FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2002
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'Hawks face unfamiliar foe
Kansas to play UNC-Greensboro for first time
By Kelly McNearney
kmcnearney@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Ask anyone in Lawrence about the University of North Carolina-Greensboro men's basketball team and you may not get much of a response.
Even Nick Collison, senior forward, said he didn't know tonight's opponent.
"We usually don't know much about a new team until the day before, a couple days before we play," he said.
Kansas plays UNC-Greensboro at 6.00 p.m. tonight in Allen Fieldhouse in the second round of the Preseason NIT.
The two teams have never met before and have very little in common.
Kansas is 16-1 all-time in Preseason NIT play, including a record of 15-0 under coach Roy Williams.
This is the first year UNC
Greensboro has ever played in the Preseason NIT. The team comes into tonight's game with a 1-0 record after defeating Wagner 84-65 Tuesday.
Kansas, with its No. 2 ranking, is the highest ranked team UNC-Greensboro has ever played in the regular season. The Spartans played No. 1 seeded Stanford in the first round of the 2001 NCAA tournament, but lost 89-60.
UNC-Greensboro's three-year record under coach Fran McCaffery is 54-36. The team went 20-11 last season.
Williams has coached Kansas to a 389-93 record in his 15th year as coach. Last season, the Jayhawks were 33-4. Williams' 80 percent winning percentage gives him the highest winning percentage among active coaches.
Both teams boast the return of two starting seniors.
Senior Jayhawks Collison and Kirk Hinrich are both preseason All-American candidates.
UNC-Greensboro cherishes senior forwards Luke Boythe and James Maye and last season's leading scorer. Maye is a preseason all-Southern Conference selection.
The Jayhawks are accustomed to playing before a packed house of 16,300 crazed fans at Allen Fieldhouse. The Spartans call Fleming Gymnastium home, with its capacity of 2,320.
UNC-Greensboro has a basketball history of 35 years.
Former Kansas coach James Naismith invented the game and coached Kansas' first season in 1898.
A search for a UNC-Greensboro alum in the NBA will come up empty. None are currently on an NBA roster, and no Spartan has ever been drafted.
Sixty-two Jayhawks have played in the NBA, six currently.
But history and arena size don't win basketball games. And after last year's preseason flub, this Kansas team won't count anyone out.
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rado 4A Player of the Year Colorado as a senior in high school. He hit .349 with three home runs and 22RBIs at Garden City Community College last year.
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"Mike is one of the top offensive junior college players in the country." Price said "We expect him to make an immediate impact in the Big 12."
Aside from scoring runs, Kansas picked up several players known for defending them.
John Fumagalli put up a 2.99 ERA at Neosho Community College last season after transferring from the University of Illinois.
"John is considered one of the top lefthanded junior college pitchers in the state of Kansas," Price said. "We expect him to be in our starting rotation next year. He has the potential to be a quality Division I pitcher."
Sean Richardson was a 2001 and 2002 draftee by the Detroit Tigers. While playing catcher last season for Palomar Community College in San Diego, he was named first team All-Pacific Coast Conference and the team's MVP.
"Sean is considered by many baseball scouts to be the top junior college catcher in the state of
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Mike Dudley, first baseman from Garden City Community College
Tami Dunton, third baseman from Porterville College
Travis Bumpf, and Susan Henselman
Kenny Falconer, pitcher from University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Can.
Travis Dunlap, third baseman from Porterville College
- Kenny Falconer, pitcher from University of Colorado Boulder
- Fumagali Maguile, pitcher from Neosho County Community College
Johan Pallagana, placer at New York College
Jacob Jeanner, pitcher Cosmées River College
Jacob Jean, pitcher Cosumnes River School
Sean Land, pitcher from Lee's Summit High School in Lee's Summit, Mo.
Tanner Mumray catcher from Community College of Rhode Island
Tanther Munsey, catcher from San Francisco, catcher from Palomar Community College in San Diego
Andy Scholl, outfielder, from Lamar Community College
Clint Schambach, pitcher from Eign Community College
Jared Schweitzer, infielder from University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Can Justin Sibley, outfielder from Community College of Southern Nevada
Munsey and Falconer will both be eligible to join the team next spring.
California," Price said. "He is a tremendous athlete and a great sign for our program. We expect him to be a team leader and a great player in the Big 12."
Price said much of the reason of landing such a promising class was because of the tireless efforts of his assistants, especially recruiting coordinator Ryan Graves, Graves hit the road often during the last couple of months and signed recruits from eight states.
"We did a lot of traveling this fall," Graves said. "We like the talent level of these guys. The game plan was trying to get quality junior college players that come in and help us immediately. We feel we needed guys to come
and step up next year."
Price said the players played an important role talking up the Kansas team.
"The reason we just signed a top 25 class is because of the players," Price said. "They've been fabulous in selling the program."
Note:
The team is still doing four on four drills, Price said, and he liked the progress his players were making. In addition, the squad has been lifting weights four times a week with morning conditioning. Jan. 11 marks the first day of full practice.
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grew up in North Carolina and did his student teaching living right beside the campus.
Tonight will be a new experience for everyone, as the game marks the first meeting between these teams.
If the Jayhawks advance past the second round of the Preseason NIT, Williams said, the team will celebrate Thanksgiving in New York.
Niang said he would use this first tournament to learn about college basketball as well as American culture. Niang said he and the rest of the bench understood their role this season - help, don't hurt.
"The guys coming off the bench are doing an OK job," he said, "but we just come in to not hurt the team, play defense and rebound. We have guys that can score, so for now that's what we need to do."
Wells' attacker convicted of assault in bar fight
Edited by Nicole Roché
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A man was convicted of assault yesterday for punching Yankees pitcher David Wells and knocking out two of his teeth during an early morning fight Sept. 7.
Rocco Graziosa was acquitted of two other charges after a weeklong trial in Manhattan Criminal Court. The jury deliberated less than three hours.
The 27-year-old Graziosa faces up to a year in jail when he is sentenced Jan. 15. He will remain free on $1,500 bail and was ordered to stay away from Wells.
It was the 6-foot-4,245-pound Wells, according to defense attorney Harry Mazurek and friends of Graziosa, who grabbed the smaller man. Graziosa struck Wells in self-defense, the lawyer contended.
But Wells testified that
Graziosa repeatedly cursed him, mocked his weight and made nasty comments about his late mother.
The 39-year-old Wells said he approached Graziosa's table to say "enough is enough," and the 5-foot-7, 150-pound bartender landed a sucker punch to his jaw. Wells insisted he never touched Graziosa.
The pitcher lost two teeth,
then cracked his head on a table
when he crumpled to the floor. Wells was bleeding from the forehead and mouth, and he required seven hours of dental work.
The jury, during Wells' time on the stand, also heard a 911 call made by the pitcher.
Wells, whose speech was unintelligible at times on the tape, testified he downed three shots of tequila during a night on the town after pitching a complete game victory a few hours earlier.
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