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DIVING Sophomore Shelby Noonan looks forward to competition. PAGE 3B
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2004
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Barmann likely out for season
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Sophomore quarterback Adam Barmann will most likely sit out the last three games of the regular season. He was injured on Saturday's Iowa State game.
BY JONATHAN KEALING
jkealeng@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWRIVER
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If bad news comes in threes, the third piece just hit the Kansas football team.
Sophomore quarterback Adam Barmann will likely miss the last three games of the season with an undisclosed injury.
Coach Mark Mangino said there was a possibility that Barmann could return later in the season, but the team doctor said it was unlikely.
The football team has a policy to not disclose the specific nature of injuries, but Mangino did say that Barmann's injury would not require surgev.
After rushing for four yards in the second quarter of the Iowa State game, Barmann was seen walking off the field visibly in pain.
His right arm was hanging limp at his
Kimberly Templeton, an orthopedic surgeon at KU Medical Center, said Barmann could have suffered any of several injuries.
side.
The two she identified as most likely were an injury to his acromioclavicular joint or a dislocated shoulder. Templeton said that the AC joint injury was more likely.
Templeton said that this injury was common, and was usually caused by someone putting their arm out to brace themselves during a fall.
"It's a joint between the end of the collarbone and the shoulder blade," Templeton said.
"It's hard to untrain someone from doing that," she said. "It's pretty much impossible."
A significant aspect of an AC injury is that it often looks worse initially than it is. Injury to the muscles and ligaments in the AC joint cause the arm to go limp. With time, the muscles recover
and some use is possible.
Recovery from the injury often depends on its severity.
"It all depends on how many ligaments around the joint are injured," Templeton said.
Templeton said that a dislocation was far less likely because of the procedure which is necessary to relocate the arm.
"It's usually done in an emergency room with sedation and lots of people pulling," Templeton said.
Barmann, on the other hand, was seen rotating his arm on the sideline throughout the game.
Last season, Kansas suffered another late-season injury to its starting quarterback. Bill Whittimore. Whittimore went down on a third down scramble against Kansas State on Oct. 25, 2003.
Golfer plays her best at home
He limped off the field, also clutching his right arm.
SEE BARMANN ON PAGE 6B
BY ERIC SORRENTINO
esorrentino@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWRITER
Freshman golfer Annie Giangrosso knew she wanted to attend the University of Kansas when she took a campus visit to Kansas State University.
"I went to the KU vs. K-State football game, but all I could think about is how I wanted KU to cream them," Giangrosso said.
Giangrosso decided to attend Kansas because she had had an allegiance to the University since her childhood, when she lived in Overland Park and played golf for St. Thomas Aquinas High School. When Megan Menzel, former Kansas women's golf coach, recruited Giangrosso to play last year, she could not pass up the opportunity.
Menzel, however, resigned from her coaching position last summer because of a desire to spend more time with her family. Menzel's abrupt departure did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of Giangrosso playing golf at Kansas.
Erin O'Neil stepped in as Kansas' coach this fall. O'Neil was the assistant women's golf coach at Auburn last year. Despite the early staff changes leading into the fall, Giangrosso said she could not be any happier with her team and O'Neil.
"I think she's very motivated to win, and the team needs that," Giangrosso said. "She told us she wouldn't be here if she didn't think our team was going somewhere."
Giangrosso proved that she belonged in the starting lineup after five-qualifying rounds at Alvamar Country Club. Giangrosso said that at the beginning of the year, O'Neil did not have a projected start lineup; she went solely off the qualifying rounds. Five out of the 11 Kansas golfers compete in the starting lineup each tournament. It only took one tournament before O'Neil made the freshman Giangrosso one of the
team's starters.
Giangrosso struggled in the Jeannine McHaney Invitational in Lubbock, Texas, the second tournament of the fall. She finished in a tie for 89th. It was probably not what she expected from herself, but she was learning. Giangrosso had competed her first tournament as a collegiate athlete and was picking up on the winning attitude that O'Neil instilled.
"Just being out there and representing KU was such an honor and achievement," Giangrosso said. "You get that adrenaline rush that pushes you and that's what has helped me along."
