THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2007
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2007
SPORTS
9A
BASEBALL
Oklahoma State dominates
BY SHAWN SHROYER
NO.13 OKLAHOMA STATE (22-6, 5-1) VS.BAYLOR (16-
SERIES: OKLAHOMA STATE,
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ahoma State outscored Baylor 39-17 during the weekend and first baseman Rebel Ridling led the Cowboys on
offense. He went 8-for-13 with two home runs (3,4), eight RBI, six runs and left only one man on base.
IN THE HOLE: Bayle pitchers Jeff Mandel (3-5), Randall Linebaugh (2-3) and Kendal Volz had a nightmare of a series. They were pum-
meled by the most explosive offense in the Big 12, allowing 21 runs in 10.1 innings.
ON DECK: Oklahoma State looks to continue its dominion over the Big 12 as it travels to Nebraska this weekend. Baylor, on the other hand, will try to climb out of the conference's cellar at home against Oklahoma.
KANSAS STATE (20-8, 3-3)
VS. TEXAS TECH (20-12, 4-5)
:RIES; KANSAS STATE, 2-1
**UP:** After an 0-for-2 performance
in the first
game, Kansas State
third baseman Nate
Tenbrink went 3-for-6
with four RBI and a
run scored.
IN THE HOLE: Despite outsor-
ing the Wildcats 22-16 in the Red Raiders got little out of their leadoff man, third baseman Chris Hall. He went just 3-for-13 with only two runs scored.
ON DECK: Kansas State will play host to a red hot Missouri squad this weekend while Texas Tech will also have a challenge at home against Texas A&M.
MISSOURI (22-8, 4-2) VS.
KANSAS (16-17, 3-6)
SRINAGAR
SERIES: MISSOURI, 2-1
a center needle Evan Frey took over the series, going 7-for-16 with two home runs (1,2) including Sunday's walk-off
bomb, nine RBI and four runs.
IN THE HOLE: Kansas' bats showed up during the weekend, scoring 23 runs, but Kansas starting pitchers Nick Czyz, Zach Ashwood (3-3) and Andy Marks didn't take advantage of the run support. The trio surrendered 18 runs in 14.2
innings. They also had seven strikeouts to seven walks.
ON DECK: Missouri hits the road to take on Kansas State while Kansas looks for its first Big 12 series victory at home against Texas.
NO.16 TEXAS A&M (25-6,
5-4) VS.NEBRASKA
(16-11,3-6)
SERIES: TEXAS A&M, 2-1
UP: Once a dependable starter for the Aggies, pitcher Kyle Nicholson has become invaluable out of the bullpen. He served in both of
We appear in both Texas A&M's victories during the weekend, earning his third save on Saturday - allowing only one hit in three innings - and earning a victory (7-1) on Sunday, pitching three more innings of relief.
IN THE HOLE: Nebraska third
IN THE HOLE:
baseman Craig Corriston proved to be a gaping hole in the Cornhusker lineup. He went 1-for-14 with three strikeouts and left six men on base.
ON DECK: Texas A&M will play host to in-state rival Texas Tech this weekend while Nebraska will
try to quiet Oklahoma State's bats at home.
NO. 7 TEXAS (25-9, 7-2) V5.
NO. 19 OKLAHOMA
(21-9, 3-3)
SERIES:
TEXAS, 2-1
UP: Texas starting pitcher Adrian Alaniz (8-1) threw a complete-game, three-hitter on Saturday, clinching the series for the Longhorns. He allowed one run and had five strikeouts to zero walks.
IN THE HOLE:
Oklahoma used three different players at designated
hitter during the weekend in an effort to keep up with Texas' offense. Devin Shepherd, Mike Gosse and Brandon Moss all filled the DH spot and went a combined 2-for-11 with just one RBI and one run.
ON DECK: Texas will try to surpass Oklahoma State in the conference standings when it takes on Kansas this weekend. Oklahoma will look to get back above .500 in the Big 12 on the road against Baylor.
Kansan senior sportswriter Shawn Shroyer can be contacted at sshoyer@kansan.com.
— Edited by Darla Slipke
》COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Norm Stewart named to National Collegiate Hall of Fame
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Longtime Missouri basketball coach Norm Stewart is headed to the new National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stewart, who compiled more than 600 wins in 32 seasons at Missouri, is among 11 inductees who will enter the hall of fame in November. The Kansas City-based hall announced its selections Sunday.
