Tuesday, February 9, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section B·Page 3
Kansas Women move to No.21
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have tough road games remaining at Colorado and Nebraska, while the Cyclones must travel to Allen Fieldhouse for a crucial match-up with the Jayhawks on Feb. 16.
The Jayhawks' late-season run and current five-game winning streak has been fueled by the resurgent play of post players Nakia Sanford and Jaclyn Johnson. Each posted a double-double Wednesday against Colorado and led the team in points and rebounds at Missouri.
"This league has decided it is going to double and triple-team Lynn Pride, so it has opened up a lot of opportunities for our inside players," said coach Marian Washington. "The performances we are getting from players like Nakia and Jaclyn will help us the rest of the way."
Kansas (18-6) moved up one place to No. 21 in this week's Associated Press poll. Iowa State fell only one spot to No. 16 after its loss to Nebraska, while Texas Tech fell three spots to No. 13.
The ranking represents Texas Tech's lowest of the season, and the first week the team has been on the top 10. The Raiders are now 19-3 overall.
The top six teams held their position, but every other team in the top 25 moved around in this week's AP poll. Each of the top six went undefeated for the week, and all posted at least one double-digit victory.
Louisiana State made the biggest jump of the week, rising four spots to 20th after entering the
WOMEN'S AP TOP 25
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press women's basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 5, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking:
| team | rec | pts | pvs |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1. Tennessee (41) | 22-1 | 1,049 | 1 |
| 2. Purdue (1) | 21-1 | 1,004 | 2 |
| 3. Louisiana Tech | 18-2 | 971 | 3 |
| 4. Connecticut | 20-3 | 900 | 4 |
| 5. Colorado St. | 24-1 | 858 | 5 |
| 6. Notre Dame | 19-2 | 849 | 6 |
| 7. Duke | 20-4 | 814 | 9 |
| 8. Old Dominion | 18-3 | 705 | 11 |
| 9. Rutgers | 18-3 | 656 | 12 |
| 10. Georgia | 19-4 | 622 | 8 |
| 11. Virginia Tech | 21-1 | 613 | 14 |
| 12. UCLA | 18-5 | 601 | 7 |
| 13. Texas Tech | 19-3 | 598 | 10 |
| 14. North Carolina | 22-5 | 431 | 13 |
| 15. Penn St. | 18-5 | 399 | 18 |
| 16. Iowa St. | 16-4 | 350 | 15 |
| 17. Auburn | 18-4 | 347 | 19 |
| 18. Virginia | 15-6 | 332 | 16 |
| 19. Clemson | 18-5 | 297 | 17 |
| 20. LSU | 16-5 | 254 | 24 |
| **21.Kansas** | **18-6** | **208** | **22** |
| 22. UC Santa Barbara 17-3 | 204 | 23 | — |
| 23. Oregon | 18-4 | 185 | — |
| 24. Fla. International 18-3 | 115 | 25 | — |
| 25. Alabama | 14-8 | 63 | 21 |
Other receiving votes: Boston College 58, Toledo 23,
Kentucky 21, Louisville 20, Illinois 18, N. Carolina St.
16, Ohio St. 15, Cincinnati 13, Tulane 8, SW Missouri
St. 7, Florida 6, W. Kentucky 5, Vaxier 4, Nebrakua 3,
Vanderbilt 3, St. Mary's, Cal. 2, Arizona 1, George
Washington 1, San Siera 1.
poll for the first time last week.
Boston College took the week's most dramatic fall, plummeting out of the top 25 from No. 20 after losing to Notre Dame and Rutgers.
Robertson has a feel for team's attitude
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that we'll probably be guarding. So after the pregame meal is over, Coach Williams quizzes us. He goes right down the list and asks everybody.
— I always take a shower before the game.
After we go back to our rooms, we usually have about an hour and a half to two hours before we leave. Some guys take a nap. Jeff Boschee shakes his head. I just watched the Knicks-Heat game and then took a shower
We got on the bus at about 12:10, and the arena was only about five minutes away. We had to be dressed and seated by 1:00. So I got dressed and then I went out and shot around for about 10 minutes. Usually when we go on the road, the locker room is just a really small room with some lockers, and it's every man for himself. (Sunday) I didn't even have a locker. I was just over in the corner by the shower, so I just folded all my clothes over my chair.