Two weeks later, at Alvamar Country Club, the Jayhawks hosted the Marilynn Smith Sunflower Invitational. Playing at her home course in the final tournament of the semester gave Giangrosso an ideal opportunity to make an immediate impact before the spring season.
"The more times you play the course, the more you get used to it." Giangrosso said. "The night before, I went through each hole."
Giangrosso opened with 77 and then came back and fired 76 in rainy conditions. Individually, her final round of 83 put her in a tie for fifth place with junior teammate Tiffany Woods. Sophomore Amanda Costner finished ninth. The three top 10 finishes enabled the Jayhawks to win the tournament.
Of course, coaching is also important, and Giangrosso said Kansas had one of the best coaches around in O'Neil. O'Neil also had praise for Giangrosso.
"I wanted to represent the University of Kansas well, especially in our home tournament," Giangrosso said. "You have to have confidence in yourself and your teammates."
"Annie has done a great job of adjusting to college in general on and off the course," O'Neil said.
SEE GOLFER ON PAGE 6B
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Freshman golfer Annie Giangrosso played well at Alvamar Country Club during the Marilynn Smith Sunflower Invitational on Oct. 12. Giangrosso began the tournament with a 77 but brought her score down to a 76 in poor weather conditions.
KU to host intramural hoops tourney
BY JESSICA FERGEN
jfergen@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWITTER
The Rock Chalk Classic Tournament will take place the first weekend of spring break, March 18-20, in the Student Fitness Recreation Center.
The National Intramural Recreational Sports Association has selected the University of Kansas to host one of eight official regional intramural basketball tournaments.
"We applied back in September, but it was really an idea that I considered last spring," said Kurt Schooley, intramural sports director. "I just thought that we had a great facility to host one, and that the University of Kansas would be a great draw for teams in the
--region."
Schooley estimates that up to 36 teams will register for the three-day event.
"We hope that they get some teams to travel in there and that it's a quality event," Valerie McCutehan, assistant director of national sports programs for NIRSA, said. "It's a good, central location, and they have great staff."
The tournament will start with pool play on Friday night, March 18. On Saturday afternoon, the top two teams from each pool will advance to single elimination playoffs. The playoffs will run through Sunday afternoon, when the top teams will meet in the championship.
SEE TOURAMENT ON FACE GB.
JACK WEINSTEIN
jweinstein@kansan.com
'Hawks flail at game end
It may be easy to point to the defense breaking down, but the blame can't be placed squarely on its shoulders. This defense has outplayed its opponent in every single game this season, excluding Oklahoma.
Here's the problem with Kansas football: The Jayhawks are a one-dimensional, one-half team.
The reason Kansas is not as effective at the end of the game is directly because it spends far too much time on the field as a direct result of the ineptitude of the offense. In four of Kansas five losses, it has been outscored in the second half 47-24, again excluding 27 points by Oklahoma. Keep in mind the team was trailing at the half in only two of the five contests, one against Oklahoma, and again, I'm not even counting that game.
With the exception of the last two games, the Jayhawks have led or been tied with its opponent at halftime. In those six games, the 'Hawks were in a position to win every one of them. They won three. In the three losses — at Northwestern, Nebraska and against Texas Tech — Kansas managed to lose on late fourth quarter drives.
If every one of Kansas' games were over after the first half, the team would be 6-2. Excluding Saturday's debacle at Iowa State, the only game the Jayhawks should have lost would have been at Oklahoma, a game they had no prayer and no business winning.
The Kansas offense has averaged 23.4 points per game this season, ninth in the Big 12 Conference. Without the benefit of the 63 points put up against Toledo, the offensive output would be a mere 17.7 points per game or last in the conference.
Leaving Ames, Iowa, at 7-1, and coasting into the bowl season is exactly where this team should be. Instead the 'Hawks are 3-5.
The defense has given up an average of 20.5 points per game, sixth in the Conference and a half-point from being the fourth best defense, considering points, in the Conference.
The defense has kept Kansas in all of its games this season. The offense has not done its part to contribute, especially late in games.
The team's opportunities to make the postseason this year are remote, to say the least.
SEE DEFENSE ON PAGE 6B
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