Men's Scores
Kansas 88
Connecticut 59
Saturday
Iowa State 87
Kansas St. 79
Oklahoma 82
Nebraska 72
Okla. St. 82
Colorado 63
AP Top 10 Men's Results
1. Massachusetts (15-1) did not play. Next: vs. St. Bonaventure, today.
4. UCLA (12-2) lost to California
100-93. Next: at Southern California.
Thursday.
2. Connecticut (15-1) lost to No.
7 Kansas 88-59. Next: vs. Miami
at Hartford, Conn., tomorrow.
3. North Carolina (16-1) beat No.
16 Wake Forest 62-61. Next: at
Duke. Thursday.
5. Kentucky (13-2) lost to No. 9 Arkansas 92-94.
6. Syracuse (15-2) beat Miami
76-51. Next: at No. 14 Georgetown, today.
7. Kansas (15-2) beat No. 2. Connecticut 88-59. Next: vs. Colorado, tomorrow.
8. maryland (16-3) beat Duke 74-
72. Next: vs. No. 15 Virginia,
Wednesday
9. Arkansas (15-4) beat No. 5 Kentucky 94-92.
10. Michigan State (14-2) beat Illinois 75-67. Next: vs. Penn State, Thursday.
Women's Scores
Connecticut 97 Kansas 87
Saturday
Oklahoma 62
Okla. St. 61
Sunday
 Iowa St. 54
 Nebraska 67
 Missoula 70
 Kansas St. 60
AP Top 10 Women's Results
1. Connecticut (17-0) beat No.
17 Kansas 97-87. Next: at Providence, tomorrow
2. Tennessee (18-1) beat No. 16 Mississippi 83-48.
3. North Carolina (19-1) beat Wake Forest 85-42. Next at No.
12 Virginia, today.
4. Stanford(15-1) vs. No. 20 Southern Cal. Next: at No. 24 Oregon, Thursday.
5. Colorado (16-2) not play.
Next: at Oklahoma, Friday.
6. Western Kentucky (16-1) beat Arkansas State 73-56. Next: vs.
Tennessee Tech, Wednesday.
7. TexasTech(19-2) beat Texas 84-40. Next: vs. Rice, Wednesday.
8. **Louisiana Teach** (16-3) beat Southwestern Louisiana 90-42.
Next: at New Orleans, Thursday.
9. **Vanderbilt** (16-4) beat Missisippi State 107-60.
10. Penn State (14-3)beat Wisconsin 58-55.
Kansas guard Jacque Vaughn looks to Kansas center Scot Pollard for the inside pass during Kansas' game against Connecticut at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo. Kansas beat No. 2 Connecticut 88-59, handing the Huskies their only loss this season.
MONDAY, JANUARY 30; 1995
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
No Conn-test: Jayhawks flatten Huskies 88-59
Vaughn, Haase lead Kansas in defeat of nation's No.2
SECTION B
By Christoph Fuhrmans Kansan sportswriter
Kansan sportswriter
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas coach Roy Williams stressed to his players all week that despite all the hype, Saturday's game against Connecticut was just another game.
But it wasn't just another game for either team.
The No. 7 Jayhawks played their best game of the season, and the No. 2 Huskies played their worst, as Kansas won 88-59 Saturday.
Kansas improved to 15-2 while previously undefeated Connecticut fell to 15-1.
Williams had said earlier in the week that he didn't want the Connecticut game to cause his team to lose focus on the Big Eight Conference.
"It's very important to win your conference race," he said. "I didn't want it to take so much away from our team that we would have a letdown Tuesday night."
Aletdown is exactly what the Huskies had and the Jayhawks didn't.
Kansas used two 10-0 runs in the first half to knock the Huskies out of the game early. The first run ended on a three-pointer by Kansas sophomore guard Jerod Haase with 13:12 on the clck.
In that play, Kansas sophomore forward Scot Pollard rebounded a missed Huskie shot and passed the ball to Kansas sophomore guard Jacque Vaughn.
Vaughn took off down the court and made a no-look, double-clutch pass to Haase in the corner for the shot, which ignited the Kemper Arena crowd and forced Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun to call a timeout.
