University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 17, 1989
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'Hawks face LSU Williams anticipates challenge
By Dan Perkins
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas Coach Roy Williams said before Wednesday's game against Alabama-Birmingham that the game should show him what kind of team he had.
Williams should get more of a notion of how the Jayhawks rank nationally when Kansas plays second-ranked Louisiana State University. The LSU would be second round of the Dodge National Invitational Tournament.
Williams saw a team that played tough, aggressive defense for a full 40 minutes and had five players score in double figures as the Jayhawks rolled to a 109-83 victory.
The two schools' first meeting since 1954 will begin at 8:35 p.m. and will be televised on ESPN. The winner will advance to the semifinals of the tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York.
"I'm very pleased to be moving on in the NIT," Williams said. "I'm not very pleased with the prospect of playing LSU at Baton Rouge. I truly believe they have the ingredients of a national championship team. It will just be a great challenge to play what some people say is the best team in the nation."
The Tigers are led by 6-foot1 sophomore guard Chris Jackson, the All-American who set an NCAA freshman record by averag
10. 2 points per game and scoring 965 points in a season. He also scored 48 or more points in five contests, including 55 points against Florida, which was also a freshman record.
"He's one of the most amazing players I have ever seen on the college level." Williams said. "He's gifted."
Unfortunately for Williams, Jackson didn't show any signs of a sophomore slump Wednesday night by pouring in 37 points in the Tigers 91-80 first-round victory against Southern Mississippi.
The Tigers, though, are more than the Chris Jackson show.
Two other players who averaged in double figures return to LSU, which averaged 92.7 points per game last season.
Wayne Sims, a 6-7 forward,
averaged 13.3 points and 7.6
rebounds per game, and Verniel
average 10.8 points and 7.8 rebounds.
The Tigers don't have any seniors, and just four juniors return from a team that finished 2012 last season after a loss to Texas-EI Paso in the opening match of the NCAA tournament.
The biggest question mark for the Tigers this season is experience.
Nowhere is the lack of experience more evident than at the beginning of the school year. We have two players that had no major college playing experience.
Kansas Basketball GAME 2
KANSAS JAYHAWKS LOUISIANA STATE TIGERS Coach: Roy Williams Coach:Dale Brown Record: 1-0 Record: 1-0
PROBABLE STARTERS
PROBABLE STARTERS
Player Ht. Player Ht.
G-Kevin Pritchard 6-3 G-Chris Jackson 6-1
G-Jeff Gueldner 6-5 G-Randy Devall 6-4
C-Mark Randall 6-9 C-Shaquille O'Neal 7-1
F-Rick Calloway 6-6 F-Stanley Roberts 7-0
F-Mike Maddox 6-7 F-Wayne Sims 6-7
Game Notes: Kansas and LSU have not met since 1954. The series is tied 1-1. This is the second-round game of the Dodge NIT. It will be telecast on ESPN (channel 18) and broadcast on KLZR 106 FM. Tip-off is 8:35 p.m. at Baton Rouge.
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What they lack in experience they make up for in size.
The 'Tigers have twin towers in 7-1 freshman Shaquille O'Neal and 7-0 sophomore Stanley Roberts. Roberts sat out last year as a Promotion 48.
than 6-7. Mark Randall is 6-9, and Pekka Markkanen is 6-10.
"We'll have to do an amazing job of boxing out and rebounding if we are to compete with them," Williams said.
Kansas counters the Tigers' height with just two players taller
because of an injury suffered in the game against Alabama-Birmingham. Markkanen bruised his back when he hit the floor on a lob attempt in the first half.
Making things more difficult for Williams is the possibility that Markkanen could miss the game
"I don't know what his status is right now," Williams said. "We held him out the rest of the way as a precautionary measure."
Sport briefs
KANSAS TENNIS: Three Kansas tennis players will play today in the main draw of the DuPont National Clay Court Championships.
John Falbo and Eveline Hamers were selected to play in the 32-player singles' draw, and Jeff Gross qualified yesterday as an alternate to fill one of the four spots of the championship's main draw that starts today.
Falbo, ranked 15th in the country, will play against John Mattice of Brigham Young, and Jeff Gross will face Mark Knowles of UCLA.
