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SPORTS MONDAY, MARCH 29, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
OUOTE OF THE DAY
"Good, better. best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best."
— Tim Duncan, all-star forward for the San Antonio Spurs
FACT OF THE DAY
Sherron Collins finished his career with 1,888 points, fifth on the all-time Kansas list. He also joins only Darnell Valentine as the only player to record more than 1,800 points and 550 assists.
Source: Kansas Athletics
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: How many blocks is Cole Aldrich short of the Kansas career blocks record?
A: Six. His current total is 252, six shy of Greg Ostertag's 258 blocks from 1992-1995.
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SCORES
Men's NCAA Tournament SATURDAY:
No. 5 Butler 63, No. 2 K-State 56
No. 2 West Va. 73, No. 1 Kentucky
66
SUNDAY:
No. 1 Duke 78, No. 3 Baylor 71
No. 5 Michigan State 70, No. 6
Tennessee 69
Women's NCAA Tournament:
Saturday
No.1 Stanford 73, No.5 Georgia 36
No. 2 Duke 66, No. 11 San Diego State 58
No. 3 Xavier 74, No. 7 Gonzaga 56
No. 4 Baylor 77, No. 1 Tennessee
62
Sunday:
No.1 Connecticut 74, No.4 Iowa State 36
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MORNING BREW
Remember when Late Night in the Phog was the jump off point to Indianapolis and Northern Iowa was just a run of the mill team from the Missouri Valley Conference? Those were good times.
Many fans figured this year would be a perfect storm of great fortune heading the lajayhaws' way and rightfully so. What team had two preseason All-Americans, the best coach in America and Xavier Henry, potentially the next Carmelo Anthony? Kansas.
Also on the college basketball radar, Kentucky, a college basketball giant, was waking up from a brief dark period by hiring John Calipari, who left his old team, the Memphis Tigers, behind and pilfered its recruiting class.
Today, Indianapolis is getting ready for this weekend's Final Four. The hometown Butler Bulldogs are the darlings and Kansas and Kentucky are back home, having been bounced out of the tournament. While Butler's three seniors are seeing four years of blood, sweat and tears pay off, John Wall and Henry sit at home and have to deal with not being there.
In a way, it's comical. Henry and Wall were brought in to win an instant national championship while the Butler kids were just brought in to win anything. Within the next couple of weeks both players will most likely leave for the riches of the NBA and will have fans wondering what could have been.
As a college basketball nut, I admire the storied history of players who didn't pimp or milk out their schools just to raise hopes for one season. Wall and Henry will not be placed with Anthony as an instant impact legend and hero.
BY ANDREW HAMMOND
harmondelan.com
Instead they will be joining Kevin Durant, Michael Beasley and the 1999 Duke Blue Devils freshman class. Those players, for whatever reason, decided not to have a true, four-year college career. They didn't win a national championship. They won't be remembered for being winners, but rather as guys who played college basketball one season and were off to the NBA in a snap.
The NBA draft rule that requires players to be 19 years old and a year removed from the graduation of their high school class is a joke. It makes me wonder about the fans and coaches of college basketball. I would like someone to describe a lasting memory of Henry or Wall.
No. That's what I thought. Not only did
Anyone?
these guys not create memories but you most likely won't be able to see them take in the moment of senior night emotions like Greivis Vasquez at Maryland or like Sherron Collins did here at Kansas.
If Wall and Henry were as faithful to their schools as the fans were to them, they should see that fans in the NBA come and go but fans at Kentucky and here at Kansas stay forever.
So while they have their "drive-by education," we should respect the 2010 tournament run of Cornell. Although we don't know half' of the team by name and will never see them on the cover of any basketball previews, I hold them in a higher value because not only did they have a great run but they are true student athletes.
The NCAA likes to tout that they have athletes that go into careers other than sports. Someone forgot to send that message to top D-1 Basketball programs.
— Edited by Jesse Rangel
CAMPUS
MONDAY
5, 6, 7 8 p.m. CoRec Soft ball - Clinton Lake 1,2,3
5, 6 p.m.Men's Soccer- Shenk 7,8
5, 6 p.m. Men's Ultimate
- Shenk 6
7, 8 p.m. Men's Rec Softball - Clinton Lake 1, 2
TUESDAY
9, 10 p.m. Men's Competitive Softball - Clinton Lake 1,2
7 p.m. CoRec Softball -
Clinton Lake 1,2
5, 6 p.m. CoRec Ultimate Shenk 6
5,6 p.m.Men's Soccer - Shenk 6,7,8
5, 6 p.m. Men's Ultimate
- Shenk 6
9, 10 p.m. Men's Competitive Softball - Clinton Lake 1,2
8 p.m. Women's Softball Clinton Lake 1
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Meyer apologizes for public outburst
Florida football coach Urban Meyer on Saturday apologized for his public outburst at Orlando Sentinel reporter Jeremy Fowler four days earlier.
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WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
UConn blows out Iowa State, 74-36
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DAYTON, Ohio — The first time Maya Moore touched the ball on offense she hit a 3-pointer from the top of the key. The second time, she hit one from the left corner. And so began another Connecticut rout.
Moore scored 16 of her 25 points in the opening 9 minutes and seemingly invincible UConn took it from there to roll over Iowa State 74-36 in a regional semifinal Sunday.
"Connecticut is certainly as good as advertised," Iowa State coach Bill Fennelly said. "I don't think I've had a whipping like that since I was a little kid and I broke something of my moms."
Kelly Faris came off the bench for 16 points and Tina Charles also had 16 for the Huskies (36-0), who extended their unprecedented winning streak to 75 in a row.
The Huskies have won their first three games in the tournament by a combined 148 points — the most ever. UConn easily surpassed the previous mark of 131 it set in 2000 and 2001.
A frequently overlooked strength of the Huskies — team defense — was evident. Iowa State came in shooting 43 percent from the field but made just 15 of 53 shots for 28 percent. The Cyclones, one the nation's pre-eminent 3-point-shooting teams, were rattled into going just 6 of 25 behind the arc, with most of the damage they did do behind the arc coming after the game was all but over.
"I know it sounds like a broken record from me, but going into today's game I wasn't really sure how we were going to keep them from making a bunch of 3s," UConn coach Geno Auriemnya said. "I can't tell you how well this group played defensively, how they locked into the scouting report and how well they prepared. They just placed exceptionally well defensively."
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
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TODAY
TUESDAY
Baseball
vs. Arkansas-Little Rock,
3 p.m.
Softball
vs. UMKC, 4 p.m., 6 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
NESDAY
Softball
vs. Missouri State, 6 p.m.
THURSDAY
Tennis at Kansas State, 2 p.m.
Baseball vs. Texas A&M, 6 p.m.
Track & Field at Texas Relays, Austin, Texas, all day.
FRIDAY
Softball vs. Texas, 4 p.m.
Baseball vs. Texas A&M, 6 p.m.
Women's Golf at Ole Miss Rebel Intercollegiate, sity, Mity, all day
Track & Field at Texas Relays, Austin, Texas, all day
SATURDAY
Baseball vs. Texas A&M, 11 a.m.
Softball vs. Texas, noon.
Women's Golf at Ole Miss Rebel Intercollegiate, University. Miss, all day.
Rowing at Kansas Cup, Kansas City, Kan, TBA.
Track & Field at Texas Relays, Austin, Texas, all day.
Soccer at Arkansas, TBA.
SUNDAY
Women's Golf at Ole Miss Rebel Intercollegiate, city Miss. all day.
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