U N. I V E R S I T Y D A I L Y K A N S A N
Monday, March 10. 1997
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Jayhawks ready to heat up Southeast
Big 12 champions to meet Jackson State in first-round game
By Bill Petulla Kansan sportswriter
Kansas coach Roy Williams celebrates the Big 12 Conference tournament title with his team. The Jayhawks won the tournament championship for just the second time in Williams' career at Kansas with an 87-6 victory against the Missouri Tigers on Saturday at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo.
Steve Purne / KANSAN
It looks like Kansas men's basketball center B.J. Williams got his wish.
When asked where he wanted to play in the NCAA Tournament, Williams said, "I don't care, just as long as it's warm there." Kansas will play in the Southeast region against Jackson State in Memphis, Tenn., where it was 74 degrees yesterday. As expected, the Jayhawks drew a No.1 seed. Game times will be released today.
The Jackson State Tigers finished the season with a 14-15 overall record and a
9-5 record in the Southwest Athletic Conference.
Kansas has only played the Tigers once under Coach Roy Williams, a 93-85 Jayhawk victory in the first round of the 1992 Rainbow Classic.
B. J.Williams On where he wanted to play
Roy Williams said he was a bit stumped that the Jayhawks weren't playing in Auburn Hills, Mich., where most prognosticators had predicted Kansas playing. "I am somewhat surprised that we're going to Memphis," Williams said. "Everybody was saying that we were going to Auburn Hills (Mich.) to play Fairfield."
Instead, the No.1 seed in the Midwest bracket went to Minnesota, and Fairfield will play North Carolina in the first round of the East region.
Assuming the Jayhawks defeat Jackson State, they will meet up with the winner of the Purdue-Rhode Island game. If Kansas plays Purdue, the Jayhawks will hope that history doesn't repeat itself in the Southeast region. The Boilermakers defeated Kansas in the 1994 Southeast Regional in Knoxville, Tenn.
But history is on the Jayhawks' side when it comes to playing teams in the Southwest Athletic Conference. The Jayhawks have never lost to a team from the SWAC. However, in the team's only meeting under Roy Williams, Tigers guard Lindsey Hunter, now with the Detroit Pis-
tons.s scored 48 points.
Hunter's 48 points were the most ever scored by an opponent in the Roy Williams era.
Considering the Jayhawks' failure to catch Hunter's scoring, Roy Williams thought Jackson State coach Andy Stoplin
had little reason to worry about the Kansas defense.
"Andy knows how good we are defensively, with Lindsey scoring 48," Williams joked. "So I don't think our defense is going to scare him any after what he saw that night."
The No. 2 seed in the Southeast bracket is Duke. The Blue Devils took the regular season title in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The Jayhawks watched the tournament selection show from Roy Williams' house. Williams said their reaction was passive,
especially center Scot Pollard.
"Scot Pollard did his usual bit," Williams said. "He said, 'Boy, I'm glad we won that one (the Big 12 Tournament) so we don't have to worry if we got into the big one or not.' He liked the fact that we got the automatic bid."
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