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Monday, March 29, 1993
SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Freshman excels against seniors
Kidd hopes to gain status of Hurley
By David Dorsey
By David Dorsey
Kansan sportswriter
California freshman Jason Kidd dribbles around senior guard Adonis Jordan during Kansas' game last Thursday. Kidd had 13 points and 10 assists in the game but fouled out with 1:21 remaining in the Jayhawks 93-76 victory.
ROSEMONT, III. — Shortly after Kansas defeated Brigham Young in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, Duke and California squared off in the first of two games that marked the changing of the guard.
Renee Knoeber / KANSAN
The nation's top senior point guard, Duke's Bobby Hurley, matched up with the nation's top freshman point guard, California's Jason Kidd.
The results for both were spectacular. Hurley played the entire game, scored a career-high 32 points and had nine assists.
Kidd, however, came on top. Although he scored just 11 points, he led all players with 14 assists, had four steals and scored California's most crucial basket. He was fouled while putting in an off balance shot off the glass that put the Golden Bears up for good.
California won 82-77 and advanced to the Sweet 16 in St. Louis to play Kansas where Kidd matched up with the Jayhawks' senior point guard, Adonis Jordan, an honorable mention All-American.
Jordan prevailed, scoring 15 points and handed out six assists during the 93-76 victory. Kidd scored 13 points and 10 assists but had four turnovers and fouled out of the game.
Kidd said that he enjoyed playing against Hurley and Jordan, who he considered two of the top point guards in the nation.
"That's the NBA schedule," Kidd said after the Duke game. "But why
not go up against the best. That's the only way you can improve your game. I went up against Adonis when I was a freshman in high school, so it's almost deja vu for me."
Kidd went to St. Joseph of Notre Dame High School in Alameda, Calif. He was heavily recruited by California, and ironically by Kansas. Choosing California, he said, was a difficult decision, but one he did not regret.
"It's a decision that stays with you for the rest of your life," he said. "Staying home and letting my parents watch me play like they did when I was in high school on weighed going to the Midwest to Kansas."
Kidd said that the Jayhawks' depth at the guard positions also affected his decision.
"They've got a lot of great ball players," Kidd said. "You've got Rex Walters, and you've got Adonis at the other guard. Maybe I could have come off the bench somewhere, but Steve Woodbury's playing well and they have Calvin Rayford, who is an underclassman. Maybe I would have had to find myself a nice cushion for my seat down there on the bench."
Kansas coach Roy Williams said there were three point guards he saw play in high school that had impressed him the most. Kidd was one of them. The others were Derek Harper and Kenny Anderson, who both play in the NBA.
"We recruited Jason for a long, long time," Williams said. "We started recruiting him when he was a freshman, and we did feel like we had a good chance. Jason is a great young man. He's not going to be a heckuva player. He already is a heckuva player."
And while Jordan and Hurley are
likely to move on to the NBA. Kidd has three years of college eligibility remaining.
Kidd said that he hoped to attain the same consistency as Hurley, who led Duke to two consecutive national championships.
"I think Hurley had a great career,"
Kidd said. "To be out there with that kind of player, you just have to keep it inside you. You don't want to show the emotion of playing against somebody like that. It's like a dream come true because every ball player wants to go up against the best."
Teammates, family mourn pitcher's death
The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. — With the team chaplain asking, "Why Steve? Why now," the ashes of Cleveland Indians pitcher Steve Olin were buried yesterday high in the Tulatil Mountains.
About 300 people jammed the small chapel of Skyline Funeral Home west of Portland, where Olin was remembered by family, friends and teammates as a loving husband and father with an infectious sense of humor. His ashes were interred with memenents of his life.
Olin, 27, and teammate Tim Crews, 31, were killed a week ago when their 18-foot bass boat hit a pier on Little Lake Nellie, near the Indians' training camp in Winter Haven, Fla.
"Life has many mysteries." team
chaplain Tom Petersburg said of the suddenness of the deaths.
He urged the family and team not to despair, but to remember the good times they had shared with Oln.
"Memories keep us from moving toward resentment," Petersburg said.
Olin's wife, Patti, greeted friends' at the chapel door with warm smiles and hugs between sniffles. She was surrounded by support- family members, including her parents and Olin's sisters.
Drafted by Cleveland in 1987, Olin played rookie baseball in Burlington, N.C., and worked his way up through the farm system. He made his big league debut in 1989, and had his first full year with Cleveland in 1992, when he led his team in saves with 29.
Royals lose to Astros, 8-4
The Associated Press
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Karl Rhodes hit a three-run homer in a four-run seventh inning, leading the Houston Astros to an 8-4 victory yesterday against the Kansas City Royals.
Rhodes, battling for a job as an outfield reserve, had three hits and scored two runs.
first home run of spring training.
Casey Candeale opened the seventh against Kansas City receiver Ricky Rojas with a single Jack Daugherty singled one out later. With two outs, Chris Donnells singled to right field, scoring Candeale and breaking a 3-tie.
Daugherty closed Houston's scoring by hitting a two-out home run in the eighth off Rusty Meacham.
Rhodesthen hit a1-1 pitch off the scoreboard in right field for his
The Astros, trailing 3-1 in the sixth, pulled even when Rhodes singled off Rojas and Eddie Faubense hit his first home run in spring training
Houston opened the scoring in the first inning on Jeff Bagwell's two-out double and Chris James' single.
Kansas City went ahead with two runs in the fourth. Hubbie Brooks singled with one out and scored on Mike Macfarlane's double. One out later, Greg Gagne doubled to score Macfarlane.
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