6A the university daily kansan
tuesday,november 18,2003
SOCCER: Kansas to face UCLA for first-ever meeting on Friday
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first time the two teams have met. The Jayhawks are 1-0 alltime against Pacific 10 Conference teams.
If the Jayhawks defeat UCLA, they could potentially meet up with Big 12 foo Texas A&M in the Elite Eight. The Aggies face five-seed Penn State Saturday in the third round after knocking off 12-seed Duke in the second round of the tournament.
The Jayhawks defeated the Wolverines Oct. 26, but Michigan has since defeated Notre Dame twice.
There are no seeded teams left in the bracket opposite the Jayhawks. Michigan (9-7-6), despite having the worst record of the remaining teams in its region, will be the team to watch from the region.
Three-seed Florida and 14-seed Tennessee face off Saturday. In the
"Once you get to the Sweet Sixteen, every game's going to be difficult. It doesn't matter who you are matched up with."
Mark Francis
Kansas soccer coach
same region, 11-seed Florida State and six-seed West Virginia meet Sunday. Francis said the tournament didn't get any easier the longer a team stuck around.
"Once you get to the Sweet Sixteen, every game's going to be difficult," he said. "It doesn't matter who you are matched up with."
Edited by Cate Batchelder
Baseball writers vote Rangers' Rodriguez MVP
NEW YORK — Alex Rodriguez became the second player from a last-place team to win a Most Valuable Player award, defeating Carlos Delgado and Jorge Posada in American League voting announced yesterday.
The Texas Rangers shortstop received 242 points in voting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Delgado had 210 points and Posada, 194. Showing the split among the writers, 10
players received first-place votes, one short of the record set in the 1947 NL vote and matching the 1977 AL vote. Rodriguez was first pick on six ballots, the fewest for an MVP winner since the New York Yankees' Yogi Berra in 1951. Delgado and Posada got five firsts each. The only other player on a last-place team to win an MVP was the Chicago Cubs' Andre Dawson in 1987. Rodriguez, second in the voting in 1996 and last year, was the only player picked on every ballot.
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