Eveline Hamers will play Diane Mckeeon of Wake Forest.
second leg of the Collegiate Grant Slam and the only collegiate event played on clay, is in Hilton Head, S.C. On the men's side, freshman Brian Harris and sophomore Rafael Rangel lost Wednesday in the qualifying tournament. Harris had a first round bye but was defeated in the next round by Eric Annes of UNL V 6-2, 6-1. Rangel lost in the first round to Bert Lemercier of Fresno State 6-3, 6-0.
On the women's side, Renne Ray-chaudhuri lost in the first round of the qualifiers to Alison Hill of Mississippi 6.3-6.4
KANSAS SWIMMING: When a team has to face another which is ranked higher and is nationally respected, he must learn how to work extra homework if they want to win.
And when the Kansas swim team plays host to a dual meet against
Southern Methodist today and tomorrow, the Jayhawks will have to swim with emotion and excitement to win, said swimming coach Gary Kempf.
The last time the two teams met was in Dallas in January 1986. The Southern Methodist men's team defeated the Jayhawks 96-17, while the women's team defeated Kansas 89-50.
Southern Methodist men's team is ranked 16th compared to Kansas' 20th place.
"We are going to swim at a higher level," Kempf said. "That's our target for the weekend."
The men's team will meet Southern Methodist at 7 tonight at Robinson Center, and the women's squad will meet the Mustangs at 2 p.m. tomorrow.
"We would like to see our home court advantage," Kempf said. "Because that makes difference."
FERRY TRADED: The Los Angeles Clippers traded the rights to Danny Ferry to the Cleveland Cavaliers yesterday along with Reggie Williams for Ron Harper and three draft picks.
Kempf said the team had to swim its best and use its advantage of being somewhat rested. The squad has cut down the number of practices that he can do in his hour of better performance at the Arkansas Invitational. Dec 1,3.
Ferry, the second pick in last summer's NBA draft, decided to not play for the Clippers and is with II
Messaggero Roma of the Italian Professional League under a one-year contract.
Harper, a 6-foot-6 guard in his fourth NBA season, is averaging 22 points in Cleveland's first seven games. He has averaged 6.9 rebounds and seven assists per game.
Along with Harper, Cleveland sent Los Angeles its first-round draft picks in 1990 and 1992 and its second-round pick in 1991.
"I can't wait 'til he gets here," Cleveland coach Lenny Wilkens said of Ferry. "In college, he was a very good player who made people around him very effective. And he took the big shots and made them."
Wilkens expects Ferry to honor his Italian contract and stay there through the end of the season in May. But already, the Cavs are excited.
"Boston waited a year for Larry Bird. San Antonio waited two years for David Robinson," Cleveland general manager Wayne Emby said. "You will see. Danny Ferry will be well worth the wait."
Harper, the eighth player selected in the 1986 draft, averaged 18.9 points last season with the Cavaliers and played in all 82 games. He averaged 19.6 points in the playoffs.
"Trading Ron Harper was a tough decision. He is one of the top guards in the NBA. He has provided some fine moments for the Cavs," Embry said.
Dominic Barnao, Wellington, New Zealand, Kansas rugby head coach is being tackled by two defenders from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, in the first of two games played yesterday. In the first game, Canterbury defeated Kansas 32-0, but the Jayhawks came back with a 32-9 victory. Yesterday's games were the first played on Canterbury's tour of the United States.
Making the tackle
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Alumnae, Jayhawks to face off
By Paula Parrish
Kansan sportswriter
Lynette Woodard will once again don the Crimson and the Blue and take to the court at Allen Field House, but she won't be wearing her old number.
It was retired.
"But whichever number they give me, I'll be proud to wear it," she said with a smile.
Woodard, who played for Kansas from 1978 to 1981, will be a member of the Kansas Alumni team that will play the Kansas women's basketball team in its second exhibition game of the season at 1 p.m. tomorrow.
Woodard will be playing against a team that she has helped coach since the beginning of this year.
"She's been telling them all week she has the elbow oiled," said Coach Marian Washington. "We're ceramic, we have to be ready for running up and down the court."
Kansas' won its first exhibition game of the season against the Auckland Women's Nationals, a New Zealand team, by a score of 82-64 Monday night.
Kansas beat the alumnae team 92-71 last year. The score at halftime of that game was 47-26 and to keep the contest competitive, 20 points were added to the alumnae's score.
