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THE UNIVERSITY OF JARY KANSAN
TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2009
SPORTS
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"In watching the selection show there's obvious disappointment that we're not up on the board. But there's excitement that we still get to play in the WNIT. We have an opportunity to use how we played down the stretch to get in this tournament and win it."
Coach Bonnie Henrickson
FACT OF THE DAY
Kansas is 11-5 all-time against Creighton in Allen Fieldhouse. The last time the Jayhawks lost to the Jays at home was on Dec. 14, 2002.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
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Q: What happened when women's basketball played Creighton earlier this season?
A: On Dec. 13, the Jayhawks went to Omaha, Neb., and won 59-58 in overtime. Creighton's Chevelle Herring scored 31 points while Danielle McCray led Kansas with 16 points.
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The Give and Go:
Jayson Jenks and Josh Bowe react to Kansas' second-round WNIT match-up against Creighton.
Courtside: Everything you could ever want to know about Kansas' WNIT game will be on the Courtside Blog, the premiere women's basketball blog in the greater Lawrence area.
Missed free throws hurt Jayhawks
COMMENTARY
Take a bag of potato chips
Any brand, your pick.
Open it, leave it on the
counter and revisit it in May.
That's how stale the Kansas
Jayhawks two-man shows
supporting cast was Sunday
It is why Dayton missed nearly 80 percent of its shots, scored just 16 baskets and was still within five points of Kansas in the second half. Read that sentence again.
A historic performance from sophomore center Cole Aldrich and the 25 points we've come to expect from junior guard Sherron Collins this tournament delayed discussion of a few factors that, unaddressed or overlooked, can and will send the lajwhays home empty handed Friday night.
Apart from the need for sophomore guards Brady Morningstar and Tyrel Reed to hit open shots, the Morris twins to sink anything at all, and freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor to return to relevance, every player will want to make good on a few more freebies Friday if this squad intends to be Elite.
MARCH MADNESS
REQUIRED READING
Perfect lead-in to this week's
March Madness Required Reading, courtesy of the latest Sports Illustrated. Alexander Wolff pens an essay on free-throw shooting, titled "Pressure Points." It begins with Memphis coach John Calipari and his team's famous missing four of five free throws within the final two minutes of last year's title game. You know the story. It goes free throw-miss, miss, miss, Mario's Shot, overtime.
bedlam on Mass Street
Wolff's article reveals a number of telling facts on an elementary component of the game that, with proper teaching and
an attention to mechanics, few Division I college players should ever struggle with.
Wolff
To name a few: Since the NCAA tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985, only two teams have won it all behind free-throw shooting of less than 66 percent. No team has cut down the nets having shot less than 62 percent from the line. (Through two games, Kansas is making 64.3 percent.) Also, a study found that while just a quarter of a team's scoring comes from the charity stripe, winning teams score two-thirds of the game's final points from the foul line.
And of course any tournament free throw story would be remiss without mentioning the 2003 title game, which Wolff calls "especially egregious." Recall that Kansas lost by three points while missing 18 freebies.
Yep, Kansas may want to practice hitting a few free throws before Friday. If you take away Reed's 6-for-6 performance, the rest of the team shot 5-of-16 for a Daytonesque 31.3 percent Sunday.
Former Kansas City Royals great George Brett once broke his toe after running to watch Bill Buckner's at-bat on television. Former Arizona
FISHY INJURY
Cardinals kicker Bill Gramatica once tore his ACL while jumping to celebrate a field goal. And
now NASCAR driver Greg Biffle delivers the latest trophy injury. Biffle missed Saturday's Nationwide Series race
Biffle
because of a rib injury sustained after he slipped and fell while exiting his fishing boat.
Biffle gutted it out to compete in Sunday's Sprint Cup race in Bristol, Conn., but early engine failure saw him finish 39th and likely longing to be back out on the water.
- Edited by Melissa Johnson
INTERNATIONAL
Dalai Lama banned from S.Africa peace meeting
ASSOCIATED PRESS
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa barred the Dalai Lama from a peace conference in Johannesburg this week, hoping to keep good relations with trading partner China but instead generating a storm of criticism.
