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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Jayhawks prepare for next road tournament
Senior middle blocker Taylor Tolefree jumps up to block her opponents hit from Wyoming on Saturday in the Horejsi Family Athletics Center.
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Junior defensive specialist Brianne Riley returns the ball during the match against the Wyoming Cowgirls on Saturday night Kansas defeated the Wyoming Cowgirls 3-0 sets scoring 25-13, 25-21, and 25-18.
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Senior middle blocker Tayler Toilefree is planning to play Loyola Marymount like a game of one-on-one.
It's not the standard strategy in a volleyball match.
But when the Kansas volleyball team goes to South Bend, Ind., this weekend for the Golden Dome Invitational, they expect to see an isolation game from Marymount, one familiar style of play among three unfamiliar opponents.
The Jayhawks open the tournament Friday against Loyola Marymount University, a team that likes to create one-on-one matchups, much like Wyoming, a team Kansas beat last weekend.
"Loyola tries to play pretty fast," Tolefree said. "So we're just working on everybody handling their own hitter, assuming that you're by yourself."
The Jayhawks lead the Big 12 with 16.2 digs per set, 15 kills per set, 14.1 digs per set, and a .281 hitting percentage. Junior libero Brianne Riley leads the conference individually with 5.7 digs per set, junior setter Erin McNorton leads with 12.5 assists per set, and red-shirt junior middle blocker Caroline Jarmoc leads with a .468 hitting percentage.
Although none of those statistics guarantee victories, they show Kansas' balance through the season's first 10 matches. That and its efficiency will be important this weekend, coach Ray Bechard said, because Loyola Marymount uses a two-letter system and aggressive serving to increase the match's pace. He said a hallmark of coach Tom Black's teams at Marymount is an ability to wait for opponents to beat themselves with errors.
"Coach Black did some time with USA Volleyball, helping with their serving strategies before they went to the Olympics," Bechard said. "And they're in every match because they don't make a lot of mistakes. They're just waiting for you to have
an off-stretch in a set, and they're going to be trouble."
Kansas played three tournaments so far, and all of them were two-day tournaments. This weekend, the Jayhawks have only one match a day; Marymount on Friday, Xavier Saturday and Notre Dame Sunday, giving them more time in between matches than usual.
Riley said the extra time in between matches would actually help the Jayhawks, as will playing
"I think it's good for us to get out of our little sanctuary in here." Riley said. "I think our team could use a little bit of rest so hopefully we can use that to our advantage."
Bechard said fatigue added to the need for rest. After four weeks of tournaments, the three-day tournament would help his team be ready physically and mentally for all three matches, he said.
on the road for the first time in eight matches.
"That'll be good, especially as you get in this deep" he said. "The wear and tear starts to show a little bit"
After Loyola Marymount, the Jayhawks face Xavier on Saturday and Notre Dame on Sunday. Xavier went 21-11 in 2011 and finished second in the Atlantic 10 Conference. Notre Dame is the Jayhawks' third major-conference opponent of the preconference season.
Tolefree said the Jayhawks are
unfamiliar with both of those teams, and that the team that can adjust better will probably win the match.
How fast can we adjust to what system they throw at us, and how can we figure out how to run our system against them and figure out what works?" Tolefree said.
Bechard said he scheduled a tough non-conference schedule on purpose, so his team wouldn't wilt when conference play began. But he also said his team can't hang their
hat on their 9-1 record.
“You will be able to look back once conference starts and say, 'Hey, we played a plenty tough—enough pre-conference schedule,' but we've got to have success in these last four matches, too," Bechard said. "To this point, nine out of 10% not bad, but the real work lies ahead right now over the next four matches before conference start."
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KANSAS CITY. Mo. — The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has put all athletic programs at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas on probation through 2014 for "violations involving inelegible players."
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University spokesman Stephen Prue declined to comment immediately Wednesday, saying the school was drafting a statement.
In May, the school announced investigations by the university and the Department of Educa
Haskell on athletic probation
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Haskell is part of the Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference. The conference's commissioner, Al Waller, said he knew few details about what happened.
tion into claims that two student-athletes had falsified ACT scores dating back to 2008. It was not immediately clear if the NAIA's action was related to those allegations.
The investigations resulted in "official action on the employees and students involved" and the discovery that three other students' transcripts were manipulated, the university said in a news release at the time. Two employees involved no longer work at Haskell, the release said, and some games were to be forfeited. The release also noted that changes had been made to the school's database and admission process.
Nedra Darling, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which overseas Haskell, didn't immediately return a phone message Wednesday seeking comment. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Education
said the agency was looking into the matter and couldn't immediately comment.
According to the NAIA hand-book, the use of ineligible students leads to the forfeiture of "all contests in which the ineligible student participated." Athletes also lose at least one season of eligibility.
Institutions placed on probation also must submit a written response detailing the corrective measures they plan to take. Future violations can lead to the suspension of programs, a move that would bar them from postseason play, the handbook says.