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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, January 19, 1993
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Kansas back in Big Eight race
Women extend winning streak to three games
By Jay Williams
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas women's basketball team returned to the Big Eight Conference title hunt with weekend victories against Nebraska and Iowa State.
The Jayhawks, 2-2 in Big Eight and 8-5 overall, are on an emotional high heading into next weekend's games against Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.
"If we play like we did tonight, we'll go all the way," said freshman guard Charisse Sampson after Friday night's 69-62 victory against Nebraska. "I mean all the way — to the Final Four. We're improving so much game by game by game."
Before the Jayhawks make reservations for Atlanta, the sight of the women's Final Four, they need to take care of business in
the Big Eight. The team took a big step Friday, beating a Nebraska club that had been ranked in the Top 25.
Kansas beat the Cornhuskers, 2-2 and 11-4, thanks to a late surge keyed by defense, two three-point field goals by Bampson and five points from sophomore forward Alana Slatter
Kansas trailed by eight with 13:50 remaining and junior starting center Lisa Tate sitting on the bench with four fouls.
"Our defense turned everything around," Sampson said. Kansas outscored the Cornhuskers 28-13 in the final 13:50 and held Nebraska scoreless in the last 2:19.
Tate sat out the first 12 minutes of the half after collecting her fourth foul with 52 seconds left in the first half.
Kansas coach Marian Washington said she left Tate in the game after her third foul in the first half because the Cornhuskers had tied the game after the Jayhawks jumped out to a nine-point lead.
"We weren't doing a good job at the time, so we took a chance," she said.
Even without Eate, Kansas stayed close to the 'Huskers, taking the onopho
more forward Angela Agcock's bank shot with 10:30 remaining. Tate returned with 8:09 left, and both teams alternated the lead.
With 4:07 left and Nebraska leading 57-56, Sampson nailed a three-pointer. The Cornhuskers tied the game at 62, but Sampson answered again from the same spot with 2:00 remaining, and the Jayhawks never trained again.
"We never gave up," Sampson said. "We just kept going, kept hustling."
Kansas committed 14 turnovers in the first half and trailed 35-31 at halftime.
Washington said Kansas took better care of the basketball in the second half. The Jayhawks had only six turnovers in the second half.
"We thought we could win the ball game, but we needed to take care of the ball," she said
The Jahaykh victory overshadowed a 30-point performance by Nebraska senior center Karen Jennings. Last year's Big Eight Player of the Year was the only Cornhusker in double figures.
Washington said the Jayhawks balanced scoring helped Kansas win. Four Kansas players scored in double figures.
Slatter led the Jayhawks with 16 points. Sampson scored 15, Aycock had 12 and senior guard Stacy Truitt added 13.
Sunday, Kansas pounded an injury-decimal Iowa State 92-33. The Jayhawks started the game on an 14-1 run and led 43-9 with 4:12 remaining in the first half.
Kansas scored 50 points off 37 Cyclone turnovers and held Iowa State, 1-3 and 2-14, to 23 percent shooting for the game.
Every Jayhawk scored except for junior guard Jo Jo Witherspoon, who led Kansas with seven assists. Sampson scored 19 and Tate, senior forward Shannon Kite and Slatter each scored 14.
Washington said the victory, less than 48 hours after the Nebraska game, pleased her.
"It would have been easy to get sloppy against Iowa State," she said.
Tate's nine blocked shots hid her school and Big Eight record for most blocks in a season.
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Jayhawks rally to upend fired-up K-State
Freshman guard Charise Sampson shoots over Nebraska's karen Jennings in Friday's game.
No.1 Kansas battles for 71-65 victory
By David Dorsey
Kansan sportswriter
The Jayhawks, now 15-1 and 3-0 in Big Eight Conference play, were down 32-24 at halftime.
MANHATTAN - Backed into a corner during its first defense of its No. 1 ranking, the Kansas men's basketball team overcame a tough Kansas State defense and pulled out a 71-65 victory.
A 10-0 Kansas run early in the second half, led by senior guards Rex Walters and Adonis Jordan, put the Jayhawks back into contention in front of a sold out crowd of 13,500 at Bramlage Coliseum. K-State's record dropped to 10-3 overall and 2-1 in the conference.
Walters finished with 23 points, tying a season-high. He made 7 of 11 shots from the field including 3 of 4 three-pointers. Jordan finished with 12 points.
Kansas coach Roy Williams credited K-State's defense for the Jayhawks' first half shot woes, but also blamed his team for playing tentatively. Kansas shot just 35 percent from the field during the first half.
