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Jesse Newell
jnewell@kansan.com
Coach should listen to self enjoy the ride
Roy Williams has become more vocal as of late.
After Kansas defeated Missouri on Monday night, the Kansas basketball coach had some pretty harsh criticism for certain members of his team.
"Kirk Hinrich, Nick Collison, Michael Lee ... I ain't saying anything positive about anybody else," Williams said, "and I'm not saying anything positive about the coach, either."
Whoa, Easy, coach.
This comes after you defeated the 21st-ranked team in the country,after you won one of the biggest rivalries in the country on national television after your team stepped up and made the plays necessary to win a tough game.
Indeed, Williams has been more emotional on the sideline this year. He has screamed and stomped and been critical of officials, his team but mostly himself.
Fans can just hope he can remember his own advice.
Enjoy the journey.
This was the theme of last year's team, but it seems little of that mind set remains. In fact, it seems the coach is enjoying little right now.
"I'm not so sure they didn't outplay us," Williams said after the Missouri game. "We had breakdowns offensively, defensively, guys not going where they were supposed to go. I feel like I'm the luckiest guy in the world right now."
You should, Roy, but not because you won the Mizzou game.
You should feel lucky to have a team with two potential All-Americans in Kirk Hinrich and Nick Collison. You should feel lucky to have a team sitting atop the Big 12 conference, with the potential to stage another run to the Final Four in March. You should feel lucky to coach in a building filled with tradition in a town which you are adored.
But, most of all, you should feel lucky to have the opportunity to enjoy this journey with your players.
If you listen to no one else, listen to yourself.
"The biggest thing now is I want the team to enjoy what they've already accomplished and enjoy the journey as we go along." Williams said before the NCAA Tournament last year. "It sounds pretty corn."
No, coach. Actually, that doesn't sound corny at all.
Newell is an Emporia freshman in journalism.
March Madness begins for Aggies; team hopeful for postseason play
By Dallas Ship The Battalion via U-wire Texas ARM University
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Forget March Madness. It's barely February, and the Texas A&M men's basketball team and its fans are talking about the possibility of the Aggies making the National Invitation Tournament. Some of the more optimistic are even discussing the possibility of getting a bid — dare it be said — to the NCAA tournament.
The 1986-1987 season was A&M's most recent trip to the NCAA tournament.
Melvin Watkins, Texas A&M coach, and his staff have assembled a team this year that is nothing short of spectacular, considering the state of the program when Watkins arrived four years ago.
Watkins may have been treading water in his first four seasons, but this year he could be on to
something. Watkins has recruited players from around the nation and even the world to bring in fresh, new talent to play in a state and at a school that revolves around football. That new talent has given the Aggies a chance to do something they haven't done in a long time win.
The biggest recent recruit, freshman forward Antoine Wright, has lifted much of the burden off the shoulders of senior guard Bernard King, who in his first three years at A&M single-handedly carried the load for the Aggies.
man of the Week this week for the third time this season, has turned in six double-doubles as a freshman and is among the top five in the conference in defensive rebounds and 3-pointers.
Wright, who was named Big 12 Fresh-
Even Watkins admits that he has discussed the possibility of the postseason with his team, something he hasn't been able to do with any of his previous A&M squads.
["Postseason] is something we talk about, but we don't consume ourselves with it," Watkins said. "That's when you lose focus on what you have to get done."
The Aggies are focused, and they know what they have to get done.
It may not be March Madness yet, but there is a February Frenzy in College Station, and for the first time in a long time, people aren't ready to talk about Aggie baseball just yet.
KANSAS BASEBALL Ryan Baty named baseball's national hitter of the week
Kansas left fielder Rvan Baty was named NCAA baseball's national hitter of the week by the National Collegiate Baseball Writer's Association for the period ending Feb.2.
The junior batted.619 (13-for-21) in Kansas' season-opening series at the University of Hawai'i-Hilo.
While in Hawaii, Baty collected base hits in seven-straight at-bats. In the series, Baty led the Jayhawks in hits, runs, doubles, home runs, RBI, walks and hitting percentage. Baty was one of two Kansas players who collected base hits in all six games, and the only Jayhawk to collect a pair of three-hit games.
Baty's biggest hit of the series came in the first game of the series, as his two run home run to left-center in the seventh inning erased a 6-4 Kansas deficit and pushed the game to extra innings. Kansas eventually lost the contest 8-7 in the bottom of the ninth.
KANSAS BASKETBALL
Nick Collison receives Big 12 Player of the Week
Kansas forward Nick Collison was chosen as the Big 12 Player of the Week for his efforts in leading Kansas to a 2-0
record last week.
Collison ranked second on the team in scoring last week with 19.0 points per game, and he led Kansas with 16 rebounds per contest. He shot 87.5 percent from the foul line in Kansas' victories over Texas and Nebraska.
The Iowa Falls, Iowa senior scored 24 points and grabbed a career-high and Big 12-record 23 rebounds against Texas. It was the most rebounds by a Jayhawk since 1970. He also surpassed Colorado's Jamahl Mosely's 22 rebounds against Missouri on Jan. 10, 2001.
Collison now leads Kansas in scoring with 19.1 points per game and rebounding with nine rebounds per game. He is ranked fifth on Kansas' alltime scoring list, fourth on the all-time rebounds list and fourth on the all-time blocks list.
