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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2012
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Volleyball moves to Allen Fieldhouse tonight in game against Saint Louis
GEOFFREY CALVERT
gcalvert@kansan.com
The Jayhawks have two matches remaining in the regular season.
The Kansas volleyball team heads next door to play at Allen Fieldhouse tonight with hopes that this won't be the last time it plays on the basketball court this season.
and both are at home. Tonight, they play Saint Louis at the Fieldhouse, and they host Texas Tech on Saturday. On Sunday, the NCAA
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will announce the 64 teams that will be competing in the NCAA Tournament, and Kansas may get to be a host site for the first two rounds of matches. The Jayhawks have a 23-6 record and No. 6 in the Ratings Percentage Index.
"Horesi is our home, but I'm really excited to play in Allen especially if — fingers crossed — we get to host the tournament, that's where we'll be playing," junior
defensive specialist faime Mathieu said. "So it'll be nice to get some experience in there. It'll just be a different look. It's still on campus. I'm excited."
Other Big 12 teams like Iowa State, Baylor and West Virginia play every home volleyball match in basketball facilities, so Kansas has experience playing in larger arenas. The team practiced in the Fieldhouse Monday and Tuesday to adjust to the change in depth perception.
"I know it's kind of rough for our setters sometimes just because the ball moves differently, but all around if we prepare well enough we'll be fine," Mathieu said.
Coach Ray Bechard said the Jayhawks would sacrifice the intimacy that the 1,300-seat Horejsi brings. However, playing in the
16,300-seat fieldhouse gives Kansas the opportunity to play in a setting it could see if it advances deep into the tournament.
Kansas normally doesn't play nonconference matches this late in the season, but Bechard said he wanted to establish a series with Saint Louis because it is a Midwest program coached by former national team assistant coach Kent Miller.
"We tried to find a date that would work and our schedule and their schedule just didn't allow for anything until this late," Bechard said. "We just want to get a home and home going with SLU. I respect Coach Miller, their coach, a great deal."
"It won't be as intimate, there's no doubt about that," Bechard said.
"There won't be the same feel but there'll be a good feel to it. It comes down to us playing well and putting a good product out there and get the fans that are there excited about what they're seeing... This is the right thing to do for a lot of different reasons."
The Billikens enter the match with a 10-19 record and a 4-10 mark in the Atlantic 10 Conference. Just
like Kansas, Saint Louis has four players averaging at least two kills per set. Their leader in kills per set, redshirt sophomore outside hitter Lauren Baumet, averages 2.49 kills per set while Kansas redshirt junior middle blocker Caroline Jarmoc averages 3.61 kills per set.
Senior middle blocker Tayler Tolefle said Kansas would work on its efficiency against Saint Louis with its blocking and digging. The Jayhawks haven't recorded many blocks in the last two matches against TCU and Oklahoma, but the front row has gotten touches on many of its opponents' attacks, which slows the ball down for the passers. Tolefle said Kansas could improve its blocking by working on its releases. She said clean defensive releases and solid blocks are among the skills the team can focus on during the game.
"I think it's a good chance to work on some things that we need to and try and be more efficient," Tolefree said.
Edited by Emma McEthaney
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Junior outside hitter Catherine Carmichael focuses on the ball in preparation for a hit Wednesday, Nov. 14.
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Diver Meredith Brownell, a freshman from Union, KY, flies through the air during a dive from the one meter board during day two of KU's double dual against TCU and North Dakota at Robinson Natoratium on Saturday morning. Brownell came in second place in one meter diving with a score of 241.75.
SWIMMING AND DIVING
Kansas finishes season in Topeka and Houston
CHRIS SCHAEDER
cschaeder@kansan.com
The Kansas swimmers completed their fall season on Sunday with a second-place finish at the Kansas Classic in Topeka.
Kansas finished just behind first place Notre Dame with 853.5 points, while the Fighting Irish totaled 976.5 points for the championship.
Coach Clark Campbell said he's excited about how the team performed at the meet.
"We had some ups and downs, but what I really liked was when we had a down, the girls were resilient and they bounced back," Campbell said in a Kansas Athletics press release. "That is what a championship meet is all about. We still have some things to work on, but we are in a really good place right now."
The top performers for Kansas were freshman Bryce Hinde and junior Alison Lusk, who finished second and third in the 200-yard breaststroke. Other impact performers were freshman Haley Molden who finished second in the 100-yard freestyle, and sophomore Deanna Marks, who finished
second in the 200-yard butterfly.
