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Tuesday, January 25, 1994
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Richard Scott injures shoulder at practice
By Matt Siegel Kansas sportswriter
The Kansas men's basketball team suffered an unexpected setback yesterday.
Senior forward Richard Scott injured his shoulder in practice when he went up for a shot and another player slapped down against the ball,
said Kansas assistant trainer Mark Cairns. The force caused Scott's shoulder to briefly come out of place.
Cairns said the ball joint detached from the socket but then naturally went back into place.
Players temporarily stopped practicing as Scott lay写痛 in pain. Kansas coach Roy Williams looked on as trainers rushed out to check Scott's
condition. After Scott got up, Williams moved his team to the opposite end of the court and resumed practice.
that he would be reevaluated today.
The Jayhawks received more bad news when they learned that freshmen forward Nick Proud, who did not suit up against Iowa State Saturday, probably would be out for at least another week.
Proud, one of Scott's backups, was evaluated by an orthopedic surgeon yesterday and is going to be evaluated
today by another orthopedic surgeon.
"Chances are that Nick is out for the week," Cairns said. "As for the rest of the season, I don't have any idea."
Proud is averaging 3.2 points a game, but has received limited playing time due to various injuries.
Proud injured himself running the past week when his right knee locked up. Cairns said Proud had damaged
his knee cap and injured tissue in the knee.
If Scott does not play tomorrow against Oklahoma State, his other backups include freshman forward B.J. Williams and freshman forward/center Scot Pollard, although Williams also could move sophomore forward Sean Pearson into the starting frontcourt. Williams will hold his weekly new conference today.
Kansas senior center Lisa Tate takes a rebound away from Oklahoma State's Cheri Westervelt during Sunday's 79-68 win. Tate leads the Big Eight Conference in blocked shots.
Lisa Tate: an inside force
Senior center blocking shots winning games
Kansas sportswrite
By Matt Siegel
She led the Big Eight Conference in blocked shots last season and is eighth in the nation this season. Her 6-foot-3 inch frame looms over most opponents, and she never changes her stoic expression on the court. In a word, Kansas senior center Lisa Tate can be described as an intimidator.
"People probably see me as an intimidator but I don't always see myself as an intimidator." Tate said. "People think I'm a quiet person, but I'm not. On the court, I don't show a lot of emotion."
She said that off the court she liked to smile, have fun and make other people laugh, which is a sharp contrast from her on-court personality.
Tate, known affectionately as "Tater" to her teammates, didn't start playing basketball until her freshmen year at Kansas City Southwest High School. Although the sport was new to her, she still suited up for the varsity squad her freshmen year.
Tate said she was not very good as a freshman, but with her high school coaches' help, she was able to develop skills that made her a top recruiting prospect. She visited Arkansas, Louisiana State, Iowa State and Southwest Missouri State before deciding on Kansas.
"I had a lot of fun on my recruiting trip," Tate said. "I didn't say much, but they made me feel like I could fit in. I was comfortable with the players and the coaches."
Fitting in was something that Tate had no problems doing. During her freshmen season she finished third on the team in rebounding and led the conference in blocked shots, averaging 2.5 a game.
During the summer before her sophomore season, she played on the North squad at the U.S. Olympic Festival. The experience helped Tate
immensely because it allowed her to play against different players and show her talents. She now is hoping to showcase her basketball talents in other places.
"I'm hoping to play overseas after I graduate," Tate said, who is majoring in recreation management. "I need to get an agent and send tapes of myself to different agents, all that stuff. Coach has a lot of contacts and will help me to try to play overseas."
Right now, Tate is enjoying her last season as a Jayhawk. She is third on the all-time conference blocked shots list. She is the eight all-time leading rebounder at Kansas, and has averaged 8.9 rebounds a game this season.
She has helped the Jayhawks lead the conference in field goal percentage defense and has blocked 50 shots after 16 games. She also averages 9.9 points a game.
Her rebounding, scoring and shot blocking abilities have helped the Jayhawks to a 10-game winning streak, a No.7 national ranking, and No.1 ranking in the conference.
homa and Oklahoma State, Tate played despite being sick with the flu. She scored 12 and 9 points respectively and had four blocks in each game. They were performances that Kansas coach Marian Washington called attention to after the game.
This past weekend against Okla
"She was terribly sick," Washington said. "We didn't expect her to play so many minutes, but she reached deep down."
Tate said that because she was sick, she didn't expect to play that many minutes (she played 25- and 32 minutes) but felt like the team needed her and that she could rest after the game.
