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Conference wins a must-have
MIKE GALLOWAY
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The Kansas volleyball team heads to Norman, Okla., this Saturday, looking for its first conference victory of the season.
Upsetting the nationally-ranked Sooners would not be something new for coach Ray Bechard's squad.
The Jayhawks (12-6, 0-5) will attempt to get back on track with the game against the No. 22 Sooners (17-5, 4-2) at 5 p.m. in Oklahoma tomorrow night, after losing more ground in the Big 12 on Wednesday.
"They had a difficult five-set loss after being up 2-0 at A&M, and that's just our league," Bechard said. "That's how things work."
The Sooners are coming off back-to-back road losses to Iowa State and Texas A&M, both schools who the Jayhawks have lost to at home this season.
In the final game of the 2010 regular season, the Jayhawks stunned the Sooners by sweeping them on their own court. Oklahoma would go on to receive an NCAA tournament bid while Kansas was left on the outside looking in.
Senior setter Nicole Tate had 39 assists in the upset last season. She said the team has to repeat the feat if they want to gain momentum in a tight B12.
"It's a must win," Tate said. "We have to beat Oklahoma and get back on schedule in the Big 12 and start winning some matches."
Senior outside hitter Allison Mayfield contributed to the win last year, notching three aces. Despite losing in four sets to Missouri on Wednesday, Mayfield said there was evidence of improvement, such as no player finishing with a negative attack percentage.
"You never want to hit negative," Mayfield said. "We were swinging away, and we were being pretty successful when we were hitting shots. It was a good sign, but we didn't get the 'W', and that's what we were after in the end."
After starting the season with their best record since 2002, the Jayhawks have had to endure one
of their worst starts to conference play since before Bechard took the helm in 1998.
"If we stay diligent and we keep working on the things we need to work on, things will start to go our way," Bechard said.
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CHRIS BRONSON/KANSAN FILE PHOTO Senior setter Nicole Tate sets up junior Tayler Tolefure for an attack. The Jayhawks prepare to take on the Sooners this Saturday, at 5 p.m.
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Kansas, making his home first in Stauffer-Flint Hall — where he sat, forgotten, until 2009 — and then in the University Archives.
The "Russian Jayhawk," as the small carving has come to be known, was a gift of gratitude from an unknown Russian prisoner of war to Conrad Hoffman, a Kansas alumnus working with the YMCA in Germany during World War I.
On Wednesday evening, he made another journey, this time to the offices of the department of Slavic languages and literatures in Wescoe Hall, where he'll live for one year in a glass display case.
It's a symbol of the long-standing connection between the University and its students doing good in Russian and Eastern Europe, said Marc Greenberg, chairman of the Slavic department.
The YMCA post was "an important non-governmental service performing a moral and social function during the First World War," Greenberg wrote in his article "Hoffman's Hawk."
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In 1913, Conrad Hoffman became the secretary of the YMCA at the University, leaving his position as a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin.
According to a pencil inscription on his side, the Russian Jayhawk was given to Hoffman in 1917. He was probably carved by either
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