THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2006
SPORTS 17B
MEN'S BASKETBALL
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Kansas guard Brandon Rush returns for his second season at Kansas. Self said Rush and others had work to do.
Players, coaches stay busy through summer vacation
BY SHAWN SHROYER
Summer vacation
It's been five months since Kansas last took the court. Nevertheless, coach Bill Self and his players have stayed busy this summer along with the rest of the Big 12 Conference.
Self devoted much of his early summer schedule to running the Bill Self Kansas Basketball Camps,
in addition to recruiting. Last month, though Self finally found some free time and decided to take a trip to the Bahamas.
"I took my family on vacation, and it was the first one we'd been on in a while together," Self said. "That was good to
kind of get our batteries recharged. $ ^{39} $
and of get our batteries recharged.
One thing Self couldn't do was oversee his players' summer workouts. As far as he knew, everyone on the team worked out on his own time and only junior center Sasha Kaun and sophomore guard Brandon Rush spent most of their summers outside of Lawrence. Kaun returned to Lawrence Wednesday, after a trip to his birthplace of Tomsk, Russia to update his passport.
"They all lifted hard, conditioned relatively hard and supposedly spent a lot of time in the gym working on their own, but we cannot monitor or control that," Self said.
Underclassmen still here
Underclassmen still here As the college basketball season wound down and the NBA Draft neared, whispers surrounded a handful of Jayhawks and their potential if they were to leave early.
Most of the whispers were about Rush, but he stayed put. Something that didn't surprise his coach.
"They all lifted hard, conditioned relatively hard and supposedly spent a lot of time in the gym working on their own, but we cannot monitor or control that."
his part," Self said. "We have some guys that are potentially high draft picks, but they're not there yet, so we definitely have some work to do and they have some work to do in order to get them where they need to be."
"He held true to his word and I think it was a smart decision on
BILL SELF
Men's Basketball Coach
Self's players
The 2006 NBA Draft was the first time since 2000 that no Jayhawks heard their names called on draft day.
With the exit of last year's senior class, a new era of Kansas basketball began.
Christian Moody, Jeff Hawkins, Stephen Vinson and Moulaje Niang were the final class of Roy Williams' recruits, so the 2006-07 season
"The teams that we've had in the past with Wayne, Aaron, Mike and Keith, their skill level was probably a little bit higher than some of the players we have at the present time, but I do think athletically the guys we have in our program are really good athletes and probably a little bit ahead as a group than even those guys were early in their careers," Self said. "Certainly, I enjoyed those guys and I know I'm going to enjoy these guys as well."
will be Self's first with a roster full of players he brought to Kansas. But that doesn't mean his former players won't be missed.
In late July it became apparent the Butler University athletic director position would be open to Barry Collier, if he wanted it. So, even with the basketball season a few months away, Collier - who coached at Butler from 1989 to 2000 - left his position as men's basketball coach at Nebraska to take the job.
Big 12 coaching carousel continues
Self said the timing of Collier's move didn't surprise him, because it was out of Collier's control.
To replace Collier, Nebraska found Doc Sadler, who had been coaching at UTEP. Self said held known Sadler for a long time and thought Nebraska made a good choice.
"He's a very personable, hard-nosed guy that will definitely do a good job there," Self said.
On July 25 during the Big 12 Football Media Days,Big 12 commissioner Kevin Weiberg discussed the possibility of the Big 12 participating in a regular season tournament similar to the ACC/Big 10 Challenge.
Big 12/Pac-10 Challenge?
"We've been interested in this concept for a while, not because other conferences do it, but because we've been searching for ways to continue to improve nonconference schedules across our conference, which is an important factor in strength of conference and RPI." Weiberg said. "And the Pac-10 has expressed a lot of interest in the possibility of partnering with us on that."
