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2B SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY OCTOBER 20, 2000
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2009
QUOTE OF THE DAY
" (Bill) Brasky ranked 18th in the AP College Football Poll."
— John Goodman,
in a Saturday Night Live skit.
FACT OF THE DAY
With its three second-half goals in its victory against Nebraska Oct. 23, the Kansas soccer team has scored at least three times on four occasions this season.
Kansas Athletics
Q: What is Kansas' goals scored-goals allowed ratio at the Jayhawk Soccer Complex this season?
A:23-12.
Kansas Athletics
MLB
Royals' Greinke wins third postseason award
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Royals pitcher Zack Greinke has been named American League Pitcher of the Year by the Major League Baseball Players Association.
It's the third postseason honor for the Royals ace, whose 2.16 earned run average was the best in baseball. He also has received top AL pitcher honors by The Sporting News and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, and a leading candidate for the Cv Young Award.
Greinke finished the 2009 season with a 16-8 record and was second in the American League with 242 strikeouts. He had six complete games and three shutouts, both second in the majors behind Toronto's Roy Halladay.
Adam Wainwright of the St. Louis Cardinals received the honor as the National League's best pitcher.
Associated Press
MORNING BREW
A showdown of 'Big' proportions
In the least surprising news of the last two weeks, Sherron Collins and Cole Aldrich were named to the preseason All-Big 12 basketball team. Joining them were four other first teamers who could have gone pro and been picked somewhere in the top 45 of last year's draft. The Big 12 looks to be, arguably, the best conference in the nation.
The argument on that will come most raucously from the Big East, home of half of last year's Final Four and a consistent power on the national basis.
Because obsolete sports debates are kind of my forte, a colleague at ESPN and I debated: Which preseason all-conference team, of the two best conferences in the nation this year, would win?
Here's the position breakdown, including the sixth man.
PG: Collins vs. Deonta Vaughn (Cincinnati)
There's no question about this one.
Vaughn, a senior, is a very good player, putting up more than 15 points and just shy of five assists a game last year for the Bearcats,
and he'll be made even better by the arrival of freshman Lance Stephenson (yes, that Lance Stephenson) who was born ready — for what, I'm not sure. Problem is, I don't think Vaughn is even the best point in his conference (Kemba Walker of Connecticut gets my vote).
Collins
Advantage:
Big 12. In a big way.
Vaughn
SG: Willie Warren (Oklahoma) vs. Scottie Reynolds (Villanova) Reynolds was an essential part
of Villanova's run to the Final Four last year. He epitomized clutch with his coast-to-coast layup with the clock winding down that sent
Pitt home for the summer,
and he's the kind of leader
that coaches would kill for.
Warren can score from
absolutely anywhere on the
floor. He averaged 14.7 points
per game as a freshman, and showed incredible poise when he went bucket-for-bucket with Collins until the bitter end
Warren
in an 87-78 loss to the Jayhawks in Norman. Warren, though, was wracked with inconsistency. (Exhibit A: In his next game, Warren was held scoreless.)
Reynolds
Advantage: Big East,but barely.
SF: Damion James (Texas) vs. Lazar Hayward [Marguette]
Numberswise, this one is pretty even. James has a slight edge in rebounding (9.2 to 8.6), while Hayward has the slight edge in scoring. (16.1 to 15.4). Both have to deal with the loss of the top guards at their
schools. But James reminds me a little of DeJuan Blair. He's only 6-feet-7, but he's got a wingspan of over seven feet, and he's incredibly strong in the paint. Blair, in case you've forgotten, was an All-American last year.
James
Advantage: Big 12, but barely.
PF: Craig Brackins (Iowa State) vs. Luke Harangody (Notre Dame)
Brackins is as prolific a scorer as the Big 12 has seen since Michael Beasley. His epic performance against the lajayhawks last year could have catapulted him into the first round of the NBA draft, but for whatever reason, he decided to return to school.
Hayward
Harangody, though, could wind up winning the Naismith Award as player of the year. He
Brackins
averaged 23 points and 12 boards last year, and is a beast in every game he plays. Brackins just can't compete with that type of dominance.
Harangodv
Advantage: Big East
C: Aldrich vs. Greg Monroe
(Georgetown)
Monroe was probably the best freshman in America last year. Aldrich was the second best true center in America last year, behind Connecticut's Hasheem Thabeet. Thabeet's gone. That makes Aldrich the
Aldrich
best true center in America. That means Monroe is not.
Lovely logic.
Advantage: Big 12.
Sixth Man: James Anderson (Oklahoma State) vs. Da'Sean Butler (West Virginia)
I bumped Anderson and Butler to the sixth man spot on personal feelings alone. It's not to say they're unworthy of their spots in this lineup.
Monroe
Anderson averages one more point than Butler and they both
average just shy of six boards a game. Anderson, though, is a little more versatile, logging time at both the two and the three. I'm giving him the nod based on that versatility. Advantage: Big
Final tally?
Big 12, 4-2.
What does it win?
Nothing. Not at least.
Anderson
Butler
They'll have to wait for tipoff Nov. 9 for the victories to start counting.
— Edited by Arthur Hur
Follow Tim Dwyer at twitter.com/timdwyer.
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
FRIDAY
Soccer:
vs. Missouri,
3 p.m.
Swimming:
vs. Missouri,
6 p.m.
SATURDAY Cross Country:
Big 12
Championships.
10 a.m.
Columbia, Mo.
Swimming:
vs. Nebraska-
Omaha, 12 p.m
Volleyball:
vs. Texas A&M
6:30 p.m.
Football:
at Texas Tech,
2:30 p.m.
SUNDAY
Women's
Basketball:
vs. Pittsburg St.
7 p.m.
**Rowing:**
Frostbite
Regatta, all day,
Wichita
MEN'S BASKETBALL Ticket pick-up for first eight games extended
Student ticket pick-up for the first eight men's basketball games will extend until at least Friday, associate athletics director Jim Marchionny said.
Students must present a valid KU I.D. at the Allen Fieldhouse ticket office, open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Stephen Montemayor
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