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The Kansas men's basketball freshmen broke their silence on and off the court in the Jayhawks' 97-71 win against Fairfield.
Monday
November 22,1999
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Texas Christian's LaDainian Tomlinson rushed for 406 yards Saturday and broke a record set by Kansas' Tony Sands in 1991.
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College football
Kansas football
For most of the Jayhawks' 18 seniors, Saturday's game was an uplifting end to careers that witnessed many changes.
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Kansas can't dig enough 'Cat hits in close match
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Kansan sportswriter
Kansas came remarkably close to beating its instate rival.
The Jayhawks played the match of their lives last night against No.18 Kansas State at the Horeisi Family Athletics Center, winning two of the first three games and then holding a 6-0 lead in the fourth game.
But that wasn't a big enough cushion.
Kansas dropped a heart-breaking 3-2 loss to K-State, dampening its NCAA
to K-State, damper Tournament hopes and dropping its record to 17-12 overall and 8-10 in the Big 12 Conference. "It hurts," Kansas junior outside hitter Amy Myatt said. "It's hard to get so far ahead
and let that lead slip away. We just had to make more plays."
The match itself was filled with big plays. A record crowd of 1,300 fans, including hundreds of K-State followers, watched as both the Jayhawks and Wildcats stacked together long rallies, impossible dig combinations and smoke-filled kills.
The match ended when K-State won a rally-scoring fifth-game, 15-11, capped by a kill from outside hitter Liz Wegner. "I asked them to play aggressive and to play hard," Kansas coach Ray Bechard said. "And for the most part that's what our team did."
The problem was that K-State was playing just as aggressively and just as hard.
The Jayhawks out-hit the Wildcats, had more service aces, more blocks and were almost equal on digs. In fact, Kansas handled almost every K-State throw at it
The only thing that Kansas couldn't handle was K-State's Dawn Cady, who turned out to be a Jayhawk killer.
Cady, a senior outside hitter, had 39 kills for the night, which was one away from tying a Big 12 Conference five-game record. Cady also had 87 total attacks, a .310 hitting percentage and a match-high 23 digs.
"She's so physically fit that she seems to get stronger as the match goes on," Bechard said. "She's a great competitor."
A handful of Jayhawks turned out to be great competitors, too. Middle blocker Amanda Reves pounded 19 kills to go along with a career-high 16 digs, and outside hitter Danielle Geronymo chipped in 13 kills and also set a career-high 16 digs. Myatt and outside hitter Mary Beth Albrecht also registered double-digit kill totals, 18 and 16 respectively.
Even those performances couldn't help the Jayhawks, who still were searching for answers after the match.
"K-State just played better than we did," Reves said. "I had four years to win a match like this, and it didn't happen."
The Jayhawks will be in action again on Wednesday, when they travel to Ames, Iowa, for a 7 p.m. showdown against the Iowa State Cyclones.
—Edited by Katrina Hull
The great escape
Junior quarterback Dylan Smith fumbles the ball while crossing the goal line in the third quarter. Iowa State recovered the fumble, but the referees signaled for a touchdown, which gave the Jayhawks a 21-14 lead. The Cyclones protested, saying that the ball was jarred loose before Smith broke the plane of the end zone. Photos by Jay Sheepard/KANSAN
Nesmith blocks late field goal trv. Jayhawks win 31-28
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Nesmith: Big play sealed game
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Kansan sportswriter
Carl Nesmith made big plays all year — it's just that this was one of the first ones where he used his hands.
Nesmith, a free safety for the Kansas football team, hits hard, but he uses his shoulders to explode into a tackle and rarely
uses his arms and hands. But his fingertip block of a last-second field goal attempt by Iowa State preserved a 31-28 Jayhawk victory, and gave the departing senior class a season-ending win for the first time since their freshman year.
"It was great to give the seniors a send-off like this," junior quarterback Dylen Smith said.
pened without Nesmith and nose tackle Nate Dwyer. On the Cyclones' field-goal attempt, Dwyer flattened Cyclones offensive lineman Zac Butler, allowing Nesmith to jump for the block
The send-off might not have hap-
Before the play, Dwyer came to the sideline during a timeout and told the coaching staff that he
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Senior forward Ashante Johnson dumps a pass inside to senior forward Nick Bradford. The Jayhawk's new offense debuted in season play Saturday night with varying success. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
Kansas men press their luck
Jayhawks win despite multiple turnovers lack of fundamentals
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Kansan sportswriter
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It was a tale of two locker rooms, and both had different onitives.
