10A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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SPORTS
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22. 2005
APTOP25
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' men's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records from Nov. 20, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking:
| | Record | Points | Previous |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1. Duke (65) | 3-0 | 1,793 | 1 |
| **2. Texas (6)** | **2-0** | **1,692** | **2** |
| 3. Connecticut | 1-0 | 1,647 | 3 |
| 4. Villanova (1) | 1-0 | 1,474 | 5 |
| **5. Oklahoma** | **1-0** | **1,454** | **6** |
| 6. Louisville | 1-0 | 1,359 | 7 |
| 7. Kentucky | 2-0 | 1,329 | 8 |
| 8. Gonzaga | 1-0 | 1,262 | 9 |
| 9. Arizona | 0-0 | 1,255 | 10 |
| 10. Boston College | 2-0 | 1,164 | 11 |
| 11. Memphis | 2-0 | 1,105 | 12 |
| 12. Michigan St. | 0-1 | 915 | 4 |
| 13. West Virginia | 2-0 | 775 | 14 |
| 14. Florida | 4-0 | 754 | _ |
| 15. Illinois | 2-0 | 642 | 17 |
| 16. UCLA | 3-0 | 612 | 18 |
| 17. Syracuse | 3-1 | 545 | 16 |
| 18. Iowa | 2-0 | 511 | 20 |
| 19. Alabama | 2-1 | 400 | 15 |
| 20. Indiana | 1-0 | 310 | 23 |
| 21. George Washington | 0-0 | 305 | 21 |
| 22. Nevada | 1-0 | 301 | 22 |
| 23. Maryland | 1-0 | 289 | 24 |
| 24. Wake Forest | 3-1 | 277 | 19 |
| 25. Washington | 4-0 | 228 | |
Others receiving votes: Iowa St. 227, Stanford 189, N.C.
State 107, Hawaii 96, Georgetown 60, Kansas 59, LSU
48, Ohio St. 45, Wisconsin 30, Michigan 26, N. Iowa 26, Old
Dominion 19, North Carolina 13, Oklahoma St. 12, Ohio
11, Miami 9, Temple 6, Arkansas 4, Bucknell 4, Charlotte
2, Texas Tech 2, Harvard 1, Houston 1, Mississippi St. 1,
New Mexico 1, UC Irvine 1, Utah St. 1, Vanderbilt 1.
ATHLETICS CALENDER
TODAY
- Men's basketball vs. Arkansas or Connecticut, EA Sports
Maui Invitational, 3 or 8:30 p.m., Maui, Hawaii
* Women's basketball vs. Oklahoma, EA Sports
- Women's basketball vs. Detroit, 7 p.m., Allen Fieldhouse
- WEDNESDAY
- Men's basketball vs. TBA, Maui Invitational, time TBA, Maui Hawaii
♥ Volleyball vs. Missouri, 7 p.m., Horejsi Family Athletics Center
*Football vs. lowa State, 11:30 m., Memorial Stadium*
*Volleyball at lowa State, 1 p., Ames, Iowa*
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
- Women's basketball vs. Northeastern, 1 p.m., Allen Fieldhouse
VOLLEYBALL
Execution crucial for season end
BY MATT WILSON
mwilson@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
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Senior middle blocker Josi Lima saves the ball during a match against Iowa State earlier this season. Lima and fellow seniors Andi Rozum and Paula Caten play their final home game at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Horsesi Family Athletics Center.
It's officially crunch time for the Kansas volleyball team. The team knows it has to win the last two matches and wait to see if the NCAA tournament selection committee rewards it with a berth into the championship.
Anything short of that and the Jayhawks will likely be home for December for the first time in three years.
If Kansas (15-12 overall, 7-11 Big 12 Conference) can win its last two games against Missouri and at Iowa State, history proves it has a chance of postseason play. Last season, the Jayhawks finished with a 9-11 conference record and made the tournament.
The quest will begin with a match Wednesday night against No. 11 Missouri (20-4, 13-4). The Tigers hope to spoil Senior Night at the Horejsi Family Athletics Center after sweeping the Jayhawks earlier this year in Columbia, Mo.
"We can't afford to lose." Kansas volleyball coach Ray Bechard said. "They're must-wins now."
Missouri is fresh off a 3-0 victory against No. 10 Texas. The Tigers climbed to within one match of the Longhorns, who sit in second place in the Big 12 standings.
Bechard said it would take a big effort for the Jayhawks to finish the home portion of their schedule on a high note.
"They're a really good team," Bechard said. "I'm sure we'll put our best effort out there, but it will take execution more than anything."
Kansas dropped a heartbreak last Saturday at Texas A&M, making this
For the senior Jayhawks, Wednesday's match promises to be an emotional one. Outside hitter Paula Caten, middle blocker Josi Lima and setter Andi Rozum have been a big part of one of the most successful
week pivotal. Had Kansas won that match, it would have been in much better shape for the postseason.
GAMEINFO
GAME INTO:
What: Kansas vs. Missouri
(Senior Night)
When: Wednesday, Nov. 23, 7 p.m.
Where: Horejsi Family Athletics
Center
Admission: Free for KU students with
a valid KUID, $6 for adults
Source: Kansas Athletics Department
eras in Kansas volleyball history. In the four years that Rozum and Lima have been together, including the last two and since Caten transferred from Barton County Community College, the Jayhawks have compiled a record of 75-45 and have qualified for the NCAA tournament twice.
"In my opinion it's the best place to play in the conference, even the country," Rozum said of Horejsi. "It's going to be sad to leave."
Bechard said the senior class has meant as much — if not more than any other since he took over as coach in 1998.
"It's a very prominent class," he said. "We've got the all-time assists leader in Rozum and the all-time kills leader in Lima. Paula has been great in her time here too. We'd like to have a good finish to their careers."
— Edited by Patrick Ross
Jayhawks finish season with Top 15 ranking
CROSS COUNTRY
BY ANTONIO MENDOZA
amendoza@kansan.com
AMENDA SPORTWRITER
of 412 points in the 10K race.
The University of Kansas men's cross country team placed 12th out of 51 teams in the NCAA National Championship in Terre Haute, Ind. on Monday. Indiana State hosted the tournament.
Wisconsin won the NCAA Championships with a total of 37 points. It had every runner finish in the top 15. Texas and Oklahoma State were
"There are only 11 teams in the nation that can say they placed better than us, so if that means we are for real, yes," Kansas cross country coach Stanley Redwine said. "I think we are definitely proud of the efforts and the strides we gave this year."
Junior Benson Chesang, former Big 12 Champion, led Kansas to the 12th place finish. He finished 30th overall individually with a time of 30:22. The team accumulated a total
Kansas finished ahead of nine teams that were ranked ahead of them going into the event.
the other two schools from the Big 12 Conference to participate in the NCAA Championships and finished seventh and eighth, respectively.
The future looks promising for Kansas because of the youth on the team. The top five KU runners will all return next season. They will be Chesang, juniors Erik Sloan and Tyler Kelly and sophomores Colby Wissel and Paul Hefferon.
Joshy Madathil is one of four seniors that Kansas will be without next year. He said that the No. 19 ranking he team had before the
tournament was nothing more than a number. He said that the Jayhawks' finish solidified them as a top team.
Kansas will also lose seniors Matt French, Mike Putzke and Cameron Schweber.
"I think we kept our composure and kept our expectations where we wanted them to be, and we went out there and executed and made things happen," Madathil said. "This is just the beginning to where we feel that we can go."
Edited by Erick R. Schmidt
kansan.com
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