Sports
University Daily Kansan / Monday, December 11, 1989
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Kentucky loss reinforces poll ranking for 'Hawks
Continued from p. 1
The Jayhawks set school records for the most field goals in a game, 52; most three-point field goals made, 10; and most assists in a game, 36.
Kansas and Kentucky also combined to set an NCAA record for most three-point field goals attempted with 57.
Kentucky coach Rick Pittino argues a call as referee Ed Hightower slaps him with a technical foul after Pittino threw a towel on the court
Even the weakest part of the Kansas team early this season, free-throw shooting, shone in the game.
Kansas, which was hitting only 62 percent from the line, nearly broke the school record of 38 free throws the Jayhawks hit 36 of 44 (82 percent)
The game belonged to guard Terry Brown, who led the Jayhawks with 31 points, including a school record of seven three-pointers.
Brown said the sellout crowd of 15,800 had a lot to do with his performance on Saturday.
"When the crowd gets all noisy, it just pumps me up more," Brown said. "I have more confidence in my team than it when the crowd gets up like that."
Williams said he felt bad for Kentucky coach Rick Pitino, but that there wasn't much he could do about the final score.
"I'm human," Williams said. "I was sitting there loving what our guys were doing, but at the same time feeling some compassion for the other team. But we weren't pressing him, so you can't tell your kids not to play."
Despite the huge disparity in the final score, games started out underperforming.
Kentucky opened with a quick five-point lead in the first 32 seconds
of the game, including the first of seven first-half three-pointers by guard Derrick Miller just five second-seconds finished with a game-ball 33 points.
Kansas scored the next six points, but couldn't break away from the Wildcats' tough, pressing defense until the last 2% of the half.
A jumper-by guard Kevin Pritchard gave Kansas a 68-57 lead, and from then on Kansas never led by less than 10 points.
Pitino, in his first year with the Wildcats, tried everything to keep the Wildcats in the game, including a couple of talks with the referees.
He picked up his second with Kentucky trailing 94-70 early in the second half.
Jordan, who led with eight assists,
said Pitino's antics actually fired the
Jayhawks up more than the Wildcats.
"He was crazy," guard Adonis Jordan said. "I thought they were going to throw him out of the gym."
"It fired us up because it was like he was disrespecting our house," he said.
The Jayhawks outscored the Wildcats 12-4 in the last few minutes of the half for a 90-61 halftime advantage.
At the half, Kansas already had five players in double figures, led by Pritchard and Brown with 13 points apiece. Center Pekka Markkanen added 12 and guard Jeff Gueldner
and forward Mark Randall each had 11 points.
ued to score bucket after bucket against Kentucky's defense that began to wear thin with heavy foul problems.
Kentucky had four players with three fouls at halftime and three Wildcats fouled out of the game in the second half.
Brown led the way for the Jay-
hawks with four second-half three-
pointers. The junior college transfer
scored 31 points, the first time this
In the second half, Kansas contin-
season that a Jayhawk has scored more than 30, for a new season and career high.
Kansas opened up a 20-point lead with 18-29 remaining and quickly scored four points on a field goal. Rick Calloway, with a 16-6 run in a 4/4 minute stretch.
points on two consecutive dunks by Calloway, giving Kansas a 124-83 lead with more than 6 minutes left to play. Calloway finished the game as the second-leading scorer with a season-high 21 points.
The Jayhawks broke the 127-point game on three possessions by Brown.
Brown hit two more three-pointers in the next two minutes, giving the Jays a 10-9 lead.
The advantage increased to 41
The first of those two three-pointers started a 19-0 run by the Jaya-hawks that ended on a free throw by Kentucky forward John Pelphrey, with 1:33 left to play and Kansas leading 150-90.
"I think at the end of the game, it was one of those kind of things that snowballed, everything we touched turned to gold and everything they touched, you fill in the blank." Williams said.
KU paced by Brown 3-pointers
By Paula Parrish
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas was the show, but "Downtown" Terry Brown was a definite star in the Jayhawks' 150-95 march against the Kentucky Wildcats.
"Basically, I just like shooting three-pointers." Brown said after Saturday's victory. "I definitely like the three-point shot."