"This weekend ought to be a lot of fun." Washington said. "I'm glad we've been able to do this for a second year. It's good for us just to see other faces. And there might be a lot of them, some of them have kept in shape."
Besides Woodard, alumnae who tentatively plan to play are Lisa Dougherty (1985-88), Lisa Baker (1987-88), Karen Schneller (75-76), Mary Myers (1981, 1983-85), Jackie Martin (1985, 1988), Sherri Stoecker (1984-86), Susan Berens (1977) and Karry Kapfer.
Dougherty, who helped Kansas win two consecutive Big Eight Conference titles in 1987 and 1988, with or without the list, Woodard with 3.146. Woodard is with 3.649.
Martin is fifth in career rebounds with 713, and Myers is fourth in all time assists with 310, followed by Dougherty in sixth place with 220.
Woodard said that the team hadn't had a chance to practice but that they planned at least one practice before Saturday.
"We're going to practice tomorrow at 7 p.m. and on again on Saturday morning — if we need it," Woodard said yesterday.
The team will be coached by Marlene Mawson, associate professor of health, physical education and recreation. Mawson coached the women's team from 1968 to 1971 to a record of 19-16.
Woodard said she had been ribbing the team all week and because of that, she expects them to come out strong.
"They're going to hit me every time I out there."
Game 11
Kansas Jayhawks
Coach Glen Mason 3-7
Conference 1-5
WR-85 Kenny Drayton, 6-0, 175, So.
LT-77 Chiles Perez, 6-5, 283, So.
LG-68 John Fritch, 6-2, 250, So.
OC-51 Chi Budue, 6-2, 265, Jr.
RG-65 Scott Innelle, 6-2, 280, Ra-Fr.
RT-78 Bill Hundelt, 6-8, 280, Sr.
TE-86 John Baker, 6-3, 245, Sr.
QB-5 Kelly Donohoe, 0-1, 180, Sr.
FB-26 Mauro Douglas, 5-10, 187, So.
TB-24 Tony Sands, 5-6, 175, So.
WR-2 Quintin Smith, 5-11, 175, Sr.
PK-63 Brad Fleeman, 5-8, 172, Sr.
SOB-17 Lance Flackabash, 8-5, 235, So
ST-78 Gary Oatts, 6-1, 252, Jr,
MG-72 Gileen Brown, 6-2, 322, Fr.
RT-82 David Gordon, 6-3, 250, Jr.
ROL-84 Dan Newbrough, 6-1, 252, Sr.
RI-34 Roger Robben, 6-0, 223, So.
SIL-58吴Swentford, 6-1, 220, CC-
7 Hassan Bailey, 5-11, 192, Fr.
WC-10 Terry Perry, 5-11, 177, Su
WS-23 Jason Prentt, 6-0, 185, So.
SS-8 Daryl Boykin, 5-10, 190, Su
P-97 B.J. Lohen, 6-3, 218, Fr
Probable Starters: Defense
Probable Starters:
Offense
Missouri Tigers
Coach Bob Stull 2-8
Conference 1-5
WR-4 Linzey Collins, 6-2, 185, Jr.
LT-78 Don Wright, 6-2, 245, Soe.
LG-51 Pete Scott, 6-4, 276, Sr.
C-50 Brad Funk, 6-3, 261, Jr.
RG-83 Gay Greenwood, 6-2, 271, Sr.
RT-68 Ken Christensen, 6-5, 255, Soe.
TE-Tim Bruton, 6-4, 245, Jr.
GB-Kent Klaer, 6-1, 190, Jr.
FB-31 Tommie Stella, 6-3, 225, Jr.
TB-40 Michael Jones, 6-2, 211, Jr.
WR-4 Damon Mays, 5-10, 190, Jr.
PK-29 Dan Baker, 6-1, 186, Soe.
Coverage: The game will be broadcast live on KLZR 105.9 FM and KLWN 1320 AM.
OLB-49 A.J. Miller, 6-1, 233, Sr.
LT-75 Kevin White, 6-4, 267, Sr.
MG-97 Mario Johnson, 6-5, 285, So.
RT-98 Lee Johnson, 6-1, 275, Sr.
OLB-47 Mike Bingenberg, 6-4, 220, Fr.
