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Tuesday, February 21, 1995
SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
AP Top 25
The Top Twenty Five teams In The Associated Press women's college basketball poll, with first place votes in parentheses, record through Feb. 19.
rank team record pta. pr
1. Connecticut (30) 23-0 798 1
2. Tennessee (2) 25-1 770 2
3. Colorado 22-2 726 3
4. Louisiana Tech 22-3 692 4
5. Stanford 20-2 676 5
6. Virginia 21-3 643 6
7. Texas Tech 24-3 612 7
8. Penn St. 20-4 543 11
9. Georgia 22-2 528 12
10. Vanderbilt 21-6 482 8
11. W. Kentucky 20-3 466 13
12. North Carolina 23-4 448 9
13. Purdue 20-6 381 15
14. Washington 20-6 377 10
15. Mississippi 20-4 363 16
16. Arkansas 19-5 346 18
17. Florida 20-7 281 14
18. Alabama 17-7 244 19
19. Duke 19-5 195 22
20. George Washington 17-5 176 17
21. Oregon St. 16-5 148 21
22. San Diego St. 19-4 102 25
23. Southern Cal 15-6 98 24
24. Kansas 17-8 75 20
25. Oklahoma 18-6 68 —
Others receiving votes: Wisconsin 35, North Carolina St. 29, Fla. International 14, Old Dominion 13, St. Joseph's 12, Memphis 11, Virginia Tech 11, DePaul 10, Clemson 9, Texas A&M 7, Seton Hall 3, Utah 3, Grambling 1, Louisville 1, Ohio U, 1, Portland 1, Toledo 1.
KANSAN
Kansas nabs top position for third consecutive year
UCLA jumps four to distant second
The Associated Press
The Jayhawks (20-3) jumped from third to first following weekend losses by last week's top two — Connecticut and North Carolina. Kansas was a runaway No. 1 choice, receiving 54 first-place votes and 1,637 points from a national media panel to easily outdistance UCLA.
Kansas moved to the top of the college basketball poll for the third straight year yesterday and became the fifth team to hold the No.1 spot this season.
The Bruins (18-2) jumped from sixth to second and were No. 1 on 12 ballots and had 1,546 points. They were No. 2 for a five-week stint earlier in the season before falling as low as seventh.
Kansas held the top spot for one week last season and lost to Kansas State at home just hours after moving to No.1.
In 1993, Kansas held the top spot for two weeks before losing at home to Long Beach State.
"I'd rather have it this late in the sea
son as opposed to earlier in the season," said Kansas coach Roy Williams. "We've been No. 1 before. We lost it, but we still lived. Kids' girlfriends didn't leave them when we lost the No. 1 ranking. I don't think it's a joke with us."
ajinx or a burden."
North Carolina (20-3), which lost 73-71 at Virginia on Sunday, was third, while Connecticut (20-2), which had its run an No. 1 ended after a week, was fourth. The Huskies had a 27-game home winning streak ended by Villanova on Saturday, 96-73.
Virginia led the Second Ten and was followed by Michigan State, Arizona, Missouri, Arizona State, Mississippi State, Syracuse, Oklahoma State, Stanford and Alabama.
Six schools held the No. 1 ranking in each of the last two seasons. The season
Oklahoma (19-6) is back in the rank
record for No. 1s is seven in 1982-83.
Source: The Associated Press
Massachusetts held fifth place and was followed by Kentucky, Maryland, Arkansas, Villanova and Wake Forest.
ings after a two-week absence.
Okla homa came into the rankings off a win over Missouri and has won three of its last four with the only loss at Kansas.
Mississippi State, which won at Kentucky this week for the first time in nearly 30 years, had the week's biggest jump, moving from 23rd to
The biggest drop was Syracuse's fall from 11th to 17th as the Orangemen lost to Villanova and Seton Hall last week and have dropped three in a row.
16th.
AP Top 25
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb.19.
team record pts. pr
1. Kansas (54) 20-3 1,637 3
2. UCLA (12) 18-2 1,546 6
3. North Carolina 20-3 1,481 2
4. Connecticut 20-2 1,438 1
5. Massachusetts 20-3 1,347 5
6. Kentucky 18-4 1,319 4
7. Maryland 20-5 1,219 7
8. Arkansas 21-5 1,181 10
9. Villanova 19-5 1,155 15
10. Wake Forest 17-5 1,009 14
11. Virginia 18-6 942 16
12. Michigan St. 18-4 931 8
13. Arizona 19-6 821 12
14. Missourl 18-4 766 9
15. Arizona St. 19-6 741 13
16. Mississippi St. 17-5 582 23
17. Syracuse 17-6 524 11
18. Oklahoma St. 18-7 492 22
19. Stanford 16-5 463 17
20. Alabama 18-6 386 18
21. Purdue 18-6 246 25
22. Minnesota 17-7 224 24
23. Iowa St. 19-7 177 21
24. Georgia Tech 16-9 163 20
25. Oklahoma 19-6 139 —
Other receiving votes: Oregon 107, Xavier, Ohio 95,
Utah 66, Western Kentucky 50, N.C. Charlotte 32, Utah
St. 30, Texas 22, Georgetown 19, Santa Clara 19,
Memphis 18, Brigham Young 15, Penn 9, Manhattan 7,
St. Louis 7, Miami, Ohio 6, Cincinnati 5, George
Washington 3, Tursa 3, Illinois 2.