Before the game, I get really nervous. But I know that once warm-ups start, I'll get done with that part of the nerves. Before all of our games, I try to get a feel if the guys are really into the game or if I can tell that they're getting ready for the game. Like if everybody's really quiet and focused before the game and
everybody's sweating after warm ups, I know they're really going to be in the game. If we get back from warm-ups and I still see guys laughing and joking, it always makes me think that maybe they're not ready. It was good (Sunday). We were all pretty quiet and focused before the game.
I always know that I'm going to have a good game when I get an easy basket early, and I got a wide-open layup early in the game. From then on, I got some really good looks and was able to knock them down.
After the game, the trainer took a scalpel and cut the blisters off of my feet. I have really soft feet, so they callous really bad. It's really painful, but it's only about the third time I've had to have it done all year — but still it's not a fun experience.
There were a lot of fans waiting for us on our way to the bus. So we posed for pictures and signed autographs, which is pretty fun. I mean, it's not one of those things where if I was sitting on my couch I would say, 'I want to go outside and sign autographs.' But I also realize that next year, or in four or five years, nobody will care one bit whether they get my autograph or not.
(Editor's note: This is the first of a weekly series that will continue throughout the men's basketball season.)
Pace car involved in crash at Daytona race
The Associated Press
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — In Days of Thunder, the Tom Cruise movie about stock car racing, a crew chief, whose youthful driver has hit just about everything on the track, radios his protege with the field slowed by caution.
"Hit the pace car!" screams an agitated Harry Hogg — played by Robert Duval.
Joe Cooksev did.
The Cruise character, hotshot rookie Cole Trickle, didn't succeed.
And because of it, he has earned a place in Daytona lore.
"This might be the first time in the history of racing that the pace car's been wiped out in an accident," he said Sunday. "It was a pretty good lick, right square in the rear end."
Square enough to send ARCA pace car driver Jack Wallace from
Daytona International Speedway to the hospital — for a pain in the neck.
But that's not a description of Cooksey, a 33-year-old driver from Centralia, Ill., who until that bizarre moment in the 59th lap of the FirstPlus Financial 200 didn't hit anything at speeds approaching 190 mph. He said a mix-up while the pace car slowed the field left him nowhere to a go.
" ... He just slowed down or stopped, " Cooksey said. "I tried to stop, but I couldn't miss him.
"I'm sorry that it happened. I hate to see people who are not racing to be involved in a wreck."
A passenger in the pace car, NASCAR pace car driver Buster Auton, escaped uninjured. He was released from Halifax Medical Center.
A crowd of 60,000 that saw the pace car mishap,very nearly witnessed history in the event,the
first sanctioned stock car race this year at DIS. Shawna Robinson closed with a rush in an attempt to become the first female stock car driver to win on the banks of Daytona.
When she came up a few car-lengths short, there was a groan from a crowd enlivened by women applauding and waving over the final 16 laps as Robinson completed her powerful run from fifth to second.
"We absolutely could have won, no question about it," Robinson said. "We just didn't have enough laps."
Journeyman Bobby Gerhart, a winner for the first time in 14 years of ARCA racing, didn't think it mattered.
"I could put the car high, I could put the car low, I could run on the apron," he said. "I don't think she could have passed me."
Robinson, from Des Moines, Iowa,
never got the chance. After she
smoked off all the other contenders
to move right up to Gerhart's
bumper, a final caution ended the
suspense with two laps remaining.
"When I got around the third-place car and got up to Bobby Hamilton Jr., I knew there was no question I could win," she said. "We ran out of time."
"When the yellow came out, they said, 'Go get him,' but I had already backed off so much that I lost so much momentum."
Although she lost the drag race back to the line, Robinson matched the best finish by a woman in Daytona's 41 years. Robinson also wound up third when Karen Schulz finished second in NASCAR Dash series race in 1988.
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