Monday, November 19, 1934
Basketball 1934-85
Pago 17
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You only have to watch a few Big Eight
women's games to know how far the sport has
evolved.
Granted, the powers of the sport are in the
South, but the confrcnee has had it3 share of
national scoring and rebounding leaders S3
well as All-American candidates.
It's also a bit of a shame that more people
didn't f.et involved in the conference race last
season, with Kansas State and Missouri battling
for supremacy while Oklahoma, Oklahoma
State, Kansas and yes, even Nebraska, chipped
away at the leaders.
IIISSOUHI Joni Davis will be among 30
Wade Trophy finalists. Sarah Campbell will be
the conference's best off-guard and Mary
Brueggestrass will be close to the best center.
With early releases out of Columbia saying
sophomore Maggie LeValky made a smooth
transition from off-guard behind Campbell to
starting pent guard, the Tigers will have edges
in experience, height and ability cn the con
ference and all but about eight teams in the
country.
03LAE0MA The Sooners were 22-10 last
season and hyped their schedule this season to
be tougher when the conference race for the
NCAA bid comes around. Jacquetta Hurley
scored a mess of points against Nebraska last
season, and should get more help from ex
perienced starters Shirley Fisher and Tami
Ethridge.
KANSAS STATE Last year's champion
bowed out quietly in the NCAA's, losing a first
round match. But the real problems came later
when head coach Lynn Kickey left to be
assistant athletic director and women's head
basketball coach at Texas A&M. Before that,
junior starter Angle Bonner and sophomore
Una Dixon and Sheron da Jenkins were already
history, taking away about 60 percent of the
scoring from a lineup that would have returned
all 11 players.
Instead, the Wildcats are left with a couple
of good players who really weren't very notice
able around the departed three.
NEBRASKA Why not? Nebraska'3 Debra
Powell played as well as anyone toward the
end of last season, and even though the rest of
the Husker team seemed to get pushed around
a lot, the Huskcrs were only 'out' of four
conference games. The threat of Maurtice Ivy
getting some of the triple team off Powell may
produce a few more victories than the height
disadvantage indicates is possible.
KANSAS The Jayhawks have flopped
through the pre-season the last two years only
to become extremely tough to beat when the
conference schedule rolled around. The same
figures to happen if Barbara Adkins, who once
averaged close to 18 points for the Jayhawks,
rejoins the team at mid-semester. If not, the
Jayhawks figure to lead the bottom halt
OIOAIIOILIA STATE - The Cowgirls prob
ably had the best floor coach in the conference
(according to the Kansas City papers) but the
least overall talent among the contenders last
season. Kathy Schultz, a senior center, caused
alot of headaches inside while DickHalterman
couldn't get former junior college player-of-the-year
Jackie Glo&sen to blossom. Halterman
also has a good recruiting class, but the same
people are expected to play and play a lot.
COLO HAD O Another team that sends
familiar names out, but they didn't do anything
last year. The Buffaloes will have All-everything
candidate Lisa Van Goor back at center, which
is said to be enough to make a winner out of a
2-12 conference team without her. Van Goor, a
6-3 senior, sat out last season, along with 5-10
guard Kris Holwerda, with injuries. Both are
back, as well as Patty Slighter, a 6-1 forward
who played well in what was really a one-gun
attack (Diane Heimstra, who graduated). The
Buffs could surprise.
IO7A STATE The Cyclones could play a
good game with most anyone this side of
Kansas State and Missouri last season, but let
everyone escape Hilton Coliseum with four,
two, or one point losses. This season, the
Cyclones have a new coach, but no new players
to add speed or height to the attack. 6-1 Tanya
Burns and 5-10 Monies Missel are the best they
have, but it's not likely good enough to get out
of the cellar.
Salad days...
Continued from Page 14 mature Thomas, Greg Cavener
Iowa State Johnny Orr and Blake Wortham. High school
hasnt been this cheerful since All-American Derrick Chievous
Ricky Green led Michigan to the may start at guard.
NCAA finals in 1976. Orr has Colorado Shed no tears for
three starters returning from last Buffalo coach Tom Apke. He may
season's NIT team, including all- have lost four-year starters Jay
Big Eight forward Barry Stevns Humphries and Vince Kelley, but
and iunior guard Jeff Hornacek. recruited a tall and talented fresh-
All the fast-paced Cyclones lack
is a true big man, although 7-1
Brad Ducek could reach the po
tential he had before an auto
accident and several other mis
haps. Nebraska Every time the
Big Eight is prepared to write off
the Huskers as a rebuilding team,
Moe Iba puts together a winner.
His 1984-85 squad may not give
starving Husker fans their first
taste of an NCAA tournament
berth, but 17 vms should get
Nebraska another invite from the
man class: 6-5 Mike Flory, 6-9
Scott Wilke and 6-9 Torin Willi
ams of Los Angeles. They will
work in with returners Randy
Downs, Alex Stivrins (who played
high school ball at Lincoln East)
and Mike Reid.
Kaosss State The 45-second
clock will best help the patient
(translation: slow-footed) Wild
cats, who resorted to a tight zone
defense in clogging up Nebraska
and Kansas for a half in the Big
Eight tournament. Jack Hartman's
squad is dominated by past and
present juco transfers, a sign that
NIT Dave Hoppen was the Hus; fa K.StJate 'b ing
kers' offense as a sophomore, but
the all-Big Eight center should
get scoring help from guards Brian
Carr, Demetrious Buchanan and
Harvey Marshall, and forwards
Ronnie Smith and homestate
favorite Bill Jackman.
Missouri Look for Storm in'
Norman Stewart to run a tight
ship after last season's fiasco,
when five players quit and a sixth, including forwards Joe Atkinson
talented Malcolm Thomas, was and Charles Williams and guards
dismissed for insubordination. Winfred Case and Bill Self. Shawn
Missouri's climb from the confer- Baker must assert himself at cen-
ence cellar will be led by a more ter.
Guard Tom Alfaro will have to
burden the scoring load.
Oklahoma State From the
penthouse to the doghouse went
the Cowboys last season. Okie
State had three starters back
from its 1932-83 Big Eight cham
pionship team, yet finished tied
for last in the league race. Four
starters return from a 13-15 team,
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Adkins said she plays because
she simply likes winning.
"I like playing, period," she said.
"I like the people, I like meeting
new people. I like everything about
it."
Adkins' will play without her
sister Barbara, at least for the
first half of the year. Barbara
stayed in Oklahoma City after
some family problems arose over
the summer.
The way things were going, we
thought it would be best if one of
us stayed home," she said. "I had
already used my redshirt year."
Still, depending on how things
go, Barbara may return at mid
season in time for the conference
race. Until then, the Jayhawks
will send one senior, the often
injured Mary Myers, one junior,
Adkins, and two sophomores,
Renea Page and Evette Ott, on
the court
"Our freshmen came in a lot
smarter than the other freshmen
class did " Adkins said. "I think
well do all right. Everything seems
to be flowing together pretty welL"
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