American speedskater to end career, deserves press
KANSAN
Source: The Associated Press
By Jim Litke
The Association of B
The Associated Press
In most newspapers, her leaving will get a few paragraphs, a few pages behind a much larger story reminding us that baseball is still not here. If sports sections still measured accomplishment as much as they do greed, things might have been the other way around.
Though she never quite gets there, no one deserves the front page more than speedskater Bonnie Blair. No one has won more big events and demanded less in return.
And no one, absolutely no one, continues to set a better example even as she prepares to leave the sport she defined for nearly a decade.
At the Pettit National Ice Center on Sunday, in her final appearance on an American oval and one month before her last race, Blair captured both the 500- meter and 1,000-meter races.
At a stage in Blair's career when no one would begrudge her coasting toward the finish line, she is skating faster and more furiously than ever. It's almost as if all those years of training and sacrifice to be quick made her forget altogether how to be slow.
This came on the heels of a pair of track-record performances Saturday, that completed a four-race sweep and gave her the 1995 World Sprint Speedskating Championship.
Already, the most decorated female Olympian the United States has ever pro
duced, she is also the best big-event athlete still working. The more prohibitive a favorite she is for a race, the less drama Blair seems to allow. She won this third world sprint title by 158.145 points, her sport's equivalent of a walkover.
"It's me competing against myself, and that's what I thrive on," Blair said. "Me against the clock."
She says this without boasting, without exaggeration. Earlier this month, on the same oval in Calgary where she first grabbed glory by the throat, she posted a 38.69 clocking over 500 meters, shaving three-tenths of a second off her own world record.
In a nice bit of symmetry, on her 31st birthday, Blair will attempt to lower it one last time in her final competition.
On the eve of this competition, Blair recalled how everyone thought she'd retire after winning her first Olympic gold in Calgary in 1988; then how those same people became sure she'd retire after winning two more in Albertville in 1992.
"And after I won two more golds in Lillehammer in '94, everybody said, 'Isn't she ever going to retire?'" she said. "Now I'm going to retire, and everybody is asking my am I going to retire. It's sort of ironic."
And it's not the only irony.
For the longest time, Blair was like someone in a witness-protection program
— she surfaced a few weeks on either side of the Olympics every few years and then seemed to go underground after that. She could go about her training uninterrupted and with a single-mindedness that few other athletes at her level
of accomplishment — Chris Evert and Jack Nicklaus, for instance — could reasonably expect.
But several things changed that.
There was the one-time schedule change that brought the 1992 and 1994 Olympics close together.
There was the notoriety that the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan affair brought the American contingent in general, and the attention teammate Dan Jansen brought the speedskating contingent in particular.
There was Sports Illustrated's most recent "Sportsman of the Year" award Blair split with fellow speedskater Johan Olay Koss.
For the longest time, Bonnie Blair knew only the kind of fame that came without comfort and with an expiration date.
And now she is leaving because she has made up her mind. She will not try to fool herself or anyone else, to try and balance athletic excellence with the demands of celebrity.
Looking wistfully ahead to her final race in Calgary, Blair's voice trailed off to a whisper.
"I'm sure they're going to try to have the ice fast there. I look forward to that.
That's the part I always look forward to: the racing."
Sports facts
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Total prize money
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Ex-Redskin charged with possession
Knight-Ridder Tribune/PAUL TRAP
Manley trial postponed because of paper work
The Associated Press
HOUSTON — An arraignment on drug charges for ex-pro football player Dexter Manley was postponed yesterday as his attorney worked to have the former Washington Redskin defensive end committed to a psychiatric hospital.
State District Judge Doug Shaver delayed the hearing for Manley until March 3 to give attorney Paula Asher time to file the involuntary commitment paperwork.
"He's going to have to have the
extra assistance to get and keep him on track." Asher said.
Manley spent the month of December at the Betty Ford Clinic Los Angeles for drugrehabilitation.
An involuntary commitment usually
Paula Asher
Dexter Manley's attorney
is granted when a person exhibits behavior that shows he is a danger to himself or others.
Thursday after police found what appeared to be four rocks of crack cocaine in his room at a La Quinta Motel on Houston's south west side.
Manley, 35, was arrested last
He was charged with possession of a controlled substance.
were called to the motel by a friend of Manley's in Washington who told Houston officers that Manley had called and said he wanted his
ashes scattered over RFK Stadium.
"He is doing as good as he can. He really wants the help," Asher said.
Manley remained in the Harris County Jail yesterday without bond.
Last month, Manley was charged with possession of cocaine after police found a crack pipe containing residue of the drug.
Manley was charged with possession of crack Nov. 13 after being arrested in northeast Houston.
Manley, who went to two Super Bowls with the Washington Redskins, was banned for life from the NFL in 1989 after falling his fourth drug test.
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