Brown, one of seven Kansas players who ended Kentucky's nightmare in double digits, led the Jayhawks in scoring with a season-high 31 points, dropping in seven of 10 three-point attempts in only 19 minutes of total playing time.
"I was surprised, really," Brown said of his scoring streak. "I thought I had about 20, so I was really shocked."
Adonia, Jordan and Nehemiah Bradday scramble for a loose ball in the Javhawks' rout of the Wildcats
Kansas and Kentucky set a new NCAA three-point attempt record with 57. The previous record was 55. Kentucky guard Derrick Miller led the Wildcats with 32 points, tossing in eight of 19 three-point attempts.
Brown's scoring blizzard pushes Kansas to a new record of 10 for the most completed three-pointers in a game. The previous record was nine, set against California two years ago. "I got lucky. I hit a hot streak," said Brown, who chose to wear No. 3 because of his shooting ability. "I've just been trying to make a name for myself."
Not much chance of anyone forgetting about "Downtown," as the 6-foot-1 guard has led Kansas in scoring twice on his way to tossing in 21 in the Jayhawks' 103-48 victory against Tennessee-Martin and 14 in the team's 86-53 victory.
against Southern Methodist.
"I said even last year when we first recruited him, if I didn't screw him up, he'd be a good shooter, and so far I've stayed away from that part of it," Coach Roy Williams said. "I think he's a good shooter, and he felt it, and our guys did a good job of getting the ball to him."
Brown scored only 13 points in the first half but rocketed to the top with 18 points in the second half, nine of which came from three three-pointers in a 26-4 Kansas scoring run in the last six minutes of the game.
"The noise of the crowd really pumps you up." Brown said. "Sometimes it was so loud, when we called out the plays, we had to get up close to hear each other. The crowd was unreal."
Brown, who brings the ball back behind his head to drop in his now infamous three-pointers, said he had a thing that way since he was 7 years old.
"To develop a shot like that, you've got to spend a lot of time on it," Brown said. "When I bring it back like that, it makes it kind of hard for
the defensive player to block it."
Although his coach doesn't pay much attention to Kansas' No. 2 national ranking, Brown voiced a little more concern.
"We're just as good as any team. I think we should be up top," he said.
As for the nickname "Downtown" said he didn't mind it.
"Everybody calls me that," he said. "They've been calling me that ever since high school. At first I didn't like it, but I guess the name fits. Now I like it."
Numbers mean beauty for baseball statistician
By Dan Perkins Kansan sportswriter
The man who "knows baseball" isn't exactly the first man who comes to most people's minds.
People who think they know who "knows baseball" have spent too much time watching the multi-genre video games numerous television commercials.
People who have their heads stuck
in the ice in a pool of blood.
Bill Kinses, baseball player.
But the 40-year-old author doesn't particularly care if the people in this area know him. In fact, he prefers they don't.
James, a Winchester resident, and author of The Baseball Abstract, written annually from 1977 to 1988, said hometown fame was useless.
"The ideal solution would be to be famous everywhere except your hometown," said James, while the portable radio on the file cabinet behind his desk broadcasted the Kansas-Missouri football game. "You know that the marketable and you make your money through your reputation. When fame is close to you, people tend to want things from you."
"Joe Garagiola said it best in his book, 'Baseball's a Funny Game,' when he said local people truly regard you differently than national people do."
Obsessive baseball fan
Living in Winchester, James will never have to be worried about an abundance of people wanting things from him.
Winchester, which is about 30 miles north of Lawrence, is a town of about 25,000.
described the town this way.
Newsweek, in an April 1984 issue.
"Approximately 65 miles northwest, and $ \frac{2}{3} $ light years in outlook, from the artificial turf and goldchain ambiance of the Kansas City Royals' ballpark . . . Winchester is the kind of Kansas town where cornfields are visible from every street corner."
James lives about two blocks from the downtown of this community in a large Victorian house, which used to be the city nursing home, with his wife and mother an in-home artist, and their two children, Rachel, 3, and Isaac, 1.
"The level of Winchester is really good because my neighbors know who I am, but I also know who they are," James said. "If you get away from this area and your name is known, you get into a lot of weird relationships where people know you how to talk to you, how awkward to be talking to people and they know you who are, but you don't them at all. It's dehumanizing."
James' office in Oskaloosa, about 10 miles southwest of Winchester, is just as obscure as Winchester.