"We stopped waiting for them to roll over and play dead," Williams said. "It was almost like we were expecting them to do something. Defen- tion at the second half is where we turned it around."
The Jayhawks were out-rebounded 19-10 in the first half, but took to control in the second half with junior forwards Richard Scott and Darrin Hancock hitting the boards. Scott finished with seven rebounds and 11 points. Hancock pulled down six rebounds and scored four points.
Hancock gave Kansas an emotional lift in the second half when he slammed an alleyoop pass from junior forward Patrick Richey to break a 47-47 tie.
Richey said the dunk, which put the Jayhawks ahead for the remainder of the game, helped Kansas win its 10th consecutive game in Manhattan.
"A dunk like that just gives us a big spark and gets us going." *Richey said.* "I hope we can make it 11 years in a row so that I never lose here."
**Notes:**
Walters was named the Big Eight Player of
Kansas tops AP poll
The top 25 men's basketball oil, with five place votes is Hofstadter. The favorite is Homer is rated best after being missed fourth time.
rank team record points last week 1. Kansas (45) 14-1 1,595 4
2. Indiana (7) 15-2 1,510 6
3. N. Carolina (8) 14-1 1,483 5
4. Kentucky 11-1 1,362 1
5. Michigan (2) 13-2 1,358 2
6. Duke 12-2 1,339 3
7. Virginia (3) 11-0 1,232 14
8. Arkansas 12-1 1,164 9
9. Cincinnati 11-1 1,084 11
10. Seton Hall 14-2 1,026 7
11. Arizona 9-2 924 12
11. Oklahoma 12-3 888 10
11. Purdue 11-2 737 17
11. Iowa 12-3 694 13
11. UNLV 9-1 647 18
16. Georgia Tech 9-3 562 8
17. Connecticut 8-3 513 15
18. Georgetown 10-2 495 20
19. Vanderbilt 10-3 394 — 20
20. Pittsburgh 11-2 386 — 23
21. Michigan State 10-3 327 — 23
22. Utah 12-2 320 25
23. UCLA 11-4 252 15
24. Ohio State 9-3 141 21
25. Long Beach St. 12-1 111 —
Others receiving votes: Florida St. 97, Tulane 90,
Syracuse St. 70, Minnesota 68, New Orleans 125,
Houston 41, LSU 18, Marquette 27, Boston
10, Columbus 8, Miami 7, Boston 8,
Baltimore 5, California 5, Kansah 3, Michigan 5,
Joseph's 5, Oklahoma St. 4, Illinois 3,
St. Joseph's 3, Stone J. 3, Temple 3, Wake Forest
3, Xavier, Ohio 3, College of Charleston
2, Oregon St. 1, Clemson 1, Massachusetts 1,
Missouri 1
Source: The Associated Press Derek Nolen / KANSAN
the week yesterday. He scored 58 points in the Jayhawk's victories against Oklahoma, Oral Roberts University and Louisville. It was the second consecutive week that a Jayhawk had earned the honor. Senior center Eric Paulew was last week's recipient.
Walters was cut above the eye by a coin thrown from the stands in last night's game. Walters
Richard Scott landed hard on his tailbone going for a block early in the second half. Williams said Scott landed on the same spot that he injured last week at Oklahoma. Scott returned to play after a brief rest.
The Jayhawks are on the road again Saturday at Colorado. They return home Monday after a grueling stretch of the playoffs.
Renee Knoeber / KANSAN
Senior guard Rex Walters dribbles past Kansas State's Vincent Jackson during last night's game.
Walters, the Big Eight Player of the Week, finished with 23 points.
Jayhawks celebrate No.1,500
By David Dorsey
Kansan sportswriter
LOUISVILLE, Ken. — After Saturday's 98-77 victory against Louisville, Kansas coach Roy Williams quickly secured the game ball that he will soon display in his office. The ball represents victory No. 1,500 for Kansas as well as what Williams called his team's best 40-minute performance of the season.
Kansas became the third programin the nation to get 1,500 victories—the others are North Carolina and Kentucky—and avenged last season's 85-78 loss to the Cardinals in Allen Field House.
"We talked about the fact that they beat us last year," Williams said. "I don't think we played on it so much. We just wanted to come in and learn something from this."
Senior guards Rex Walters and Adonis Jordan scored 20 and 18 points, respectively, for the Jawahars. Each of them scored 17 and, and the two combined for 14 assists.
"We just wanted to create high percentage shots," Jordan said. "We got a lot of layups."