"They come at you in waves," Fairfield coach Tim O'Toole said. "They are very deep, they are very talented, and they play incredibly well together. This is as good as college basketball gets."
Fairfield, which suffered a 97-71 defeat against the No. 11 Jayhawks Friday night came away from Allen Fieldhouse impressed with Kansas basketball.
In the other locker room, however,
Kansas was not so impressed with its
play.
"We beat those guys on talent, and that's not how we should've beaten them," junior forward Luke Axtell said.
"We weren't playing smart, but we were hustling. We just weren't doing what we were supposed to do."
Using pressure defense, forcing turnovers and wearing down Fairfield, the Jayhawks won their ninth-straight season opener.
Kansas shot 53 percent from the
and, out-rebounded the Stags 53-32 and forced 30 turnovers. In doing all that, the 'Hawks committed 22 turnovers and sank only 15 of 28 free-throw attempts.
"It was very frustrating out there tonight," Kansas coach Roy Williams said. "Having 22 turnovers is something we can't do and be the kind of basketball team we want to be. And if you look at some of the stats it should be maybe a 50 or 60-point margin. But I was really impressed with the effort of the Fairfield kids. One time Nick Bradford dove on the floor for a loose ball, but the majority of the time they were the ones going after the loose balls."
Kansas' offense continued to appear out of sync. Fairfield spent the majority of the time in a zone defense, which made the Jayhawks find open areas and shoot. Finding the open area, however, created fits and led to turnovers because Williams said that the Jayhawks have not practiced against zone offenses.
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Commentary
The Kansas football team will be good next year. Especially on offense.
Toughest player Michael Chandler leaves Jayhawks
Quarterback Dylen Smith will return to lead a powerful offense that will include receivers Harrison Hill, Termaine Fulton and Byron Gasaway. Running back David Winbush and fullback Moran Norris both have potential to run for 1,000 yards, and Henri Childs is dangerous as a running back and punt returner.
But there will be one part of that offense that will be missing next fall. That is wide receiver M i c h a e l Chandler.
N ob o d y
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Brad
Hailier
associate sports
editor
sports@kansan.com
His run of bad luck started on Feb. 27 when three screwballs broke into his home and shot him in the groin area. And then, to make matters worse, he missed spring drills after undergoing surgery to repair ligament damage in his left ankle.
But Chandler overcame both injuries, and he began the 1999 season as the most experienced receiver for the Jayhawks. He had a stellar junior season, a year that included his first career touchdown catch against Kansas State.
His senior year began with a bang. Against Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., Chandler caught four passes for 38 yards, but the big one was the 14-yard snare late in the first half from Zac Wegner that resulted in a touchdown.
But tragedy hit Chandler again. Before the Jayhawks' 71-14 thrashing of California State Northridge, Chandler's mother died. But he still played against the Matadors, and dedicated his 6-yard touchdown grab in the third quarter to his mother.
Through it all, Chandler had a great senior season. He led the Jayhawks in receiving yards five times this season, and he led the team in total receptions with 36. He also tied Hill for the most touchdown grabs on the team with four.
Of those four, his 77-yard catch, turn and scamper in the fourth quarter against Nebraska, which tied the game at 17 and sent the fans and Allen into ecstasy, was the highlight of the season for the offense.
Then on Saturday, his last game ever in a Jayhawks' uniform, Chandler again was the top receiver, leading Kansas in catches with five and yards with 54. One of those catches came from fellow senior Zac Wegner, and if only that had been for a touchdown Chandler would have had a complete Saturday, especially given the 31-28 Jayhawk win.
Chandler wasn't the fastest on the team, or even the best wide receiver the Jayhawks had this year, but he was solid every game, and more importantly, well-respected. He was named co-captain, along with fellow seniors Zac Wegner and John Williams and junior Tim Bowers, prior to the start of the season.
He also was named the toughest player on the team, and given what he went through, I agree 100 percent.
Hallier is a Mission senior in journalism.
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