MONDAY,FEB.11,2002
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Tightlipped Knight keeps his lid on
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Texas Tech coach Bobby Knight expresses himself to an official. Knight remained relatively calm for most of Saturday afternoon's game, in which his team fell to the Jayhawks 108-81.
By Brent Wasko Kansan sportswriter
Texas Tech coach Bobby Knight didn't seem like he wanted to be at Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday.
The infamous coach waited in the locker room during the singing of the "National Anthem" and the "Alma Mater." Cameras flashed as Knight made his first appearance of the afternoon — at the last possible minute before team introductions. He posed with Kansas coach Roy Williams near center court and went about his business, watching the Red Raiders lose to the Ivahawks, 108-81.
After the game, Knight took almost 30 minutes to come out of the visitor's locker room into a cramped hallway to talk with the media. So many reporters tried to gain access to Knight that few could see or hear him.
Kansas City Star columnist Jason Whitlock asked Knight if he would move to a more spacious location away from his team'socker room.
"I'm not much to look at anyway," Knight said. "Let's just do it here."
After one question was asked, another reporter requested that Knight move
"If I asked you to go outside, you'd print it and make a big deal out of it," he said.
into the room next door. Knight again refused.
Knight answered just a few more questions and got out of town. His players weren't allowed to talk to reporters.
Even though he wasn't too excited about answering questions after the game, Knight's few comments were all complimentary toward Kansas.
"I think we got beat by a much better team," he said. What they have in this队 is that they are relentless.
"They just keep playing, and playing and playing. I don't think other teams understand this. They are really fun to watch."
Knight said his team couldn't keep up with the high-tempo jayhawk offense.
"I think we worked hard, " he said. "It was a 40-minute factor, and the intensity that we played with just wore down."
Despite the loss, Knight, for the most part, remained subdued throughout the contest. For majority of the first half, he sat in his chair, showing anger only with facial expressions and hand gestures.
In the second half, Knight
With 10:53 remaining, he got in a referee's face and yelled at him about an offensive goaltending call on Red Raider forward Pawel Storoznyski.
was a little more fired up.
The sold-out crowd reacted loudly to Knight coming off the bench, but no technical foul was called on the coach.
Notes:
Former Jayhawk center Scot Pollard, who plays in the NBA for the Sacramento Kings, attended Saturday's game.
He watched the contest from behind the Jayhawk bench with his wife, Mindy, and daughter, Lolly.
"I love coming back during the NBA All-Star break," he said. "It's a lot more exciting basketball on this level than it is on my level."
Pollard, who played for the layhawks from 1994-1997,said he had been keeping up with the Kansas team this season.
"My schedule and their schedule are more compatible this season," Pollard said. "Actually, I'm hoping the team makes it to the Final Four because we're playing the Atlanta Hawks that same weekend, so I'll be there anyway. Hopefully, coach will give me good tickets."
PGA golfer Matt Gogel has made quite a name for himself since graduating from Kansas.
Gogel, who played for the Jayhawks from 1991-94, became the first Kansas alumnus to record a PGA Tour win, claiming the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on Jan. 31.
He was presented with an autographed basketball during the first half of Saturday's game in recognition of his recent accomplishments.
"I'll have the basketball in my trophy case now right next to the award I got at Pebble Beach." Gogel said. "It's a real honor."
Don Pierce, former Kansas football player and sports publicist, was inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame at halftime of Saturday's game.
His widow, Vivian, daughter, Ann, sons Wayne and Bobby, and granddaughter, Terri-Hazelwood, were given a standing ovation during the ceremony.
Pierce died in an auto accident on New Year's Eve of 1964. He was 45. He handled media duties from 1945-1964.
Women's fight for lead lost in game's last half
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By Ryan Wood
Kansan sportswriter
COLUMBIA, Mo. — For Blair Waltz, Saturday's game against Missouri was bittersweet.
the freshman forward was reunited on the court with two of her former high school teammates, Tracy Lozier and Wannette Smith, in Missouri's 69-57 victory over Kansas at the Hearnes Center.
