After struggling recently, the volleyball team got back on the right track with a historical victory against Kansas-State.
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DANCING NACHOS
University sanctions not a fatal matter
OKLAHOMA STATE 42, KANSAS 32
BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS
KANSAN SPORTS EDITOR
MPHILLIPS@KANSAN.COM
A football program that recruited players who were not academically eligible. A basketball program that had gifts given to its players by boosters. An athletics director, Al Bohl, who said "compliance doesn't sell tickets"
Thursday should have been a bad day for the Kansas Athletics Department. Instead it was a bad day for the NCAA.
Collegiate sports' governing body was revealed to be toothless, doling out punishments that will barely be a speed bump to the different programs.
"Even though the reduction in scholarships is a serious matter, it's not a fatal matter" football coach Mark Mangino said.
Basketball coach Bill Self did his best to sell the sanctions as an inconvenience. He said that because the team brought all its recruits into town last weekend for Late Night, they might have seen the sanctions and been scared away.
But I don't think that's what they saw at all.
Edited by Kristen Jarboe
They saw a Kansas program that had a "lack of institutional control" get punished with the collegiate equivalent of a time-out
And they saw an Athletics Department that, from the top down, has the NCAA in the palm of its hand.
They saw an impotent NCAA organization refuse to take a stand against blatant cheating and fraud because it happened at a big-time, big-money school.
In August, the entire Kansas staff flew to Baltimore, sat in a room for eight hours in what women's basketball coach Bonnie Henrickson called a "scared-straight program," and tried to defend themselves against the allegations.
Ultimately, the crew was unsuccessful, and the NCAA deemed that Kansas had a "lack of institutional control" when the violations occurred. But that hearing wasn't the start of Kansas' problems. It was the end of them.
The loss of scholarships will have a negligible effect. Mangino's program, like most college-football programs, almost never operates at full scholarship capacity, and Self volunteered to take his scholarship loss next year, perhaps assuming that a certain Brandon Rush won't be using his.
At this point, Bill Self is like former president Bill Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The only thing left for him to do is reenact the Saturday Night Live skit and announce that, "I ... am ... bulletproof".
By the time the dust had cleared Thursday night, you've got to wonder if he even believed his own words.
As for "probation," it's a fancy term that means, as Self put it, "one misstep, and you could be in a bad situation."
After all, NCAA, the next time you try to come after Self and the gang, you'd better bring kryptonite.
phillips is a Wichita senior in journalism. He is the Kansan sports editor.
BAD TO WORSE
Jerome Kemp, senior safety and Mike Rivera, 40, sophomore linebacker, tackle Oklahoma State University's Adarius Bowman, wide receiver, during Saturday's game at Memorial Stadium. The Jayhawks lost to Oklahoma State 32-42.
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Jayhawks drop more than 600 yards in third-straight loss
BY RYAN SCHNEIDER
After mastering the art of the close loss, Kansas found another way to cough up a lead.
This time, the collapse began shortly after halftime and didn't stop until the Jayhawks suffered one of their most head-shaking defeats in years.
Kansas continued its mid-season free fall Saturday, losing 42-32 to Oklahoma State. It was the team's third-straight loss, with the last two happening in Lawrence.
"We got outplayed," Kansas coach Mark Mangino said. "And we got out coached in some areas too. There's no question about it."
There certainly was no question that Kansas was outplayed in the second half. After shutting out Oklahoma State in the first two quarters, Kansas gave up 42 points and more than 300 yards of total
offense in the second half en route to one of the most disappointing losses of the Mangino era.
This week, the lajahwks didn't wait until the fourth quarter to start their implosion. It began shortly after the marching band left the field at the end of halftime.
Oklahoma State scored a touchdown on its second possession of the third quarter to cut the lead down to 10. The 54-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Bobby Reid to receiver Adarius Bowman was one of five times the duo would hook up for scores in the game.
The Cowboys went for and recovered an onside kick on the ensuing possession. It gave OSU the momentum for good and essentially set up another all-too-count Kansas collapse.
This time it wasn't conservative play calling or turnovers that doomed the Jayhawks — it was the
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Despite the play of sophomore cornerback Aqib Talib, who broke up three passes and intercepted another, Kansas' secondary gave up 411 yards passing. Of those yards, 300 went to Bowman, smashing the Kansas school record of 231 yards for receiving yards by an individual opponent.
Just like Nebraska was able to torch Kansas' secondary for three deep touchdowns two weeks ago, Oklahoma State was able to do the same thing — and more. Five of the Cowboys' six touchdown passes were 25 yards or more. All five of those scoring passes went to Bowman.
"I've tried to find another way to sugarcoat it," Mangino said. "But we played poorly in all areas of pass defense."
OSU wide receiver shows talent against Kansas, commended by Mangino
Before addressing the media,
Adarius Bowman set his Gatorade and KFC on the ground. Other than that, his hands held on to everything they touched on Saturday.
BY SHAWN SHROYER
When all was said and done,
Bowman, Oklahoma State's wide
receiver, had amassed 13 receptions,
300 receiving yards and four touchdowns.
All were personal bests, and
his receiving yards set Oklahoma
State and Big 12 records.
Although Bowman posted these statistics against the worst pass defense in the conference, he seemed to be the only person who couldn't believe what he'd achieved.
"I still don't really know what answers to give you," Bowman said when asked how he felt about his performance. "Man, it just kind of
happened."
His shock is believable. Only 10 other Division 1A receivers have ever roamed more freely through an opposing secondary. Bowman himself was four years removed from his last 300-yard performance, which came as a senior at Notre Dame High School in Chatanooga, Tenn.
Bowman had to sit out the 2005 season after transferring from North Carolina, so for Oklahoma State wide receivers coach Gunter Brewer, his pupil's big game was the culmination of all the hard work he put in to make Bowman a lethal offensive weapon.
"My adopted son had the day I've always been waiting for him to have," Brewer said of how close the
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He's got skills
Graham, a young fan, tries to keep the ball spin from Harlem Wizards A, Train, right, alive while Mr. Handles, also of the Harlem Wizards, helps him out. The Harlem Wizards entertained fans at Late Night this year with fans and fan involvement.
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NBA
Players feel collegiate nostalgia; Sonics lose to Bulls in overtime
BY MARK DENT
Sunday's game at Allen Fieldhouse was meant to be a homecoming for Kirk Hinrinc and Nick Collison, but the Fieldhouse also brought back memories for Sonics guard Ray Allen as well.
"It's no different than Connecticut," said the former Husky. "You watch a lot of big games and see a lot of banners hanging in the building."
Allen's familiarity helped him lead all scorers with 22 points in a preseason overtime loss to the Bulls 110-105.
Allen recorded all of his points in only 23 minutes of action. The
6-foot-5-inch guard drove, pulled up and even hit a contested a three-point shot to score 12 in the opening quarter and another 11 in the third. Allen shot 7-for-11 from the field, 2-for-3 from three-point range and 6-for-6 from the foul line.
"I'm just trying to get in sync," Allen said. "I know I can score, but it's the other stuff I gotta work on." Seattle outscored Chicago in those periods, 57-54, but couldn't keep its in the fourth.
The Sonics stretched their lead to 92-87 after a Robert Swift lay up in the paint with 3:20 left to play but the Bulls used their superior reserves to come back.
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