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MORRIS GOES FROM CRIMSON TO BLUE
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Star guard was always a Sooners fan before coming to Kansas
By Max Rothman mrothman@kansan.com
This is the kind of chemistry that most couples can't even sniff at.
Leaving doubt at the front door, Krysten Boogaard executes her primary objective and powerfully secures the rebound. She then hits her outlet, Angel Goodrich, who is already mid-sprint, baby steps before half-court. Goodrich rushes to the free throw line, corralling defenders like a commanding shepherd before flipping it to Aishah Sutherland on the lower block. Sutherland pump fakes toward the hoop and flings it to Danielle McCray at the right elbow of the three-point line. With no time to waste, McCray kicks it to the corner to a wide open Sade Morris. Years past hesitation, Morris quickly fires. The basketball gracefully soars in the air, spins on its own axis, reaches its peak trajectory and like a bird away from its nest, falls into the loop, returning home once more. Nothing but net. Another swish, another reminder: Guard Sade Morris blends like a chameleon in Lawrence. Funny how she came from the enemy.
It isn't exactly treason. That would be a bit of an exaggeration. But it isn't too far off either. You see, Sade Morris didn't always bleed crimson and blue. To be precise, a few years back that blue replaced an unwelcom-
Senior guard Sade Morris grew up in Norman, Okla., before she came to Kansas to play for the Jayhawks. Morris says that she felt at home in Lawrence and says many people were shocked that she did not go to the University of Oklahoma.
THE WAVE NOVEMBER 13,2009
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN