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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
SPORTS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2003
STUDY ABROAD
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Adding to the intrigue of this Sunflower Showdown is the fact both teams are stocked with instate talent.
Reigning Big 12 Conference Player of the Week, Nicole Ohide, hails from Clay Center while the conference's leading scorer, Kendra Wecker, is a native of Marysville.
The pair are also the leading rebounds for the Wildcats.
Another top player. Mound Ridge native Laurie Kochn, has missed the last seven games with an injury.
The Jayhawks are led in scor
ing by Topea freshman, Crystal Kemp, at 10.9 points per game, Blair Waltz, Leawood sophomore, is fifth on the team at 7.5 points a game and Stacey Becker, McPherson sophomore, will try to build off a 12 point performance in Saturday's loss to Baylor.
"I love playing Kansas State," Becker said. "I have been playing against those girls all of my life, ever since seventh grade. Playing against them makes us have to step up our game a lot more."
Becker said facing the Wildcats was a motivational factor.
Kansas coach Marian Washington acknowledged the challenge Kansas State poses to her
team, but sees an opportunity for the lav hawks.
"I am really looking forward to the game and so are the players," Washington said. "We will have a good game plan going in. We will have to stay very focused, and hopefully put ourselves into a situation where it will be a decent game."
The Wildeats want to play before a big crowd against the jayhawks.
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K-State passed last year's home attendance record and it wants to break the 150,000 mark for this season. They need 7,916 people to attend on Wednesday to make their goal.
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preparing for a team that plays with a physical style can be a difficult task.
"You have to have a different mind-set," Collison said. "You can't always do the textbook box-out and go get the ball. It's not that easy. A lot of times you have to really nail somebody.
sometimes had to resort to physical play as dictated by the opponent. But he said he didn't want the Big 12 to become identified by physical play.
owed by rough play.
Williams said that his team
"I don't think we've ever gotten to a—just a push and show kind of hold people beat on people. I don't think we've ever gotten to that stage in this league and I hope we don't." Williams said.
"And I hope that the referees throughout the entire country will continue to emphasize basketball skills as opposed to the weight room," Williams said. "It's always been a physical league, but I don't think we've gone overboard at all and I don't think we're any more physical this year than we have been in the past."
Williams also said it was the referees' job to make sure the game does not get oversad-
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Samuelson
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warm-ups
Enter Jayhawk Tamara Ransburg.
The 6-foot-4 freshman, isn't Kansas' top scorer.
Topeka freshman Crystal Kemp has that honor, as her 10.9 points per game is a sliver more than Ransburg's 10.8 points per game.
But the athletic Ransburg, who hails from Kansas City, Mo., is ready to become a premier player in the Big 12 Conference, if not the country.
"When you look at her, and see how she is coming along, you know it will be a lot of fun to see her out on the court for the next three years," said
Kansas coach Marian Washington.
One doesn't have to look far to see how Ransburg's game has evolved.
Despite Kansas suffering its 10th loss in 13 conference attempts Saturday against Baylor, Ransburg scored a career-high 25 points.
Ransburg, who is Kansas' leading rebounder, was one rebound short of recording her third straight double-double against the Bears.
Lately, Ransburg seems to be a shadow of the player that spent far too much time early in the season on the bench in foul trouble.
"Tay's only going to get better," Washington said Saturday. "She's a lot smarter with shots that she goes after. She likes to be
aggressive, but I think she's smarter."
Even if Ransburg's numbers don't accumulate tonight like they did the last time she faced the Wildcats.
She tallied 13 points, 10 rebounds and had a solid effort against K-State's Ohide and Wecker in Kansas' 88-49 Big 12 opening-loss at Allen Fieldhouse in January. Ransburg has hardly begun her run at possible Big 12 reign.
"I love to play against them," Ransburg said of facing the Wildcats. "Their team makes me play better."
If that's the case, the best player on the court tonight might just be wearing crimson and blue.
Samuelson is a Wichita senior in journalism.
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