Tuesday, January 17, 1984/The Battalion/Page 13
Practice key to Kleine's success
Sutton eyes stardom for center
Arkansas center Joe Kleine tries to find an
'opening to unload the ball during a game
Ij lagainsf TCU. The Hogs’ big 6’11, 250 lb.
^junior is averaging over 20 points a game.
C cites best
layers of week
United Press International
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. —
Akeem Olajuwon and Patrick
Ewing may or may not return
for their senior seasons of col
lege basketball in 1985, but
Arkansas coach Eddie Sutton
said he thinks he knows who the
best center in NCAA play will be
anyway.
Sutton said his own big man,
6-11 junior Joe Kleine, may be
America’s best college center
next season — even if Olajuwon
returns to Houston and Ewing
plays his Final year at GEORGE
TOWN.
“I think he’s a better offen
sive center right now than
Akeem or Pat Ewing,” Sutton
said of the Slater, Mo., product.
“He may not be as good an all-
around player as those guys are
because he can’t block shots like
either one of them, but he can do
everything they do offensively.”
Sparked by consecutive 32-
point outings against North
Texas State and Alabama State
in December, Kleine carries a
20.5 scoring average into Thurs
day night’s Southwest Confer
ence meeting with Texas. He
has been in double figures in all
15 games, with a Field goal shoot
ing mark of .623, and scored at
least 18 points on 13 occasions.
Rebounding has been
another Kleine strong point.
Hog star Joe Kleine
1 he transfer from Notre Dame
ripped down 17 caroms in a
game twice this year, including a
matchup with 7-footer Jon Kon-
cak of SMU, and has maintained
a 10.6 rebound average.
Kleine originally picked Dig
ger Phelps’ program at Notre
Dame after his last season at Sla
ter, but transferred to Arkansas,
his second choice, after one
season.
Playing time was not the prob-
lem with the Irish. Kleine
started 11 of 29 games while
splitting time with Tim Andree
as a freshman, but aeraged only
2.6 points and 2.4 rebounds in
an offense designed around the
talents of Kelly Tripucka and
Orlando Woolridge, both NBA
regula now.
“I could have played up
there,” Kl e * ne said his year at
South B£ nd .> “but something
wasn’t His (Phelps )
system an d waysjust weren t for
me. I coi , * dn 1 see myself de
veloping 3 s a player. I felt com
fortable vvhh the school but not
with the basketball.
Kleine, ''’hose family is Catho
lic, said th e factor of religion
may have played a major role in
his initial decision to enroll at
Notre Da* 116- O nce he decided
to leave 5 out h Bend, though,
Arkansas '— his second choice
originally '— was l he selection.
The trahsfef forced Kleine to
redshirt f<? r one y ear ar, d prac
tice daily ag ain st Razorback reg
ulars such as Tony Brown, Scott
Hastings, Harrell Walker and
Keith Peterson. Those four
were all drafted by pro teams,
and Hasti n g s and Walker re
main in th£ NBA.
“I thipk that year really
helped m e develop,” Kleine
said. “I got to practice every day
against on e of l he best teams
Arkansas e ver had. When I be
came eligible last year, I had a
year of Coach Sutton’s system
and his methods. I may have
been in my first game, but I felt
like I had more experience.”
Kleine’s First year as a Razor-
back produced a 26-4 record for
the team and personal averages
of 13.3 points and 7.3 rebounds
while battling the likes of Ola
juwon, Koncak and Purdue’s
Russell Cross.
Sutton thinks the SWC, with
three top centers now in resi
dence, may have a large part of
the nation’s best college
pivotmen.
“If he continues to develop at
the rate he has been, a lot of
people will think he’s the best
center in the country next year,”
Sutton said.
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