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The University Daily Kansan
On Dec. 17, 1933, which team won the first-ever post season contest for the NFL title with a 23-21 victory? See the answer on page 2B.
Inside: The soccer team finished its season with a shutout loss in the Big 12 Conference tournament.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2000
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Inside: Emporia State had a positive experience playing in front of an excited Allen Fieldhouse crowd.
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Sophomore forward David Gooden dunks the ball during the second half of Saturday's game against Emporia State. He had 16 points and 11 rebounds. Photo by Justin Schmidt/KANSAN
'Hawks dominate slugglish Hornets
Williams happy with team effort
By Michael Rigg
sports@kanson.com
Kansas sportswriter
Like the Emporia State players who made the 80-mile drive with him, Corky, the Hornet mascot, just couldn't get his head on straight Saturday night.
Because of an error in manufacturing, the only way the student wearing the giant bee's head could see was to slant the hornet's mouth up, making the bee stare at the Allen Fieldhouse ceiling.
Unfortunately for Emporia State, Corky wasn't the only Hornet caught stargazing
So Corky stood in the southeast corner of the fieldhouse all night long, his head reared back, his giant plastic eyes gazing at the rafters above.
on Saturday,
as his fellow
Hornets were
demoralized
and embarrassed
by Kansas in
a 120-51 exhibition game.
The Jayhawks led from beginning to end, helping the Jayhawks rack up one of their largest margins of victory.
Indeed, nothing could go wrong for Kansas, which shot 63 percent from the floor and hardly broke a sweat in its victory against the Hornets, a Division II team.
"A lot of fun things went on," Kansas coach Roy Williams said. "I still think we gained something from it, but it was one of those weird nights. (Senior forward) Kenny Gregory banks one from the corner for three and misses a dunk, and those are two things that don't usually happen. But we had some good performances and I think we gained something from this
"We're more gifted. We have better size, speed and quickness and it's hard to shoot the ball
players."
Roy Williams KU Men's Basketball coach
game."
Saturday's game was one of the wellrounded team efforts that Williams praises.
While senior forward Luke Axtell led the Jayhawks with 19 points, six other Kansas players — Gregory, senior center Eric Chenowith, junior guard Jeff Boschee, sophomore forwards Nick Collison and Drew Gooden and freshman guard Mario Kinsey — also tallied double digit scores in the rout.
Boscheh hit all five of his three point attempts, a complete contrast to his 2-of-9 shooting performance in the Jayhawks' first exhibition on Wednesday.
"It was just one of those nights when my shot was feeling good," he said. "I think my legs weren't under me in the first game, and that was the difference. And tonight was more a game-like situation. It's likely you won't be able to do that every night, but it's great when you can."
Still, Williams said the spread-out scoring and the statistical dominance — such as the Hornets' 25 percent shooting — said more about the caliber of the competition and less about the Jayhawks.
"We're more gifted," he said. "We have better size, speed and quickness, and it's hard to shoot the ball against taller and quicker players."
Kansas plays its first regular season game on Thursday night against UCLA in New York City.
— Edited by Clay McCusition
Nebraska obliterates injury-laden Kansas
Kansan sportswriter
Saturday's 56-17 win against Kansas was an execution.
By Jason Franchuk
sports@kansan.com
LINCOLN, Neb. — If Nebraskans side with George W. Bush and Bush sides with the death penalty, then there can be no confusion where Cornhusker football fans stand on the issue.
Three hundred-yard rushers, 506 yards of total offense and Nebraska playing after its first loss of the season was more than enough to suck the life out of Kansas.
It was capital punishment in Nebraska's capital city. Kansas was shut out in two out of the last three meetings. But the Jayhawks had no problem pointing this one out as the most lopsided loss.
"In my four years, that was the most dominating Nebraska football team that I have seen," Kansas coach Terry Allen said. "They just totally took it to us offensively."
The game's tone was summed up in the first five minutes. The Jayhawks went three-and-out on their first drive and punted. Nebraska had six consecutive rushes from Dan Alexander and capped the drive with a one-yard touchdown from quarterback Eric Crouch. Nebraska could run through or around the Jayhawks' defense. Kansas simply had no options to stop Nebraska.
"I don't know what was going on," Kansas
Football: Nebraska 56 Kansas 17 For more on this weekend's game, a statistical breakdown of the matchup and more on Big 12 Conference games. See p. 89.
Nebraska linebacker Dan Alexander gets dragged to the ground by four Jayhawks. The Jayhawks lost to the Huskers 56-17 on Saturday in Lincoln. Photo by Aaron Lindberg/KANSAN
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nose guard Nate Dwyer said. "We'd line up in one thing, Crouch would come to the line and audible to something else. It was like they were one step ahead of us all day."
The loss was painful both figuratively and literally. Six Jayhawks left the game early with injuries. Along with Dwyer (knee bruise), junior defensive back Andrew Davison (neck injury), junior offensive linebacker Algie Atkinson (lower bruise), junior defensive end Ervin Holloman (stinger), senior offensive tackle John Oddonetto (right ankle sprain) and senior running back David Winbush (right ankle sprain) all left early.
Kansas, 4-5 with two games remaining, must win Saturday's game against Texas to keep bowl-eligibility hopes alive. Senior fullback Moran Norris, who Allen was very optimistic about in the days leading up to the game, was not able to play. He participated in pregame drills with his ankle heavily taped, but did not make sufficient progress to play. Instead, freshman fullback Reggie Duncan rushed 11 times for 96 yards and one touchdown.
But he was not fooled by the success. Most of it came in the second half, when Nebraska was already giving its hordes of backups a chance to play.
It was not a quick, painless death. It took
three hours and 10 minutes on ABC for plenty to watch.
