SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, March 16, 1993
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Three-point ace is more than an offensive threat
Senior guard Shannon Kite looks to pass around teammate Angela Aycock in practice. Kite, who has steadily improved during the season, hit eight of 10 three-point shots in the women's Big Eight Conference Tournament.
Senior guard makes progress on defensive end
By Jay Williams
Kansan sportswriter
Senior guard Shannon Kite has come up big for the Jayhawks this season.
season.
Kite's three-pointers have lifted the kansas women's basketball team on several occasions. But pinpointing the most important of her team-leading 61 three-pointers is difficult.
or more points." "It's been a weapon that has increased our dimensions," Kansas coach Marian Washington said. "If they want to sag on the inside, they are going to have to pay a price."
bitter longest long-range bomb might have been the three-pointer she made in the late stages of the Big Eight Conference Women's Basketball Tournament final. Nebraska had cut the Jayhawks' lead to two points, but Kite stepped up, drilled a three-pointer from the right wing and extended Kansas' lead to five. The Cornhuskers never recovered, and Kansas received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship.
The Jayhawks will play host to California in the first round at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Allen Field House. Tickets cost $5 for adults and $3.50 for students.
Kite took 10 three-pointers, making eight, setting a conference tournament record for three-point field goal percentage.
"The shot was there," Kite said of her last three-pointer in the tournament. "If I have an open shot, I'm supposed to take it."
Kite is a marked target when the opposition plays zone defense against the Jayhawks. Players make a point of pointing at Kite, making sure somebody is close enough to her to bother her shot. Kite said the extra attention did not bother her.
During the Big Eight Tournament,
"It's good because that gets other people upon" she said.
But don't think that Kite is only a shooter. Both Washington and Kite say she has improved greatly in all areas of the game, especially defense.
"In the past, we had to be careful how we matched her up," Washington said. "This year, she's playing great defense. She has learned how to compensate if someone is quicker than her."
Her high school did not need Kite's defense. It needed her offense. All 59.1 points a game that she provided her senior season. She scored 107 points in a single game that season,
Kite played for Elk Horn-Kimballton High School in Iowa's six-on-six half-court game, where each team has three players on offense and three playing defense. The offensive and defensive players cannot cross the half-court line. Kite played on the offensive end.
when I came here, I was pretty much clueless on defense coming from six-on-six," she said.
fourth on the all-time Iowa high school list.
Kite said she tired of people asking about her single-game explosion because most people thought it was something planned. It wasn't.
same thing happened.
"At halftime, I was told I wasn't being productive," she said. "I didn't know until after the game how many I had scored. It was one of those nights where everything was going in."
The pluses and minuses of six-on six balance out, Kite said.
"It did hurt not knowing how to play good defense, but it helped knowing the offensive game," she said.
high school boy, play hard "playing both positions helped me understand how a post player wants to receive the ball," she said.
Ages offensive skills include the ability to pass inside to post players. That is something she learned early in high school by playing at times.
Kite's career at Kansas is winding to a close. After this year, she will finish her degree in exercise science and prepare to start graduate work in physical therapy.
She has been a part of a conference regular-season champion and a conference tournament champion. Tomorrow, she and the Jayhawks will start their second consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance.
"It's been memorable," she said. "I don't know how else to explain it.
Two Kansas women swimmers make NCAA
Kansas has regained its position as a top-25 team. The Jayhawks were ranked No. 24 in the final poll released by the Associated Press yesterday.
NOTE:
With the NCAA Championships just a few days away, freshman Katie Chapeau takes a second out of practice to fix her goggles. Chapeau and sophomore Frankie Hanson are the two Kansas women's swimmers going to Nationals this weekend in Minneapolis.
By Matt Doyle
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
Kansan sportswrite
The Kansas women's swimming team enjoyed its finest season in 10 years this year. Despite that success, the dajhawks will have only two team members at this weekend's NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in Minnesota, Minn.
