Friday, November 12, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 3
Anne Kreimer falls back after spiking in the 3-2 victory against Oklahoma. The The Jayhawks' next game is tomorrow at No. 23 Baylor. Photo by Eric Sahreman/KANSAN
Bears want revenge on weary Jayhawks
By Shawn Hutchinson
Konson sportswriter
Two days after a heart-stopping victory, the Kansas volleyball team is still trying to find its pulse.
The Jayhawks rallied from numerous deficits in a 3-2 win against Oklahoma on Wednesday night, exhausting themselves during the two-hour match at the Horejsi Family Athletics Center.
"It was emotional," said Kansas coach Ray Bechard. "And we're glad that we have some days to recover."
That exhaustion is something that the Jayhawks hope doesn't continue into tomorrow's match at No. 23 Baylor.
BIG 12 STANDINGS
Kansas, 17-9 overall and 8-7 in the Big 12 Conference, will square off against the Bears at 5 p.m. tomorrow at the Ferrell Center in Waco, Texas. And don't think the Bears forgot about the last meeting between the two teams. The Jayhawks cruised to a 3-0 victory on Oct. 9 in Lawrence, as four Kansas players recorded double figure kill totals.
"We played really well when they were here," said Kansas middle blocker Anne Kreimer. "But they've been playing really well lately and beating some teams. It'll be a very competitive match."
Those teams that Baylor has beaten include nationally ranked Kansas State, Colorado and Texas. The Bears, however, have dropped two straight matches, including an upset loss at Missouri and a loss Wednesday night at No. 15 Texas &M.
Team Big 12 Overall
Nebraska 12-3 20-5
Texas 1-4 17-6
Texas A&M 11-4 20-5
Kansas State 11-4 17-6
Baylor 9-6 21-7
Colorado 9-6 15-9
*Kansas **8-7** **17-9**
*Texas Tech 4-10 15-12
Missouri 3-11 9-16
Oklahoma 3-12 8-17
*Iowa State 0-14 2-19
Another Baylor loss tomorrow would mean that the Bears and the Jayhawks would be tied in the Big 12 standings at 9-7. That could have some ramifications once NCAA tournament at-large bids are being handed out.
*Texas Tech played at Iowa State last night.
"If you look at the conference standings, it
would be significant," said Bechard, referring to a win against Baylor. "But we're just trying to get the conference win total as high as we can."
The Jayhawks' win against Oklahoma was their second straight overall. Two more victories may get Kansas consideration for the NCAA tournament, whereas three more wins would probably get the Jayhawks over the proverbial hump.
After Baylor, Kansas closes out its season at No. 15 Texas A&M, at home against No. 19 Kansas State, on the road against Iowa State, and at home against No. 22 Colorado.
Volleyball notes
Outside hitter Mary Beth Albrecht recorded 14 kills against Oklahoma, giving her 1,119 for her career. She needs only four more kills to take over third place all-time in Kansas history and needs 28 more for second place. Middle blocker Amanda Reves is the all-time leader in kills with 1,178.
With the win against Oklahoma, the Jayhawks guaranteed themselves of finishing the season with a winning record for the first time since 1983.
- Edited by Brad Hallier
Bradford leading basketball team in new Hoosiers-esque warm-up
By Matt Tait
By Matt Tait
sports@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
For a few minutes Saturday night, Allen Fieldhouse resembled the gymnasium at Hickory High School in the movie Hoosiers.
Before the Jayhawks' exhibition game began, 12 basketball players went through their normal routine of drills. Dribbling, shooting, passing, stretching — it appeared to be business as usual. But then the transformation began.
Seniors Lester Earl and Terry Nooner flanked fellow senior Nick Bradford on each side as the three stood across the free-throw line and faced the south wall of Allen Fieldhouse. Facing them were nine of their teammates ready and waiting.
Waiting for Bradford to begin the team's new, Hoosiers-esque pregame drill.
and back.
Waiting for what?
On the signal from Bradford, the players began shuffling their feet in unison with knees bent, feet spread and hands out. Bradford yelled, "Ohhhhhhhh, left." — their feet shuffled left and back. "Ohhhhhhhh, right." — the players shuffled right
"Down." — the players dived on the floor in pairs, one to the right, one to the left, no collisions at all.
It was unlike anything ever seen before at Kansas, but it was not unfamiliar to basketball. Across the nation, high school teams everywhere warm up with the energetic drill. In fact, Bradford said that he got the idea from a high school in Michigan.
"They used it to get their team pumped up, and I thought it was pretty cool." Bradford said.
But while the idea came to Bradford from the Wolverine State, the idea to do it came from Kansas coach Roy Williams.
"Coach came up to me and asked what I thought," Bradford said. "He said we didn't have to do it if we didn't want, but I ran it by a coupleguys and they said let's give it a shot, so we did. When we came back in the locker room everyone seemed to think it was sweet — the crowd liked it, we liked it and it got us pumped up."
While motivation served as part of Williams' desire to try it, he also wanted to do it because it was fun, and that's what he wants basketball at Allen Fieldhouse to be.
"Tradition's great," Williams said. "And a lot of things around here are tradition, but I want the fieldhouse to be more fun."
celebratory chest bumps, showed that he was changing with the times.
