WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26. 2003 SPORTS THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 5B Sooners need to have Hollis Price back to full strength The Associated Press NORMAN, Okla. — Without a healthy Hollis Price, the Oklahoma Sooners have little chance to make the Final Four. Just ask coach Kelvin Sampson. "We have to have Hollis," the coach said yesterday. "You can't lose a guy like Hollis and expect to be as good, especially when you're playing the teams you are now." The top player for the top seed in the East Regional has an injured left groin that limited him to 41 minutes in Oklahoma's first two NCAA tournament games. Price is getting treatment each day, and hopes to be close to full speed for Friday's game against 12th-seeded Butler in Albany, N.Y. Price, the Big 12 player of the year who averages 18.5 points, was hurt in the closing seconds of the conference tournament title game March 16. He scored in double figures in all but one game before the injury. But Price took just one shot, a 3-pointer that he made, in 11 minutes against South Carolina State in the first round of the NCAA tournament. He followed that with five points in 30 minutes against California. Price moved better against California than he had in the first game, but he struggled to move laterally on defense and was used mostly as a decoy on offense. "That's only going to take you so far." Sampson said. Price said his injury is getting better every day. "I don't think I will be 100 percent, but hopefully I'll be about 95," he said. "I don't think I will be 100 percent until after the season." Sampson said Price must be able to use his legs effectively to get his shots. A groin injury hampers that. The best cure is plenty of rest, but Oklahoma doesn't have that luxury. Price hasn't practiced since getting hurt, other than to shoot on his own and do some light running. Sampson said he would like to have Price back on the practice floor Wednesday. "Butler requires a lot of preparation because of their personnel, so we're hoping we get him to practice Wednesday and Thursday," he said. The coach said that in addition to preparing for Butler, Price needs the practice time to keep sharp. "Basketball is a game, if you don't use it, you lose it," he said. "I'm not talking about conditioning, I'm talking about skills." Point guard Quannas White said the Sooners gained confidence by playing well last weekend with Price limited and forward Kevin Bookout missing most of the first game with strep throat. He said Price will be important this weekend, even if the team's shooting guard isn't at his best. "If he's 85 percent, 75 percent, 100 percent, it doesn't matter," White said. "As long as he's on the court it's going to give our team tremendous confidence." Player 'biting nails' about making roster The Associated Press SURPRISE, Ariz. — Infielder Jarrod Patterson has endured 10 years in the minor leagues to play in 13 major league games. But after a successful spring, Patterson could make his way onto the Kansas City Royals' opening day roster. Patterson entered yesterday hitting .458 with two home runs and seven RBI in 15 spring exhibition games. "I'm biting my nails right now," Patterson said. "In my opinion, I've had one of the best spring trainings I could possibly have." In 912 minor league games, Patterson has a career average of .300 and has 101 home runs. "There's no question about it, the guy can hit," said Royals manager Tony Peña. "He has a chance just to be a left-handed hitter off the bench. He's been working very hard on his defense. He needs work at third base, but he's a bat." Said general manager Allard Baird. "We think he can hit major league pitching." While Patterson's bat is an asset, his glove might be a liability. He is competing with Mendy Lopez, who is better defensively and can play all the infield positions plus the outfield, and Brandon Berger, who is a right-handed hitting outfielder, for the final roster spot for a position player. K-State out of NCAA tourney The Associated Press MANHATTAN, Kan. — Notre Dame pulled off another NCAA tournament upset on another opponent's home court. La Tania Severe scored 17 points and 11th-seeded Notre Dame made six straight free throws in the final 1:01 to beat No.3 seed Kansas State 59-53 last night in the second round of the East Regional. Notre Dame (21-10) frustrated a team that had been averaging 75 points a game with an active zone defense and patient offense and advanced to the Sweet 16 for the fifth time in seven years. The Irish will play second-seeded Purdue in the regional semifinals Sunday in Dayton, Ohio. Even with its potent offense, Kansas State (29-5) couldn't recover after going 12:44 without a field goal and had a 22-game home winning streak broken. Notre Dame took advantage of the Wildcats' struggles to open a 45-38 lead on Megan Duffy's 3-pointer with 7:45 left, just enough of a cushion to hold on down the stretch. Duffy, who had been 5-for-30 from behind the arc coming in, had put Notre Dame ahead to stay at 35-32 with a 3-pointer and made four of the late free throws. Her reward will be a trip to her hometown for the next round. Kansas State, cheered on by a purple-clad crowd of 11,534 managed a late run, but Notre Dame kept making free throws every time the Wildcats got to within two points. Nicole Ohlde's layup with 28.2 seconds remaining left K-State trailing 55-53, but Duffy made two free throws to take the lead back to four. Kansas State's last hopes ended when Chelsea Domenico missed a 3-point shot and Jacqueline Batteat rebounded for Notre Dame. Severe then made two final throws. Courtney LaVere added 14 points for Notre Dame, Alicia Ratay scored 12 and Duffy 10. Laurie Koehn hit seven 3-pointers and led Kansas State with 23 points. Ohlde scored 15. Notre Dame, the 2001 national champion, had pulled off upsets on the home courts of higher seeded teams in 1997 and 1998. Thanks to their defense, the Irish did it again. Kansas State recovered from a miserable start to take a 31-26 lead on Koehn's 3-pointer with 1:40 left in the first half. But the Wildcats did not make another basket until Koehn hit a three with 8:56 left in the game. By that time, Notre Dame had built a 40-32 lead. Kansas State missed its first 11 shots of the second half and committed six turnovers in that stretch. The Wildcats shot 25 percent in the second half and 33.3 percent for the game. 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