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THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MISSY MINEAR/KANSAN
Maria Jose Cardona, a junior from Santiago, Chile, winds up for a backhand return during her singles match March 2. In its last home match Wednesday, Kansas fell 5-2 to Tulsa.
Kansas rallies, falls 5-2 to Tulsa in final home match
JACOB CLEMEN
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Despite two late points, Kansas tennis lost 5-2 Wednesday after falling behind early in its final home game of the season.
Kansas was unable to gain footing early as No. 74 Tulsa took the first four points of the match, including a doubles point that saw the Hurricanes take courts one and two.
The Jayhawks' struggles continued into singles play as Tulsa dominated play early and picked up three points by winning on courts one, three and five. The 4-0 lead secured a win for the Golden Hurricanes, but Kansas battled in the final three matches.
"What I like going forward is that we didn't quit. We didn't roll over and quit," coach Todd Chapman said.
"We lost the doubles point and then lost the first six sets, and we could have easily faded away and not competed."
Freshman Lauren Pickens was unable to stay undefeated in her young career as she failed to pick up her second win in her second collegiate match with a 1-6, 6-2, 0-6 loss.
Freshman Summer Collins followed Hinton's win with a super tie-breaker victory of her own as she too had to rally from a first set loss, winning her second set 7-6 (7-5) in a back and forth affair.
Fellow freshman Smith Hinton battled back from a first set loss to win her second set 7-5 and force a super tie break, which she won 10-7. Hinton took a controlling 9-3 lead, but had to battle to secure the clinching point.
Collins and her opponent, Tulsa sophomore Yelena
Despite the loss, Chapman was optimistic for his team as it hits the road for an important slate of Big 12 matchups.
Nemchen, battled throughout the tiebreaker before Collins was able to seal the point 10-8.
"I think we're getting it a little bit. We've lost a lot of close matches," Chapman said. "The positive is ... we've been competitive in every match we've played with an extremely young lineup ... We've learned how to compete at a different level."
The Jayhawks, who dropped to 7-11 on the season will hit the road for four straight conference games before the Big 12 Championship on April 23, in Waco, Texas. They will kick off the road trip against Oklahoma State on Friday, April 10, in Stillwater.
- Edited by Laura Kubicki
Connecticut takes women's NCAA basketball tourney title
DOUG FEINBERG Associated Press
Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma holds part of the NCAA/WBCA Coaches' Trophy after the NCAA women's Final Four tournament championship game against Notre Dame on Tuesday in Tampa, Fla. Connecticut won 63-53.
JOHN RAOX/ASSOCIATED PRESS
TAMPA, Fla. — Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies will be the leading contenders to make another championship run next season. It would be an unprecedented 11th title that would eclipse John Wooden's UCLA Bruins and their 10 championships.
If they can pull it off, Breanna Stewart would accomplish her goal of winning four championships at UConn.
"I think it's really surreal and I haven't had a chance to even think about that," Stewart said after the Huskies defeated Notre Dame 63-53 on Tuesday night in the title game. "I've won three national championships, but said I wanted to win four, you can't win four without winning three first."
Stewart, the two-time AP Player of the Year, is one of four starters returning and they will be joined by another stellar incoming recruiting class. She earned most outstanding player of the Final Four for the third time, making her the first woman to achieve that. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the only men's player to do it when he played for the Wizard of Westwood.
"There just hasn't been a player like Stewie in the women's game in a long, long time," Auriemma said. "She might be two inches taller than Cheryl Miller and Cheryl Miller was one of best players I saw. ... Stewie's the kind of player that women's basketball probably hasn't seen."
Stewart had only eight
points in Tuesday night's win, but she got a big lift from her teammates. Moriah Jefferson scored 15 points and played stellar defense on Notre Dame's Jewell Lovd.
"She should have been the M.O.P.," said Stewart of her classmate Jefferson.
The Huskies do lose Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and Kiah Stokes to graduation. Mosqueda-Lewis also had 15 points and came up with big plays when the Huskies needed her most.
"I'm glad the two buckets that K' made down the stretch were kind of the difference in the game," Auriemma said. "That's the way
she's supposed to go out."
she's supposed to go out." Auriemma, 10-for-10 in national championship games, has won his titles over a 20-year span. Wooden won his 10 over 12 years.
"Obviously it's a very significant number because that's the number that's been out there and people want to talk about it. I'll be the first to say I don't John Wooden and I got a bunch of friends who tell you I'm right, I'm not," Auriemma said. "As I said the other day I just think what we've done here in the last 20 years is pretty remarkable in its own right."
"I'll let the people who write the history decide where I fit in."
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