Monday, November 6. 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section B·Page 3
Hornets cherish small victories
By Chris Wristen
sports@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
When Division II Emporia State came to Allen Fieldhouse to play projected Top 10 Kansas, coach Marc Comstock didn't think his team had a chance of winning. It didn't.
"We don't even consider that as an option," Comstock said. "What we tried to do was find some small victories and tried to play the game in segments from timeout to timeout and see how we did in that segment."
"Obviously, it's a tough environment for any team, but we don't play in front of 16,000 people in a full year." Comstock said. "It's a tough way to start with a new team and a young team to come into an environment like this and have much success."
The exhibition was the Emporia State's first game of the season. There are just four returnees to the Hornets squad, slated ninth out of 10 in its conference. If that's not enough adversity, the rowdy crowd of 16,300 fans made the task even more difficult.
The crowd welcomed Emporia State loudly and let the Hornets hear it when their shots were off the mark. No one was yelled at more than Hornet junior Matt Haynes, whose first-half air ball made him the target of fans' harassment. He said he didn't
Small victories aside, the Jayhawks mauled the Hornets 120-61.
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mind the heckling.
"It was my little way of knowing they were acknowledging me," Haynes said. "I'll never play in a situation like this. You have to cherish this moment."
Haynes earned his moments to cherish, too. After enduring "air ball" chants for half the game, he knocked down a pair of three-pointers in the second half. Haynes finished the game 3-15 from the field.
Center Brad Emme was another player who had some moments of glory despite his on-court challenge. He blocked a shot by Eric Chenowith and another by Drew Gooden before fouling out after playing just 12 total minutes. He was also 1-3 from the field.
"I think if you do anything good against us, if you're a Division II school, it's got to give you a lot of confidence," Chenowith said. "If they know they can do something well against Kansas then they know they can do it well against anybody."
"Eric Chenowith was my biggest challenge." Emme said. "A lot of my teammates had been giving me crap and were telling me that Chenowith was going to dunk on me. I told them he wasn't. I just wanted to show them that I wasn't all talk. Sure, I fouled out early, but it was a great experience."
Chenwith said he thought Emporia State could learn a lot from its experience and apply what it learned during the season.
"This is a thrill for our guys," Comstock said. "Our in-staters dream of getting out there and playing in front of 16,000 people. They'll remember this game more than they'll remember any other game they play at Emporia State. I'm sure they all had somebody tape the game for them."
Comstock said despite the height disadvantage and intimidating atmosphere, his team enjoyed its visit to Allen Fieldhouse.
Edited by Erin Adamson
KANSAS 120
EMPORIA STATE 51
Murray 8-58 1-51, Hannes 1-7 0-3, Enne 1-3 0-0, Hannes 3-10 4-4, Brown 1-9 0-0, Hannes 2-11 3-0, Brown 4-6 5-15, Sharp 4-6 5-15, Adkison 1-5 0-0, Burton 0-1 0.0, Totals 14-57 17-25.1
EMPORIA STATE (F1)
Gooden 8:13-0 10, Gregory 7:12-1 13,7
Chenowith 4:5-2 12, 10, Hinrich 0:1 2,2
Bosches 6:10 0 17, Kinsey 4:5-4 14,
Collomass 4:4-4 12, Nesh 2:1-0 10, Dany
5:0-5 10, Akhil 6:9-3 14, 13
Zerbe 1:3 0 2, Kappelman 0:0 0, Totals
17:3 16.1 20.12
KANSAS (120)
score By Halves
Emporia State
31 20 --- 51
Kansas
62 58 --- 120
3-Point Goals—Emporia State 6-26 (Tegmeier 1,5; Maynell 1-11, Brown 0-7, Sharp 2-3), Kansas 14-20 (Gooden 0-1, Gregory 2-3, Boschie 5-5, Kenny 2-29, Harshion 1-1, Axtell 4-7, Zerbe 0-1), Fouled out—Emre, Emporia State 6-28 (Gooden 0-1), Kansas 6, Kansas 7 (Golden 14), Assists—Emporia State 9 (Brown 4), Kansas 31 (Gregory 6), Total fouls—Emporia State 21, Kansas 23, Technicals—Emporia State bench. Flagger fouls—None, A—16,000 (16,300).
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