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KANSAN.COM/SPORTS | THURSDAY, SEPT. 24, 2015
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Column: Wiggins needs to carry his team to playoffs
MIKE MAICKE
@MJ_Maicke
This time last year, Andrew Wiggins was focusing on getting ready for his first NBA season. Just a few months earlier, he had been selected with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, and the anticipation was building.
Head coach David Beatty and defensive coordinator Clint Bowen shout as the Kansas defense runs onto the field on Sept. 12.
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MYTHS AND TALES
DAYS OF RAGE
WIL KENNEY
@wilkenney
At around 11 p.m. on December 11, 1970, Carol Duster walked through the open door to the Summerfield Hall Computation Center. Ten feet away, a homemade bomb tore through the southern wall, according to an article from the KU Department of History. Carol Duster's contact lenses were ripped from her eyes, scratching her corneas.
The building had been previously evacuated into 20-degree night air after a steady voice called in a bomb threat.
The warning was simple and exact.
"There is a bomb in the machine room set to go off in three minutes. This is no joke," the individual told the Computation Center's switchboard operator.
Three days before, a student was
shot in front of Watson Library. Fires were started in classrooms almost daily, according to a 2010 LJ World article. Two men were killed in police clashes in the summer of '70. On April 20 of that year a firebomb scorched the upper floors of the Kansas Union. Now referred to as "The Days of Rage," 1970 was a year of violence to rival 1863, when Quantrill's Raiders rode into Lawrence to slaughter and pillage abolitionists. Still, Duster wasn't fazed by the warning and evacuation. She had homework to do and bomb threats were commonplace that semester. She went back into Summerfield without a second thought.
She was still shivering when the door opened. The clock struck 11. Two fellow students, Vernon Breit and Victor Harrison, blacked out immediately. Duster remained conscious. Later, she told the Lawrence Journal World she "thought
I was being electrocuted... My hair was sticking out in all direction ... I thought everything was on top of me. It was so dark."
Her eardrums ruptured. Her contact lenses scraped her corneas and she suffered minor scrapes and bruises.
Chancellor Larry Chalmers arrived a few minutes after the blast. He called the bombing an act of "psychopathic behavior." He had addressed the Board of Regents a day earlier and explained the year's nonstop violence.
In the aftermath, no one claimed responsibility. The list of suspects was long: Black Panther militants galvanized by the police shooting of a black teenager that summer; the V-Committee, white vigilantes radicalized by a year of racial violence; the Weathermen, a leftist offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society; or a rogue "psychopath."
Duster had little to do with any of these groups, yet she was the one in the rear of an ambulance, deaf and blind.
In the end the bomb inflicted minor injuries and $165,000 in damages. A stairwell mitigated the damage, as did a number of boxes stuffed with blank student schedules where the bomb was likely hidden.
The next day two more campus phones rang with bomb threats, but both were hoaxes.
A dozen undercover policemen were invited onto campus to infiltrate suspected groups. A reward fund was set up to gather information on the attacks, according to Lawrence.com.
No one stepped forward.
A few days later, the authorities sifted through the rubble for evidence, a clue for who or why. All they found were Carol Duster's contact lenses.
percentage, considering his team lacked multiple offensive threats to take the pressure off him and relied on him to create a lot of his offense.
However the efficiency he put up at the FIBA Americas speaks to the type of player Wiggins could become. And the Timberwolves are going to need that Wiggins if they're going to have any chance at a postseason run.
It has been more than a decade since they've made the playoffs, and even with new additions, there's still a long way to go before the winning culture can be restored.
The first set of the match proved to be difficult for the Jayhawks as they trailed the Wildcats throughout the majority of the set. Kansas took the lead a total of three times in set one. Eventually the Jayhawks took the lead at 19-18 and held it to win the set 25-23.
coach Ray Bechard said after the team's rough performance. "Offensively, we hit .220, that's probably the lowest of the year. We had to rely on some other things."
Right side hitter Kelsie Payne led the Jayhawks in kills, posting six throughout the set. Setter Ainise Havili
RAY BECHARD Head Coach
"Offensively, we hit .220, that's probably the lowest of the year. We had to rely on some other things."
The Jayhawks recorded only 11 kills in the second set, a relative low for the team. The leader in kills in the second set was outside hitter Madison Rigdon, who added four kills to bring her total to five.
can't change, our body language can't change."
Wait continued to prove herself as a defensive specialist by adding five more digs to her five from the first set. Wait was diving all over the court, trying for balls that seemed impossible to save.
The Jayhawks took the third set 25-22 in a hard-fought battle. Payne continued to post impressive kill numbers, adding six to make her total 15 in three sets. Havili assisted her teammates and put up 16 assists to increase her total to 38.
Wait led the team in digs. She showed her dedication to her defensive position by taking a full-speed hit to the face
but saved the ban and immediately got back up.
"One ball, one set, one match at a time," Wait said. "What's that I focus on."
The fourth and final set came much easier to the Jayhawks as the fire that was once burning within the Wildcats began to die. The Jayhawks took the set 25-21.
Havili added another 16 assists to bring her total to 54 — only three away from her personal best. Rigdon used those assists to post six more kills and finished the day with 14. Payne ended the day with 20 kills, five coming from the final set.
Five prayers ended the game with a dig amount in the double digits. Wait led with 27. Havili had 12 and posted yet another double-double for the season. Defensive specialist Addison Barry had a spectacular night in the back, recording a season high of six digs.
["Barry] was digging everything in her zone." Bechard said. "That was big."
The Jayhawks will face Kansas State once again on Nov. 25 in Manhattan. For now, the team's next test comes against TCU on Saturday on 2 p.m.
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