Campbell said he sees this meet as something that was beneficial to all parties involved.
"The event has been very well received by the coaches and the teams and people have had a lot of fun with it," Campbell said in a KU Athletics press release. "It is a really good format and I just can't thank the people within the city of Topeka and all the people that have put this together. It has been a lot of work, but so far, so good."
The Kansas divers also concluded their fall season on Saturday after the third and final day of the Phil Hansel Invite in Houston, Texas.
Edited by Andrew Ruszczyk
Two Kansas divers, senior Christy Cash and junior Alyssa Golden, placed 20th and 33rd out of the 43 divers who competed in the event.
The invite is the end of the team's fall schedule. The next competition for Kansas is on Saturday, Jan. 12 in Los Angeles against San Diego State and UCLA.
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Freshman Chelsie Miller competes in the second heat of the 400-yard Individual Medley at Robinson Natatorium on Saturday morning. Miller came in first in the heat.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Indiana pulls away late in 66-53 victory over Georgia
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Indiana's shots weren't falling and the top-ranked Hoosiers were getting a taste of their own medicine with some tough man-to-man defense from Georgia.
Jordan Hulls and Christian Watford both had 14 points for the Hoosiers (4-0) and they were the ones who finally started hitting from long range as Indiana established control of the game.
It was just a matter of waiting,
according to coach Tom Cream.
"We had a lot of energy sources tonight," Crean said. "Vic at the start of the second half, he was tremendous. He's one of the best defenders around no question, but he doesn't get the credit for being a total basketball player. ... When he's flying up the court he makes us a lot better."
Then there are the missed shots. "We just missed some shots. The thing that hurt us more was the eight turnovers. We could never get the pace going the way we wanted and give Georgia credit for that," Crean said. "There weren't many
According to coach Great
Victor Oladipo had 15 points
and eight rebounds to lead Indiana
to a 66-53 victory over Georgia on
Monday night in the semifinals of
the Progressive Legends Classic at
the Barclays Center.
shots wed take back, just a couple. It happens at home, on the road, here. It just happens."
Hulls hit 3s on consecutive possessions to make it 51-42 and Oladipo scored down low with 7:00 left for the first double-digit lead of the game by either team, 53-42. The Hoosiers went on to lead by as many as 17 points.
The Hoosiers, who came into the game shooting 39.4 percent from 3-point range missed 11 of the first 12 shots they took from behind the arc. Watford hit a 3 with 10:06 left to end the shooting slump and extended Indiana's lead to 45-40.
"We did a lot more in the second half" Hulls said. "In the first half the shots weren't falling and that's going to happen. We play with more intensity when the shots aren't falling and that usually means we're playing good defense.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Vincent Williams both had 14 points for Georgia (1-3), which lost its third straight.
The Hoosiers will face Georgetown for the title on Tuesday night. The Hoyas beat No. 11 UCLA 78-70.
"That was a very hard fought game, one we thought we could win and the real difference, I thought, was their experience really started to show." Georgia coach Mark Fox
said. "We had a lot of inexperience plays, several possessions where we didn't keep our poise and they capitalized on some immature mistakes we made in the second half."
Indiana finished 5 of 16 from 3-point range (31.3 percent) and the Hoosiers had a 40-24 advantage on the boards. They overcame an off night by 7-foot preseason All-America Cody Zeller who was 2 for 4 from the field for six points and had four rebounds and four turnovers.
Zeller was limited to 9 minutes in the first half because of foul trouble.
"They came out and defended very well," Zeller said. "The foul problems could have taken me out of the flow a little bit, but in the second half we started to play the way we do."
Indiana shot 44.9 percent overall (22 of 49) while Georgia shot 34.0 percent (22 of 49) including going 9 of 25 on 3s.
"We started slow out of the gate this season and played very poorly," Fox said. "For 30 minutes tonight we looked like the team we thought we could be but we just couldn't make it last all game. The key is to learn to play 40 minutes, not 30 and that is the next step for our group."
The Bulldogs are 0-14 all-time against No. 1-ranked teams.
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Indiana's Kevin Ferrell (11) shoots over Georgia's Nemanja Djurisic in the first half of their NCAA college basketball game in the Legends Classic, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012, in New York.