On the court, Tate is anything but flashy. She said she just wanted to help the team win and would do whatever it took to accomplish this, even if it meant being branded an intimidator.
"Her presence in the lane intimidates the other offensive player," junior forward Alana Slatter said. "She might not even necessarily try to block it, but just because they know she can block shots they tend to alter their shots. Her presence puts fear into them."
Indiana's Knight says he kicked a chair, not son
Coach says suspension justified
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight says he deserved to be suspended by the university for his actions in a game against Notre Dame University.
The Associated Press
anapons star.
"How many times have you seen Indiana play basketball? It's a lot. All right, how many times have you seen me kick a chair? A lot," he said. "How many times have you ever seen me kick a player?"
Knight, speaking out for the first time since the Dec. 7 incident, said he never kicked his son, Pat. He admitted kicking a chair, but he said the suspension stemmed from his shouts at fans who booed his earlier actions.
day in an interview with the Indianapolis Star.
Knight's version was reported Sunplayed on the Hoosiers' home court.
What happened next is the debate; videos of the game show Knight kicking at something. Knight says it was a chair, but many fans thought it was his son's leg.
The incident began with a bad pass by Knight's son. The elder Knight called a timeout after the Irish scored off the turnover and pushed his son into a seat.
Fans reacted by booing the coach, even though the game was being
"So I rest my case on that part of it."
Knight turned, glared at the offending fans and responded with four-letter obscenities.
Indiana cited Knight's "unspor-
smanlike conduct" when it suspended
him for the Dec. 10 Indiana-Tenn-
essee Tech game. It was the first
time the university suspended Knight,
though the Big Ten Conference
suspended him for one game in 1985 for
throwing a chair during a home game
against Purdue.
"Never! So that's a different thing," he said.
The Big Ten declined to take action
against Knight this time, saying the university's suspension was appropriate.
"I've seen coaches in this league since grab kids by the shirt," Knight said. "I've seen coaches in this league since yell at kids. I've seen coaches in this league since kick the floor, kick towels, take their coats off, throw them down, kick chairs. I've seen everything.
"What I haven't seen is a coach yell at the crowd, which is something I admittedly did, and I think that separates the issue from anything else."
"In view of what happened, the exchange I initiated with the crowd, I don't think it was either unusual or unnecessary when one reads the rule," he said.
Knight said he had no quarrel with the suspension.
Teams in Big Eight improve road record
By Gerry Fey
Kansan sportswriter
Past seasons have shown playing on the road to be unkind for Big Eight Conference basketball teams, but this season has seen a change so far. The road team is 9-6 in the conference this season.
Nebraska coach Danny Nee said that just because winning has been tough in the past didn't mean it would be that way in the present.
"It's going to happen because of the percentages," Nee said of road victories during yesterday's conference calls. "Just because you play at home doesn't mean, boom, you're going to win. If you play someone long enough, you're going to beat them."
The Cornhuskers lost to Missouri 89-73 at last night in a game televised by ESPN. Before last night's loss, Nee said that the Bob Devaney Sports Center, Nebraska's home court, had emerged as a difficult place to play.
"It is a good, healthy, college atmosphere," he said. "Not many people have been holding their own court this year."
Despite the success for some conference teams away from home, Nebraska lost at Colorado on Wednesday 86-81. The defeat broke the Cornhuskers' 11-game winning streak.
To Colorado coach Joe Harrington, it was a huge victory for the Buffaloes. Two weeks ago the Cornhuskers defeated Colorado 106-67.
"We had a long meeting after that game," Harrington said of the defeat. "It was about keeping our heads into it the whole season. That game was like a wake up call for us. The victory was a good comeback for us after losing by 39 points."
Kansas will play at Colorado on Saturday after playing Oklahoma State at home on tomorrow.
Speaking of playing on the road, Oklahoma coach Billy Tubbs said he's sick of traveling. The Sooners will play their first home game in more than two weeks against Kansas State on Wednesday. Oklahoma lost to Virginia Commonwealth 98-82 on Thursday.
"We're in a brutal part of our schedule," Tubbs said. "After K-State, we play at Nebraska. We have 11 days with one conference game. It's like we forgot about the Big Eight. Basically what I'm saying is our conference schedule is ridiculous."
Missouri maintained its conference lead against Nebraska last night. The Tigers are 5-0 in the conference and claimed the No.24 spot in the Associated Press poll, released yesterday.
When Oklahoma meets K-State, it will have to deal with K-State senior guard Askia Jones, who leads the conference in three-point shooting. Jones was the conference player of the week for the second time this season after averaging 29 points in victories against Kansas and Colorado.