Friday's peace conference was
organized by South African soccer officials to highlight the first World Cup to be held in Africa, which South Africa will host in 2010.
But because the Dalai Lama isn't being allowed to attend, it is now being boycotted by fellow Nobel Peace prize winners, retired Cape Town Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former president F.W. de Klerk as well as members of the
Nobel Committee.
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An eclectic mix of Nobel laureates, Hollywood celebrities and other dignitaries are coming to discuss issues ranging from combating racism to how sports can unite people and nations.
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But Thabo Masebe, spokesman for President Kgalema Motlanthe, said a high-profile visit by the Tibetan spiritual leader would have distracted from the conference's focus.
Samdhong Rinpoche, the prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, said South Africa was under pressure from Beijing and its decision to bar the Dalai Lama was a business matter.
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Masebe said the spiritual leader had been welcomed twice previously in South Africa and would be welcome again in the future.
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"South Africa is a newly emerging country and China is giving it considerable economic resources so it is understandable," he said Monday in Dharmsala, India. "Every country has to protect its economic and political interests."
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Last week marked the one-year anniversary of anti-government riots in Lhasa, Tibet's regional capital, and 50 years since the Dalai Lama escaped into exile in India after Chinese troops crushed a Tibetan uprising.
Kjetil Siem, chief executive officer of South Africa's Premier Soccer League, said the conference was a chance to show what South Africa has accomplished. Soccer was once as segregated as the rest of South African society, with four race-based leagues. Today, the nation is proudly united behind the upcoming World Cup.
"South Africa would have been the source of negative publicity about China," he said Monday. "We do value our relationship with China."
South Africa is Chinas largest trading partner on a continent in which China is heavily and increasingly involved.
South Africa decided last month to refuse to issue an official invitation, without which, Masebe said, the Dalai Lama cannot visit.
The controversy over the Dalai Lama shows the peace conference is "more needed than ever," Siem said.
NCAA
The Birmingham (Ala.) News
Anderson doesn't comment on Alabama, Georgia jobs
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri coach Mike Anderson on Monday sidestepped talk of his possible interest in going to either Alabama or Georgia.
Anderson is a Birmingham native and coached four years at Alabama-Birmingham before joining Missouri in 2006.
has reported that Anderson is one of several possible candidates to replace Mark Gottfried, the Alabama coach who resigned in late January.
His name also has been linked
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY
Softball Missouri State, 3 p.m. Lawrence, Kan.
Baseball
Western Illinois,
3 p.m.
Lawrence, Kan.
WEDNESDAY
Softball
Creighton, 4 p.m.
Lawrence, Kan.
Softball Creighton, 2 p.m. Lawrence, Kan.
Baseball
Western Illinois,
3 p.m.
Lawrence, Kan.
THURSDAY No events
Men's basketball Michigan State, 8:37 p.m. Indianapolis
FRIDAY
Tennis
Oklahoma, 6 p.m.
Norman, Okla.
Baseball
Texas A&M, 6:35 p.m.
College Station, Texas
Women's Gon Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic Athens, Ga.
Track & Field
Missouri Relâys
Columbia, Mo.
SATURDAY
Softball Texas A&M, 2 p.m. Lawrence, Kan.
Soccer Creighton, 2 p.m. Lawrence, Kan.
Baseball
Texas A&M, 2:05 p.m.
College Station, Texas
Rowing
Oklahoma, TBA
Oklahoma City
Women's Golf
Liz Murphey
Collegiate Classic
Athens, Ga.
Track & Field Missouri Relays Columbia, Mo.
The Columbia Daily Tribune reported Sunday that Missouri's basketball success this season has earned Anderson an extra $130,000 worth of incentive payments. His base salary is $850,000.
to the Georgia vacancy.
Associated Press
'Hey Cole, I've got two trombones!'
Weston White/KANSAN
Dayton senior band member Peter Hamma screams to heekle Kansas center Cole Aldrich as he shoots a free throw. Hamma was yelling. "Look Cole, I have a trombone" before adding a second trombone to his act. Aldrick missed both free throws.
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