"We got us served an old-fashioned butt whipping." Duncan said.
- Edited by Clay McCusition
By Sarah Warren
yhawks get hard-fought revenge against Bears
by carla warner
Sports Columnist
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas volleyball team's post-match sub sandwiches had a mild taste of revenge after an exhausting three-game shutout against Baylor on Saturday.
After falling to the Bears in five games earlier this season in Waco, Texas, the Jayhawks fought their way to a 16-14, 15-6, 15-12 victory at the Horelli Family Athletic Center.
"It was just revenge." said Jennifer Kraft, sophomore defensive specialist. "We executed our game plan perfectly."
Kansas 3
Baylor 0
(16-14, 15-6, 15-12)
Being defense-oriented not only allowed the Jayhawks to discourage the Bears in the numbers game, but also allowed the team to control Baylor's freshman phenomenon Stevie Nicholas. Nicholas, an outside hitter, leads the Big 12
"Against Baylor we wanted to out-dig them," Kansas coach Ray Bechard said. "We had $3 digs to their 50, so that was huge for us."
The Jayhawks' game plan was to beat the Bears at their strength defense.
Nicholas ended the match with 16 kills and 11 digs. Her sister, junior middle blocker Sunny Nicholas, was second for the Bears in kills with 10.
Conference in kills per game with 5.76. She had 25 kills when Baylor and Kansas last met Sept. 27.
"We made her earn her kills in game one and two," Bechard said.
The Bears focused heavily on senior outside hitter Amy Myatt, whose 28 kills in their earlier meeting almost cost Baylor the match.
The task of killing the ball shifted to the opposite side of the court and into Nancy Bell's waiting hands.
"Bell was outstanding today,"
Bechard said. "She had 17 kills and 18 dies."
Indeed, the senior outside hitter led the Jayhawks in kills and digs and finished a close second in hitting percentage with 457.
Second to Bell in kills was senior middle blocker Daniel Geronymo, who brought in 13 kills and a team-topping. 600 hitting percentage.
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These skills were especially important in several off-kilter latters where it seemed that every player was diving for a ball.
"It was a team effort," Bell said. "We were executing skills that we hadn't been executing in practice."
lies than we have (this season)." Bechard said. "They just keep coming at you."
Now, after coming out on top two matches in a row, the 'Hawks are ready to teach another lesson in revenge in Lubock, Texas, and possibly make their way to the NCAA tournament.
The Jayhawks are now 13-11 and 6-9 in the Big 12 going into Wednesday's road game at Texas Tech. Kansas fell to the Red Raiders in another close one — a five-game loss — right after it fell to Baylor.
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"We need a winning record to get to the NCAAs," Kraft said. "So any game we can take right now is important."
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Football-crazed Lincoln makes columnist glad to return home
The rest of the weekend went downhill from there.
LINCOLN, Neb. — I saw a gorgeous blonde who was half-naked during the first 30 minutes I was in Lincoln.
Lincoln isn't exactly hell, but it's not purgatory either. If it weren't for the Cornhuskers, these people might eat each other alive. But the Cornhuskers are for real, so there is peace in the city.
Oh, I suppose I should explain the partially-nude woman. Jason Franchuk, the Kansan's football reporter, and I went to do some indepth investigative reporting on the drinking establishments in Lincoln. We found a parking space, and I hopped out of Franchuk's jeep. Boom — half-naked woman.
on, IMemory, so she said,
So I'm thinking
Lincoln is great. The women are
gorgeous, partially clothed and
even polite.
I think she was using the parking lot for a restroom, and then strolled over to the jeep to greet us before remembering to pull her pants back up.
After she put her pants back on,
she introduced herself and told me
I was her new friend. She wanted me
to go to the next bar with her,
but if anyone was to ask, I was
supposed to say I was from Iowa, not
Kansas.
Meanwhile, back home, our attendance dropped from the week we beat Colorado to the week we played Texas Tech. As much as I can't stand George W. Bush, I'm reminded of fuzzy math. And go ahead and call my sports editor and tell her I'm a liberal. See if I care.
Doesn't matter, there was a record crowd this week.
I don't care how attractive a woman is; I'm not about to tell anyone I'm from Iowa. So we ditched her once we found the nearest bar. The rest of the women I met in
Lincoln all wore pants, by the way.
That's enough about naked women. What about Nebraska football?
Nebraska football should be called Nebraska life. This is a place where old "Husker coaches don't retire, they just run for elected office. Exactly 78,096 people packed Memorial Stadium, and I counted about 12 people who weren't wearing red or white. Eric Crouch is a football god, the fans are his parishioners and the stadium is his temple. This was the 238th consecutive sellout, and the view from the press box was dizzying.
Is it just me, or did Nebraska lose to Oklahoma last week?
Did you know you can buy a Nebraska hat with any player's number on it? You can buy a No. 1 hat if you're an I-back Thunder Collins fan, a No. 10 hat if you like backup quarterback Jammal Lord, or even a No. 99 hat for left rush end Adrian Warrior.
I think if Kansas football did this, the only hats they'd sell is to the players' moms.
If you watched five minutes of the game, you got the gist of it.
Dylen Smith threw the ball well for the most part, and his receivers did their best to get open. David Winbush lost almost a yard every time he touched the ball.
Nebraska never hunted. Not once.
Nebraska never punted. Not once.
There's another thing you should know about Lincoln. The bars close there at i.a.m. I guess it has something to do with Nebraska being a communist state.
They're pretty caught up in it too. Many of the people there wear shirts proclaiming their allegiance to the "Big Red."
Man, I'm glad to be home.
Jones is a Multivane senior in journalism.