The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 11

4W nrr 0 THE WICHITA EAGLE-BEACON Friday January 1 1982 Meet Reggie Roby Iowa's Record-Breaking Punter 4D Sports in Brief 2 Scoreboard 2 Classified Ads 7-12 WB WMiHa tuM Incan FuMMUhb Ca Aloha WSU Two Other Ranked Teams Leaving Hawaii With Losses Shocks Return From Disastrous Trip player stout forward Ricky Pierce and a versatile offense and defense Rice coached by canny Tommy Suitts can play fast or slow The Owls can shoot from up dose or way downtown And their man-toman defense can become as impenetrable as the tightest zone There was nothing fluky about the Rice championship the Owls looked every bit the best team during these four days on the unfriendly floor of the Blaisdell Center But how Lord how? Rice was an also-ran in the Southwest Conference By RANDY BROWN Executive Sporti Editor And then there were none Three proud undefeated teams came to town for the 18th annual eight-team Rainbow Classic which began last Sunday night Three mighty college basketball powers were Wichita State ranked No 2 by Associated Press and No 4 by United Press International San Francisco No 6 according to AP and No 8 according to UPI and North Carolina State 18th in the UPI poll and 20th in AP Thursday those three teams limped of Wichita State Then San Francisco took care of Wichita State again Then Rice took care of North Carolina State Yes friends the Rice Owls won the Rainbow Classic late Wednesday night controlling the North Carolina State Wolfpack much the way they controlled the Hawaii Rainbows in the tournament's first round and the Ski Francisco Dons in the semifinals Rice now 8-4 for the season won 51-47 over the previously hot Wolf-pack who are still a reasonably surprising 8-1 The Owls did the stunning deed on the dazzling inside-outside play of the tourney's most valuable By Our Sports Staff The Wichita State Shockers whose trip to Hawaii was anything but a luau will return home today for well-needed but short-lived rest before beginning the regular Missouri Valley Conference basketball season Saturday The Shockers are scheduled to arrive at Wichita International Airport at 3 05 pm today on United Airlines flight 546 They will be carrying some extra baggage a pair of unexpected losses Wichita State entered the Rainbow Classic in Honolulu early this week as the No 2 team in the nation and as the heavy favorite to win the tournament But the Shockers barely got out of the Classic alive finishing fourth in the eight-team field They opened the Classic with a nail-biting 70-67 win over Cal State-Fullerton then dropped consecutive decisions to North Carolina State and the University of San Francisco both Top 20 teams back to the mainland not so proud definitely defeated and with their national rankings in varying degrees of jeopardy Rice took care of San Francisco Then North Carolina State took care (See SHOCKERS ID Col 1) Jayhawks Blanked 10-0 Orange Bowl Nightmare Comes True By RICK PLUMLEE Staff Writer BIRMINGHAM Ala Don worst nightmare came true Thursday at the Hall of Fame Bowl woken up at night in a cold said the Kansas coach about what would happen if we fumbled the opening kickoff and they scored on the first play" His nightmare was answered at Legion Field Six seconds after Darren Green fumbled the opening kickoff and Mississippi State's Rob Fesmire recovered at the Jayhawks' 17 Bulldog quarterback John Bond rolled right for a Tom Osborne takes on No 1 Page 4D Sugar Bowl i Pitt vs Georgia DOWN 7-6 just 12 seconds into the game was hardly a good spot for KU Not against a State defense that shuts off the run tight And not with a passing game that had both hands tied behind its back The result was predictable: MSU won 1M fumble left us stunned and intimidated by Mississippi said Fambrough took us a half to get over that mistake You give a team like that seven points or you're in trouble came out uptight playing with the jitters Maybe that was my The Herschel Walker Show Page 4D Cotton Bowl Texas vs Alabama GREEN A SOPHOMORE said the jitters had nothing to do with his fumble his first in 12 games this year ran into my own he said grabbed my leg and it just squirted The rest of the game was simply an exercise in offensive futility for both teams Of the 53000 ticket-holders probably those who enjoyed the game the most were the 11328 who show up KU set a bowl record for fewest yards rushing (35) and for lowest total offense (206) Punters for both teams fled a bowl record with nine kicks each 1 11 Bear and the Boys are back Page 4D (See KU 5D CoL 1) Fiesta Bowl Penn St vs USC How They Scared FM Qaarlar MS 7 14:01 Sand 17 run (Mortal kick) KU( Darrin Gram fumMad oaanlna kick iff and MSI Rcb Favnlra racovarad al 17 Band want around rtoM and an a quartorback kaanar tor TO an Aral ptay MS 10 KU Moora 22FG A toward punt from KUi amky Scrtonar aava Buildoef aasd ftoto aoaHlon at KU! 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This weekend has basketball too Best Bets Wings and Wind The Wichita Wings soccer team is in Denver Sunday for an 8:05 pm game (KFH radio 1330-AM) with the Avalanche And the Wichita Wind hockey team plays at Oklahoma City today and at home Saturday night Now this Saturday game is an actual you-can-be-there type game So if TV is blurring your eyes by Sunday night this game might help dear things up Both games begin at 7:30 (KBUZ radio 106-FM) NBA It comes down to this If in addition to all rise available this weekend you can devour pro basketball too you win the Pig of the award Here it is: the Denver Nuggets vs the Milwaukee Bucks at 7 pm USA-TV Ch 25 Plop atop Saturday Duke at Louisville noon ESPN-TV Ch 34 ball with real champions there are four real games this weekend Quite logically that means right teams are In the running for the NFL championship: Tampa Bay at Dallas: noon Saturday CBS-TV Ch 12 KQAM radio 1410-AM and KFH radio 1330-AM San Diego at Miami: 4 pm Saturday NBC-TV Ch 3 KFH radio 1330-AM a Buffalo at Cincinnati: noon Sunday NBC-TV Ch 3 KFH radio 1330-AM New York Giants at San Francisco: 4 pm Sunday CBS-TV Ch 12 KFH radio 1330-AM Etc Orange Bowl is the key bowl game The outcome of the other bowls don't mean much until either No 1 Clemson wins or is defeated by No 3 Nebraska (7 tonight NBC-TV Ch 3 KQAM radio 1410-AM) If Nebraska wins the mythical national championship of college football will be open to debate Just pick one Your choice will be as good as what the polls come up with Creighton at West Texas 6 pm KAKE-TV Ch 10 Clemson at NC State 7 pm USA-TV Ch25 Iowa at Carolina 7 pm ESPN-TV Ch 34 Notre Dame vs Missouri at Kemper Arena in Kansas City 8 pm USA-TV Ch 25 (game is tape delayed one hour) Bowl Games So many teams playing so hard all day so that Nebraska and Clemson can determine that national champion: Fiesta Bowl: Penn State vs USC 12:30 pm NBC-TV Ch 3 and KQAM radio Fizz Fizz By Bruce Ophefan Sports Editor' NFL If you enjoy real foot- WSU VS NM State Forget ll" a eHii kJ mi itobiBaAitoa.