The sign above the door reads "Northeast Kansas Mental Health," which occupied the space before James.
Once inside, though, it is obviously an office meant to please a self-proclaimed "obsessive baseball fan."
The bookshelf on the far wall is packed with books, including a row of about 20 bound volumes of the Sporting News resting above books ranging from biographies of Dizzy Dean and Mickey Manble to recent baseball media guides.
"It's much more comfortable being in relationships where you deal
See JAMES. p. 14
Improving KU football will tackle tougher schedule next year
Team set to face Miami and Virginia
By Gene King
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas football team, led by second-year coach Glen Mason, posted a 4-7 overall record and finished sixth in the Big Eight Conference with a 2-5 record.
The schedule is made of tougher teams, but the Jayhawks will be improved and ready for new challenges.
Next year Kansas will face at least four teams that will have played a bowl game on Jan. 1, 1980.
The Jayhawks open the 1990 season at home against Virginia. The Cavaliers finished 1-2 this year and second in the Atlantic Coast Conference last year. They will play in the Florida Citrus Bowl against Illinois.
In the third week of the season, the Jayhawks start a four-week stint of away games. They travel to the commonwealth of Kentucky to take on Louisville. The Cardinals defended pass in Lawrence 33-28 this season.
Kansas then meets Oregon State in Lawrence. The Beavers finished 4-7-1 and had a 3-4-1 record in the Pacific 10 Conference.
In addition, the Jayhawks will be playing conference opponents Nebraska, which will be playing Florida State in the Sunstik Flesta Bowl, and Colorado, which will be playing Notre Dame in the Federal Express Orange Bowl.
"It is a very tough non-conference schedule," Mason said.
After two Big Eight games on the road, Kansas will play its last non-conference game against the 1989 second-ranked Miami at. Miami. Miami will be playing Alabama in the USF@G Sugar Bowl.
Recruitments, scholarships part of strategy for KU football coaches
The Jayhawks lose one starting senior from the defense and four
By Gene King
Kansan sportswriter
Kansan sportswriter
Santa Claus and Kansas football coach Glen Mason have a lot in common.
Both will fly across the country this month and bring smiles to a lot of families.
The Kansas coaching staff has been visiting recruits' homes almost non-stop since Dec. 1. Recruiting has been a strong point for a dismal but improving Javhawk team.
Mason recruited safety Deral Boykin, the 1938 Big Eight defensive newcomer-of-the-year, and defensive tackle Gilbert Brown, the 1969 preseason newcomer-of-the-year, as well as a number of other starters on the 1969 squad.
But for this season, the Jayhawks are contending with some big-name universities for student
athletes.
R. D. Helt, recruiting coordinator, said Kansas was competing with schools such as Purdue, Iowa, Miami (Fla.) Land Florida State, as well as the Big Eight schools.
"I's awfully early to tell." Helt said. "But things are going well. There is a lot of interest in it."
seniors from the offense.
For now, though, Helt said things were looking good.
Kansas had 25 scholarships available this season, but a few of those, Mason said, were reserved for some walk-ons who performed well this season.
Players such as linebacker Wes Swinford, a former eight-man player from Morrison, Oka-, and the third-leading tackler this season, are in the running for some of the 25 scholarships.
Linebacker Dan Newbrough is the only departing senior on the defense. Quarterback Kelly Donohoe, tight
"If I were Mr. Swinford (Wes' father)." Mason said earlier in the season, "I would correct my son to receive a scholarship."
The NCAA set a limit of 95 on the number of scholarship players a team may have during any one season.
Even by using all 25 scholarships this year, and barring any off-season injuries, Hell said that the Jayhawks only would have about 80 athletes on scholarship for the 1990 season.
"Because of our lack of number," Mason said, "we have to recruit across the board."
Helt said the rebuilding process was a slow one.
end John Baker, wide receiver Quintin Smith, and lineman B Hundelt will not return to next year's offense. "Losing Kelly is a big loss for us."
"In our minds, it is a marathon, not a sprint," he said.
center Chip Budde, said. "We will miss his experience next year." Replacing Donohoe may be quarterback Chip Hilleary, who played in
center Chip Budde said. "We will four games and completed four of miss his experience next year." nine pass attempts.
See SCHEDULE, p. 14