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former Kansas State star Steve Henson broke his scoring record.
Walk-on plays with passion
During the 1970s and early '80s, George coached at Wandotte High School in Kansas City, Kan., where he had former Kansas star Calvin Thompson and former Missouri and NBA guard Larry Drew as standout players.
Lane said his father never directly encouraged him to become a basketball player.
George said he was thrilled when he found out his son would be playing at KU. "But," he said, "I never got too catch up or excited at games."
"I've always been very intense about things I've enjoyed," he said. "I gained an interest completely by myself."
Changing plans
Lane played that interest out at Sumner Academy in Kansas City, Kan., where he was an honor student and senior-class president in addition to being a starting guard on the basketball team.
Plans to attend Princeton or Rice universities fell during his senior year in high school, however, about the same time his parents divorced. Lane wound up at KU—the last school on a list of nine he was considering.
Lane said his parents' divorce had nothing to do with his decision to attend Kansas.
Lane always wanted to play college basketball, but not at some small remote school. He wanted to get away from home and try out for a walk-on spot somewhere.
"Those schools were just so expensive," he said.
"It was a difficult time for Lane," she said. "It was a difficult time for all of us. But he had always wanted to go away from home for college."
But his mother said the divorce might have had something to do with Lane's decision.
Junior varsity teams can be havens for players who know they won't be getting much fan recognition, but they can also stay 'solely for their love of the game.
Lane joined the JV team during the 1988-89 season, his freshman year.
Although he didn't play much his first year, Lane developed into the team's best player by his junior year.
"Last year, Lane was everything I wanted in a point guard," Turgeon
It may have been because Lane was trying to be like Turgeon, who played on the Jayhawks' 1985-86 Final Four team.
said. "He was such a good leader. He really made coaching easy and very enjoyable to me."
"I've always taken an interest in headguards who can outthink people on the court," Czapiinski said. "So I tried to emulate Mark Turgeon."
Turgeon said, "Lane was just very good for our program.
Different pursuits
But, by last summer, with Lane feeling he could go no further at Kansas in basketball, he decided to quit the JV team and try something different.
With a 3.5 grade point average as an English and psychology major, Lane took his love for art and literature to England to study theater. He saw 14 plays in Stratford and London and said the experience was fantastic.
"I was drinking汁 and tonics with
"I was drinking汁 and tonics with
the premier Shakespearean
actors in the world," he said. "I was
there, watching this point.
Basketball was behind me."
"I believe that if whatever you're interested in makes you happy, you should throw your whole life into it. That's what I try to do."
With that philosophy in mind, Lane auditioned for a play when he got back to the University in the fall. He said he read a few words from King Lear and got a part in a play. "The Resistible Arturo Ul." It was his first time acting.
"I used to walk from Naismith to Allen," he recalled. "Now I was walking from Naismith to Murphy. I remember thinking, 'I'm doing the same thing from 7 to 11 each night, I'm just doing it on a different stage.'"
Lane said he sometimes got an empty feeling when he walked by the field house, saw the lights on and knew someone was practicing.
Soon, with Lane still rehearsing "Arturo Ui," Turgeon called and asked him to play with the varsity team.
Lane said he was able to do both things at once, even though he missed two exhibition games because he had to appear in "Arturo Ul."
"It took a tremendous amount of energy," he said. "But it's not hard to muster up energy for things like that."
Lane will need some more of that energy to face an uncertain future. He will graduate this May and probably
Keeping perspective
will take some time off.
"Eventually," I'd like to go to graduate school," he said. "But right after college, I'd like to travel as much as possible to see new things and have new experiences, so maybe I could find new passions to follow.
"I would like to do some things that seem a little less practical right off the bat. That may lead me to careers that are maybe less conventional but more rewarding."
For now, the reward Lane is looking for includes a Final Four berth for the Jayhawks — no matter how much court time he sees.
"Lane sits on the end of the bench and knows he won'tget toplay lot, but he's the biggest fan we've got." Kansas center Greg Ostertag said.
Lane said he couldn't be in a better situation than he is in now.
"I try to keep it in perspective," he said. "I am a basketball player. I think there are more important things in life. I don't know if there are more fun things.
"It's extremely enjoyable," he said of his bench-warmer role for the Jayhawks. "Not too many people are low enough to criticize the 13th man on the team."
That includes the Kansas fans who chant "We want Lane" when the Jayhawks have a big second-half lead in the field house.
"I can't help but feel extremely flattered," Lane said of the times he hears the rhythmic chant of his name by thousands of people. "How can you not have fun with it? I don't think they're making fun of me, I just think they're having fun."
They're having fun and calling for a crowd favorite, said Kansas fan Keith Zielinski, Kansas City, Kan.
"We do the chant to get him in the game, Zielinski said, "like to see him do well. I'd like to see him get more playing time."
Soon, however, the basketball and the dream Lane has been living will be over, and he is not sure he is ready for that.
"Nothing is more important to me than basketball right now," he said.
"For many, many years of my life, I've been going to school and playing basketball. Sometimes it seems like this is what I'm going to be doing the rest of my life."
"I think it will be a shock when I won't be playing."
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