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9B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2005
SPORTS
GOLF
Men's team sets records in Hawaii
BY TIM HALL
hall@kansan.com
KANAN SPORTWRITER
The Kansas men's golf team finished play at the Taylor Made/Waikoloa Intercollegiate Golf Tournament Friday in Hilo, Hawaii, where it tied for 11th place.
Despite a second-round slump, the Jayhawks were still able to finish strong and rewrite the Kansas golf record books as the team fired the lowest tournament score in Kansas history.
"I thought that we played real
well as a team although we had a poor second round," coach Ross. Randall said. "Even though everyone was shooting real good scores, you still have to make good shots and make good putts, and we did that."
The Jayhawks finished the tournament 31 under par as a team, making 56 birdies and four eagles.
"I had never heard of anything like it in all my years of coaching golf." Randall said. "It was almost like everyone was playing pitch-n-putt out there."
Oklahoma State took full advantage of the 6,800 yard golf course. They led in all three rounds and took home the championship. Oklahoma State won the tournament by seven strokes, posting a team score of 801 - 63 under par.
Kansas posted a third round score of 274, which was 13 strokes better than the team score of 287 that the Jayhawks fired in the second round. Sophomore Tyler Docking, shot a final round 72 and a three-round total 206 to finish the tour. Senior Kevin Ward shot a
final round five under 67 and a three round total of 206 as well.
The strong finish by the Jayhawks can be credited to senior golfer Andrew Price, who achieved a third round score of 63, which was not only his career-low score, but also tied the lowest score in Kansas history. Price's round of nine under stands alone as the lowest round-to-par in Kansas' history.
Ryan Vermeer is the only other golfer in Kansas history to shoot a 63 in tournament play. Vermeer shot an eight under par round of 63 in the Western Intercollegiate
as the Pasatiempo Golf Club in Santa Cruz, Calif., in 2000.
Price bounced back from a second round score of 75 to shoot the low round of the tournament and finish in a tie for 24th. His scorecard was without a blemish as he carded nine birds and nine pars. The second round 75 did not have any mental effect on Price, as he was able to rely on his swing in the final round.
"I had a pretty bad second round, but I felt really good practicing that afternoon and the next morning before the start of the third round." Price said. "I just
had to get my alignment squared. I knew it wasn't going to be a problem and I knew I was going to go low in the final round because I just felt really good."
Junior Pete Krenski shot a three round total of 217 and sophomore Gary Woodland carded a three round total of 219 to round out the Jayhawks.
Kansas set another school record as well. The first round team score of 16 under par was the lowest single round in Kansas tournament-play history.
Edited by Jennifer Voldness
BIG 12
Lagging Longhorns
Big 12 Conference teams fall behind; Kansas on track
BY DOUG TUCKER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If the Big 12's going to cash a bigger NCAA tournament check than it did last year, Texas had better get its short-handed act together in a hurry.
Or maybe Iowa State — yes, Iowa State — will ride to the rescue. The streaking Cyclones, once given up for dead, are turning into one of the Big 12's most intriguing stories.
The good old days for the Big 12, not so long ago, saw six teams get into the NCAA tourney and swell conference coffers with all that tournament money. Then last year only four teams made it. Now, with Texas lacking healthy players, that could happen again.
With only a couple of weeks to go in the regular season, No. 3 Kansas (20-1, 10-0 Big 12) is angling for a No. 1 seed as well as an unbeaten conference season. No. 10 Oklahoma State (19-3, 9-2), is also certain to be right there.
Beyond that, things get murky. No. 25 Texas Tech (15-6, 7-3) and No. 16 Oklahoma (17-6, 6-4) each sustained hurtful losses on Saturday. But they have the players, the well known coaches and probably the records that are good enough to qualify unless the bottom drops out between now and Selection Sunday on March 13.
The problem for the Big 12 could be Texas (16-7, 5-5). The Longhorns could be in trouble even though they won a game they absolutely had to have on Saturday, getting 14 points in overtime from Daniel Gibson to put away Kansas State 75-72.
Only once since the Big 12 was formed in 1996 have the Longhorns failed to make the NCAA tournament. But they can't afford to falter any more during the regular season. Gibson and his teammates have six games left and will need to go at least 3-3 to be in decent position going into the Big 12 tournament in Kansas City.
Road games are Baylor, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State. Left at
home are Texas A&M, Oklahoma and Missouri. Baylor seems like a winnable road game, and Missouri hasn't won on anyone's floor but its own all year.
Oklahoma and Texas Tech, in the meantime, did themselves no favors Saturday with losses on the road. The Sooners blew a big lead and lost in overtime 68-65 to Missouri (11-13, 3-8), which had lost eight of nine.
Texas Tech became the latest victim in the resurrection of Iowa State. The Cyclones (13-8, 5-5) came up with one of their best efforts of the season with an 81-68 victory over the Red Raiders, who had won seven of eight.
Iowa State lost six straight and everyone wondered if they would go winless through the conference schedule. Now they've won five straight.
No one is thinking they might catch up with Kansas, but the Cyclones are making at least a modest little move. Still to go are three winnieable home games — against Kansas State, Nebraska and Missouri.
No date needed, we love our Self
A KU fan extends a Valentine's Day invitation to Kansas coach Bill Self. Self and the Jayhawks already have a date with the Texas Tech Red Raiders in Lubbock, Texas, at 8 tonight.
Rylan Howe/KANSAN
THE STORY OF OUR (UN)LUCKY WINNER, BRIAN:
So why do I have the worst love life on campus? Let's start with counting up how many dates I've been on during college: three. And one of those was a concert sophomore year that my date probably didn't know was a date. Now if I were a sophomore or junior, that wouldn't be so bad. But I'm a fifth year senior. I've been here for four and a half years. That means I'm averaging a date every 18 months while I've been at college. Let's just ignore the fact that there haven't been any second dates and move on.
Sure, my dating life is poor, but do I get random hookups at parties? Wrong. Despite the fact that I live in a party house, I have yet to master the skill of picking up a girl at a party. Sadly, throwing a party requires a certain level of sobriety that impedes drunken flirting. So while everybody else hooks up, I get to clean up beer cans and plastic cups.
for a few months. I've been single this entire millennium.
With all this woe, you might be wondering when my last meaningful relationship was. It was the fall of 1999, during my senior year of high school. It only lasted about two months before she dumped me for my friend who was attending Texas A&M. Some people might get depressed being single for four years, but here single this entire millennium
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