1984-85
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POST-SEASON |
26-8 |
16-0 |
6-4 |
4-4 |
11-3 |
2nd |
1-1 |
1-1 NCAA |
ROSTER:
NO. |
POS. |
NAME |
CLASS |
HGT. |
WGT. |
Hometown (Previous School) |
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RETURNEES: |
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33 |
G |
Tad Boyle
*** Cpt. |
Sr. |
6'4 |
180 |
Greeley, CO (Central HS) |
30 |
C |
Greg
Dreiling * |
Jr. |
7'1 |
240 |
Wichita, KS (Kapaun-Mt. Carmel HS/Wichita
State Univ.) |
22 |
G |
Cedric
Hunter * |
So. |
6'0 |
180 |
Omaha, NE (South HS) |
44 |
F |
Ron Kellogg
** |
Jr. |
6'5 |
190 |
Omaha, NE (Northwest HS) |
35 |
G |
Calvin
Thompson ** |
Jr. |
6'6 |
205 |
Kansas City, KS (Wyandotte HS) |
11 |
G |
Mark
Turgeon * |
So. |
5'10 |
150 |
Topeka, KS (Hayden HS) |
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NEW FACES: |
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15 |
G |
Altonio
Campbell |
Fr. |
5'11 |
165 |
St. Louis, MO (Vashon HS) |
20 |
F |
Rodney
Hull |
Fr. |
6'7 |
195 |
Chicago, IL (Simeon HS) |
42 |
G |
Jeff
Johnson |
Fr. |
6'4 |
175 |
Lawrence, KS (Lawrence HS) |
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G/F |
Don Kennedy
#% |
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6'4 |
190 |
Salina, KS |
25 |
F |
Danny
Manning |
Fr. |
6'11 |
205 |
Lawrence, KS
(Lawrence HS) |
21 |
F |
Milt Newton |
Fr. |
6'4 |
195 |
Washington, DC (Coolidge HS) |
40 |
C/F |
Mark
Pellock |
Fr. |
6'8 |
190 |
Parsons, KS (Parsons HS) |
31 |
F/C |
Jim Pelton
% |
Fr. |
6'8 |
200 |
Palos Verde, CA |
24 |
F |
Chris
Piper |
Fr. |
6'8 |
190 |
Lawrence, KS (Lawrence HS) |
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REDSHIRT: |
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G |
Scooter
Barry |
Fr. |
6'2 |
165 |
Oakland, CA (DeLaSalle HS) |
* Varsity letter
Cpt. = Captain # = Walk-on
% = Nonletterman
LOSSES FROM LAST YEAR ('84 stats):
PLAYER LOSSES |
Class |
Hgt. |
POS. |
G/GS |
PTS |
PPG |
RBS |
RPG |
PPts |
STATUS |
Tim Banks |
Sr. |
6'2 |
G |
17/2 |
20 |
1.2 |
10 |
0.6 |
2.88 |
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Kerry Boagni |
So. |
6'8 |
F |
10/6 |
86 |
8.6 |
40 |
4.0 |
10.50 |
Transferred |
Jeff Guiot |
So. |
6'2 |
G |
14/0 |
34 |
2.4 |
12 |
0.9 |
3.07 |
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Carl Henry |
Sr. |
6'5 |
G |
32/32 |
538 |
16.8 |
202 |
6.3 |
18.09 |
Graduated |
Kelly Knight |
Sr. |
6'8 |
F |
32/32 |
365 |
11.4 |
226 |
7.1 |
14.31 |
Graduated |
Mike Marshall |
Jr. |
6'1 |
G |
16/2 |
52 |
3.3 |
9 |
0.6 |
2.19 |
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Brian Martin |
Sr. |
6'9 |
C |
32/2 |
163 |
5.1 |
113 |
3.5 |
7.47 |
Graduated |
TOTALS |
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1258 |
39.3 |
612 |
19.1 |
58.51 |
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Percent loss from '84 |
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54.2% |
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65.1% |
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66.7% |
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PRESEASON OUTLOOK:
The losses from last year were significant, including starters
Carl Henry and Kelly Knight, as well as some key reserves,
representing about 2/3 of the 1984 team's production. The team
was one of the youngest in KU history, with nine freshman and
two sophomores on the squad. The addition of heralded Danny
Manning and Milt Newton, together with returning starters Ron
Kellogg, Calvin Thompson, Greg Dreiling, Cedric Hunter, though
means that the Jayhawks will be a strong force in the Big 8 this
year. |
SEASON
SUMMARY:
KU began the 1984-85 season with nine freshman on the
15-man varsity squad, with Tad Boyle as the only senior. But Ron Kellogg, Calvin Thompson, Cedric Hunter and Mark
Turgeon were back, and among those nine new faces was future All-american Danny
Manning. The Jayhawks rolled to a
13-2 start, losing only to Alabama-Birmingham at the Great Alaska Shootout and
to Kentucky by three points in late December.