"It was fun," Waltz said. "It brought back a lot of old memories."
The three led Blue Valley North high school to a Kansas 6A state championship in 1998, while Lozier and Waltz won another title in 2000.
"It's especially good to beat her," said Lozier, who scored 11 points. "She's a great player."
Waltz had seven points and four rebounds in 33 minutes of play. But it was Missouri's Lozier and Smith who left the Hearnes Center with bragging rights for the season.
Notes:
The announced attendance Saturday was 10,321, a Missouri women's basketball record. The previous mark was 10,126, set last
year when the Jayhawks were in town.
"This young club has been playing in front of a lot of people," coach Marian Washington said. "Missouri-KU has always had a tremendous tradition."
The first half of Saturday's Border War featured 10 lead changes. Lozier's 3-point bucket with 1:45 to go in the first half gave Missouri the lead for good, and propelled the Tigers to their fifth straight victory over the Jayhawks.
The Jayhawks still hold an advantage in the all-time series, 33-28.
The Jayhawk's offensive attack, often spread out as it was Saturday, saw three players scoring in double figures.
Seniors K.C. Hilgenkamp, guard, and Nikki White, center, each had 12 points, while senior guard Selena Scott had 10 on 5-8 shooting.
The game marked the 10th time this season that three or more Jayhawks reached double figures in points.
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tied her career-high with 24 points.
"They crashed the offensive boards really hard," Washington said.
"Overall, we played real good
defense and then they'd come in on us to get a second shot. Those are the things that we have to fix, and I think they can be fixed."
"They're a very solid team and they're going to knock someone off."
White and senior KC Hilgenkamp shared top scoring hon
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ors for the Jayhawks with 12 points apiece.
Scott added 10.
Though Kansas is still winless in the Big 12, Stein said the Jayhawks are no pushovers.
"They're a very solid team and they're going to knock someone off." she said.
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41-6. The women's 4 X 400 relay of Hann,
sophomore Stacy Keller, junior Shanetta
March and freshman Kim Clark, ran 3:42.81,
and sophomore Leo Bookman set the new
200 mark at 21.57.
For coach Stanley Redwine, Russell's success was expected.
"When I think about a great competitor, that's Scott," Redwine said. "When you're talking about setting an example for success, we have someone like that."
"What he does for the team,he brings about huge expectations,and that's what we need."
Last week, Russell had an even better mark
Last week, Russell had an even better mark — a toss of 80-4 1/4 — but it didn't count for record purposes because a broken chain link elongated the weight two millimeters over the allowed length.
Russell, who won the event in Ames by more than 10 feet, said he learned at last year's world outdoor championships how to ignore what his competitors were doing.
At that meet, the philosophy kept him from being intimidated by older, more experienced competitors. He's now intimidating them.
"I really can't control what the others are doing," Russell said. "I just try to focus on what I need to do technically to throw well."
Bookman, who also plays football for the Jayhawks, said the transition from the field to the track had improved from last year, but he would still work out more to improve the finish of his race.
"When I think about a great competitor,that's Scott...What he does for the team,he brings about huge expectations,and that's just used."
Stanley Redwine Track coach
Track coach
He also wants to improve some other aspects, such as getting out of the blocks. A false start disqualification in a meet earlier in the season is still causing him to be hesitant at the start.
Plus, he said, it was difficult for a bigger runner to navigate the tight turns of an indoor track, which was something he was still learning to do.
"I've got a lot faster times in me, I can tell," Bookman said. "I'm running better earlier this year."
Redwine competed and coached at Arkansas, the country's best program. He said raising the level of expectation at Kansas had been one of the biggest factors in the team's continued improvement.
"One of the things I did learn at Arkansas was that you have to work harder to stay there than you do to get there," he said. "We have a test every week, and until we're winning every event and breaking NCAA records and things like that, we're doing average on our tests."
Contact Norton at mnorton@kansan.com. This story was edited by Cassio Furtado.
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