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Alessandra Dzuba, Kansas sophomore, serves a ball on Friday night at the Green Tennis center in Columbia, Mo. The Jayhawks lost both matches this week against Missouri and Colorado.
Jayhawks struggle to keep up in conference
BY KATHLEEN GIER
kgier@kansan.com
The Kansas tennis team lost both its matches this weekend. The first was to the University of Missouri 4-3 on Friday and the University of Colorado 6-1 on Sunday.
The team fell to 9-10 overall and 1-6 in conference with four games left in the regular season.
Freshman Victoria Khanevskaya led the Jayhawks with singles victories in both matches.
Against Missouri, Kansas recorded three singles victories from
freshman Khanevskaya, sophomore Kate Morozova and senior Kuni Dorn. Khanevskaya and Morozova both fought through three sets.
Morozova and doubles partner sophomore Erin Wilbert defeated the No. 72 ranked Colorado team of Monica Milewski and Ania Anuszkiewicz 8-4.
The Jayhawks will return home for the last four matches of the regular season and will face Oklahoma State on Friday at 2 p.m.
— Edited by Kristen Liszewski
Lavin adjusts to new team, St. John's
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES _ Steve Lavin's introductory news conference at St. John's last week was, in one word, realistic.
enough for a high-profile program coming off a national title in 1995.
Realistic goals for a program that hasn't been to the NCAA
"It was wins and losses more than anything else," retired UCLA associate athletic director Rick Purdy of Lavin's undoing.
since 2002.
Get into
the NCAA
Tournament, be
competitive and
eventually win
some games,
Lavin said. If
the program's
progress continues,
maybe even
claim a Big East
Lavin, who compiled a 145-78
"He didn't have the stature that coach Harrick had."
title. "Incremental" steps is what Lavin talked about.
That's definitely a stark contrast with the expectations for Lavin at UCLA.
KRIS JOHNSON former UCLA player
In his seven seasons in Los Angeles, getting to the Sweet 16, which Lavin did four times, and the Elite Eight, which he did in his first season, just wasn't good
record at UCLA,has coached since he was fired after the 2003 season, the schools first losing season in 55 years. Purdy said Lavin, just 32 at the time, may
have been given control of the storied program too soon.
"I think maybe it was a little too early for him, age-wise and experience-wise," Purdy said. "Getting into a pressure-cooker like the UCLA basketball program was ... you have to understand how it was there and the expectations."
Lavin often was under fire from
his own players and school admin istrators
"If Lavin gets St. John's to be a 20-game winner and they are in the NCAA Tournament, he's going to be the savior of New York," said Jon Crispin, who played for UCLA in Lavin's final season. "Winning 20 games (six times) was absolutely not enough at UCLA. He could never do anything right. Even though we went to five Sweet 16, it was still like, 'What is he doing?' Things were happening behind his back, rumors that they were going after (Rick) Pitino."
Kris Johnson, son of former UCLA star Marques Johnson, played for both Lavin and Jim Harrick, whom Lavin replaced. In Lavin's first two years, Johnson saw the discontent in the locker room.
"There were probably six, seven, eight disgruntled players over playing time," he said. "He didn't have the stature that coach Harrick had. He was looked upon as the third assistant. He described himself as the cream-and-sugar guy _ the guy who got the cream
and sugar for everyone's coffee."
Johnson thinks the administration never fully backed Lavin. "There's a lot of things going on behind the scenes and different regimes of athletic directors, and he kind of ran into some issues recruiting there," he said.
Lavin recruited very well at UCLA, routinely bringing in top classes. Future NBA players such as Baron Davis, Trevor Ariza, Jason Kapono and Earl Watson played for Lavin.
But some of Lavin's recruits got into trouble, according to numerous published reports.
Ielani McCoy was suspended in 1997 for violating team rules. He was reinstated for 15 games before leaving the team in 1998. Kris Johnson was simultaneously suspended.
Rico Hines was suspended for striking Matt Barnes, now with the Orlando Magic, with a metal chair in 2000.
Andre Patterson was dismissed from school for academic reasons in 2003.
NBA
Chicago seeks final spot in playoffs
TORONTO — Derrick Rose scored 26 points, Joakim Noah had 18 points, 19 rebounds and seven assists and the Chicago Bulls beat Toronto 104-88 on Sunday night to take a one-game lead over the Raptors for the final Eastern Conference playoff spot.
Luol Deng scored 14 points, Taj Gibson had 11 and Ronald Murray and Hakim Warrick each scored 10 points for the Bulls, who led by 25 points.
Sonny Weems and Andrea Bargnani each scored 18 points for the injury-riddled Raptors, who lost their fifth straight.
Chicago has won eight of 12 since Noah returned from a foot injury that forced him to miss 10 games. The Bulls went 0-10 without him.
Hedo Turkoglu had a career-high 19 rebounds and nine assists but shot 2 for 12 and scored just six points.
The Bulls can clinch the eighth and final playoff spot in the East with a win and a Toronto loss, or by winning their two remaining games. The Raptors hold the tiebreaker over the Bulls after winning the first two matchups this season.
Jarrett Jack had 14 points but was the only Raptors reserve to score until Marcus Banks converted a layup with 5:20 left in the fourth.
Chicago hosts Boston on Tuesday and travels to Charlotte on
Wednesday for the season finale. Toronto is at Detroit on Monday and finishes its season at home against New York on "Tl Wednesday.
Raptors forward Amir Johnson made his second straight start in place of Chris Bosh, who is expected to miss the remainder of the regular season
from hospital Friday and had the post-surgical packing removed from his nose Sunday, but has not regiened the team.
"The Bulls can clinch the eighth and final playoff spot in the East with a win and a Toronto loss, or by winning their two remaining games."
after surgery last week to repair a broken nose. Bosh was released
Turkoglu started for Antoine Wright, who left Friday's loss at Atlanta with a sore left ankle and is still walking with crutches. Turkoglu also injured his nose when he was headbutted by Boston's Tony Allen last Wednesday. Turkoglu wore a protective face mask on Friday but did not wear one Sunday.
KICKER
Angels narrowly beat Athletics, 4-3
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Hideki Matsui singled home the winning run with one out in the ninth inning, giving the Los Angeles Angels a 4-3 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Saturday night.
The three-time defending AL West champs avoided what would have been their first 1-5 start since their inaugural 1961 season. They had given up 10 runs in each of their previous two games — the first time that happened to them since July 2005.
Bobby Abreu started the winning rally with the Angels'sixth double of the game — one more than their combined total in the
previous five.
Craig Breslow (0-1) intentionally walked Torii Hunter, then fell behind Matsui 2-0 before last year's World Series MVP lined the next pitch just inside the rightfield line for his first game-ending hit with the Angels.
Fernando Rodney (1-0) got the win with an inning of perfect relief.
Angels starter Jered Weaver allowed a run and four hits in six innings, struck out seven and left with a 3-1 lead. The right-hander has yielded just three earned runs over 23 innings in his last four starts against Oakland.
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