Sports
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 14, 1989
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Andrew MorrisonKANSAN
Brad Kampschroeder, Naperville, Ill., junior, stretches before the Missouri game Saturday in Columbia. Mo. Kampschroeder has played both varsity and junior varsity basketball for the Jayhawks this season.
Jayhawks' tenth man enjoys humor, excitement of game
by Mike Considine Kansan sportswriter
In high school, he was the sec-
ond-leading scorer on the team. In
college, he is the last guy off the
bench.
A as a Kansas basketball player, Brad Kampschroeder has only heard Allen Field House crowds cheering for him when the game is out of hand. They chant his name Coach Roy Williams to play him.
"It's a little embarrassing, a little flattering and a little humorous," he said. "If they want to have fun at my expense, that's okay. If they're having fun, I am too."
The 6-foot-7, 190-pound forward had he taken said prize in his role as the only non-scholarship player for the Jayhawks this season.
"The they like to see the walk-on, the average Joe, play a little bit," Kampschroeder said. "It's like the Fat Lady is already singing when I get in the game. When I get in the chances are we're going to win."
With Kansas in the midst of a five-game losing streak,
Kampschroeder hasn't played since the Jayhawks' 86-66 victory against Wichita State on Jan. 25
Kampschroeder plays on both the varsity and junior varsity. He was promoted because the nine-man varsity team needed another player to practice on road trips, Williams said.
"He was in the junior varsity program, so he understands what it's like to play at this level," Williams said. "Along with that, he's one of the few JV players that does have size."
"His usefulness to us makes that his strength, and he's getting to be a better player."
Kampschroeder has played in eight games totaling just 30 minutes. He has made three of eight field goal attempts and three of five foul shots for nine points (1.1 points a game). His career-high was five points against Northern Arizona on Dec. 12.
try out before his sophomore year
Kampschroeder, a biology major who plans to be an optometrist, didn't try out for the junior varsity team as a Kansas freshman. He had the fraternity brother, JV point guard Brad Moody, encouraged him to
"When I came here, I had a intentions of playing basketball." Kampschroeder said. "I had a chance to play at some Division III schools, but they can't offer scholarships. Kansas had the same quality of education, but for a lot less money."
Both of his parents are Kansas graduates.
Kampschroeder was named to the all-DuPage Valley Conference team and the all-area second team as a senior at Naupure High School in Illinois. He averaged 13.8 points per game.
Junior varsity coach Mark Turgeon said the Kansas coaches have tried to help Kampschroeder become a better all-around player.
“His fundamental skills like ballhandling and passing weren’t great,” Turgeon said. “He had size.”
And now he has come a long way, on that.
This year, Kampschreoder has been the Jayhawks' leading scorer in six of the 13 junior varsity games. He finished last night, he was second in scor-
See TENTH MAN p. 10, col. 3
Sooners are No.1 again in AP's new college poll
NORMAN, Okla. — Oklahoma Coach Billy Tubbs is happy to be No. 1 in the nation — again.
The Associated Press
"We'd like to stay there," Tubbs said yesterday, after learning that his Sooners once again had taken over the top spot in The Associated Press' college basketball poll. "But we're not going to get into the type of game. We've experienced it before, now maybe we can do better."
Tubbs said after Sunday's 82-80 victory against Arizona that No. 1 teams have had to immediately play games. The Sooners are no different.
Oklahma was ranked No. 1 two weeks ago, for the first time in the school's history. But the Sooners last fall upset Oklahoma and fell to (lost) in last week's poll.
"This week we've got Kansas and Colorado on the road," Tibbs said. "I think there should be some kind of clause that if you get to Be 1, No 2, you can't have a schedule so, you don't have to play on the road for at least two weeks."
Oklahoma moved back to No. 1 this week after defeating No. 3 Missouri and last week's No. 1 team. Arizona
he was joking.
Oklahoma. 21-3, received 58 first
place votes and 1,273 points from the nationwide panel of sportswriters and broadcasters. That put it ahead of Arizona, 18-3, which dropped to second with two first-place votes and 1,162 points.
