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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2014
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"It's not embarrassing. I would never use that word. We needed to play really well in order to win, and we didn't come anywhere close to that."
Peyton Manning
ESPN
FACT OF THE DAY
Manning's 12 playoff losses are the most of any quarterback in NFL history.
USA Today
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Manning kicked off the year with seven touchdowns against the defending Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens. Who was the last person before Peyton Manning to throw seven touchdowns in one game?
Peyton's legacy in the balance
A: Joe Kapp of the Minnesota Vikings in 1962.
THE MORNING BREW
— USA Today
The stage was set. Just one year ago we saw perhaps the greatest defensive player of his generation, Ray Lewis, step down from the game, hoisting the Lombardi trophy. A year later, people were assuming that perhaps the greatest offensive player of the same generation, Peyton Manning, would do the same at age 37.
We saw Manning do at age 37 what so few people had done in the history of the National Football League. In what may go down as the greatest statistical season we may ever see, Manning tossed 55 touchdowns, for 5,477 yards, in route to a 13-3 record and a first-round bye.
But as we have seen so often, despite dominating the regular season, Manning couldn't win when it mattered most. Everything was in place for him to be the greatest to ever play the game, to have a historic
By Shane Jackson sports@kansan.com
exit, had he just won his second ring. Instead, Manning did what critics have said since day one, and lost when it mattered 'most. The Denver Broncos were dominated in every aspect of the game, losing to the Seattle Seahawks 43-8, the third largest deficit in Super Bowl history. It took 12 seconds for the Broncos to fall behind: on a snap over Manning's head, the first play, resulted in a safety. From there on the Broncos could not regain the lead, and the Seahawks would go on to win their first Super Bowl in franchise history. Now at age 37, soon to be 38, Manning has some other numbers to think about before he throws on the shoulder pads in August: two, the number
of times Manning has left the Super Bowl in defeat, and 12, the number of postseason losses he has suffered in his legendary career, posting an 11-12 record in postseason play.
24. 4 marks Manning's quarterback rating in Sunday's loss, which was well below his regular season average of 115.7. His QBR in the 2014 Super Bowl was the lowest since Rex Grossman's 7.1 QBR when he lost to
Manning in the 2007 Super Bowl.
Manning in the 2007 super bowl.
The bottom line for the Broncos, if Manning returns under center, is that they should have no problem getting back to the final game of the year. With the likes of Wes Welker and Julius Thomas, the Broncos' offense is a tough team matchup for anyone Regardless, if Manning throws for
1 0 0
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downs and
the Broncos go 16-0,
their season
and, ultimately,
his legacy
will be deter-
mined by the one
hoisting the Lombardi Trophy next
February. Unfortunately for Manning,
several fans, myself
included, can't trust him when it matters most. For an athlete of his magnitude, that is a tough pill to swallow.
Edited by Austin Fisher
This week in athletics
Wednesday
Women's basketball Oklahoma State 7 p.m. Stillwater, Okla.
Thursday
No events
Tennis
Colorado
3 p.m.
Lawrence
Softball
Central Florida
5 p.m.
Orlando, Fla.
Saturday
Men's basketball
West Virginia
3 p.m.
Lawrence
Swimming and diving
Iowa State
10 a.m.
Ames, Iowa
Softball
LIU Brooklyn
10 a.m.
Orlando, Fla.
Sunday
Track and field Armory Collegiate Invitatational All day New York, N.Y.
Women's basketball
Oklahoma
2 p.m.
Lawrence
Softball
Tennessee-Chattanooga
8 a.m.
Orlando, Fla.
Monday
Tennis
Eastern Michigan
10 a.m.
Lawrence
Men's basketball
Kansas State
8 p.m.
Manhattan
No events
Tuesday
BASKETBALL
Wichita St. nears its toughest games
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WICHITA, Kan. — There aren't a whole lot of statement games on Wichita State's schedule this season. Two of them are com-
up in a hammock. The unbeaten Shockers are headed to Indiana State on Wednesday night, followed by a trip to Northern Iowa on Saturday. Those two teams are the closest contenders behind the fourth-ranked Shockers in the Missouri Valley race.
Perhaps more important,
they're the two teams with the best chance of dealing Wichita State (23-0, 10-0) a defeat before the start of the conference tournament March 6.
"It's the week that everyone's been talking about and pointing at, arguably two of the best teams in our league, back to back, on the road," Shockers coach Gregg Marshall said. "I know they'll be great atmospheres coming up and we'll have to play really good basketball."
They might want to avoid spotting their opponents a big early lead, too.
nents a big early lead, too. Wichita State allowed Evansville to race out to a 15-point first-half advantage on Saturday before rallying for an 81-67 victory. When then-No. 1 Arizona lost to California later that night, it left only the Shockers and new No. 1 Syracuse as the nation's undefeated teams. To put that into perspective, the only other team from the Missouri Valley to win its first 23 games was Larry Bird's Indiana State team, which went 33-0 before losing to Magic Johnson and Michigan State in the 1979 NCAA championship game. The last team to enter the NCAA tournament undefeated was UNLV in 1991. "Nobody in this program feels like we're at our best or reached our peak," guard Fred VanVleet said. "Besides, we don't worry about what the outside world is talking about. We know every game in the Valley is a challenge."
Wichita State's Tekele Cotton, right, and Kadeem Coleby, left, battle Evansville's Blake Simmons for a rebound during the second half of Saturday's game in Wichita, Kan.
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