Weiberg said the Big 12 had been in negotiations with the SEC, but the two sides couldn't reach an agreement, so the SEC moved on to an agreement with the Big East. The Big 12 is now in talks with the Pac-10, but differences in conference sizes and television entities could stand in the wav of an agreement.
Weiberg said if negotiations went well, the two conferences could square off as soon as the 2007-08 season.
As for the affect a Big 12/Pac-10 Challenge would have on Kansas, Self said he was in favor of the idea.
"We haven't struggled scheduling, as far as being able to get some high quality opponents, but that is something that I think would benefit our entire league." Self said.
Kansen staff writer Shawn Shroyer can be contacted at sshroyer@ kansan.com.
PGA TOUR
-Edited by Elyse Weidner
Tour ends in sudden-death playoff, Wilson takes win
Lehman, who said he would have been reluctant to play for himself because of his putting game, nearly became the first Ryder Cup captain to win a PGA Tour event during his term since Jack Nicklaus won the Masters in 1986. But his eagle putt on the par-5, 492-yard 17th hole in regulation was short.
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Dean Wilson earned his first PGA Tour win with a birdie on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff, topping Tom Lehman at the International at Castle Pines on Sunday.
Lehman, who hasn't won since the 2000 Phoenix Open, hit a 1-iron to within 15 feet on 17 and figured he had the five-point eagle in his pocket.
BY ARNIE STAPLETON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lehman would've vaulted into seventh place in the Ryder Cup standings with a win. He is captain of the U.S. team that will travel to Ireland next month to try to bring home the cup for the first time since 1999.
After Lehman barely missed wide on a 30-foot put for birdie, Wilson sank a 6-footer to win the $990,000 first-place prize. His best previous finish was a tie for third at the 2004 Valero Texas Open.
"It looked so fast," Lehman said of the green. "I was quite shocked 1 left
it short. I hit a beautiful shot right on line. I didn't think there was any way I'd leave it short."
The ball stopped 4 inches shy of the hole, however, and his tap-in for birdie tied him with Wilson in the clubhouse at 34 points.
Under the special Stableford scoring system that is used nowhere else on the PGA Tour, golfers at the International get five points for eagles, two for birdies, nothing for pars and minus-one for bogeys and minus-three for double-bogeys or worse.
Both Lehman and Wilson sank beautiful 2-foot putts on the 72nd hole. Steve Flesch nearly joined them in the playoff but he missed a 12-footer for birdie on 18.
Lehman and Wilson both parried No. 18 and headed to No. 9, where Lehman used an 8-iron from 175 yards and left his ball on the edge of the bunker, 30 feet away from the flag. Wilson hit an 8-iron from 160 yards and his shot landed 6 feet away.
Wilson started the day in seventh place, five points behind leader Zach Johnson, and posted seven birdies and a bogey. Lehman started in fifth and had six birdies and two bogeys.
Flesch and Daisuke Maruyama tied for third place with 32 points, followed by Stewart Cink with 31.
Next year, the International moves
up to the Fourth of July weekend, a change that tournament founder Jack Vickers hopes will attract Tiger Woods to Castle Pines for the first time since 1999.
Ernie Els, however, said some overseas players, including himself, will find it hard to come back to the majestic mountain course at the foothills of the Rockies.
Vowed. Vickers: "We'll still be competitive."
"It's going to help the American players. It's going to hurt the international players because that time of the year we've got some big tournaments in Europe," Els said. "So, it's going to hurt the tournament, I think."
One player who anticipates he'll return to Castle Pines despite a miserable final round Sunday is Retief Goosen, the 2005 champion who had five bogeys and two double-bogeys over the last 18 holes and finished last among the 36 golfers who survived both of Saturday's cuts.
Goosen still felt good about his game heading into the PGA Championship in Chicago.
"I played like a dog today, but I'm looking forward to next week," he said.
Johnson teed off with the lead Sunday but never recovered from a double-bogey on his first hole and finished with 26 points, one fewer than he started the day with.
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