Kansas is the only nationally-ranked team in the conference. But Missouri coach Norm Stewart said some teams should be ranked.
"Kansas has done very well, and Oklahoma State has too," Stewart said. "I think when we start winning, we'll get some recognition."
Kansas coach Roy Williams said that regional newspapers knew the conference was strong, but it's not known nationally.
"I don't think we've had the respect this year that we've had in the past." Williams said. "Maybe it's been our performance in the NCAA tournament. That's the only reason that I can think of."
league overall
Kansas 6 0 15 1
Colorado 4 1 15 2
Oklahoma 3 1 10 4
Oklahoma St. 2 2 10 4
Kansas St. 2 3 7 7
Missouri 1 3 7 9
Nebraska 1 4 9 9
Iowa St. 1 4 6 11
Weekend victories against Oklahoma and Oklahoma State helped move the women's team up one notch to No. 7.
Big Eight Conference standings Women Men
1. Penn St. (61) 13-0 1,735 3
2. Tennessee (9) 16-1 1,693 1
3. Colorado 15-2 1,500 6
4. Iowa 11-1 1,496 2
5. North Carolina 14-1 1,430 7
6. Texas Tech 15-2 1,367 4
**7 Kansas** **15-1** 1,334 8
8. Southern Cal 13-1 1,277 9
9. Vanderbilt 14-3 1,203 5
10. Stanford 11-3 1,115 10
11. Connecticut 13-2 1,030 11
12. Virginia 12-2 974 12
13. Purdue 13-3 900 13
14. Louisiana Tech 13-3 836 14
15. Alabama 13-3 740 15
16. Florida Int. 13-1 643 17
17. Ohio State 11-4 529 18
18. Washington 12-3 452 16
19. Northwestern 9-3 428 19
20. Montana 14-2 358 21
21. Boise State 14-2 299 22
22. Seton Hall 14-2 238 24
23. Auburn 11-5 171 23
24. W. Kentucky 11-5 163 20
25. Rutgers 10-3 143 —
AP Top 25
Others receiving votes: Southern Miss. 134, Texas 114, Toledo 87, Florida 57, Creighton 55, Mississippi 53, Indiana 18, George Washington 17, Hawaii 16, Pittsburgh 14, UNLV 13, Notre Dame 12, Texas A&M 12, New Mexico St. 11, Georgia 10, N. Illinois 9, San Diego St. 9, Stephen F. Austin 9, Marquette 7, Juliane 7, Duke 6, Minnesota 4, Oregon 4
Source: The Associated Press KANSAN
league overall
Missouri 5 0 14 2
Kansas 2 1 17 2
Oklahoma St. 2 1 13 5
Nebraska 2 2 12 4
Kansas St. 2 2 13 3
Oklahoma 2 2 9 5
Colorado 1 3 8 7
Iowa St. 0 4 9 5
AP Top 25
A loss at home to Kansas State knocked the men's team from No. 1 to No. 3, but Kansas is the only ranked team in the Big Eight
1. UCLA (59) 13-0 1,619 2
2. Duke (6) 13-1 1,542 5
3. Kansas 13-7 1,388 1
4. North Carolina 14-3 1,319 4
5. Arkansas 13-2 1,312 3
6. Connecticut 16-1 1,244 10
7. Purdue 16-1 1,231 12
8. Massachusetts 15-2 1,162 6
9. Kentucky 14-3 1,115 7
10. Temple 11-2 1,052 11
11. Indiana 11-3 1,014 8
12. Louisville 14-2 964 13
13. Arizona 14-3 915 9
14. Syracuse 12-2 725 16
15. Michigan 12-4 674 15
16. Wisconsin 12-4 602 14
17. Minnesota 13-4 567 20
18. Maryland 11-3 383 25
19. West Virginia 12-2 381 24
20. Ala.-Birmingham 14-2 363 18
21. Georgia Tech 11-5 338 17
22. Marquette 11-4 188 13
23. Saint Louis 11-4 153 23
24. Missouri 13-2 130 14
25. New Mexico St. 14-1 114 1
Other receiving votes): Florida 100,
California 94, Xavier, Ohio 87, Cincinnati 62, DePaul 65, Mississippi St. 41, Boston College 34, Virginia 33,
Illinois 21, Kansas St. 14, Michigan St. 11, Nebraska 7, Oklahoma St. 7,
Providence 6, Alabama 5, Texas 5,
Pennnall, Virginia Tech 4, New Orleans
, Browning Green 1, Stanford 1.
Source: The Associated Press KANSAH*