ILB-55 Daren MacDonald, 6-1, 204, Sr.
ILB-58 Andy Tilney, 6-0, 215, Jr.
LCB-2 Adrian Jones, 6-0, 181, Sr.
SS-14 Ted LePage, 5-11, 197, Sr.
WS-18 Sharon Washington, 6-0, 200, So
RCB-24 Brad Schriffer, 6-0, 182, So.
P-30 Mark Plunkett, 6-1, 204, So.
Facts: This is the second longest series in Division at 98 games.
Tony Sands needs 96 yards for the first 1,000 yard season since 1980.
Kenwin Bell was the last Jayhawk to rush for 1,000 yards in a season.
KANSAN Graphic
100th season approaches end Jayhawks face Missouri in final football game
By Gene King Kansan sportswriter
The 100th year of Kansas football draws to an end this weekend in Columbia, Mo.
Ranas and Missouri go into the game at 1:30 p.m. at Faurot Field as close to equals as any other team the two have faced this season.
Besides the annual Indian War Drum, a tradition since 1835 of awarding a token drum to the winning team something more important comes with a victory.
The team that wins will have a 2-5 record and sixth place in the Big Eight Conference.
Sixth place would be a step up for the Jayhawks from last year's 1-6 seventh-place finish. The Jayhawks this season are 3-7 overall and 1-5 in the conference.
The Tigers, 2-8 overall and 1-5 in the Big Eight, had a commanding lead against Iowa State before losing the game. Kansas went to the wire with the Cyclones, losing 24-20. The Tigers were ahead 21-0 before giving up 35 unanswered points and losing the game 35-21.
Kansas coach Glen Mason has said all season that one of the Jayhawks' biggest problems has been consistency on offense. He sees a similar problem at Missouri.
"I'm sure they're not pleased with the number of victories, and they probably had some higher expectations," Mason said. "They have had some disappointments, win against TCU, and their downs, last week's lost to Iowa State."
lem, and a lot of teams searching to find themselves do have consistency problems.
"They've got a consistency prob-
-Kelly Donohoe Kansas quarterback
Coach Bob Stull, in his first year at Missouri, admitted that his club had had some expected problems this season.
'They're pretty decent but nothing exceptional. They're pretty average.'
"But at times they look unbeatable."
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"We changed everything. We went from the wishbone to the I-formation," Stull said. "We have struggled getting things squared away."
The Tiger offense is led by quarterback Kent Kiefer. He is ranked sixth in the Big Eight in passing efficiency with a 118.3 rating.
Missouri, which is seventh in the conference, averages 300 yards a game.
"When he's hot, look out," Mason said.
"I've got to be concerned about Jones," Mason said. "He only rushed for 178 yards against us last year. And (Tommie) Stowers is a good buck."
Michael Jones, who is ranked 14th in the conference, leads the Tigers' rushing attack. This season he has a total of 347 vards through 10 games.
Defensively, Missouri is ranked 98th in the nation in total defense. The Tigers have allowed 466 yards a game.
"I've been impressed with their secondary.
"If I was sitting on a seven or eight win season, people would be saying, 'Oh, this guy's blowing smoke,' Mason said, 'But they look good."
"Their defensive line is physical," Mason said. "They've got some big guys up there."
Kansas quarterback Kelly Donohoe, who is now second among all Kansas quarterbacks in total offense and career passing yards with 5,077 and 6,410 yards respectively, said that he didn't expect the Tiger secondary to pose too many problems.
"They're pretty decent but nothing exceptional," Donohoe said. "They're pretty average."
"Kansas is tough because of their combination of throwing and running." Stull said.
Tailback Tony Sands needs just 96 yards for a 1,000 yard season, the first by a single back since Kerwin Bell rushed for 1,114 yards in 1980.
As for the Kansas defense, it is ranked below that of Missouri. Kansas is 100th in the nation after allowing more than 478 yards a game.
The Jayhawks have allowed close to 40 points a game, and the Tigers have given up more than 31 points a game.
But Donohoe does not expect a high scoring game.
"I think the defenses will do the job," he said. "It is going to come down to who might get the ball last." Now, other, the outcome. Mason
No matter the outcome, Mason said he had enjoyed this season.
"I'm really sorry to see this football season end. I have enjoyed coaching this football team," he said.