"We wanted to be aggressive," Williams said. "We talked as a team about their pressure, that if you get the least bit tentative, they feed off that like piranhas."
"We've been able to hold people to a low percentage from the floor," Williams said. "But let's be honest, they had some open looks too that they didn't make."
But it was Kansas' defense that limited the Huskies.
Connecticut senior forward Donny Marshall and sophomore forward Ray Allen did make their shots, scoring 18 and 23 points respectively. But the rest of Huskies combined for only 18 points, which could be linked to the Jayhawks' defense.
Connecticut shot 26 percent from the floor, continuing the Jayhawks' season-long string of keeping opponents under 50 percent. The Huskies made only three of 18 three-pointers and hit none in the first half.
Although Kansas shot 45 percent from the floor, its offense was spread evenly except for Haase's 20 points and junior forward Sean Pearson's 17.
"Jacque Vaughn makes it a lot easier for me," Haase said. "He's such a great passer. It's an easy job for me to find the open spot and shoot the ball."
Four other Jayhawks each scored nine points. Sophomore guard Jacque Vaughn had a hand in most of those points with a game-high 10 assists.
Because it was so easy for Haase and the rest of the Jayhawks to score in the first half, Williams said he was worried that his team might let up after halftime.
Connecticut already had come back from a 15-point halftime deficit this season against Syracuse on Jan. 23 and won the game 86-75.
Kansas 88, Connecticut 59
KANSAS (15-2, 4-1)
Player fgm/fga ftm/fta tp
Pearson 8-14 0-1 17
LaFrentz 3-15 3-4 9
Ostertag 4-9 1-2 9
Vaughn 3-5 3-4 9
Haase 8-16 0-0 20
Pollard 2-5 2-7 6
Williams 1-3 1-2 3
Gurley 2-2 0-0 5
Thomas 3-5 1-2 9
McGrath 0-0 0-0 0
Whatley 0-0 0-0 0
Branstrom 0-0 1-2 1
Novosel 0-0 0-0 0
Totals 34-75 12-24 88
CONNECTICUT (15-1, 8-0)
Marshall 6-20 6-9 18
Allen 10-27 0-0 23
Knight 2-10 0-1 4
Sheffer 1-6 5-6 7
Ollie 2-6 1-2 5
Hayward 0-2 0-0 0
Fair 1-6 0-0 2
King 0-2 0-0 0
Johnson 0-1 0-0 0
Willingham 0-0 0-0 0
Thomas 0-1 0-0 0
Cohen-Mintz 0-3 0-0 0
Totals 22-84 12-18 59
Halftime Kansas 47, Connection 27 3-point goals Kansas 8-17 (Hazel 4-7, Thomas 2-4 Pearson 1-5, Gurey 1-1), Connection 3-18 (Alien 39) Rebounds Kansas 61 (Larentz 11), Connectivity 52 (Knight 11) Anselia Kansas 17 (Vaughn 10), Connectivity 13 (Ollie 6) Total fouls Kansas 16, Connection 24 Attendance 13,349
One such let up in the second half occurred when Kansas freshman guard Billy Thomas attempted a no-look pass that was stolen.
"We had Billy Thomas make his first and only look-away pass in his entire career—now, in the past or in the future." Williams said. "We took a timeout then, just to talk about our sloppy play at that point."
Thomas said that Williams told him not to ease up because of the Jayhawks' lead.
During that timeout an angry Williams walked out to meet Thomas.
"He just said it with a little bit more intensity," Thomas said.
Paul Kotz/ KANSAN
Kansas center Greg Ostergård slams the ball during Kansas' game against the 2. Connecticut Huskers Saturday in Kansas City, Mo.
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Kansas guard Tamaeke Dixon rolls the ball off her fingers to score in Kansas' game against Connecticut.
9-3 run clenches game for No.1 Connecticut
Huskies victory over the women's team their smallest of the season
By Jenni Carlson Kansan sportswriter
ANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas women's basket-
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas ball team made believe outs of many people Saturday, proving that it is a legitimate team.
