Tuesday, November 9, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 3
Injuries shouldn't stand in season's way
By Matt Tait
sports@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
Bandaged and bruised, but not brutally.
That best describes the health of the Kansas basketball team so far this season.
Three significant injuries have plagued the Jayhawks during the preseason, but none appears to be bad enough to affect the regular season.
Junior transfer Luke Axtell, who already had to sit out an entire year to comply with NCAA transfer rules, broke a bone in his left hand the first week of practice.
Axtell suited up and ran through warm-up drills, but he did not play in the Jayhawks victory against
the California East All-Stars last Saturday in the team's first preseason game. He is expected to miss Saturday's second and final preseason game against Australia.
But Axtell should be ready for the season opener Nov. 19 against Fairfield at Allen Fieldhouse.
"There's no need to get too down," Axell said shortly after being injured. "It was just a freak accident, and there's nothing I can do about it."
The second injury was much scarier. Senior forward Earley tweaked his knee while running half-speed during a drill in practice last week.
An examination showed that Earl had a flare up of tendinitis, and his status was uncertain. However, Earl logged 17 minutes
in the game against the All-Stars, scored eight points, grabbed six rebounds and showed no sign of the knee bothering him. Earl struggled with knee injuries last season as well.
"My knee's
Axelt: Probably will be back for season opener
holding up fine," Earl said after the game. "I had a good practice (Friday), and now I'm just trying to get back in the flow."
The third injury occurred late last week, also in practice.
Sophomore forward Jeff Carey sprained an ankle during drills. He was dressed in street clothes for the game with the All-Stars and was noticeably limping from the huddle to the bench during timeouts.
Carey, however, started light practicing again yesterday and should be ready for Saturday's game with Australia.
During the game, junior center Eric Chenowith al;so was hurt. He was popped in the nose with a flailing elbow from All-Stars player Tony Vicinskas and fell to the floor bleeding.
His nose will be examined later in the week, and Chenowith is not expected to miss any practices or Saturday's game.
Edited by Jamie Knodel
Williams hopes to get new offense going
By Matt Tait
by mann pan
sports@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas men's basketball team's much-anticipated new offense produced 124 points in its first exhibition game Saturday against the California East All-Stars.
There was, however, one catch.
The new offense was not run once.
"We didn't run the new offense at all," Kansas coach Roy Williams said. "Hopefully next week we'll do a little more with it."
During the preseason, Williams said he planned to experiment with a new offense that required the Jayhawks to play with poise at a fast pace.
On Saturday night one of those two requirements came true — it was fast-paced.
Seven Jayhawks benefited from the run-and-gun nature, as they scored in double figures. And five
Jayhawks let loose with slam dunks including Kenny Gregory's four — each bringing the crowd to its feet.
Layup after dunk after steal after turnover, the Jayhawks got up and down the floor like a Kentucky or Arkansas team.
While Williams was pleased with that for the most part, the team committed 24 turnovers, something he said was unacceptable.
"It was just a rat race out there," Williams said. "And I wanted it that way. We did have a lot of mistakes, though. Forcing 28 turnovers is great, but we gave back 24."
One of the main reasons that the new offense could not be unleashed was that the California team did not play a man-to-man defense. The All-Stars played mostly zone and chase-the-ball defense, and they did not allow Kansas to settle into its man offense.
"Australia, hopefully, will play
man-to-man so we can show our offenses," sophomore point guard Jeff Boschee said.
Even though Kansas was not able to unveil its new offence, AllStars coach Phil Bryant said he thought whatever means Kansas used to rack up 124 points on his sound was effective enough.
"Kansas is loaded with athletes, and they are so deep," Bryant said. "If 10 teams are better than them, I would hate to have to play them."
The 10 teams that Bryant alluded to are those ranked higher than Kansas in the preseason ESPN/USA Today coaches' poll. The Jayhawks are ranked 11th.
Williams said that he planned to install more of the offense this week during practice, and he would stress defense and getting people into the right spots at the right times.
Boschee said that Williams addressed the defensive angle immediately following the game, and he realized that the team must
"We didn't run the new offense at all. Hopefully next week we will do a little more with it."
Roy Williams Kansas men's basketball coach
work on the basics.
"I think I would have to give us a B+," Boschee said of the Jayhawks' exhibition performance. "Overall, I think we did a great job, but we still have things we need to work on, like our full-court trap and fundamentals."
Kansas will conclude its presseason at 7:05 p.m. Saturday in Allen Fieldhouse against the Geelong Supercats, a professional team from Australia that won the 1999 Australian Basketball Association championship.
- Edited by Jennifer Roush
Swimming and diving start strong, but fade
By Jason Walker sports@kansan.com
Kansas sportwriter
The Kansas women's swimming and diving teams got off to fast starts this weekend at the Dual Meet Extravaganza at Illinois but faded on the last day of competition.
Kansas swimming and diving coach Gary Kempf said that he saw a lot of things he liked but that the women came out flat on Sunday morning.
"I didn't do a good job of getting them ready," he said. "They just flat out weren't ready to go. They didn't swim with the emotion that they should have."
Friday, the Jayhawk women's swimmers opened by taking the top two places in six of the first seven races. Sophomore Sarah Holke set a season-best time in the 100 butterfly, while senior Kelly Brock, junior Carolyn Grevers, sophomore Carolyn Horowitz and freshmen Gwen Haley and Julie Otmar all touched the wall first in their respective races.
The Jayahwk women divers dominated Friday as well. Senior captain Kerri Pribyl won the one-meter while sophomore Rebecca McFall and freshman Kristie Miseika finished second and third respectively.
The Jayhawks also got good per formances from two freshmen swimmers. Lyndsey DeVaney won the 500 freestyle and the 1000 freestyle by nearly 13 seconds and captured two individual victories during Sunday's losses. Haley posted the fourth-fastest time in school history in the 400 individual medley on Saturday and also won the 500 freestyle. Sunday, she won the 200 individual medley capping off an impressive weekend.
"They just didn't have that killer
me?" he said. "They did't fight."
Kempf also said that he was pleased with the first two days but that the team needed to tie everything together on the last day.
Rebecca Eustice, senior women's swimming captain, said that the women simply were worn out after two days of competition.
"We went in Sunday really tired," she said. "No one was really excited at all."
Eustice said she thought overall the meet was a good way to start the year, but they needed to practice improving their energy levels.
"There were a lot of good things," she said. "We had some good relays and swims by freshmen. We know that we have a lot of potential, and if we can get everything in line, we can be really good."
The Kansas men's swimmers and divers finished the meet 0-2 after losses to eventual champion Missouri and to Southern Illinois. The Jayhawks kept the matches close but came up short in the end.
"Jason Carr had a great weekend," Kempf said. "And Jon Reyes had one of his best meets in a long time."
Kempf said the men's team's problem was short of swimmers.
"We have some weak spots that someone has to step into," he said. "We just weren't able to compete relay-wise."
The next competition for the Jayhawks men's and women's swimming and diving teams is Nov. 19 at the Northwestern Invitational in Evanston, Ill.
Edited by Jessie Meyer
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