The Jayhawks shot 65 percent from the floor, and 21 of their 97 field goals went to their knees.
Kansas guard/forward Sean Pearson found out shortly before the game that he had gained an extra year of eligibility. He is now classified as a freshman.
Pearson initially had lost a year of eligibility under the NCAA's Proposi-
He scored a 17 on his ACT his senior year in high school when the NCAA accepted scores of 18 or higher. A new rule, adopted at last week's NCAA convention in Dallas, accepts ACT scores of 17 or higher, retroactive to the 1990-91 school year.
Swim teams make a big splash against Drury
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
By Matt Doyle
Kansan sportswriter
Donna Christiansen, Olathe freshman, swims the butterfly during the meet against Drury College on Saturday. The Kansas women won their meet, 152.77.
The depth of the Kansas men's and women's swimming teams led to dominating victories against Drury College Saturday at Robinson Natatorium.
"We wook up our lineup a great deal," said Kansas swimming coach Gary Kemp. "We moved some people to different positions, and the nice part about that was the people we moved to different events did really well."
The 12th-ranked Jayhawk women improved their dual record to 10-0 by defeating the Panthers 152-77, and the 19th-ranked Kansas men climbed to 7-3 by handing Drury a 144-86 setback.
One such example was freshman Katie Chanese.
Chapeau swam the 100-yard freestyle for the first time this season and finished second with a time of 53.75 seconds.
"There was quite a few surprises coming out of today's meet," Chapeau
She also posted a season best in the 50 freestyle with a second-place finish in a time of 23.94 seconds.
Kemnf tried to move the team
around a bit to see what it could do,
she said.
"Some of the times we swam today are really showing us positive results."
"Chapeau didn't swim one stroke of backstroke today, and she's the best backstroker we've ever had in the history of this team," he said.
Kempf was pleased with Chapeau's performance, considering she did not need a prosthetic limb.
Freshman Donna Christensen is benefited from Kempf's lineup changes. She finished second to teammate Jennifer Davis in the 1,000
freestyle with a time of 10:20.85.
"I probably won't ever swim this event again," she said. "He wanted me to swim the 1,000 today so that I can help out my 500 freestyle."
Andrew Marshall turned in one of the top performances on the men's team with first place finishes in the tournament as a member of the 400 muesley relay.
The sophomore from Stavanger, Norway, hopes to improve on last year's fourth and fifth place finishes at the Big Eight Conference meet in the 100 and 200 breaststroke respectively.
"The times were good today," he said. "I've been going a lot faster than I was last year by about four or five seconds."
Kempf said he felt proud of the way his teams maintained their intensity throughout the entire meet.
"You have to go under two minutes to make the NCAA in the 200 breast-stroke, so I have some work yet to do," said Marshall, whose best time of the season in the 200 is 2:08.51.
Marshall said he had to continue to improve his speed if he wanted to meet his goal of qualifying for the NCAA meet in March.
Track coach pleased with weekend effort
By Blake Spurney
Kansan sportswriter
"I was pleased with the younger athletes that were new," Schwartz said. "A large percentage of people competed very hard."
The Kansas track team did not show up at full strength Saturday at the Kansas Invitational, but Kansas coach Gary Schwartz said he was encouraged with the effort his athletes gave.
Schwartz said various illnesses and injuries had caused some Jay hawks not to be in top condition.
The competition included members of 12 track teams and several independent competitors at the meet. Team standards were not kept.
Sophomores Natalash Shafer and Heather Schoring each won two events for the Jayhawks. Shafer triumphed in the 55- and 200-meter dashes in 7.1 and 25.1 seconds, respectively. Schoring won the long jump and triple jump; with marks of 18.41/2 and 39-1.
"Natalash Shafer had a good day," Schwartz said. "Her winning was not as impressive as how she looked doing it."
Schwartz said the invitational produced no real surprises and was a successful meet.
Kansas junior Ashley Ace was also impressive a Saturday as she won the 3000-meter run. She lapped six of the eight other runners in the way to posting a career-best time of 10 minutes, 21.5 seconds.
"I'm very happy with how I ran," Ace said. "It boots my confidence for the rest of the season."
Three Kansas men won their individual events. Joe Pickett won the 600-year run in 1:13.2. Senior Lynn Crawford won the 55-meter hurdles in 7.6, and junior Michael Cox took the mile run in 4:15.8.
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All-American senior Mary Beth Labosky took first place in the high jump, wins 5-3/34. Senior Cheryl Evers won the shot put with a put of 46.8, and junior Katrina Lawrence won the pution 40.7 in 57.8.