Both will be making their first appearances in the NCAA Championships.
Sophomore Frankie Hanson and freshman Katie Chapman will be the only representatives from a Jayhawk team that was ranked as high as No. 8 during the season.
sant.
"We were flat that weekend," he said. "We barely missed getting qualifiers in several situations."
Kansas' narrow victory against Nebraska at the Big Eight Conference Swimming and Diving Championships was a reason the Jayhawks will not have more swimmers in Minneapolis this weekend, coach Gary Kempf said.
All five relay teams, the 200-yard freestyle, 400 freestyle, 800 freestyle, 400 medley and 800 medley, met the NCAA consideration times for qualification to the championships, but were not selected for competition.
"We needed the relays there at NCAA, but again we just barely missed," he said. "It's disappointing, but that's reality."
Senior Amee Braumad, sophomore Kristen Carlson, junior Krista Cordsen and sophomore Ronda Lusty earned All-American recognition in the relay events at last year's NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas.
Based on the team's performance this season, Chapaue, who will swim the 100 back
stroke and 50 freestyle, said she thought that she and Hanson would be joined by about 10 of their teammates in Minneapolis this weekend.
"We've relied on the upperclassmen all year long." Chapeau said. "Now all of a sudden it's just me and Frankie."
weekend.
Now, the two swimmers will have to provide each other with the motivation that they usually receive from their teammates.
Hanson will swim the 1,650 freestyle and
bringing in the women. Haine said she hoped to improve her times in the two events, and not get intimidated by performing against some of the nation's best swimmers.
"I've got to remember what I've done in the past," she said. "You have to swim your own race, and not worry about what the other swimmers in your events have done."
500 freestyle this weekend. She placed first and second in those events respectively at the Big Eight Championships.
By David Dorsey
By David Dorsey Kansan sportswriter
One game at a time.
One game at a time.
Since the regular season ended last week,
those five words have spewed from the mouths of the Jayhawks.
The concept of the NCAA Tournament, which begins for the Kansas mens basketball team at 11:45 a.m. Thursday in Rosemont, Ill., is simple.
Play one game. Win it, and advance to the next round. Lose it, and go home to watch the rest of the tournament on television.
The repetition of the philosophy, concept and process will continue until Monday, April 5, when the final two of the 64 teams battle for the National Championship.
The Jayhawks last reached that point two years ago in Indianapolis. Kansas defeated New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Indiana, Arkansas and North Carolina on the road to the championship game against Duke, which Kansas lost 72-65.
Four current Kansas players, senior guard Adonis Jordan and junior forwards Patrick Richey, Richard Scott and Steve Woodberry played in the championship game.
Kansas coach Roy Williams said that once his team saw that it was a No. 2 seed in the Midwest Region on Sunday, it knew its 25-6 record no longer mattered.
"We're not going to talk about what we have done or have not done up to this point," Williams said. "We looking at it like we have one game left in our season, and we are going to try to play our tails off in that game."
Williams said he had mixed emotions about
how the season went for his team up to this point.
The Jayhawks gathered at Williams' home Sunday evening when the bracket was revealed, and Williams said that freshman guard Sean Pearson was a little more excited than the rest of the team when its first round site was announced.
"We do feel good about getting a No.2 seed, and we do feel good about what we have accomplished," he said. "We'd like to have accomplished even more, but again, we're looking at it like we've got one more game left in our season. Hopefully we'll play well against Ball State."
Rosemont, Ill., is near Pearson's hometown, LaGrange, Ill. Both are suburbs of Chicago.
"It'll be nice to be near home and nice to see my family," Pearson said. "It feels good this year to be a part of the team and to be able to contribute in the games instead of just watching them on T.V."
as tor thoughts on what he would do after Thursday in Chicago, Pearson's response was in line with his coach and teammates.
"We're going up there tomorrow," he said.
"And we're just going to take it one game at at time."
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