8B • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
MONDAY AUGUST 18,2003
Roundball eclipse
Jun Ikuno,
Nagoya, Japan,
senior, took a shot
Friday afternoon
on the court
behind Oliver Hall.
He was shooting
free throws with
three of his
friends.
Courtney Kuhlen/Kansar
New coaches to lead'Hawks
By Chris Wintering
cwintering@kansan.com
Kansas Sportswriter
When Roy Williams took that powder blue jet to Chapel Hill, N.C., he wasn't alone. He also took almost his entire coaching staff with him.
Last year's assistants Steve Robinson, Joe Holladay, C.B. Grath and Jerod Haase all joined Williams at North Carolina. That leaves Ben Miller as the only member of Williams' staff staying at Kansas.
Miller is now the team's director of basketball operations. Director of Media Relations Mitch Germann said Miller's job would include some of Haase's former duties. It may also include assisting in scheduling, recruiting and traveling. However, Miller will no longer be on the bench as he was last season.
Roberts
Jankovich
Joining Miller on the staff will be associate coach Norm Roberts, and assistant coaches Tim Jankovich and Joe Dooley. Dooley was the final coach added to the staff on June 27.
In a press release following Dooley's hiring, Self was excited about finalizing his staff.
"I'm confident that we'll have as high a quality a staff as anyone in the country." Self said.
According to Germann, the team might hire one more graduate assistant to join Sean Harrington, who was added to the
Dooley
staff this summer.
Harrington played for Self at Illinois and will serve a similar role as McGrath did in the past.
Norm Roberts
NEW ASSIS
TANTS
Robertts worked with Self at Illinois, Tulsa and Oral Roberts.
He has a reputation of being a strong recruiter and helped Illinois land a top-10 recruiting class in 2002.
Roberts played and coached at Queens College where he is the school's second all-time leading scorer.
He also coached NBA player Kenny Anderson while working at Archbishop Malloy High School in New York City.
Tim Jankovich
Before working at Illinois last year, Jankovich was an assistant coach at Vanderbilt. There, he worked under former Kansas assistant coach Kevin Stallings.
Jankovich was a four-year starter at Kansas State as a point guard. He was a three-time Academic All-American at Kansas State University and a Rhodes scholar candidate.
Joe Dooley
Dooley spent last year as an assistant coach at Wyoming. His team visited Allen Fieldhouse to play the Jayhawks in a regular season game Jan. 15. Kansas won the game 98-70.
Women's basketball ready for tip-off
Dooley has also been an assistant at New Mexico and South Carolina. He was head coach at East Carolina from 1995-1999.
-Edited by Michael Owells
Bv Jesse Newell
By Jesse Newell
jnewell@kansan.com
Kansas Sportwriter
While coach Marian Washington called last year a season of promise, this could be a season of production for a young women's Jayhawk basketball team.
Kansas suffered some growing pains early in 2002, as nine newcomers were brought in to replace five departed seniors.
This year, however, Washington returns all five starters from a squad which finished ninth in the Big 12 Conference with an 11-18 overall record. The team notched three Big 12 victories after none the previous year and took some momentum into the season after defeating Iowa State in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament.
Among the returners are the inside duo of Tamara Ransburg
and Crystal Kemp.
The sophomore forwards both averaged just below 11 points a game last year to lead the women Jayhawks, with Ransburg step.
Washington
ping in as the emotional leader on the team.
Aquanita Burras (10.5 points per game) gives Kansas a scoring threat from the perimeter, while Blair Waltz (7.5 ppg) and Leila Menguc (2.7 ppg) round out the starting lineup.
In addition, Erica Hallman (7.8 ppg) and Alicia Rhymes, who did not play, return healthy from knee injuries that set them back last year, with Nichelle Roberts (3.4 ppg) coming back as a force off the bench for Kansas.
"We've found some very strong,very motivated individuals who have the ability and the desire to help Kansas get back to the level that it was for so many years."
Marian Washington women's basketball coach
A highly-touted group of newcomers will also help the Jayhawks.
Sharita Smith, a Street & Smith magazine All-American, and Lauren Ervin, a McDonald's High-School All-American, both signed with the University of Kansas last fall. They join the spring signees — forward Kandis
Bonner, guard Kaylee Brown,
guard Syretta Coleman and
forward LaRisha Graves — to give Kansas six new faces on the roster.
"We feel we have taken a strong step as we work to reestablish our proud women's basketball tradition at KU with the signing of these four young women, in addition to early signing class," Washington said. "We've found some very strong, very motivated individuals who have the ability and the desire to help Kansas get back to the level that it was for so many years."
The team will need the added depth, as six players from last year's roster are no longer with the team.
Washington enters her 31st season as coach of the women Jayhawks with an overall record of 551-347.
- Edited by Ashley Marriott
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