rolex National Indoor Collegiate Tennis Championships in Minneapolis.
John Falbo, Kansas' No. 1 singles player and ranked 11th in the NCAA Division I, withdrew from his match because of pulled side muscles. Falbo lost the first set to Alex O'Brien of Stanford, 6-2, and was down 10-1 before leaving the match with the injury.
Kansas player Jeff Gross, the Region V representative, dropped a three-set match to John Stimpson of Alabama. 4-6, 6-2, 6-1.
In the women's bracket, Kansas Eveline Hamers went three sets against Anya Cochoff of Southern California, losing 4-6, 2-1.
The trio of Jayhawks will compete today in the 16-player consolation bracket. A loss will eliminate any player from the tournament.
Tournament competition continues through Sunday.
FREEMAN RETIRES: Lawrence High School football and track coach Bill Freeman has announced his resignation.
Freeman came to Lawrence in 1974 and since then has won five 8-A state football championships, including this year's championship.
Freeman, 59, has coached high school sports for 36 years.
He said he planned to pursue interests in banking and farming.
Freeman said he would finish the semester before retiring.
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