This makes the fourth time that Collison has earned the conference player of the week honor. He is tied with former Jayhawks Drew Gooden and Raef LaFrentz and Texas Tech's Cory Carr for second most times honored. Iowa State's Marcus Fizer leads all players with being named player of the week six times.
Collison, Hinrich named to Wooden top candidates list Nick Collison senior forward and
Kirk Hinrich, senior guard, have been named to the John R. Wooden Midseason Top 30 Candidates list. The Wooden award, presented by the Los Angeles Athletic Club, goes to the best men's college basketball player in the nation.
Collison is averaging 19.2 points and 8.9 rebounds per game. He also had 23 rebounds — his career-high — against third-ranked Texas on Jan. 27.
Hinrich is averaging 17.6 points a game and has 74 assists and 40 steals on the season.
In 17 of 21 games this year, either Hinrich or Collison has led the Jayhawks in scoring.
The list will be trimmed from 30 to about 15 later in the season; players can still be added to the list before the committee releases the official ballot in early March. Personal statistics, team record and progress towards graduation are the criteria for the award. The athletic club will honor the winner on April 15.
Other Big 12 players on the list are: Andre Emmett, Texas Tech guard, T.J. Ford, Texas guard, and Hollis Price, Oklahoma guard.
Kansas and Arizona are the only schools with more than one player; Jason Gardner and Luke Walton represent Arizona. Walton was last year's Wooden recipient.
Kansan staff reports
kansan.com How many Big 12 Conference games
WEDNESDAY,FEBRUARY 5,2003
POLL
How many Big 12
will the women's basketball team win this season?
They will not win anymore. They will stop at two conference victories.
They will win three to five games.
They will win six to eight games.
They will win six to eight games.
They will win nine or 10.
TODAY
Kansas Athletics Calendar
Women's basketball at Colorado, 8 p.m. in Boulder, Colo.
FRIDAY
Track Illini Track Invitational, Champaign, IL.
They will win nine or 10.
Logon to www.hansan.com to cast your vote.
Baseball at Arkansas-Little Rock,
3 n m in little Rock, Ark
Softball vs. Mississippi at the Triple Crown/UCF Tournament hosted by Central Florida, 9:15 a.m. in St. Augustine, Fla.
Softball vs. Bethune-Cookman at the Triple Crown Sports/UCF Tournament hosted by Central Florida, 11:45 a.m. in St. Augustine, Fla.
SATURDAY
Women's basketball at Texas, 1 p.m. in Austin, Texas
men's basketball at Kansas State,
12:45 p.m. in Manhattan
Track, Illini Track Invitational, Champaign, IL.
Swimming vs. Iowa State, 2 p.m. in Robinson Natorium
p.m. in Little Rock, Ark.
Softball vs. Purdue at the Triple Crown Sports/UCF Tournament hosted by Central Florida, 11:15 a.m. in St. Augustine, Fla.
Softball vs. TBA at the Triple Crown Sports/UCF Tournament hosted by Central Florida, time TBA, St. Augustine, Fla.
Baseball at Arkansas-Little Rock, 1
p.m. in Little Rock. Ark.
bad haircut
Baseball at Arkansas-Little Rock,
1.n.m in Little Rock, Ark.
SUNDAY
Softball vs. TBA at the Triple Crown Sports/UCF Tournament hosted by Central Florida, TBA, St. Augustine, Fla.
I have a problem with the seating system in Allen Fieldhouse. Why do they sell so many student tickets if they can't possibly seat that many students? I'm forced to leave the Mizzou game because I couldn't find a seat. Mizzou sucks, and Ricky Clemons beats his mom.
Free forAll
I'm at the Mizzou game and there's some guy out here in a tent speaking jibber-jabber into a microphone and there ain't nobody understand what he's saying.
bad haircut
That guy Clemons who plays for Mizzou, he's part of the Slap-a-ho tribe and I was just wondering how he'd feel getting slapped by a ho.
KU may have lost to Colorado, and Missouri may have beaten Colorado, but KU doesn't have girlfriend-beaters on their team, and KU doesn't have a coach who got a really
bad haircut
Ricky Clemons is a girlfriend-beater. I was wondering how he'd feel to get his ass kicked by a girl, because I know I'd like to kick his ass.
Miles has got the Zoolander disease,
because he can't turn left.
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The Hearnes Center is like a big box, a big ugly box with no wheels and lots of clowns. Nobody likes clowns.
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In preparation for every KU game, I do a sign of the cross over all my KU memorabilia, and then I pray to St Mary, and then I realize ... I'm not Catholic.
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If my friends and I smoked weed, had STDs but could still play a little bit of basketball, would you worship us too?
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Did anyone realize it took Mizzou two minutes to get on the board? God they suck.
Is it just me or does anyone else think that Quinny Snyder would make an amazing mime?
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When Jeff Graves knocked that ref over, did the ref think he was on fire? Because I saw some stop, drop and roll action.
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Bryant Nash flies through the air with the greatest of ease, while Langford looks on thinking, I wanted that shot.
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I'm at the MU game and Jonathan Ng is sitting next to a Mizzou fan. All I want to say is Muck Fizzou, and Muck Jonathan Ng.
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