1975-76
OVERALL HOME AWAY NEUTRAL CONFERENCE PLACE CONF. TOURNEY POST-SEASON
 13-13 8-6 5-7 0-0 6-8 4th -Tie   None

ROSTER:

NO. POS. NAME CLASS HGT. WGT. Hometown (Previous School)
    RETURNEES:        
12 G/F Cris Barnthouse* Jr. 6'4 175 Winfield, KS (Winfield HS)
32 F Norm Cook ** Cpt. Jr. 6'9 210 Lincoln, IL (Community HS)
15 G Milt Gibson * So. 6'0 170 Roswell, NM (Goddard HS)
14 G Clint Johnson * So. 6'2 180 Leavenworth, KS (Leavenworth HS)
24 F/C Ken Koenigs * So. 6'10 190 Goddard, KS (Goddard, HS)
    NEW FACES:        
31 F Arnie Baum % Fr. 6'3 180 Dodge City, KS (Dodge City HS)
44 C Paul Mokeski Fr. 7'0 230 Encino, CA  (Crespi HS)
30 F Herb Nobles Jr. 6'7 210 East St. Louis, IL/Johnson County Juco
34 G Brad Sanders Fr. 6'3 180 Leavenworth, KS (Leavenworth HS)
11 G Reuben Shelton % So. 6'5 190 St. Louis, MO (Northwest HS)
    Robert Worthington        
    REDSHIRT:        
22 F/C Donnie Von Moore Jr. 6'9 210 Chicago, IL (Kenwood HS)

          * Varsity letter     Cpt. = Captain    # = Walk-on     % = Nonletterman

COACHES:

 

  

LOSSES FROM LAST YEAR ('75 stats):

PLAYER LOSSES Class Hgt. POS. G/GS PTS PPG RBS RPG PPts STATUS
Dale Greenlee Sr. 6'3 G 27/27 251 9.3 78 2.9   Graduated
Danny Knight Sr. 6'10 C 27/12 230 8.5 131 4.9   Graduated
Roger Morningstar Sr. 6'6 F 27/20 301 11.1 112 4.1   Graduated
Tommy Smith Sr. 6'4 F 25/4 115 4.6 98 3.9   Graduated
Rick Suttle Sr. 6'10 C 27/15 393 14.6 184 6.8   Graduated
Donnie Von Moore So. 6'9 F/C 27/16 193 7.1 153 5.7   Redshirt
Marc Fletcher Fr. 6'5 G 5/0 2 0.4 2 0.4   Withdrew mid-season
Jack Hollis So. 6'6 F 2/0 0 0.0 1 0.5   Withdrew mid-season
Tom King       1/0 0 0.0 2 2.0   ?
Dale Ladnor       1/0 0 0.0 1 1.0   ?
TOTALS         1,485 55.0 762 28.2    

 

PRESEASON OUTLOOK:
With the departure of 5 seniors and VonMoore having to redshirt, the Jayhawks start the year with a very young and inexperienced team.  Only five players return from last year, and only three have any starting experience.  Lacking any seniors on the team, junior forward Norm Cook and sophomores Clint Johnson and Ken Koenigs emerge as the leaders of the team. Juco transfer Herb Nobles and freshman Paul Mokeski will be counted on to be starters.  Unfortunately, the team only looks to be six deep.

 

SEASON SUMMARY:
Donnie Von Moore, 6'9 junior forward/center, missed the entire 1975-76 campaign with illness after serving as a part-time starter on the Jayhawks' Big Eight championship club of 1974-75.  Von Moore contracted pneumonia in late November and then suffered complications that resulted in surgery and a lengthy recovery period.

