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KENNY WALKER led the Southeastern Conference in scoring (22.9) and rebounding (10.2) last season. However, collapsing zone defenses and UK's own offense will make it difficult for him to duplicate that feat this season.
New Coach Eddie Sutton's offense has given the guards much more freedom to shoot but that has also taken the ball out of Walker's hands.
Last year Walker was Kentucky's offense. This season Sutton wants to give everyone a piece of the pie but the Cats still need to make sure Walker gets the biggest slice of that pie.
"In the long run it could be to our advantage to get the ball to Kenny more," says guard Paul Andrews. "He's the best player in college basketball and he has to get more shots. But this offense will get shots for the forwards if we execute it."
Walker, though, isn't worried. He understands that he doesn't have to score 30 points and grab 20 rebounds every game to prove his worth.
"I can adapt to any game," says Walker. "I can play with or without the ball. A lot of players think they have to have the ball to help their team. But I can do other things to be effective.
"On offense I can act as a decoy and draw the defense. That will open it up for our guards. Once I do get the ball down low I can fan it back out to Winston (Bennett) for an easy shot if the defense collapses on me. And I think I can still turn a game around with my defense."
But when Kentucky starts playing more talented competition, look for Walker to have more scoring opportunities.
"We know Kenny Walker is our bread and butter, especially against top teams," says guard Ed Davender. "As we get into the season he'll get the ball more. He's not the type to worry about how many times he shoots but in the big games we know who wants the ball."
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"When Brett got out of high school, (former head coach) Joe Hall and his assistant coaches came to our house one night and requested he come to UK and make an official visit," Burrow explained. "But, early on, Brett had told me if he went to UK he would continually be compared to me and be didn't want to have that situation on him. Besides, to my knowledge, I don't ever remember the coaching staff even offering him a scholarship. Brett was scheduled to make an official visit to Kentucky, but he never went. He felt like before he made an official visit they should offer him a scholarship.''
Brett Burrow decided on Vandy over Clemson and Wake Forest of the Atlantic
Coast Conference.
"I didn't have any problem with it," Burrow said. "I'm a Vandy fan and a UK fan. When the two play now, I always pull for Vandy. Kentucky's been beating Vandy pretty regularly lately, and 1 think Vandy ought to turn that around a little bit."
Burrow is glad liis son chose to play a little closer to home than he did when he left Texas and came to Kentucky.
"My parents  Martin and Decie Burrow  would have loved to see me play somewhere closer to Texas," Burrow said. "My family was always encouraging me. They went to all my high school games, both home and away. When I was at Lon Morris, they went to a lot of home games and most of the away games. They were disappointed when I went to UK because it was so far away from home. They attended all the games they could, which was usually about two to three a season. It was about a 12-14 hour drive from Texas."
Nashville is about a 2l 2-hour drive from Radcliff, about an hour further than Bob Burrow would have had to venture if his son had attended UK. But Burrow and his wife still attend all the Vandy home contests and also travel to several of the away affairs. Thanksgiving week, they drove to Clemson, S.C. to see Brett play in a tournament there.
"If my parents had been able to, they would have done the same for me," Burrow said.
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"We have been informed it is illegal to send to coaches anything that will help them in their job, any coaching aids," Dooley said. "We also have been informed we cannot send out highlight films to high schools. Coach Billy Henderson (of Clarke Central) wanted to show our highlights film to his team, but we had to tell him he couldn't. We have too many technical rules. To me, that is what is wrong with the NCAA. Those kinds of rules are ridiculous." NCAA explains all that does is to lead to recruiting wars. . .Bowling Green State's 6-6, 230-pound quarterback Brian McClure said he was seriously recruited by about 30 schools. "To my suprise, nobody offered me anything illegal," he told the Knoxville News-Sentinel. McClure, who recently broke John Elway's NCAA record for most 200-yard games in a career, was recruited by Howard Schnellenberger when the coach was at Miami (Fla.) along with Bernie Kosar. Also McClure, who led the Falcons to a 30-26 victory over Kentucky in the Cats' season opener, said he would rank his team among the bottom five in the Top 20. . .On Nov. 16th, the University of Tennessee was to honor its three alumni astronauts  Hank Hartsfield, Rhea Seddon and Don Peterson. They were scheduled to be introduced to the Neyland Stadium crowd during halftime of the Mississippi-UT football matchup. Hartsfield was the mission commander aboard the "Challenger" in a recent shuttle flight.
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"With final exams coming up, our players need to devote their full attention to classes and basketball practice," said Sutton. "We simply cannot handle the hundreds of requests for autographed balls right now."
Sutton said the team will likely resume autographing basketballs during the second semester.
Kentucky's scheduled basketball game with Auburn Jan. 2. has been moved to Monday, Jan. 6, according to UK athletics director Cliff Hagan.
"With Auburn playing in the Cotton Bowl on New Year's Day, their administration thought it would be best to delay the game a few days so their fans could make it back," said Hagan. "We were happy to go along with their request."
The game is set for Auburn's Memorial Coliseum, with the tipoff scheduled for 8:30 p.m. EST.
Kentucky's Lady Kats ran their record to 4-0 with a 73-58 victory over Morehead in Lexington last Monday night. Debbie Miller pac-
ed the winners with 22 points, followed by Karen Mosley with 14. The win marked the 200th victory for UK coach Terry Hall
UK's women's cross country team recorded a fourth-place finish in the NCAA championships (Nov. 25th) in Milwaukee. Wis. Freshman Sherri Hoover was Kentucky's best performer on the day finishing the 5,000-meter course in 17 minutes and six seconds. Other Lady Kat runners were junior Audrey Pierce (34th), freshman Becky Gallivan (39th), freshman Patricia Pador-no (41st) and freshman Lisa Breiding (55th).
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coach. "Because," one insider said last week, "Clem's trying not to let it bother him, but the pressure's really on."
Watch the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers.
All-Name Team
The college basketball season is well underway, but it isn't too late for my annual All-Name Team is it?
At forwards: 6-7 Jarvis Basnight, Nevada Las Vegas and 6-8 LaFester Rhodes, Iowa State.
At center: 6-8 Hartmut Ortmann of Wake Forest.
At guards: 6-1 PeeWee Barber of Florida State and 6-4 Krai Ferch of Montana State.
Reserves: Hersey Hawkins of Bradley, Kevin Presto of Miami, Fla., J.J. Crawl of West Virginia, Percy Eddie of Kansas State and Randy Kraayenbrink of Northern Iowa.
Sign of the times
Message for Peter Ueberroth. A few months ago it was suggested in this space that Dave Parker, Keith Hernandez and other baseball players who, under immunity from prosecution, admitted using hard drugs during their careers, should be punished by the commissioner.
In a recent public opinion down by the Washington Post and ABC-Television "nearly 3 of 4 Americans favor drug testing and nearly 68 percent say professional athletes found to be using drugs for the first time should be banned or suspended from playing." Parting shot
Like Kentucky, Indiana high school basketball will employ a seat belt rule on coaches this season. Predictably coaches are not happy about it and one of them put the issue squarely in perspective.
"They make this rule because they're afraid to step on one or two coaches. The officials already had the power to control any coach that got out of hand. Use the technical, then use two and get him out of the gym if you have to.
"If officials don't have the nerve to do that," he went on, "they're not going to be very good officials anyway."
And so it goes.B