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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MEN'S BASKETBALL
THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2013
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Duke head coach Mike Kryzewski, center, watches the final minutes of an NCAA college basketball game against Miami Wednesday in Coral Gables, Fla. Miami won 90-63.
Duke's worst loss in years brings Hurricane fans joy
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. — With a steady din coming from the sea of orange behind the visitors' basket, No. 1-ranked Duke had a tough time making a shot.
The Blue Devils went more than 8 minutes without a field goal in the first half Wednesday night, and a sellout became a blowout for No. 25 Miami, which delighted a boisterous crowd with a 90-63 victory.
The defeat was the third-worst ever for a No.1 team, and Duke's worst in nearly five years.
Durand Scott scored a seasonhigh 25 points for the Hurricanes, and Kenny Kadji added a seasonhigh 22. Shane Larkin had 18 points, 10 rebounds and five assists, and Durham, N.C. native Julian Gamble had 10 rebounds and four blocked shots.
Miami (14-3, 5-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) beat a No. 1 team for the first time, taking control with a stunning 25-1 run midway through the opening half. The Blue Devils missed 13 consecutive shots despite numerous good looks, while four Hurricanes hit 3-pointers during the run that transformed a 14-13 deficit to a 38-15 lead.
Duke (16-2, 3-2) fell to 0-2 when playing on an opponent's court. The Blue Devils' other loss came at North Carolina State, a defeat cost them the No. 1 ranking.
They regained the top spot this week but seemed rattled by the capacity crowd, only the 10th in 10 years at Miami's on-campus arena. Students began lining up for seats outside the arena almost 24 hours before tipoff, a rarity for the attendance-challenged Hurricanes.
and the Hurricanes are alone atop the league standings. They won their sixth consecutive game and beat Duke for the second straight time -- but only the fourth time in the 19-game series.
But South Florida loves a winner.
Seth Curry, Tyler Thornton and Quinn Cook went a combined 1 for 29 for the Blue Devils, who shot a season-low 30 percent. Rasheed Sulaiman led them with 16 points.
Duke went 4 for 23 from 3-point range, while Miami went 9 for 19 and shot 57 percent overall.
A Duke mistake early in the second half had coach Mike Krzyzewski red-faced and on the court, screaming at his team. But he couldn't inspire a turnaround.
"Over-rated" the fans chanted with 3 minutes left. When the game ended, they poured onto the court and mobbed their team.
ROWING
Kansas expects to start spring season off strong
STELLA LIANG
sliang@kansan.com
With four months in between competitions, the Kansas rowing team traveled to Tampa, Fla., for its winter training trip. The team, which last competed on Nov. 4, practiced 18 times during its 10 days in Tampa.
The team emphasized keeping in shape before the trip, so it could work on the mechanics during the training.
"It was important that everyone workout at the start of the break so that when we went on the trip we could focus on technical parts of rowing and not fitness," senior Olivia Kinet said in a Kansas athletics news release. "We told the
team that if they were not doing the work in their free time they were falling behind the rest of the teams in the country."
Kinet, an All-Conference USA selection last year, was among the 52 members of the team who made the trip. Head coach Rob Catloth said they spent much of the time working on being coaches during competition.
"There are no timeouts in rowing so part of this is teaching them how to fix things on their own in the heat of battle," Catloth said in a Kansas athletics news release. "I'm also seeing improved depth. Many of our sophomores and juniors are making big strides in their improvement."
The team will not be able to practice again for a few weeks due to the weather. The first competition during the spring semester, the Oklahoma Invite, starts on March 8 and ends on March 10. Other competitions include the Big 12 Championships on May 4 in Kansas City, Kan., and the Conference USA Championships on May 18 in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
"This is the most confident we have been heading into the season," Kinet said. "This is the best I have ever seen us perform. Our attitude is right and we are in a position to accomplish our goals in the spring."
— Edited by Hayley Jozwiak
NCAA
Shockers win after weak first half
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — So much for assuming this was supposed to be a rebuilding year for Wichita State.
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Cleanthony Early had 17 points and 11 rebounds, Carl Hall added 15 points and the 20th-ranked Shockers rallied for a 62-52 victory over Missouri State on Wednesday night.
The Bears, behind freshman Gavin Thurman, used a 19-1 run to take a 33-25 lead with 16:13 remaining in the game.
The Shockers came away empty on their first five possessions of the second half then Early and Hall got more active in the offense, scoring all but two of the points in a 16-2 run that gave Wichita State a 41-35 lead with 10:53 to go.
"We weren't going very strongly (in the first half). It d:d:nn remind me of the guys I had seen on Saturday," said Wichita State coach
Gregg Marshall, referring to the Shockers win over Creighton. "But in the second half, they changed that."
The Shockers won despite their fourth-lowest scoring output of the season.
“There going to be some physical play and there’s going to be some holds and some grabs and some body-slamming in the Valley,” Marshall added. “They’ve got to know that. That’s what I told Cleanthony — I said, ‘You’re the new guy. This is the way we play, so you’ve got to adjust.’”
The Shockers (18-2, 7-1 Missouri Valley Conference), who were playing just days after upsetting then-No. 12 Creighton, remained in first place in the conference.
Thurman had 21 points to lead Missouri State (5-15,3-5), which lost its fourth straight before a crowd of 6,448.
It was the third straight win for
the Shockers, who were supposed to be in a rebuilding year after winning the conference regularseason title a year ago.
The Shockers won again without two injured starters, Ron Baker (foot) and Evan Wessel (hand). It was Hall's third game back since he missed seven games because of a broken thumb on his shooting hand.
Missouri State trailed by 12 points with about 5:15 left before halftime, but Thurman took over game's next 9 minutes to take a 33-25 lead.
He later added, "I was just trying to make stronger moves."
"They just told me to run the floor, sit in and keep playing," Hall said.
Thurman made two free throws and later hit a jumper after a time-out, got a steal before knocking down a 3-pointer and scored on a tip-in.
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