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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 12, 1999
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Senior shares thoughts on tournament, career
Robertson's View
Ryan Robertson has played in all of the Jayhawks 120 wins during the past four years. The Jayhawks' next loss, though, will be the senior's final game for Kansas. Robertson sat down with the Kansan's Mike Harrity before leaving for New Orleans to talk about the Jayhawks' march to madness.
The weirdest thing about seeing the brackets was seeing a six by our name because I've been so used to having a one or a two. That was kind of the weirder thing, understanding about who plays who and what seed plays what.
There's nothing wrong with having "Cinderella" attached to our name. We're going to go in with the same mind set regardless of that. We're going to go out and play as if it's our last game, because it is. I want to just go out and play the best that this team can play. That way, I can live with myself.
The reas
why the
Arizona
loss and
t he
Rhode
Island
loss were so bad, and are so tough to live with is because we could have played better. We were better than those teams, and we lost. That's hard to live with.
What's not hard to live with, is if you go out there and give it everything you have. You play your very best and then get beat. Because you can't do any more than give your very best. And if that's not good enough, the National Championship will go to somebody else. And I can accept that. I really can.
What I can't accept this year, is for us to lose to a team that we're better than, like in the past two years. I want to get beat, if we get beat, by a team better than us. That sounds simple.
I don't want to name teams that I think we better than, or worse than, or whatever, because I think we can beat any team on any given day. But my main opinion is that I want to go out there and give it everything we have. And if we get beat, that's fine— as long as we give it everything we have.
Our main goal right now is to be playing our best basketball. And I think we are. We won the conference tournament. We won three games in a row against three very good teams. So I think we're playing our best basketball right now, and a big part of that is our defense. Our defense is probably the best it's all year. And during the tournament, that's very important.
I don't know much about Evansville. I know their coach played at Indiana for Bobby Knight. So they play very similar to that—they run off of a lot of screens, a lot of motion offense, man-to-man defense, stuff like that. Other than that, I don't know much. It'll be a good game.
I really haven't even thought about Kentucky. I know how the tournament is, and I know how good the teams are and I know that if any of our guys
are looking past Evansville we'll be home on Saturday.
Another part of the tournament is how your team not only deals with how big of a situation it is and how big the media attention is, but also how well
you handle the site that
you're at. And the fact that it's New Orleans adds a little bit more to our situation because of the Lester (Earl) connection, or because of Bourbon Street or because we're playing in the Superdome.
I would have rather gone to Milwaukee, to be honest, because I think there would have been less distractions. Milwaukee would have just been a normal city that we've played in a million times. Again. New Orleans has so many distractions and that's just one more thing for this team to deal with. That's not saying that we can't handle it. We're still going to go out and play.
I'm enjoying these last moments of my college career. One thing I won't do is be like, 'I wish I had done this, or I wish I had done that,' I really feel like I've given 100 percent. I really feel like I've savored all the moments, the fabulous times.
If my career would end right now, I would be happy and content with what
I've accomplished and what the teams I've been on have accomplished.
Edited by Julie Sachs
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Men's golf team to try different lineup in classic
By Brd Hallier bhallier@kansan.com Kansan sportswriter
The men's golf team will have a slightly different look when it travels this weekend to Huntersville, N.C., to participate in the Birkdale Collegiate Golf Classic.
Senior Chris Thompson and juniors Jake Istnick and Ryan Vermeer will be the returnees for this weekend's Classic. They are among the three who played for the Jayhawks on Monday and Tuesday at the Louisiana Classics.
Playing this weekend along with Thompson, Vermeer and Istnick, are sophomore Andy Stewart and redshirt freshman Casey Harbour. Stewart played in the Classics but as an independent
Kansas coach Ross Randall said that
lineup was to give more players a fair shot at the No. 5 position.
"It also gives them a chance to play," he said. "I know who our top four are, so it gives these guys experience"
these guys experiences of playing at the tournament level.
"I think it's the most accurate way to find out who No. 5 should be."
Thompson, Vermeer, junior Brad Davis and sophomore Conrad Roberts are the Jayhawks top four golfers.
Harbour said that he was excited to make the trip to North Carolina this weekend for his first tournament of the spring season.
"It a big deal to me," he said. "It gives me a chance to prove myself to Coach."
the tour, who had two top-25 finishes in the fall season in three tournaments, said that despite being among the many candidates for the No. 5 position, he won't feel any additional pressure this weekend.
"It's just another tournament to me," he said. "There will be the normal first-hole jitters, but I just want play as well as I can."
The field that the Jayhawks are going up against will be difficult, as the Classics field was. Six teams, including the Jayhawks, are ranked in the March 3 edition of the Mastercard Collegiate Golf Rankings. Nebraska is the highest ranked team at 16.
"There's a good field in the tournament, and it's a good opportunity for us," Randall said. "We didn't have a good tournament in Louisiana, but it was the first of the year. That could be my fault from not preparing them the right way, but it did get one tournament under our belt.
"I just glad that we are playing again real soon so we can get that first tournament out of our minds because it was definitely not a win for us." Randall said.
— Edited by Duane Wagler
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