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Indianapolis Soccer Complex
Swimming vs. Missouri.
- **Swimming** vs. **Missouri**
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SPORTS
Cross Country, Big 12 Cham pionshions, time TBA, Waco, Texas
SATURDAY
♦ Football vs. Missouri, noon,
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♦ Volleyball vs. Texas, 7 p.m.
Horeisi Family Athletics Center
♦ Rowing, Head of the Iowa,
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Players make verbal commitments to KU
Women's basketball coach Bonnie Hendrickson has received verbal commitments from three players for the 2006 basketball season, according to the recruiting Web site scout.com. With the addition of these players, the Jayhawks have received six commitments for next year's team. Of the 12 players currently on the roster, nine will be eligible to return for the 2006 season.
LaChelda Jacobs is a guard who attends Mansfield Summit School in Arlington, Texas. Joining her from Texas will be forward Porscha Weddington, who attends Temple High School in Temple. The third commitment was received from Kelly Kohn, a guard at Adrian High School in Adrian, Mich.
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 27, 2005
Henrickson said at the team's media day that five recruits would make official visits during Late Night in the Phog, and she hoped to have the team's recruiting finished before the season began. If the Jayhawks were to field a 15-player team next year, it would be the largest team Henrickson has had while at Kansas. This year's team has 12 players, up from 10 last year. It would also be the second consecutive year that the Jayhawks brought in six newcomers.
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Every chant in every game is choreographed with different hand signals informing the crowd of what's coming next. When 80,000-plus fans fill Kyle Field which is the largest stadium in the conference, you almost want to watch the fans do their thing instead of the football action.
Even the halftime show is a spectacle. The Aggie band puts on by far the best marching display in the country and often gets standing ovations at road games.
Some of the cheers take a while to get organized though, and the system doesn't work for basketball. It's also comical to watch the jumbotron feature two saws cutting the horns off a Texas Longhorn logo regardless of who the Aggies are playing.
Still, this place has the most unique traditions and most loyal fans in the Big 12. What other school could sell standing-room-only tickets to an NIT basketball game?
2. Texas
You know those hand signals that every major college in Texas has? Well, the Longhorns started that whole craze
"Horns."
Football is the main attraction here, and Darrel K. Memorial Stadium.
which can hold 85,000 burnt-orange clad fans, is one of the best places in the country to watch college football. The Longhorns have a huge band, cheerleaders at every part of the field and three mascots - a costumed Longhorn, an inflatable Longhorn and a live Longhorn named Bevo.
Men's basketball games, though, have much less atmosphere. Sure, if the Longhorns are fighting for a conference title late in the year, people show up. But Texas has been known to play host to tradition-rich teams such as Arizona early in the year and have trouble selling tickets.
Texas also loses points for some of its traditions. "The Eyes of Texas" is sung to the tune of "I've Been Working on the Railroad."
And the name Bevo was only created to cover up a Texas A&M prank. The Texas mascot was branded with the numbers 13-0, which signified a loss to Texas A&M. How Bevo came out of that you decide.
But whatever points Texas loses in those categories it makes up for with Sixth Street. With more than 60 bars in a sevenblock area, it is easily the best hangout in the Big 12 and was recently frequented by the cast of MTV's "The Real World."
Cowboy fans camp out for men's basketball games, pack Boone Pickens
3. Oklahoma State
Stadium for football games and make Stillwater, Okla., the third-best place to watch a game in the Big 12 despite having some
the smallest stadiums.
Boone Pickens Stadium doesn't even hold 50.000 and Gallagher-Iba Arena had to be expanded to hold 13,000.
Oklahoma State makes use of the space its stadiums have. Cbs.sportline.com named Gallagher-Iba Arena the best collegiate basketball arena in the country, and men's basketball games have an electric feel to them.
Stillwater, Okla., also features Eskimo Joe's, which is the most famous bar in the Big 12. There isn't a person who has gone there and left without a T-shirt.
The football stadium is always sold out and has a great atmosphere.
4. Oklahoma
Lloyd Noble Center sometimes has trouble attracting fans, but overall, Oklahoma's men's basketball team receives solid support. Its arena has such a low ceiling that when
So, why such a low ranking for a school with good stadiums and fan support? Boomer Sooner.
the place is rocking it's the loudest arena around.
