2B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 2005
ATHLETICS CALENDAR
TODAY
- Women's Swimming at Big 12 Championships, all day,
College Station, Texas
- TOMORROW
- Baseball vs. Northern Colorado, 3 p.m., Hoglund Ballpark
Softball vs. Utah, 2:30 p.m., Palm Springs, Calif.
♦ Softball vs. Brigham Young, 8 p.m., Palm Springs, Cal
Track at Nebraska, all day, Lincoln, Neb.
- Women's Swimming at Big 12 Championships, all day College Station, Texas
SATURDAY
*Softball vs. Cal State-Fullerton, 12:30 p.m., Palm Springs, Calif.*
- Baseball vs. Northern Colorado, noon, Hoglund Ballpark
- Softball vs. Washington, 8 p.m., Palm Springs, Calif.
SUNDAY
**+ Women's Swimming at Big 12 Championships, all day,
College Station, Texas**
Track at Nebraska, all day, Lincoln, Neb
MONDAY
- Men's basketball vs. Oklahoma State, 3 p., Mallen Fieldhouse
* Softball vs. Arizona State, 1:30 p., Palm Springs, Calif.
**Men's Golf** at UTS Invitation, all day, San Antonio, Texas
*Women's Golf* at A&M, all day, College Station, Texas
INTRAMURAL SCORES
TUESDAY
TUESDAY
BASKETBALL
Men's
CBA def. Navy ROTC, 57-44
K-Unit def. Bad Boys, 56-46
Apt. M def. The Moose, 44-43
Mr. Boijangles def. Flying Saucers, 61-36
DU 1 def. Sigma Chi 2, 57-29
Pocket Rockets tied Sig Ep 1, 55-55
Jayhawk West def. Fiji 1, 59-56
White Unit def. Sigma Chi 1, 72-38
Inferno def. ASHC Sucks, 85-46
Strikers def. TKA, 60-53
Triangle def. Stg Ep 3, 33-24
Women's
Chopper City def. Kappa Delta, 62-24
Slobbernockers def. pretty in Pink, 94-60
The Best Team def. GP Mil Miller囊肿, 71-54
Wildcats upset another team
COLLEGE BASKETBALI
VILLANOA, Pa. — Victories against ranked teams are becoming routine for Villanova.
Randy Foye scored 23 points and the 23rd-ranked Wildcats survived a nine-minute stretch without a field goal to beat No. 3 Boston College 76-70 last night.
The fans stormed the court as they have for two other home victories over ranked teams, chanted "Tournament!" and shook hands with coach Jay Wright.
Villanova (18-6, 8-5 Big East) beat its fourth top-25 team of the year, including a victory over then-No. 2 Kansas last month, and bolstered its chances of making its first NCAA tournament appearance since 1999.
Curtis Sumpter scored 18 of his 20 points for Villanova in the first half and Kyle Lowry added 11.
The Wildcats, coming off a victory over then No.17 Pittsburgh on Sunday, used 70 percent three-point shooting in the first half to take a halftime lead they stretched to 13 points early in the second half.
When Jason Fraser made a layup at the 13:15 mark, the Wildcats led 57-47 and seemed in control.
The Eagles — who rallied from halftime deficits to win eight times this season — started their run while the Wildcats went into a field goal drought that stretched just longer than 9 minutes.
The Associated Press
Fitting Senior Night for Burras
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
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BY BJ RAINS
brains@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
Kansas women's basketball star ties career high with 24-point performance
Her last game in Allen Fieldhouse will be a memorable one for senior guard Aquanita Burras.
The 5-foot-9 guard tied a career high last night with 24 points, and also led the team in rebounds with six and assists with four. In the first half, she scored 15 points on 7-of-10 shooting. Burras took over the offense for a Kansas team struggling to find points.
"It was Baylor versus Aqua in the first half," Kansas coach Bonnie Henrickson said. "Thank goodness she made some shots."
In the second half she cooled off a bit but still helped keep Kansas in the game. She finished 9-for-15 from the field. Burras made both of her three-point attempts and hit all four of her free throw attempts in the 70-60 loss to the sixth-ranked team in the country, the Baylor Bears.
"What a way for her to go out on Senior Night," Baylor coach Kim Mulkey-Robertson said. "She was very good. We put a lot of different players on her and she still lit us up."
By Burras' count, Baylor used four different defenders to try guarding her during last night's game. Afterwards, a humble Burras declined to admit the obvious, that none of them could guard her.
"Ask my teammates, because I really don't like to talk about myself," Burras said. "I don't like to brage."
Burras had every reason to brag last night. She dominated the game at times, scoring all nine points in a 9-1 Jayhawk run at the conclusion of the first half. If they needed a steal, she stole it. If they needed a basket, she scored it.
Burras posted up the Baylor defenders and was able to score a lot of baskets inside. She attributed the easy baskets to great passes by her teammates, in particular junior forward Crystal Kemp.
