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Junior guard Kirk Hinrich battles Oregon sophomore guard Luke Ridnour for a loose ball in the second half of Sunday's game.
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awards. The junior forward has received so many he has lost track of all the honors.
Kansas' First Team All-America, Big 12 Conference Player of the Year, USBWA First Team All-
America, USBWA District VI Player of the Year and NABC First Team All-America found out yesterday he was named Basketball America's Player of the Year.
"For real?" he said. "I guess that's an honor. It's one of my goals to get some of those player
of the year awards and I knew I could only do that if we won games. I'll have to thank my teammates and coach Williams for this."
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"Ever since I signed on the dotted line, my goal has been to win the NCAA Tournament," he said. "I try to just stay focused on that. I try not to get caught up in all the craziness. We really haven't done that in my eyes. That's when you lose track of your goals and end up losing."
The Kansas players have never been to the Final Four, but Roy Williams has been there twice as the Jayhawks' coach — in 1991 and 1993. Collison said that Williams' previous experience dealing with the Final Four hype would be beneficial to the team.
"He will do a good job of making sure that when it's time to work on basketball, we'll work on basketball and not worry about anything else," Collison said. "The second we don't, we'll be on the end line running sprints."
Williams said that the more attention his team received, the more pressure it might feel to win. He said the 1990 Jayhawk team fell victim to that pressure in the NCAA Tournament after qualifying as a No.1 seed.
"I thought that those kids cared so much and worried so much about what people were thinking, the pressure did get to them." Williams said. "But this
"I try not to get caught up in all the craziness."
Aaron Miles Kansas freshman guard
group here, I'll tell you, they are a lot more relaxed. Things don't frustrate them very often during games. We'll have some bad possessions or some bad minutes, but over the course of 40 minutes, they are able to hold their focus pretty well."
Contact Wasko at bwasko@kansan.com. This story was edited by Sarah Smarsh.
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