It's the name of Oklahoma's extremely repetitive fight song. The marching band plays it to no end, and after going to a game, it's stuck in your head for a month.
5. Nebraska
If these rankings were only about football, Lincoln. Neb. would easily be first.
Memorial Stadium is the third-largest city in the state on game days, and every football game has sold out since the 1960s.
that a number of fans save their money and go to the road games instead. That's why Kansas' Memorial Stadium is always half red when Nebraska comes to town.
It's so hard to get tickets to the games
Men's basketball games are a different story. The Bob Devaney Sports Center often has trouble attracting 5,000 fans and the stadium in general is sub par.
Disco music blares over the loudspeakers at every opportunity, and it's so loud you can't talk to the person
"Tommy Lee Goes to College," being filmed here doesn't help either.
At first glance, Lubbock, Texas, doesn't look like much. The place is flat, windy
next to you.
and reminds you on a boring west Texas town.
6. Texas Tech
Oh yeah, and it's in a dry county so you can't sell liquor within the city limits.
But the Red Raiders make up for these deficiencies. The basketball stadium is brand new and the football stadium has just been renovated.
Before football games, tailgating is allowed near the stadium, and parties form in every direction. When Bob Knight was hired as men's basketball coach, fans started camping out for basketball games.
And to fix that silly no beer law, just across county lines is a string of enormous drive-through liquor stores that are lit up like Las Vegas. It's called "The Strip."
4. Colorado
The only time the Coors Event Center
7. Colorado
has a crowd is when Kansas fans make the trek to Boulder, Colo., and fill the place. Folsom Field is also rarely sold out and it barely holds 50,000.
No, there's not much of a game-day atmosphere out here, but there's so much else to do the games become almost secondary.
The campus is beautiful and Colorado is the only school in the conference with mountain accessibility. Pearl Street is also a pretty cool hangout. Imagine a mix of the Plaza and Massachusetts Street: college pub next door to The Cheesecake Factory.
8. Kansas State
KSU Stadium still has wooden benches for seats, the womens basketball team is a bigger attraction than the men's team and the Power Cat is the most generic logo.
in the country.
Yes, there's a lot to hate about Manhattan, but it has a few saving graces.
The Wildcats were the first to play the "Wabash Cannonball," and schools across the nation have stolen the tradition since.
The tailgating scene for football games is awesome.
It doesn't matter how cold it gets, RV's and tents always stretch as far as
the eve can see.
And when the occasional large crowd shows up to Bramlage Coliseum it has a good atmosphere.
9. Iowa State
When Hilton Coliseum is packed, the
The football team
locals call it "Hilton Magic." The stadium, indeed, is a fun place to watch basketball but beyond that, Ames, Iowa, doesn't have much to offer.
the football team struggles to attract fans, and the wind chill at games is rarely worth sitting through.
10. Missouri
The local hot spot is only half a block long, and this place is so isolated from the rest of the Big 12 it's often a better idea to watch the game on TV than make the long drive.
10. Missouri When Hearnes Center was abandoned
for the brand new Mizzou Arena, it was labeled as a basketball palace.
It's expensive,but it's a dull place to
watch basketball. The crowd noise isn't impressive and from the outside, the windows at the top of the stadium remind you of Wal-Mart.
The football stadium can have a decent atmosphere, but if you're a visiting fan you need body armor to make it out alive.
The school's main chant of M-I-Z-Z-O-U is also the least imaginative cheer in the Big 12.
11. Bavlor
11. Baylor Considering the games I've seen in
Waco, texas, ranking the Bears last is saying a lot.
I've watched Baylor fans storm the court at the Ferrell Center and tear down the goal posts at Flovd Casey
Stadium after defeating Kansas.
Yes, those were two of the biggest celebrations in recent Baylor history, but the problem was there were only a handful of people doing the celebrating.
You could honestly read a book during sporting events here, and that's a shame because not only is Baylor the only Big 12 school that serves Dr Pepper, but it has some decent traditions.
The "Sic 'em Bears" ritual is pretty cool, but when the visiting fans drown out the cheer it loses its punch.
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