In front of a nationaltelevision audience and a sell-out Kemper Arena crowd, the No. 17 Jayhawks put a scarce into No. 1 Connecticut at the inaugural Power Barefoot Shootout.
"A lot of people didn't think we had a shot at this," Kansas women's basketball coach Marian Washington said. "We are a program that is on the move. We're shooting for where Connecticut is now."
The Huskies held off the Jay-
hawks, 97-87; to keep their perfect
16-0 record in tact. The loss pushed
Kansas' record to 14-5.
The Jayhawks may not be far from that goal by the estimate of one of their new-found believers, Connecticut women's basketball coach Geno Ariemma.
The Huskies' ten-point margin of victory was its smallest of the year, including an 11-point win over then-No.1 Tennessee.
that's as talented on the perimeter as any team I've coached."
Kansas' outside play was sparked by junior guard Charisse Sampson, senior forward Angela Aycock and sophomore guard Tamecka Dixon.
Sampson scored 19 points, including four three-pointers, while Aycock poured in 29 points and hauled down 14 rebounds.
The spark that kept the Jayhawks in the game during
program that is on the move. We're shooting for where Connecticut is
"We are a
"There's no one in our league that plays like Kansas, that has those kinds of players," he said of Connecticut's Big East Conference competition. "We played a team
now
Marian Washington Kansas women's basketball coach
the second half was Dixon. Twenty-one of Dixon's game-high 30 points came in the final 20 minutes of the game.
"We knew Tamecka Dixon was good, but we weren't expecting her to take over the game," Connecticut junior guard Jennifer Rizzotti said.
against the Javhawks.
"I thought we did a great job on Wolters." Washington said. "She broke loose in the second half, but in the first half. I thought we did a real fine job on her."
Connecticut's height forced the Jayhawks to use their quickness. The Huskies listed seven players that were six feet tall or taller. Senior forward/center Rebecca Lobo led the inside barrage with 25 points and 12 rebounds.
However, Kansas all but shut down 6-foot-7 sophomore center Kara Wolters. Wolters entered the game averaging 13.1 points per game but managed only eight
KANSAS (14-5)
Wolters was not the only one to break loose in the final half. Despite several runs by the Jayhawks, Connecticut was able to answer the challenge.
After a 47-35 Husky lead at half time, Kansas closed the gap to four points late in the game. With 2:25 remaining in the game, a basket from Dixon cut Connecticut's lead to 86-82.
After the Huskies pushed their lead back to six, sophomore guard Angie Halbleib hit two free throws to bring the deficit back to four.
After Halbleib's free throws, Connec it out scored Kansas 9-3. Four of the Huskies' final nine points came from Wolters.
Kansas 87, Connecticut 97
Player fgm/fga ftm/fta tp
Sampson 6-10 3-4 19
Aycock 9-22 5-6 29
Trapp 0-5 0-0 0
Halbleib 2-12 2-3 7
Dixon 12-22 5-8 30
Canada 0-1 0-0 0
Gracey 1-2 0-0 2
Moffitz 0-1 0-0 0
Totals **30-75** **15-21** **87**
"We definitely had a real fine
CONNECTICUT (17-0)
Elliott 4-8 2-2 10
Lobo 9-17 7-9 25
Wolters 3-11 2-3 8
Rizzotti 7-14 5-7 21
Webber 2-3 0-0 6
Sales 7-12 2-2 21
Berube 2-12 2-2 6
Better 0-0 0-0 0
Totals 34-77 20-25 97
Halftime Kansas 35, Connecticut 47 3-point goals Kansas 12-28 (Ayckov 6-9,
Sampson 4-8, Dixon 1-4, Halibble 1-7), Connecticut 9-22 (Sales 5, Webber 2-3, Rizzotti
2-7, Elliott 0-1) Kansas 43 (Ayckov 14), Connecticut 52 (Elliott 12, Lobo
12) Assist Kansas 14 (Dixon 6), Connecticut 22 (Rizzotti 7) Total Kansas 18,
Connecticut 17 Attendance 16, 981
run going and then couldn't manage to hold them off underneath," Washington said. "I am extremely proud of my young team and how hard they fought."
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