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KICK THE
KANSAN
2003
A weekend of upsets had Greene kicked by two contestants, but he says the competition is just heating up as next week's match-ups are too close to call. PAGE 7A
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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, October 7, 2003
New look for team
John Nowak/Kansan
The athletics department has made a slight variation in the jerseys worn by basketball players. Some Lawrence sports stores have already begun to stock the new style featuring a red border on the collar and trim, like this one at Sports Dome, 942 Massachusetts St.
HEARD on the hill
"I want to get me a Simien jersey.I'd buy one of those if it was on the 30 percent off day." Adam Harris Wamego freshman
With only 10 days remaining until Late Night in the Phog, four students told The University Daily Kansan what they thought of the men's basketball team's new jerseys.
"The red stands out more. They changed the court so I guess a new coach,new jerseys. It's kind of how they did it in football." Jarrod Edwards St.Joseph.Mo.,senior
"I can barely tell the difference between the two. but the new one looks good." Justina Patterson Pittsburg freshman
"I like the old ones better. The white on the old one is nice, but I guess it doesn't make too huge of a difference."
Hilda Audardottir
Lawrence freshman
Golf drops to fourth in meet
By Ryan Colaiani
rcolaianni@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas men's golf team finished its first two rounds at the Pepperdine Club Glove Intercollegiate yesterday in a tie for fourth place with the University of Tulsa. The team struggled in the second round and fell behind first-place Pepperdine by 27 strokes.
The team's top three players, juniors Kevin Ward and Andrew Price, and freshman Tyler Docking, played well in the first round for a combined one-over par. This helped position the team in a tie for third, and only one shot back of second-place Colorado State.
Things changed in the second round as Price, who won the Kansas Invitational two weeks ago, followed up his one-under 71 in the first round with an
80, his worst round of the season. The round knocked Price from a tie for third place to a tie for 26th.
Ward was the lone Jayhawk to play consistently well yesterday, shooting a first-round 74 and a second-round 70. He is in a tie for fourth place at even par and just four shots back of the leader, Pepperdine's Michael Putnam.
Freshman Gary Woodland and sophomore Pete Krsnich both fired a firstround 78. Woodland improved in the second round with a 76, but Krsnich shot an 81. Woodland is tied for 41st and Krsnich is tied for 55th.
Docking had a solid first round with an even-par 72, but slipped in the second round with a five-over 77. He is tied for 16th.
Woodland is playing in his first event as a member of the starting five. He earned the spot after finishing eighth as
See the golf brain scores on page 5A
an individual at the Kansas Invittational.
Pepperdine torched the field yesterday on its way to setting a tournament record of eight-under par. The team cooled off somewhat in the second round, finishing three over par. Pepperdine is at five-under par for the tournament and has an 18-stroke lead over second-place Arizona State. Pepperdine is the only team under par.
Putnam, the junior All-American from Pepperdine, followed up his five-under first round, with a one-over 73 in the second.
The third and final round will be played today at the 6,858 yard, par 72, Saticio Country Club in Somis, Calif.
- Edited by Scott Christie
Longhorn rally sinks Wildcats
By Kevin Flaherty
kflaherty@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
For the second straight year, Texas defeated Kansas State with a fourth quarter rally, in the highlight of last weekend's Big 12 Conference games.
The Longhorns won this season's contest 24-20.
In a highly defensive game, the play of Texas redshirt freshman quarterback Vince Young stood out. Though he normally splits time with Chance Mock, Young received all of the important snaps in the second half, and led the Longhorns to the game-winning score in the fourth quarter. Neither team had more than 300 vards total offense.
Texas needs to stay focused as they face No.1 Oklahoma in the Red River Shootout at the Cotton Bowl on Saturday.
Oklahoma has won the last three meetings, and the running game should play an important part again this year. In the last five years, the winner of the game has had the most rushing vards.
Mack Brown, Texas coach, said Oklahoma would be a test for Texas' offense.
"Oklahoma's defense is the best in the country," Brown said. "They have great players and are well coached. They have as much talent as anyone else in the country."
The weekend's other notable matchup came in Baylor's upset of Colorado in Waco, Texas. The Bears used two turnovers to score 21 points in three minutes in the third quarter to turn the tide of the game. They went on to win, 42-30.
Colorado outgained the Bears by almost 200 yards, but could not hold on to the football with five turnovers. Rashad Armstrong had 167 rushing yards for Baylor. When Colorado tried to take the lead late in the game, the Bears stopped running back Brian Calhoun for a two-yard loss on fourth and goal from the one. Baylor then drove 97 yards and scored on a 55-yard run by Armstrong to
put the game out of reach.
Texas Tech quarterback B.J. Symons continued his record-setting ways as he passed for more than 500 yards in the Red Raiders 59-28 victory over Texas A&M. It was the third straight game in which Symons surpassed the 500-yard mark. Believe it or not, it was also the third straight game that he set a Big 12 single-game record. The previous two records were for passing yardage, but this time it was for touchdown passes.