The Jayhawks went on to a 26-8 overall record and an 11-3 mark that was
good for another second-place finish in the Big Eight.
Ku lost in the second round of the NCAA tournament to Auburn.
KU was 15-3 headed into a nationally televised game at
Michigan on Jan. 27, 1985. But the
Jayhawks should have stayed home in Lawrence.
KU lost 96-77 in one of the most lopsided losses since Brown had arrived.
Near the end of the season, Brown had still not forgotten his trip to Ann
Arbor or the way the Jayhawks played there.
“Michigan was ugly,” he said.
By Feb. 16, the Jayhawks had climbed to a No. 10 ranking in
the AP poll when they traveled to Ames, Iowa.
On a last-second, acrobatic shot, Iowa State’s Jeff Hornacek beat the
Jayhawks 72-70. On March 9, after
KU had defeated Nebraska in a first-round Big Eight Tournament game, the
Cyclones once again rained on KU’s parade.
The Jayhawks were riding a five-game winning streak and were back to No.
10 in the national polls when ISU trounced them 75-59 in the second round.
Hornacek scored 12 of his 16 points in the first half, and long-range
shooter Barry Stevens finished with 25.
After the tournament loss to ISU, certain that his Jayhawks
had severely damaged their seeding in the NCAA bracket, Brown asked only half
jokingly: “Are you allowed to turn down a bid to the tournament?”
Most conferences across the nation had used the 45-second
clock during the 1984-85 season. But
it was not in use at the NCAA Tournament, and KU’s first-round opponent made
the most of that fact. KU met an
Ohio team coached by Danny Nee on March 14 in the Midwest sub-regional at South
Bend, Ind. KU won 49-38 in what the
Wichita Eagle described as “probably the first blowout in modern history in
which the inning team scored a total of 49 points.”
Nee said his strategy was simple: “Our game plan was to made the
40-minute game a 25-minute game. That’s
our style … We were familiar with holding the ball a little.”
Freshman Danny Manning, nervous in his NCAA debut, came
alive in the second half. In one
four-minute stretch, he mad a dazzling save and tossed the ball inbounds to
Calvin Thompson for a 15-footer, fed Ron Kellogg for a short jumper, scored
twice from the lane and grabbed three rebounds as KU took control of the game.
KU met a team on a mission in its second-round game at
South Bend: Sonny Smith’s Auburn. The
11th-seeded Tigers, who had upset sixth-seeded Purdue 59-58 to
advance, knew each game could be the last for Smith, who had resigned as their
coach effective at the end of the season. They
desperately wanted to beat KU and advance to the regional semifinals in
Birmingham, Ala., to play in front of the home-state fans.
They did, upending KU 68-64. Dreiling
and Manning got into foul trouble in the first half, and freshman Chris Piper
got his first taste of NCAA action, playing 20 solid minutes before the game was
over.
KU had struggled to a 52-50 lead when Auburn’s Chuck
Person and Frank Ford combined to move the Tigers ahead by seven.
Ford scored 23 points, and Person finished with 21.
Despite three controversial intentional fouls called on KU late, Calvin
Thompson pulled the Jayhawks back with 66-64.
KU then had a chance to tie the game on a 15-footer by Manning at the
buzzer that barely missed. “This
game got away from us,” Kellogg said. “It
hurt most that the season ended on a bad note.”