Missouri, 21-4, remained third, despite its loss to Oklahoma. It received two first-place votes and 1,096 points. Georgetown, 18-3, dropped from second to fourth after a 79-74 loss to Pittsburgh; it received 1,001 points, 13 more than Illinois, 20-3.
The Fighting Illini, who were seventh last week, had 984 points. They edged out Syracuse, 21-4, which received 974 points. The Orangemen, the Fighting Illini and Oklahoma were the only members of last week's top 12 teams. They included 12 members of the Top Twenty lost a total of 14 games.
Florida State, 19-2, moved to seventh place, with one first-placed vote and 813 points. North Carolina, with 767 points, Louisville rounded out the Top Ten.
The Tar Heels, 19.5, received 701 points and dropped one spot, while Indiana, 20.5, rose from 13th to ninth with 732 points.
Louisville, which lost two out of its three games last week and fell to 17-5, dropped from fourth to 10th with
731 points
Duke, 17.4, led the Second Ten with 641 points, which included the final first place vote. The Blue Devils were followed by Satellon Hall, Michigan State, and Stanford, Nevada-Las Vegas, North Stanford, Nevada-Las Vegas, Northern Carolina State and Louisiana State.
Last week's Second Ten teams were Seton Hall, Florida State, Indiana, Duke, West Virginia, Ohio State, North Carolina State, Stanford, Nevada-Las Vegas and Georgia Tech.
Louisiana State, 17-6, is the only new member of the poll. The Tigers replaced No. 20 Georgia Tech, which lost to Virginia, 78-71.
Although he was pleased with the victories over Missouri and Arizona, Tubbs she said wasn't happy with the team's performance.
"We played two outstanding teams, so maybe that had something to do with us being unhappy with our play," he said. "They were great games. But I think we definitely have room for improvement, and we're going to have to play better down the stretch than we are playing now."
"I think we're just going to pay attention to our games and go on about our business," he said.
He said being No.1 wouldn't make any difference to his team.
Football team won't practice unless college replaces coach
Texas players claim coach emphasized sports over studying
The Associated Press
All but a handful of the 55 players returning for next season have said they were on strike and were playing against the head football coach Haney Catchings.
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas — Worried they're not being allowed to get an education, a majority of the football players at Prairie View A&M said they were still in their promise not to practice unless their coach was replaced.
The players have accused their coach of withholding textbooks, suspending hall and holding six societies that left no time for studying.
They also said Catchings had run practice drills that caused injuries to players.
Catchings denies the accusations.
"It's not true," Catchings said.
"That's all I have to say."
Richard Haynes and two-year team captain Herman Moore, each with one year of eligibility remaining, last week made public what they say is their longstanding dissatisfaction with Catchings, drawing the attention of the national media to the tree-lined camp. 45 miles west of Houston.
"My motto is, 'God doesn't like ugly.' Moore said yesterday, "and what this man has done to this program and the players is ugly."
Wearing dress clothes and armed with press releases listing their company names, the government will have to approve.
spent the day setting up meetings with administrators and telling anyone who would listen that they wanted a coach they could respect
Forty-two members of the team attend study table, a mandatory study session that for freshmen team members, who have an average below 2.0
"The chief complaint is academics," said Moore, a business marketing major with a 2.4 average. "He's always about his players' academics."
"There's never been that many people on study table before," said Moore, "especially upperclassmen."
Although the predominantly black, 5,600 student school has never had a strong football tradition, players said they think the better to under someone they liked.
The Panthers went 5-1 in 1988 after a 3-71 mark in 1987, the year Catchings took over for fired Coach Conway Hayman.
"I've seen the light go out of players' eyes," Moore said.
Moore and Haynes have taken on the responsibility for directing the team. They're urging teamsmates to keep in shape, run and lift weights to prepare for spring practice, which begins next month.
But the players said they won't be practicing for Catchings.
"The practices will be under the direction of the team captains," said Haynes, a criminal justice major with a 3.2 average.
Practices under Catchings would often last six hours, players said, with team members not getting back to the residence hall until 10:30 p.m.
the coach imposed a 11 o'clock curwheel, and he'd punish players from missing curwheel because they were studying." Haynes said. "They told us to go to the library on our own time, but there wasn't any time. From 4:30 to 9:30 was their time. They emphasized that."
