Wednesday. February 17. 1999
The University Daily Kansan
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Commentary
Jayhawk faithful should maintain perspective as team suffers bad press
I had this nightmare last night that Paul Pierce decided to leave college early for the NBA. Without him, the Jayhawks kept on losing double-digit leads late in games. I woke up in a cold sweat. Thank goodness it was just... a..dream?
But enough about dreams. Let's talk business.
In case you haven't noticed, the men's basketball team has been losing games lately. Tonight the Jayhawks try to avoid their third loss in a row when the Kansas
State Wildcats,
everyone's
least favorite,
roll into town
I'm thinking that the Hawks once again will crush the Wildcats. But even with an impressive win, the guys need to be prepared for some more bad press.
Seth Jones
spots@kansan.com
With eight losses, The Kansas City Star has all but forgotten the once mighty Jayhawks. Its new poster boy is Keyon Dooling of the Missouri Tigers. Whenever the Hawks do see print, it's an article condemning them for losing another lead by folding like a house of cards late in the game.
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A team such as the Wildcats is used to bad publicity. In 1997, Wildcat power forward Manny Dies got so mad at Kansas State Collegian sports columnist Todd Stewart's constant harassment in the paper that he and teammate Pero Vasiljevic went and kicked in Stewart's door. I'm pretty sure they weren't there to talk about sports.
Dies pleaded guilty to criminal trespass. If I were the sports columnist, I would have pleaded guilty to needing to change my pants after seeing the 6-foot- 230-pound player kick down my door.
Usually, any press relating to Roy's Boys is all happy and fun:
"See how the Jayhawks run; see
But recently, it's been more, "See the Jayhawks choke; see players benched; look for a team leader, and see if you can find one."
them smile; see the grade point average of their back court."
You can't blame The Kansas City Star for losing interest in the Jayhawks. You can't blame a 19-year-old kid such as Dies for getting really mad at some punk sports columnist. After all, sometimes we are pretty annoying.
How will the Jayhawks react to cynical sportswriters? How will Jayhawk fans respond to overweight sports columnists? How will sports columnists treat the Jayhawks in print?
There are some key issues for Jayhawk fans, players and sports columnists to remember.
One. These basketball players are college students. They're young. Did you know that Marlon London was born in 1980? How can I give this guy a hard time when he's only 18? NBA veterans miss free throws, so why can't Jeff Boschee?
Two: Newspapers cover whoever is in favor. That's why Kansas dominated all the local papers for so long. Right now, the team is slipping. It's okay to read about Missouri instead of Kansas once in a while.
Three: We sports columnists are paid to be critical of sports people. When it comes to Kansas, I want these guys to win more than anything.
Just because I make fun of Robertson's right arm flex doesn't mean I hate him. I want him to win. If I say I think T.J. Pugh is overrated and gets his shot blocked more than entire teams, that doesn't mean I want him to be kicked off the team. And it definitely doesn't mean I want him to kick in my front door.
And if no one made a big deal out of basketball, and we just talked about football ... well, there probably wouldn't be an NBA draft, would there?
Jones is an Mulvane junior in journalism.
Second-ranked Connecticut easily overtakes Rutgers team
The Huskies (23-1, 14-1 Big East) broke the 70-point mark for the first time in five games, but again an injury was the main concern at end of the game. Starting center Jake Voskuhl missed almost the entire second half with a sore left foot, the same one that caused him to miss the game against Syracuse, the Huskies' only loss of the season.
Richard Hamilton, the team's leading scorer at 21 points per game, again struggled from the field in his third game back from missing two
STORRS, Conn. — Second-ranked Connecticut didn't look as crisp as it did for the 10 weeks it was the No. 1 team in the country, but the Huskies had an easy 77-64 victory against Rutgers yesterday.
Rutgers (17-8, 9-6), which had won its last three games and seven of eight total, trailed 36-25 at halftime but was within 6 points with 6:21 to play on a driving basket by Rob Hodson.
games with a right thigh bruise. He had 21 points on 5-for-16 shooting and is averaging 14 points since his return.
The Huskies shot 53 percent (28-for-53), the first time they have shot better than 42 percent in the last five games.
Geoff Billet had 20 points for Rutgers, which has lost eight straight games against Connecticut and trails 23-12 in the series, while Hodgson had 10.
Connecticut asserted itself on the boards and built the lead to 69-57 on a three-point play by Kevin Freeman with 3:14 left.
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