Paul Mokeski, 7'0 sophomore center, suffered a severely pulled hamstring on Thanksgiving Day attempting to get out of a Volkswagon.  The pull was almost a tear and Mokeski's varsity debut came nearly a month later in the Big Eight Christmas Tournament

1975-76  FINAL TEAM STATISTICS (Team highs in bold):

CATEGORY

KU

OPP

DIFF

 Cook,
Norm		 Johnson, Clint Koenigs, Ken Nobles,
Herb		 Mokeski, Paul Gibson,
Milt

Games Played/Started

 26 26   26/26 26/26 26/25 25/8 18/16 25/24

Minutes

 5200 5200   937 994 786 713 474 768

    Per Game

       36.0 38.2 30.2 28.5 26.3 30.7

Points

 1646 1645 1 386 287 279 269 191 138

    Per Game

 63.3 63.3 - 14.8 11.0 10.7 10.8 10.6 5.5

Rebounds

 1049 1006 43 206 91 172 171 115 49

    Per Game

 40.3  38.7 1.6 7.9 3.5 6.6 6.8 6.4 2.0

Blocks

 98     18 5 16 38 17 3

Assists

 322 232 90 55 66 36 47 18 59

Steals

 142     27 31 11 25 15 18

FG -Attempts

 1552 1539 13 337 301 212 271 170 159

       Made

 688 637 51 156 128 105 116 82 62

       Percent

 44.3 41.4 2.9 46.3 42.5 49.5 42.8 48.2 39.0

FT-Attempts

 390 540 -150 105 43 91 54 37 25

     Made

 270 371 -101 74 31 69 37 27 14

     Percent

 69.2 68.7 0.5 70.5 72.1 75.8 68.5 73.0 56.0

Production Points/Game

                  
Production Points/Minute                  

 

Statistics, Cont'd

CATEGORY Shelton,
Reuben		 Sanders,
Brad		 Barnthouse, Cris Baum,
Arnie		 Worthington, Robert Team
Games Played/ Started 7/3 19/0 18/2 5/0 2/0  
Minutes 151 193 174 8 2  
   Per Game 21.6 10.2 9.7 1.6 1.0  
Points 34 33 25 4 0  
   Per Game 4.9 1.7 1.4 0.8 0.0  
Rebounds 25 13 29 4 0 174
   Per Game 3.6 0.7 1.6 0.8 0.0 6.7
Blocks 1 0 0 0 0  
Assists 8 23 9 1 0  
Steals 3 7 5 0 0  
FG - Attempts 42 28 31 1 0  
         Made 14 14 10 1 0  
         Percent 33.3 50.0 32.3 100.0 0.0  
FT - Attempts 9 12 12 2 0  
        Made 6 5 5 2 0  
        Percent 66.7 41.7 41.7 100.0 0.0  
Production Points/Game            
Production Points/Minute            

Source:   KU Basketball Media Guide

GAME-BY-GAME

Murray State W 72-56
Nov. 29 at Lawrence
Southern Methodist L 66-75
Dec. 2 at Dallas, Texas
St. Louis W 70-64
Dec. 6 at Lawrence
Notre Dame L 64-72
Dec. 8 at Lawrence
Boise State W 61-56
Dec. 11 at Lawrence
Kentucky L 48-54
Dec. 13 at Lawrence
Yale W 63-54
Dec. 19 at Lawrence
LaSalle W 74-73
Dec. 20 at Lawrence
Nebraska W 69-66
Dec. 27 at Kansas City
Colorado W 70-50
Dec. 29 at Kansas City
Missouri L 69-79
Dec. 30 at Kansas City
Oral Roberts L 70-73
Jan. 8 at Tulsa, Okla.
Missouri L 69-99
Jan. 17 at Columbia, Mo.
Iowa State W 68-60
Jan. 20 at Lawrence
Oklahoma State L 59-63
Jan. 24 at Stillwater, Okla.
Colorado W 51-50
Jan. 28 at Boulder, Colo.
Kansas State W 62-57
Jan. 31 at Lawrence
Nebraska L 54-57
Feb. 4 at Lincoln, Neb.
Oklahoma L 63-64
Feb. 7 at Lawrence
Iowa State W 61-53
Feb. 11 at Ames, Iowa
Oklahoma State W 70-60
Feb. 14 at Lawrence
Missouri L 60-61
Feb. 18 at Lawrence
Kansas State L 54-69
Feb. 21 at Manhattan, Kan.
Colorado L 66-68
Feb. 28 at Lawrence
Nebraska L 58-62
Mar. 3 at Lawrence
Oklahoma W 55-50
Mar. 6 at Norman, Okla.

Link to National Statistics for 1976

Link to Big  Conference for 1976