SPORTS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18.2005
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 11A
TODAY
ATLLETICS CALENDAR
- Men's Golf at Stanford, all day, La Quinta, Calif.
- Women's Golf at Arkansas, all day, Fayetteville, Ark.
- WEDNESDAY
- Volleyball vs. Iowa State, 7 p.m., Horejsi Family Athletics Center
- Tennis at ITA Central Regionals, all day, Salt Lake City, Utah
THURSDAY
Tennis at ITA Central Regionals, all day, Salt Lake City
FRIDAY
- Soccer vs. Colorado College, 3 p.m., Jayhawk Soccer Complex
- Tennis at ITA Central Regionals, all day, Salt Lake City
- SATURDAY
- Football at Colorado, 6 p.m., Boulder, Colo.
* Volleyball at Baylor, 7 p.m., Waco, Texas
* Tennis at ITA Central Regionals, all day, Salt Lake City
SUNDAY
♦ Soccer vs. Texas, 1 p.m., Jayhawk Soccer Complex
- Tennis at ITA Central Regionals, all day, Salt Lake City
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Freshman forward joins ranks of other Jayhawk preseason greats
Freshman forward Julian Wright was named the 2006 Big 12 Conference Preseason Freshman of the Year Monday, by conference coaches.
Wright was named a McDonald's All-American during his senior season in high
Wright
school. He averaged 14 points, nine rebounds and six assists in his final prep season.
Previous Preseason Freshman of the Year honoree include Nick Collison in 2000 and David Padgett in 2004.
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TENNIS
'Hawks head to near-last tourney
Goal is experience, not ranking
BY ERIC JORGENSEN
ejorgensen@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
The women's tennis team will wind down its spring preparations after this week's Intercollegiate Tennis Association Central Region Women's Tennis Championship in Salt Lake City.
The tournament starts Wednesday, Oct. 19, and will last until Sundav, Oct. 25.
Brown, Hommell, Bukina and Horvath will play in Wednesday's qualifying tournament, and then advance to the main draw if they qualify.
Competing for Kansas are senior Christine Skoda, junior Brittany Brown, sophomores Lauren Hommell and Elizaveta Avdeevea and freshmen Ksenia Bukina and Edina Howvath.
Skoda and Adveeva made it into the main draw with their qualifying records from the past year.
The ITA tournament is the second to last tournament of the fall season and the last time for the team to see a large number of regional opponents before winter.
The Jawahays also qualified three doubles teams, the maximum any school can send to the tournament. The teams are Adeveea/Bukain, Brown/
"Every tournament is important. This is the last time to see regional teams before the fall," Skoda said. "It gives us a chance to get a ranking before the spring."
Skoda and Hommell/Horvath.
Victories this week would boost the team's ITA rankings for the spring, but rankings are not the team's main concern. Players are looking for practice and experience in these opening tournaments to prepare them for the spring season.
"It's a regional tournament that shows how you will play in the spring," Brown said. "Everyone is good."
This will be the first time Brown has played in the tournament since her freshman year.
"I missed it last year, so I'm excited to go," Brown said.
Brown missed much of the fall season following surgery to fix a hernia.
The team will spend five days practicing in Salt Lake City before the tournament.
After the tournament, the Jay hawks won't play again until Nov. 4, when they play the University of Western Michigan Broncos in Kalamazoo, Mich.
— Edited by Theresa Montaño
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Junior Brittany Brown works on her volleying in preparation for this week's central regional tournament Monday. The team will travel to Salt Lake City for the ITA tournament.
BIG 12 FOOTBALL
North division off to slow start once again
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BY CHUCK SCHOFFNER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
around.
So far, this season looks the same.
DES MOINES, Iowa — A year ago, Iowa State was limping along at 0-3 in the Big 12 before getting hot and tying Colorado for the North division championship.
The Cyclones again are 0-3 in the league and hoping for another turnaround. The difference is that coach Dan McCarney doesn't think the 4-4 record that gave his team its title share last year will cut it this time
"I'd be surprised if the winner of the North has a .500 conference record this year," McCarney said Monday.
Still, McCarney and other coaches say there's plenty of time for things to get crazy again in the division, which was ridiculed last year as the league's runt because of its poor showing against South division teams, including Oklahoma's 42-3 mauling of Colorado in the conference championship game.
raco coach Gary Barnett said. "We haven't played anybody in the North yet, so I don't know if we'll know for couple of weeks how this thing is going to go."
"I think you could have a wacky North with the way it's going." Colo-
Colorado, Nebraska and Missouri are tied for first at 2-1, with Kansas State at 1-2 and Kansas joining Iowa State at 0-3. The key game this Saturday is Nebraska at Missouri. Colorado will be at home against Kansas.
The disparity between the top teams in the two divisions showed up again when Texas routed Colorado 42-17 last Saturday. But the North coaches feel their division is
stronger this year.
Nebraska (5-1) looks much improved after going 5-6 last fall, Barnett says his team is better and McCarney feels the same about the Cyclones, who have lost two overtime games in league play.
At this point, all one of the leaders has to do is win out to claim the division crown.
Colorado is in the best position because it gets both Nebraska and Missouri at home.
"All these games are going to be critical," Barnett said. "It's sort of like a playoff scenario."
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