tuesday november 11,2003
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Royals shortstop beats Yankee for rookie title
NEW YORK — Kansas City shortstop Angel Berroa beat New York Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui in the closest AL Rookie of the Year vote in 24 years.
Berroa
Barra received 12 first-place votes, seven seconds and seven thirds for 88 points in balloting released yesterday by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Barro is the fourth Kansas City player to win the eward, following Lou Piniella (1969), Bob Hamelin (1994) and Carlos Beltran (1999).
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Anyone who left the football game early on Saturday are fairweather fans and can't possibly call themselves real Jayhawks.
AP preseason basketball poll released, Kansas ranked sixth
The Associated Press
Connecticut is thrilled to be the runaway No. 1 pick in The Associated Press' preseason college basketball poll. The Huskies can only hope it leads to better things than the last time they started the season on top.
Connecticut received 67 firstplace votes and 1,793 points from the 72-member national media panel, which likely found it hard to overlook the returning inside-outside combination of Emeka Okafor and Ben Gordon.
"The No. 1 ranking matters because it does put some highlights on your program and helps some of the kids get recognized," coach Jim Calhoun said yesterday. "I don't find it being pressurized. It's how you handle it because we all aspire to be No. 1 at the end."
Connecticut never even came close to being there at the end of the 1999-2000 season, the last time it was the preseason No. 1. The Huskies lost the opener to Iowa and finished 20th in the final poll, the only time since 1980 a No. 1 preseason team did not end up in the Top 10.
"I can do without that," Calhoun said.
He preferred, instead, to talk about the season before, when Connecticut was No.2 in the preseason voting to Duke.
"That year it was us and Duke and one of us was No. 1 the whole season. Then we met in the championship game, and I'll take that again," he said, referring to Connecticut's 77-74 victory and its only national championship.
This time, Duke is No. 2, with three first-place votes and 1,667 points.
Connecticut went 23-10 last season and reached the third round of the NCAA tournament.
"I would make us one of the top five with Emeka, with Ben and with a deep and fairly experienced team," Calhoun said. "I can't argue if some people think we're No. 1 of that top five."
This is the fourth time the Huskies have been a preseason
"The No.1 ranking matters because it does put some highlights on your program and helps some of the kids get recognized."
No. 1, They were also on top in 1994-95 and 1998-99.
Jim Calhoun Connecticut coach
Duke has four starters back from a team that went 26-7 last season and, like Connecticut, reached the third round of the NCAA tournament.
Michigan State received one No. 1 vote and was No. 3 with 1,607 points. It was followed in the Top 10 by Arizona, Missouri, Kansas, defending national champion Syracuse, Florida, North Carolina and Gonzaga.
Kansas had the only other first- place vote.
Kentucky was 11th and was followed by Texas, Illinois, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Louisville, Saint Joseph's, Cincinnati, Stanford and Wake Forest.
The final five teams in the preseason poll were Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Marquette, North Carolina State and Oklahoma State.
The last two preseason No.1s, Duke and Arizona, both went on to finish No. 1 in the final poll as well.
The last preseason No.1 to win the national championship was Kentucky in 1995-96.
The preseason Top 25 comes from nine conferences with five having at least three teams.
The Big 12 Conference led the way with five teams — Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State — while the Big East and Atlantic Coast each had four and the Big Ten and Conference USA each had three.
Six of the schools were not ranked in the final poll last season, including North Carolina State, the only team in the preseason poll not to be ranked at all last season.
AP TOP 25
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' men's preseason college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, 2002-03 records, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last season's final ranking;
Record Pts Pv
1. Connecticut (67) 23-10 1,793 23
2. Duke (3) 28-7 1,861 7
3. Michigan St. (1) 22-13 1,607 —
4. Arizona 28-4 1,476 2
5. Missouri 22-11 1,436 24
6. Kansas (1) 30-8 1,396 6
7. Syracuse 30-5 1,361 7
8. Florida 25-8 1,219 10
9. North Carolina 19-16 1,139 —
10. Gonzaga 24-9 1,125 —
11. Kentucky 32-4 1,092 1
12. Texas 26-7 1,083 5
13. Illinois 25-7 941 11
14. Oklahoma 27-7 822 3
15. Wisconsin 24-8 715 21
16. Louisville 25-7 623 14
17. Saint Joseph's 25-7 579 —
18. Cincinnati 17-12 578 —
19. Stanford 24-9 555 18
20. Wake Forest 25-6 458 8
21. Notre Dame 24-10 429 22
22. Pittsburgh 28-5 382 5
23. Marquette 27-6 154 9
24. N.C. State 18-13 120 —
25. North St. 22-10 83
Others receiving votes: Maryland
77, California 71, Oregon 70, Xavier
68, Ohio St. 46, Utah 39, LSU 33,
Auburn 32, BYU 25, Colorado 16,
Arizona St. 13, Providence 13,
Purdue 13, Memphis 12, UCLA 12,
Mississippi St. 9, Southern Cal 8,
Michigan 7, Temple 7, Butler 6,
Indiana 6, Manhattan 5, Georgia 3,
Ill-Chicago 3, N. Illinois 3, Nevada
3, Wichita St. 3, Dayton 1, Seton
1, Hall 1, Vermont 1.
The highest ranked team in the final poll not to be in the preseason Top 25 was Xavier. The Musketeers were 10th in the final poll last season but lost national player of the year David West to graduation.
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