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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Jayhawks enjoy successful season
Young team pleased with 21-9 record and tourney championship
By Jay Williams Kansan sportswriter
The one defeat that ended its season will not taint how the Kansas women's basketball team views its season.
The Jayhawks, 21-9, lost 62-47 to California in the first round of the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship. But just reaching the NCAA tournament was an accomplishment for a team that struggled at times, but finished the season No. 25 in the Associated Press basketball poll.
"These young people have done a great job," Kansas coach Marian Washington said. "One loss will not spoil our season."
The young Kansas squad lost five letter winners off of the 1991-92 team that won the Big Eight Conference championship. Kansas struggled early this season. At one point, the Jayhawks were 6-5 overall and 0-2 in the Big Eight Conference.
But Kansas finished the season on a
roll,winning 10 of its last 12,including a winning streak of seven games and the Big Eight Conference Women's Basketball Tournament championship.
During that tournament in Salina, the Jayhawks put together three of their finest games of the year. After finishing fourth in the conference during the regular season, the Jayhawcs defeated Missouri, Colorado and Nebraska to win the tournament title.
in the semifinals against Colorado, ranked No. 6 in the nation at the time, the Jayhawks and the Lady Buffers hooked up in what Washington called one of the greatest games in the history of the tournament. Kansas surpassed several Colorado charges and held on for a 81-78 victory in double overtime.
In the game against then-No. 20 Nebraska, Kansas blitzed the Cornuskers early and led 13-2. Kansas made its free throws down the stretch and won 64-60.
Defense was the Jayhawks' calling card at the Big Eight tournament and throughout much of the season. During the team's seven-game winning streak, the Jayhawks did not allow a team to shoot better than 40 percent
for a game.
Sophomore forward Angela Aycoe led the Jayhawks in Salina. Aycoe earned tournament Most Valuable Player honors after averaging 19.6 points during the tournament, including 25 points and 10 rebounds against the "Huskers. Sophomore forward Alana Slatter also made the all-tournament team.
The Jayhawks were hot into coming into the NCAA tournament but went cold in a hurry. Kansas led by one at half-time against the Golden Bears despite shooting 26 percent in the first half. Kansas could not warm up its shooting touch in the second half, and despite a crowd of 2,550, the fourth largest ever to watch a women's game at Allen Filed House, set a tournament record for lowest field goal percentage.
"We've had a very good season," Aycock said after the California game. "Unfortunately, things didn't go our way. Hopefully, we'll learn from it and do better next year."
Three Kansas players were honored by the conference. Aycock made first team all-conference. Freshman guard Charisse Sampson and junior center Lisa Tate were named honorable mention. Tate broke her own Kansas
and Big Eight record with 88 blocked shots for the season.
The Jayhawks lose two seniors, guards Shannon Kite and Jo Witherspoon. Kite was the team's three-point shooting specialist, making 144 of 144 three-point attempts this season, for 43 percent. Witherspoon started for the Jayhawks at the end of the season and contributed defense and assists to the Kansas cause.
"These two seniors helped greatly to pull this team together," Washington said. "They can feel proud of what they accomplish."
Kansas has added two players during the early signing period, Angie Habbleib and Jennifer Trapp.
Halbleb, a 5-foot 10-shooting guard, was rated among the top 50 high school seniors in the nation according to the Women's Basketball News Service. She is valedictorian of her class at Middleton High School in Wisconsin.
Trapp, a 6-1 forward, is from Lawrence and helped her team to the Kansas 6A title last season and a run in the past at the state tournament this season.
"We're a young ball club," Washing ton said. "We'll be back."
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