Bradford said that request for fun by Williams, the same coach who a couple of years ago tried to tone down
"He knows that times are changing and that guys want to have more fun," Bradford said. "As long as we get it done out there on the floor, then he's a lot more lenient to what we do."
And so the drill will go on. Earl and Bradford both said
Bradford: Got the idea from a Michigan high school
that the main reason they liked it was because it was different.
"It it gets us pumped up and it gets the crowd pumped up at the same time," Earl said.
Stanford defeats Duke in overtime
If all goes well, it may get the Jayhawks to Indianapolis — just like it did for Hickory High in Hoosiers.
— Edited by Shawn Linenberger
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Stanford started the season with a young team and late in its season opener got even younger.
The 13th-ranked Cardinal used an 8-2 run late in regulation and a 10-0 spurt in overtime and beat No. 10 Duke 80-79 last night in the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic.
What made the victory even more impressive was that senior forward Mark Madsen, the only returning starter from last season, pulled a hamstring in the final minute of regulation and didn't return.
"We made some big plays to get it to overtime, and a lot of guys stepped up," Stanford coach Mike Montgomery said. Montgomery said Madsen likely wouldn't play tonight.
Stanford will play the winner of the second game between No. 1 Connecticut and Iowa in tonight's championship game at Madison Square Garden.
Madsen wasn't there for the two big
runs that allowed the Cardinal to win the opener for the 11th straight season.
After the 8-2 run in the final 39 seconds of regulation, Chris Carrawell made two free throws 33 seconds into the extra session and gave Duke its final lead. Michael McDonald, who scored eight points, then started the 10-0 run with two 3-pointers.
Two quick baskets gave Stanford a 78-70 lead with 2:03 left.
Carrawell then scored seven points in Duke's 9-2 run to close the game, but it wasn't enough. Carrawell's tip-in made it 80-79 with eight seconds left. Stanford freshman Casey Jacobsen missed two free throws with 4.6 seconds left and Moseley grabbed the rebound of the second but was called for traveling.
Duke had another chance, but Nate James' 25-footer bounced off the rim at the buzzer.
Duke, which has two starters back from last season's team that reached the national championship game, has six freshmen
among its 10 scholarship players.
"There were a lot of good things like the comeback in overtime," Duke coach Mike Krzypewski said. "Our defense was better than I thought it would be and it kept us in the ballgame."
"We knew we had to make some big plays down the stretch and we did to get to overtime," Moseley said. "We showed some depth and now we'll need it."
Moseley led Stanford with 20 points, and Madsen had 15.
Carrawall, one of the two returning starters, finished with a career-high 28 points, while Battier, the other, had 19 and freshman Jason Williams added 13.
Carrawell's previous best was 19 points against North Carolina as a sophomore.
"The shots we missed were inside and almost all of the 3s we took were good shots," Krzyezwski said. "A big part of our shooting was Stanford's defense."
Cross country hoping to earn NCAA appearance
Duke shot just 28 percent (24-for-85) and was 12-for-33 from 3-point range.
Kansan sportswriter
By Rebecca Barlow sports@kansan.com
Tomorrow's cross country meet could be the last meet of the season for some, and for the seniors, the last of their careers.
The Jayhawks will compete in the District V meet in Champaign, Ill. Only the top three teams and top five individuals will advance to the NCAA Championships.
Seniors Diane Heffernan and Kevin McGinn said that it was critical to have a good race in the district meet because it was one of the more important meets of the season.
Conference teams will be competing.
"Districts are the final test," McGinn said. "People have to run well or their season might be over."
"It's important to put a good race in." Heffernan said. "You have a little bit more motivation since it could be your last meet."
Kansas coach Gary Schwartz knows the competition will be tough for the Jayhawks because all of the Big 12 Conference teams, except Texas and Colorado, all of the Big Ten Conference teams and the Missouri Valley
"We have always been a strong district region," Schwartz said. "The best teams from the Big 12, Big 10 and Missouri Valley will be there. The goal for everybody is to get into the NCAA meet," Schwartz said.
Even though this meet will determine who goes to the championships, some runners said that they didn't think it necessarily was the most important meet of the season.
"I think it's important because it's the last meet and you can qualify for nationals, but the conference meet and the district meet are equal to their importance," Heffernan said.
The Jayhawks have had two weeks without competition, and they are hoping that the extra practice time will help them improve from last year's finishes. The men finished 28th, and the women were ranked 20th. Schwartz said that he was confident that his team was ready for the meet.
"I think the team has prepared excellently . They have done their work in practice," Schwartz said. "We want to have that big improvement in a meet."
"The talent is there, and we have put our work in," McGinn said. "We're going to run our race and come out with the best results possible."
Even though the men's team might not change its style of running for the race, McGinn said he might change his.
"I definitely might take more risks this week since it could be my last race," McGinn said. "I might race more aggressively."
McGinn said that he was prepared mentally and was confident that he could turn in a good race.
McGinn also said that the men's team was ready for competition, and that it would not change its goals or focus on Saturday.
Senior Brian Jensen was the top finisher last year for the Jayhawks, placing second at the district meet, which made him the lone Jayhawk to participate in the 1998 NCAA championships. Because of a reoccurring injury he will not be competing in this year's meet.
—Edited by Darrin Peschka
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University of Kansas Millenial Series
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Saturday, November 13, 1999
Saturday, November 13, 1999 8 p.m. at the Lied Center Free Public Lecture
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