Athletic director Brutus Jackson said Catchings had told him practices were only $3^{2}$ hours.
Jackson, who said he was not aware of all the players' concerns and could not comment on them specifically, said he thought the dispute could be resolved without Catchings' departure.
"We care about their academics, and we care about their well-being," he said. "We need to hear more about these little concerns before I can comment."
The players presented Jackson with a list of specific complaints yesterday, and the two sides met to discuss the problems.
Among the non-academic complaints were charges that Catchings ran practice drills that were unduly harsh.
Haynes described drills in which players were forced to dive over telephone poles amid rocks and broken glass and others in which players ran head-on into each other from 30 feet apart.
Borg still optimistic on future
The Associated Press
HorrorZontals win Mardi Gras tournament
"I'm fine. I'm well off. I have made money on tennis. There is really no reason for me to think about suicide," Borg said in an article in the newspaper Expressen.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Calling rumors that he tried to commit suicide "ridiculous," five-time Wimbledon champion Bjorn Borg expressed optimism about his future.
He said he felt sick after eating frozen fish at his fiancee Loreda Berte's apartment in Milan. In an attempt to fall asleep despite the nausea, he said, he took a few sleeping tablets.
Berg was hospitalized last week in Italy and had his stomach pumped The incident first was as a possible suicide attempt.
n you take 60 sleeping pills, you don't walk out of the hospital a couple of hours later. That's ridiculous." Borg said, speaking at his parents' home at Cap Ferrat, Monaco.
Borg, 33, also said he planned to play tennis with President George Bush at the White House the first week in May.
by Laurie Whitter
Kansan sportswriter
Fog and 40 degree temperatures could not stop the KU Frisco Club, known as The HorrorZontails, from winning the Ultimate Frisbee Mardi Gras Tournament last weekend in Baton Rouge, La.
Team member Matt Logan,
topeka senior, said Sunday's 13.7
loss to Minnesota in short team called Elvis from Hell, was played in poor weather conditions.
The HorrorZontals, who were 6-0 in the tournament, defeated teams from Tennessee, Texas and Louisiana and claimed the frisbee-shaped firstplace trophy. Twelve teams competed in the tournament.
"Elvis from Hell was probably the toughest team we played," Logan said. "When we played them again in the finals, it was really foggy and the field was all under lights. It was cool how those lights looked."
The weather couldn't stop the final game, but it did make for a dangerous drive to the tournament. Logan said that during the 19-hour drive to Baton Rouge, several team members had near-accidents on the iyc roads.
"We play in rain, rain, fog, whatever. I've never heard of an Ultimate game being called off because of the weather."
"There was freezing rain when we drove down," Logan said. "I was driving, and several people were
Logan said that no one was injured and that none of the cars were damaged.
asleep in back.
"I drove onto a bridge and the next thing I know, we were spinning. At the end of the bridge, we hit dry pavement and went a lot slower."
Despite the dangerous road conditions, Logan said the team was in high spirits when they arrived in Baton Rouge. That was important, he added, because she was dependent on keeping Ultimate free from a bee-friendly and fun game.
"The spirit of the game is the big thing." Logan said. "There are no referees in Ultimate frisbee. We let everyone play hard and be competitive, but not at the cost of the friendliness of the game."
Kyle Shepard, Overland Park senior, said that everyone who had been practicing with the team got to play in the Mardi Gras tournament.
"We made sure that everyone who'd been going to practice got to play in the tournament." Shepard went and went out there and did a great job.
He said that The HorrorZontals' new players had helped the team become stronger than in previous years.
"We've also got a lot of guys returning this year, so that makes us strong. We're definitely a stronger team."
The HorrorZontals finished in fifth place at the Ultimate frite college nationals last year. This year's nationals will be held May 26, 2015, in Wilmington, N.C.
Looking for a open man, Rich MacDonald, Leawood graduate student, is kept under the tight defensive grip of Johnny Leuthold, Columbia, Mo. graduate student, during a practice. The two students belong to the KU Frisbee club, which won the Mardi Gras Tournament last weekend in New Orleans.