Six coaches will join Stewart: Phog Allen of Kansas; Adolph Rupp of Kentucky; Henry Iba (Oklahoma A&M; John McLendon (Tennessee State); Charles "Lefty" Driesell (Davidson, Maryland, James Madison and Georgia State); and Guy Lewis of Houston.
Kareem Abdul Jabbar of UCI A heads the roster of player inductions. He's joined by Austin Carr (Notre Dame), Dick Groat (Duke) and Dick Barnett (Tennessee State).
Former Duke coach Vic Bubas, later the commissioner of the Sun Belt Conference, will be inducted for his contributions to the game.
Stewart spent 38 seasons overall as a college head coach, winning 731 games is his career,
Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson gestures to his team during the first half of their NBA basketball game against the Sacramento Kings, Sunday, in Los Angeles. Jackson rode his string of NBA championship three-peats to the Basketball Hall of Fame in his first year of consideration Monday.
Mark J. Terrill/ASSOCIATED PRESS
TRIP TO FINAL FOUR
NBA, college reveal different sides of ball
BY DANIEL MOLINA
KANSAN SPORTS COLUMNIST
DMOLINA@KANSAN.COM
I was in Atlanta for the Final Four thanks to my generous aunt, a diehard UCLA fan and alumna. Given the choice of spending a Sunday at the Georgia Aquarium or an Atlanta Hawks basketball game, I naturally opted for Hawks over fish. I'd never seen an NBA game in person, not to mention Kirk Hinrich and the rest of the Chicago Bulls were in town, so we picked up some tickets and headed inside the Philips Arena.
ATLANTA — Sometimes it takes a little extra perspective to see just how different two similar things can be. In this example, the subject was roundball and a dose of perspective came at an NBA game, which made me long for a heated Big 12 contest at Allen Fieldhouse.
First off, the Hawks' "Nest" is state-of-the-art, which was the first give-away that we weren't dealing with amateurs anymore. We found our seats, with backs and plush padding, and it immediately became clear I was a whole lot farther than a stone-throw away from the sweaty, cramped and cushion-less confines of Allen Fieldhouse. What transpired for the next two hours resembled more a circus than a basketball game. Think I'm exaggerating? Take these two examples from the game:
FOUR MINUTES LEFT IN THE GAME: Atlanta, playing a relaxed Chicago team that has already clinched a playoff spot, trails Chicago by six. There's a time-out on the floor and an ounce of intensity finally starts stirring in the underwhelming crowd of about 17,000. The Jumbotron flickers and it's time for "Catastrophe Theatre," a
montage of home videos showing person after person getting hit in the groin area in some way, shape or form. The crowd loved it, and so did I, because lets face it; nobody can see somebody get nailed in the nether region and not laugh — or cringe at least. Still, the basketball purist in me was saddened. This was the National Basketball Association I was watching. Some of the supposed greatest basketball players in the world were playing before my eyes. Yet I couldn't look anywhere without seeing some gimmick designed to keep me enthralled and entertained, as if the actual basketball wasn't doing the job. In all honesty, though, it wasn't. The League produces its fair-share of highlight-reel throwdowns. (Tyrus Thomas had a nasty one in this contest.) But for the most part, the players are cathartic (an equal byproduct of the NBA's style of play and its 82-game marathon season), the scoring is low, and the teamplay, non-existent. A KU exhibition game against a Division-2 cellar-dweller could've matched this game in intensity.
HALFTIME: The zillion-dollar light-system was put to the test on this act, a performance entitled "Wheelwork by Chris." The gist: a performer, "Chris" from "Cirque du Soleil" rolled around the court in a human-sized hamster wheel, doing all sorts of tricks and maneuvers. Check out his Web site at www.wheelworkbychris.com. The performance was entertaining, but did I mention he's an actual circus performer? Combine that with the arena's four levels of stacked luxury suites and it sometimes felt like an evening at the theatre, complete with an intermission to get up and mingle with the half-awake patrons next to me. A half-time where all I feel like doing is standing up and stretching? Sounds like the exact opposite of a Kansas game in the fieldhouse. And that just might be the biggest difference of all between these two basketball breeds.
Molina is an Olathe sophomore in journalism.
Edited by Darla Slipke
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