Source:
The Crimson & Blue Handbook, pages 91-93
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1985 FINAL TEAM STATISTICS (Team
highs in bold):
CATEGORY
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KU
|
OPP
|
DIFF
|
Kellogg,
Ron |
Manning,
Danny |
Thompson,
Calvin |
Dreiling,
Greg |
Hunter,
Cedric |
Newton,
Milt |
Games Played/Started
|
34 |
34 |
|
34/34 |
34/33 |
33/26 |
34/34 |
34/26 |
30/1 |
Minutes
|
6818 |
6818 |
|
1101 |
1120 |
1023 |
987 |
887 |
273 |
Per Game
|
200.5 |
200.5 |
|
32.4 |
32.9 |
31.0 |
29.0 |
26.1 |
9.1 |
Points
|
2563 |
2360 |
203 |
597 |
496 |
451 |
447 |
227 |
95 |
Per Game
|
75.4 |
69.4 |
6.0 |
17.6 |
14.6 |
13.7 |
13.1 |
6.7 |
3.2 |
Rebounds
|
1158 |
1155 |
3 |
165 |
258 |
149 |
235 |
82 |
48 |
Per Game
|
34.1 |
34.0 |
0.1 |
4.9 |
7.6 |
4.5 |
6.9 |
2.4 |
1.6 |
Blocks
|
119 |
72 |
47 |
4 |
34 |
12 |
55 |
2 |
6 |
Assists
|
660 |
494 |
166 |
87 |
108 |
96 |
42 |
145 |
11 |
Steals
|
217 |
242 |
-25 |
28 |
58 |
22 |
14 |
43 |
5 |
Turnovers
|
518 |
488 |
30 |
68 |
88 |
61 |
79 |
87 |
22 |
(Assists+Steals)/TO
|
1.69 |
1.51 |
0.18 |
1.69 |
1.89 |
1.93 |
0.71 |
2.16 |
0.73 |
FG -Attempts
|
1898 |
2053 |
-155 |
434 |
369 |
345 |
300 |
167 |
65 |
Made
|
1019 |
912 |
107 |
250 |
209 |
177 |
173 |
92 |
36 |
Percent
|
53.7 |
44.4 |
9.3 |
57.6 |
56.6 |
51.3 |
57.7 |
55.1 |
55.4 |
FT-Attempts
|
733 |
743 |
-10 |
115 |
102 |
120 |
139 |
83 |
37 |
Made
|
525 |
536 |
-11 |
97 |
78 |
97 |
101 |
43 |
23 |
Percent
|
71.6 |
72.1 |
-0.5 |
84.3 |
76.5 |
80.8 |
72.7 |
51.8 |
62.2 |
Production Points/Game
|
91.53 |
73.15 |
18.38 |
17.97 |
20.06 |
14.48 |
16.15 |
8.75 |
3.33 |
Production
Points/Minute |
.456 |
.365 |
.091 |
.555 |
.609 |
.467 |
.556 |
.335 |
.366 |
Statistics, Cont'd
CATEGORY |
Turgeon, Mark |
Boyle, Tad |
Pellock, Mark |
Campbell, Altonio |
Piper, Chris |
Hull, Rodney |
Kennedy, Don |
Pelton, Jim |
Johnson, Jeff |
Games Played/ Started |
33/8 |
32/7 |
22/0 |
18/0 |
20/0 |
14/0 |
2/0 |
3/0 |
7/0 |
Minutes |
513 |
358 |
233 |
94 |
136 |
67 |
2 |
10 |
14 |
Per Game |
15.5 |
11.2 |
10.6 |
5.2 |
6.8 |
4.8 |
1.0 |
3.3 |
2.0 |
Points |
76 |
72 |
40 |
22 |
18 |
16 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
Per Game |
2.3 |
2.3 |
1.8 |
1.2 |
0.8 |
1.1 |
1.0 |
0.7 |
0.3 |
Rebounds |
22 |
31 |
37 |
10 |
25 |
13 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
Per Game |
0.7 |
1.0 |
1.7 |
0.6 |
1.3 |
0.9 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.6 |
Blocks |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Assists |
102 |
38 |
9 |
15 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
Steals |
18 |
14 |
10 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Turnovers |
41 |
28 |
15 |
13 |
5 |
10 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
(Assists+Steals)/TO |
2.93 |
1.86 |
1.27 |
1.23 |
1.40 |
0.20 |
- |
- |
2.00 |
FG - Attempts |
72 |
68 |
27 |
19 |
19 |
9 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
Made |
28 |
25 |
9 |
5 |
8 |
5 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
Percent |
38.9 |
36.8 |
33.3 |
26.3 |
42.1 |
55.6 |
100.0 |
0.0 |
100.0 |
FT - Attempts |
30 |
28 |
35 |
23 |
5 |
12 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
Made |
20 |
22 |
22 |
12 |
2 |
6 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
Percent |
66.7 |
78.6 |
62.9 |
52.2 |
40.0 |
50.0 |
- |
66.7 |
0.0 |
Production Points/Game |
3.73 |
2.44 |
2.32 |
0.56 |
1.70 |
0.93 |
1.00 |
-0.33 |
0.86 |
Production Points/Minute |
.240 |
.218 |
.219 |
.106 |
.250 |
.194 |
1.000 |
-.100 |
.429 |
Source: KU Basketball Media Guide
GAME-BY-GAME
Maryland
|
W
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58-56
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Nov. 23
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at Anchorage, Alaska
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Oregon
|
W
|
66-49
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Nov. 24
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at Anchorage, Alaska
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Ala.-Birmingham
|
L
|
46-50
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Nov. 25
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at Anchorage, Alaska
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Detroit
|
W
|
86-64
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Dec. 1
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at Lawrence
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South Dakota State
|
W
