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SPORTS
MONDAY, NOV. 26, 2001
Football: In last game, team finally finds rhythm
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And the ultimate experience in college football is winning.
"They enjoyed themselves from the very first play to the very last play. And on the sideline, it was very fun watching them go. I am proud of them."
Maligned through its last five games, Kansas' offense had one of its most productive and complete efforts of the season.
Redshirt freshman quarterback Mario Kinsey passed for 221 yards and a touchdown. Sophomore running back Reggie Duncan rumbled for 168 yards and two touchdowns. Eight Jayhawks caught passes from Kinsey, and the offense compiled 451 yards in four quarters.
years in football.
Exhausted during the last month from constantly being on the field, Kansas' defense complemented its offense. Five Jayhawks sacked Wyoming quarterback Casey Bramlet.
Senior linebacker Algie Atkinson flourished with two sacks and four tackles. Both times Atkinson got a free shot at Bramlet, he buried the Wyoming quarterback. Atkinson finished his career as Kansas' all-time sacks leader with 23.
Kansas freshman kicker Johnny Beck, who made two second-half field goals after missing a 42-yarder just before halftime, said Kansas had reached its potential. "Every game we could have done the same thing, it's just that once something bad happens, it seems to downfall from there," Beck said.
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Right: Redshirt freshman quarterback Mario Kinsey is pushed out of bounds by a Wyoming defender after a seven-yard gain. Kansas defeated Wyoming 27-14 on Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
Kansas takes hope into off-season
By Brent Briggeman Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas football team enters a transitional off-season with a fresh taste of victory.
The Jayhawks avoided ending their season with a seventh straight loss, topping Wyoming 27-14 at Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
"It's a high note for us," said freshman linebacker Banks Floodman. "It will help us in the conditioning and the off-season. We won our last game, we know we can do it, so it will help us a lot. It's nice to scratch out that losing streak."
Freshman Mario Kinsey, who won as a starting quarterback for the first time in his career, said the win would help the team turn a season of frustration into something positive.
"We all learned a lot this year,
now we can use this momentum to work hard in the off-season to get better for next year," he said.
After Saturday's game, Kinsey guaranteed that he would return for his sophomore season.
"I'm going to be here and I'm going to try to lead us to a bowl game," he said.
Kinsey completed 88 of 202 passes — 43.6 percent — and threw 11 interceptions in 10 games this season. He racked up 225 yards rushing on 130 carries, second on the team to sophomore running back Reggie Duncan's 739 yards on 181 carries.
Without a permanent coach, Kansas carries a sense of uncertainty into the off-season.
Al Bohl, Kansas athletics director, who fired coach Terry Allen on Nov. 4, has refused to discuss possible candidates for the position.
Interim coach Tom Hayes has
applied for the job, but said he had not received any indication of where he stood.
"Good things will happen here," Hayes said. "There's a move on and everybody can feel it. They'll make all the right decisions, I'm sure of it, we'll just see what happens.
"This is a positive note, it's a start for 2002 for me and it's a start for those players coming back," Hayes said.
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Right: Senior wide receiver Roger Ross slides through the grasp of a Wyoming defender for a five-yard gain in the second quarter. Ross had two receptions for nine yards, helping the Jayhawks defeat Wyoming 27-14 on Saturday.
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