THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012
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BALLERS AT THE REC
Freshmen Naadir Tharpe, Ben McLemore and Jamari Traylor relax after playing basketball at the Ambler Student Recreation Center on Wednesday night. McLemore and Traylor are both members of the basketball team, but the NCAA deemed them ineligible for the 2011-12 season because some of their high school credits didn't transfer.
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RECRUITING
Track and field team signs seven recruits
The Kansas track and field team will be adding a group of seven talented athletes—two men, five women—to the 2012 recruiting class, said coach Stanley Redwine. Three of the women
are coming from Missouri, including standout spinner Tiana Valentine from St. Louis. Two distance runners, Jasmine Edwards from
Kearney, Mo. and
Redwine
Hannah Richardson of Kirkwood, Mo., will also join the Kansas program next season.
Another welcome addition to the team is middle-distance runner Rhaavean King from Memphis, Tenn. With three senior athletes graduating this year, there is certainly room for King to thrive during her first year on the team. She is Tennessee's defending state champion in the 800-meter race, and she has the fastest time in the state in the 400-meter race this year.
Lawrence native Lynn Robinson, a senior at Free State High School, will also run track and cross country for Kansas next season. Robinson was an all-state and all-regional selection in 2011, and she ran her personal best time in the 1,600-meter race at the Kansas Relays last April.
Only two men signed on for next year's men's team, but both athletes have been very successful on the track thus far. Drew Matthews is a middle-distance runner from Sammamish, Wash., where he ran the second-fastest 400-meter time in the state last year. The other athlete who signed is Ty Williams from Telluride, Colo., who is the 2011 Gatorade Colorado Boys Cross Country Athlete of the Year.
— Max Goodwin
BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12
thing about Drew is that he knows how to pitch the right way"
Morovick pitches against a Lipscomb team that finished 10th in the Atlantic Sun Conference last year, with a 19-36 record. Lipscomb's pitchers had an ERA of 4.90 in 2011, so Morovick should expect some run support in his first Kansas appearance.
Junior right-hander Thomas Taylor is the only Kansas starter in the Music City Classic with previous starting experience. Taylor made eight starts in 2011 with a 5-3 record and 4.74 ERA. Taylor is set to go against Belmont in Saturday's second game, but he will be Kansas' Sunday starter this season. Taylor brings the starting experience that will help Kansas close off weekend sets.
"I'm really excited about our weekend guys," catcher James Stanfield said. "Two of them haven't been weekend guys before; Thomas is the most experienced one of them all."
BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12
Edited by Amanda Gage
Junior center Jeff Withey, who won the national player of the week award on Tuesday, will be a primary reason if the Jayhawks challenge the Tigers for a conference title or falter in the final five-game stretch.
"When I'm playing at my best," Withey said. "Our team is unstoppable."
In the three games that followed his scoreless outing at Missouri on Jan. 4, Withey has averaged 20.3 points per game. His shot blocking and altering has terrorized opposing offenses. According to statsheet.com, Withey is third in the nation with a block percentage of 15.01.
"I love playing defense," Withey said. "I feel like it's a lost art."
Withey said that he can't forget about Texas Tech or Texas A&M just yet, but he also admitted that the rematch with Missouri on February 25 lingers in his mind.
"We definitely can win this league," Withey said. "Five more games, and then it's ours if we go to work and do what we're supposed to do. We can beat up Missouri."
Edited by Nadia Imafidon
Team Record Pct. Home Away Streak
Missouri 11-2 .846 7-0 4-2 W6
Kansas 11-2 .846 6-0 5-2 W3
Baylor 9-4 .692 4-2 5-2 W1
Iowa State 8-5 .615 5-1 3-4 L1
Texas 7-6 .538 5-2 2-4 W4
Kansas State 6-7 .462 4-3 2-4 L2
Oklahoma State 5-8 .385 4-2 1-6 L2
Texas A&M 4-9 .308 3-3 1-6 W1
Oklahoma 3-10 .231 2-5 1-5 L5
Texas Tech 1-12 .077 1-6 0-6 L1
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