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85-72
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Dec. 4
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at Lawrence
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Abilene Christian
|
W
|
84-72
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Dec. 8
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at Lawrence
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South Carolina St.
|
W
|
81-54
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Dec. 10
|
at Lawrence
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Houston
|
W
|
87-75
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Dec. 15
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at Lawrence
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Geo. Washington
|
W
|
76-70
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Dec. 22
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at Washington, D.C.
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Kentucky
|
L
|
89-92
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Dec. 31
|
at Louisville, Ky.
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Texas Southern
|
W
|
78-74
|
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Jan. 3
|
at Lawrence
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Wichita State
|
W
|
90-83
|
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Jan. 5
|
at Kansas City, Mo.
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Western Carolina
|
W
|
79-62
|
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Jan. 7
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at Lawrence
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South Alabama
|
W
|
90-81
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Jan. 11
|
at Mobile, Ala.
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Iowa State
|
W
|
76-72
|
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Jan. 17
|
at Lawrence
|
Oklahoma
|
L
|
76-87
|
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Jan. 19
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at Norman, Okla.
|
Missouri
|
W
|
70-68
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Jan. 22
|
at Lawrence
|
Colorado
|
W
|
70-68
|
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Jan. 26
|
at Boulder, Colo.
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Michigan
|
L
|
77-96
|
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Jan. 27
|
at Ann Arbor, Mich.
|
Kansas State
|
W
|
75-57
|
|
Jan. 30
|
at Manhattan, Kan.
|
Nebraska
|
W
|
91-80
|
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Feb. 2
|
at Lincoln, Neb.
|
Colorado
|
W
|
88-69
|
|
Feb. 4
|
at Lawrence
|
Oklahoma State
|
W
|
84-72
|
|
Feb. 6
|
at Lawrence
|
Memphis State
|
W
|
75-71
|
|
Feb. 9
|
at Lawrence
|
Missouri
|
L
|
55-62
|
|
Feb. 12
|
at Columbia, Mo.
|
Iowa State
|
L
|
70-72
|
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Feb. 16
|
at Ames, Iowa
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Kansas State
|
W
|
75-64
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Feb. 20
|
at Lawrence
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Oklahoma
|
W
|
82-76
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Feb. 24
|
at Lawrence
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Nebraska
|
W
|
70-65
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Feb. 28
|
at Lawrence
|
Oklahoma State
|
W
|
88-79
|
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Mar. 2
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at Stillwater, Okla.
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Nebraska
|
W
|
74-69
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Mar. 5
|
at Lawrence
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Iowa State
|
L
|
59-75
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Mar. 9
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at Kansas City, Mo.
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NCAA Tournament
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|
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Ohio
|
W
|
49-38
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|
Mar. 14
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at South Bend, Ind.
(NCAA Sub-Regional)
|
Auburn
|
L
|
64-66
|
|
Mar. 16
|
at South Bend, Ind.
(NCAA Sub-Regional)
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LINK TO 1985 NATIONAL STATISTICS
Link to
Big 8 Conference for
1985
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