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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2008
quote of the day
"We are just going to go out and play hard because it is a big rivalry for us. We look forward to playing Missouri every year. Win or lose against Missouri we will just have to wait and see what the bowl committee has to say in regard to our fate."
Kansas senior linebacker James Holt
fact of the day
Kansas' last victory against Missouri came on Oct. 29, 2005. Kansas defeated Missouri 13-3 at Memorial Stadium.
trivia of the dav
Q: What is Kansas football coach Mark Mangino's career-record against Missouri while Kansas?
A:3-3.
ku sports schedule
Today
Men's basketball: Syracuse,
9:15 p.m. (Kansas City, Mo.)
Wednesday
Volleyball: Baylor, 7 p.m.
(Lawrence)
Thursday No events
Friday Men's basketball: Coppin State, 7 p.m. (Lawrence)
Saturday
Saturday
Football: Missouri, 11:30 a.m.
(Kansas City, Mo.)
Volleyball: Iowa State,
6:30 p.m. (Ames, Iowa)
Sunday
Sunday
Women's basketball: New Orleans, 2 p.m. (Lawrence)
College basketball starts to re-emerge
Although most of the U.S. is still stuck in an NFL-induced haze, college basketball is alive and well. November hoops action isn't meaningless — it's full of Top 25 match-ups, early-season tournaments and upsets. And despite pro football's long shadow darkening the sports landscape, we have plenty to watch and learn from the first few weeks of our state's favorite sport.
Here are a few observations:
Missouri is good — Mizzou (4-1)
is one of only two Big 12 Conference schools with a loss so far this season, but its lone loss came against a rugged Xavier squad. Among the Tigers' early-season victims: then-No. 19 Southern California and defending Southern Conference champion Chattanooga.
Missouri night, she added via subsection this offseason, losing a pair of poor shooters in guards Keon Lawrence and Stefion Hannah. The Tigers boast one of
the best frontcourts in the Big 12: Forwards Leo Lyons and Demarre Carroll provide plenty of scoring and rebounding.
Colorado is bad — The Buffaloes (2-1) have a winning record, but no respectable Big 12 team should suffer a home loss at the hands of the Montana State Bobcats.
Colorado has been the Big 12's worst team by a wide margin for two years running, and now that super-scorer Richard Roby has moved on, things look even worse. Considering how painfully bor
ing (and apparently ineffective) coach Jeff Bzdelik's Princeton-style offense is, there's nary a thing to be excited about in Boulder this season.
Blake Griffin is the new Mike Beasley Say hello the next scourge of the Big 12. Two seasons ago, it was Texas forward Kevin Durant. Last year, it was Kansas State forward Michael Beasley. This season the conference's unquestioned best is Oklahoma forward Blake Griffin.
Take a gander at Griffin's stats through four games: 26 points per game on 74.5 percent shooting, 19.8 rebounds per game and 2.8 steals per game.
Unfortunately, Oklahoma doesn't visit Kansas this season, so Jayhawk fans will have to travel to Norman to witness what promises to be an epic matchup between Griffin and Kansas block-meister Cole Aldrich.
MUCH ADO
ABOUT NOTHING
Saturday's Border Showdown football game sure seems like a big deal. It's at a fancy NFL stadium in Kansas City, Mo. It has its own cute little logo. And the involved athletic departments have already concocted a plan to control unwieldy traffic.
All this for a game that means...
um... nothing?
Kansas is what it is: a middling team in the middle of the Big 12 North standings, headed for a middle-tier bowl against a mediocre Big Ten team.
Missouri is what it is: a flawed squad with enough firepower to beat up on the patries of the North division but not enough to compete with strong Big 12 South competition.
No matter what happens Saturday, the Tigers will compete for the conference title, and Kansas
will head back to campus a football team at a basketball school.
TUESDAY
MORNING JOKE
Kansas State rebired Bill Snyder as its football coach.
KICK THE KANSAN: WEEK 12
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Edited by Lauren Keith
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Kansas vs. Missouri
West Virginia at Pittsburgh
Florida at Florida State
Maryland at Boston College
Oregon at Oregon State
Georgia Tech at Georgia
Virginia at Virginia Tech
South Carolina at Clemson
Oklahma at Oklahoma State
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Case Keefer Basketball writer (75-36)
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KICK THE KANSAN: WEEK 12
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2. West Virginia at No. 25 Pittsburgh
3. No. 4 Florida at No. 20 Florida State
4. Maryland at No. 21 Boston College
5. No. 23 Oregon at No. 17 Oregon State
6. No. 22 Georgia Tech at No. 11 Georgia
7. Virginia at Virginia Tech
8. South Carolina at Clemson
9. No. 3 Oklahoma at No. 12 Oklahoma St.
10. Miami (Fla.) at North Carr
10. Miami (Fla.) at North Carolina State
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HOUSTON — The Houston Astros acquired minor league pitcher Tyler Lumsden from the Kansas City Royals on Monday for cash or a player to be named later.
Lumsden went 3-13 with a 7.21 ERA in 28 games this season for Triple-A Omaha. He is 0-1 with a 9.64 ERA in four games in the Puerto Rican Winter League.
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