Symons threw eight touchdown passes, breaking the mark of seven set last year by the Aggies quarterback Dustin Long in the Texas Tech-Texas A&M game. Texas A&M set a record they will not want to see in the books. Saturday's game was the most points ever allowed by an Aggie team.
Oklahoma's pre-Texas match came much easier than the Longhorns game, as the Sooners shredded Iowa State 53-7 in Ames, Iowa. Quarterback Jason White passed for 384 yards and five touchdowns, while Oklahoma's defense made the evening a nightmare for Cyclones quarterback Austin Flynn. Flynn threw two interceptions and was sacked six times. Iowa State's 39-yard gain off a halfback pass was the longest gain of the night for the Cyclones.
Jammal Lord racked up 135 yards passing and 72 yards rushing as Nebraska shut out Troy State 30-0. The Huskers defense allowed only 150 total yards for the Trojans, who did not cross midfield until 9:50 left in the third quarter. Nebraska faces Missouri this Saturday in Columbia.
Oklahoma State wiped out Louisiana Lafayette 5-6 on the strength of two touchdowns off punt returns by Darrent Williams. Vernand Morency rushed for 189 yards and two touchdowns on 18 carries for the Cowboys. Tatum Bell started the game for the Pokes at running back, but did not return after an early fumble.
Edited by Scott Christie
BIG 12 WEEKEND GAMES
This week appears to be the biggest week of the year for Big 12 Conference football as several seasons could be made or broken
Oklahoma will play Texas in the Cotton Bowl, where Texas has lost the past three years. Gone for Texas is perennial scapegoat Chris Simms, but the question remains: Can Longhorn quarterbacks Chance Mock or Vince Young do what Simms could not by defeating the Sooners? The smart money says no.
The Oklahoma defense is extremely athletic and talented, and the offense is better than in years past. Jason White has been throwing the ball well, while the wide receivers are lightning quick. Young may get more plays than usual against Oklahoma because of his performance against Kansas State, but it will be hard to find a quarterback in the nation who can light up this Sooner defense.
Kansas State plays Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Okaia, and both team's Big 12 title hopes could be on the line. Both are already 0-1 in the Big 12, and could fall out
or me race by starting 0-2. The Cowboys dropped an early one to Nebraska, while the Wildcats will be looking to rebound from a close loss at Texas. The Kansas State cornerbacks must play well against OSU's big game receiver, Rashaun Woods. Josh Fields hasn't played up to last year's standards, but he is still solid and the running game is dangerous. Kansas State must play as physically as last week, when the defense sack Chance Mock four times. Fields is not as mobile as Mock, so if the defense comes to play the Cowboys could be in trouble.
Nebraska brings an undefended record into Missouri, where the Tigers often give the Huskers trouble. Missouri's offensive play-calling must get better for them to have a shot against a very good Nebraska defense. Look for Nebraska to sneak one out by using quarterback draws and pushing Missouri off the line of scrimmage. Either way, it could be a very entertaining game in a week full of them.
Edited by Scott Christie
Rowing for Rockford
The University of Kansas novice crew team practiced yesterday afternoon on the Kansas River. The team is preparing for a tournament in Rockford, Ill., this weekend.
MeganTrue/Kansan
Football team must expect success now
From now on, winning games like the one in Boulder Saturday can't be seen as merely a possibility, something that could happen if Kansas plays its best game. Coach Mark Mangino's 4-1 Jayhawks now must expect to win games like this.
If the Kansas football team's 35-14 victory over Missouri on Sept. 27 confirmed that the program has turned a corner, then Saturday's game at Colorado should signal the beginning of a new standard for the Jayhawks.
As of yesterday, Colorado enters the game as a seven-point favorite, but don't pay any attention to that. Kansas was also officially an underdog entering its easy victories against UNLV and Missouri, and before a not-so-easy victory against Wvoming.
Just as these Jayhawks aren't the usual Kansas team fans have come to expect (and ignore), Colorado isn't the same
Joey Berlin jberlin@kansan.com
sports commentary
team that's won back-to-back Big 12 Conference North division titles. Kansas football is at its highest point since 1995, the last time the Jayhawks won in Boulder. Colorado is headed in the opposite direction.
The Buffaloes sit at 2-3 after three straight defeats, including last weekend's 42-30 defeat to — gasp! — Baylor. Colorado's top tailback, Bobby Purity, miss the game with an ankle injury. Storting quarterback Joel Klatt has
After the Baylor game, Colorado coach Gary Barnett admitted his team had been "just getting outmanned up front" for three straight games, and "didn't get in svc" against the Bears.
missed two starts in a row after suffering a shoulder injury, but was thrown into action Saturday after backup Erik Greenberg injured his hand.
The only resemblance this Colorado team shows to recent Buffalo squads is its uniform. These Buffalooes are reeling.
If Mangino, a fan of motivational quotations, needs to do something to make his team realize that winning in Boulder should be expected, he should post a sign in the locker room reading, "This team lost to Baylor."
Some might worry that the Jayhawks' bye weekend might have short-circuited the momentum generated by winning
SEE BERLIN ON PAGE 6A