"Crystal was making great passes when I was posting up," Burras said. "That helped a lot."
She did not come out of the game, playing all 40 minutes in her last home game. Her gutsy performance impressed everyone, even her teammates. Junior guard Erica Hallman, who finished with 21 points, was not only happy, but thankful, that Burras played as well as she did.
"She brought her 'A' game tonight." Hallman said. "She pretty much carried us on her shoulders in the first half. She played an excellent game on both ends of the floor."
Burras dedicated her performance in last night's game to her dad, Larry Lindsey, who is serving in the U.S. military in South Korea. A member of the U.S. Army who has also served time in Iraq, Lindsey got Burras started playing basketball when she was in fifth grade.
"The sad thing was that my dad couldn't be here," Burras said.
"That's what I played for, my father."
"At the beginning of the National Anthem I started getting a little emotional. I had to take a few deep breaths. It would have been great for my dad to be here, but I had my little brother here taking his place."
Mulkey-Robertson summed up Burras' performance in four words.
After tying a career high in points and leading the team in rebounds and assists, Burras said she would never forget her last home game. As coach Mulkey-Robertson said, it was a special night for Burras.
- Edited by John Scheirman
Brian Lewis/KANSAN
At the end of their last home game in Allen Fieldhouse, senior guards Aquanita Burras and Blair Waltz couldn't help but smile in spite of a close loss to Baylor 70-60. Burras finished the game with a career-high 24 points on 68 percent shooting from the field. Waltz clocked in four minutes last night.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Fan suggests voodoo to Self as solution
BY MIRANDA LENNING
mlenning@kansan.com
KANSAN SENIOR SPORTWRITER
"We just need to
Forget early morning practices and two-a-day workouts. Kansas coach Bill Self was presented with an idea for an entirely different approach to winning on Sunday, a more superstitious way of going about things.
"I got a voodoo doll yesterday," Self said. "Somebody who is from Louisiana and lives here in Lawrence thought I've probably tried everything else, so I might want to try that."
Since the Jayhawks went from number two in the country to a three-game losing skid, it's no wonder people are exhausting all options to help Kansas beat Oklahoma State on Sunday.
get our aggressiveness back and our confidence back,and you can do that through effort."
Heck, with the Big 12 Conference lead on the line, the Jayhawks can use all the help they can get.
Bill Self
But is Self confident that practicing voodoo is the way to go about beating the Cowboys this weekend?
Kansas men's basketball coach
"Uh, probably not," Sell laughed. So with that option on he stuck
terday, at 6 a.m. and 4 p.m. Today, they will do a walk-through and watch film of the Cowboys, who lost to the Cornhuskers on Tuesday night and dropped to 10-3 in the Big 12, tied with the Jayhawks for the conference lead.
“If we'd have played great last week, we might not have got up at five this morning, so that may have had a little bit to do with it,” Self said. “But we didn't do it just for the punishment.”
It had been a while since these players had risen before the crack of dawn for practice. But then again, they had never dropped three straight, either.
He said he thought it would be better for the team's energy level to practice twice in one day, as opposed to going five straight days.
As for Sunday's opponent getting knocked off by Nebraska, that breathed some life into the struggling Kansas team.
"We caught a break by them getting beat," Self said. "I wouldn't wish for other people to get beat, I wish we would take care of our own business, but certainly we didn't do that last week, so we caught a break last night."
The Cowboys' loss to the Cornhuskers makes it much easier for the Jayhawks to control their own destinies in the Big 12 race. With both teams sitting at 10-3 and a head-on matchup this weekend, Sunday's winner will be in good shape to win the conference. A Kansas victory would put it a game ahead of Oklahoma State with two games left on the schedule.
The Jayhawks practiced twice yes
deep." he said. "We just need to get our aggressiveness back and our confidence back, and you can do that through effort."
But sometime between now and Sunday, Kansas needs to regain its confidence and focus, elements that Self said his team lacked recently.
Self stressed that a good team couldn't become a bad one in three days. He said the Jayhawks were a good team that had just played poorly.
"I felt like the Iowa State game we just thought we'd win, and the Oklahoma game, we were so bad the first half, we dug ourselves a hole so
The Kansas players will be unavailable to the media until after the game on Sunday. Self said that decision came from the seniors, who decided it would help the team's focus to avoid all potential distractions.
"They thought that their focus hadn't been near as good as it has been before," Self said. "They were just going to get together and try to be as one as much as possible and not have any distractions. So they made a commitment not to do a couple of things, and just to focus on Oklahoma State and not do anything else."
It's likely that one thing Self won't be doing is practicing voodoo. But if anything, the doll, which came with a pin in it, gave the Kansas coach a good laugh.
"It was sent as a joke, and I thought it was a pretty good one," he said.
— Edited by John Scheirman
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