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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2008
trivia of the dav
Q: Who holds the record for most points scored in an NCAA basketball championship game?
A: Bill Walton who scored 44 points as a UCLA Bruin in the 1973 championship game against Memphis. The Bruins beat the Tigers 87-66 in the game.
NCAA Final Four record book
Mass. hysteria
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Princeton's Bill Bradley holds the Final Four record for most points scored in a game. Bradley scored 58 points in a 1965 Final Four game against Wichita State.
NCAA Final Four record book quote of the day
"So we've been runner-up and semifinalist. Now we need the other thing."
UCLA Forward Kevin Love on the team's Final Four failures the past two years
on tonight
Tennis:
— Sony Ericsson Open Quarterfinals, noon and 6 p.m., FSN Career
Soccer:
UEFA Champions League
A Quarterfinal, 2 p.m., ESPN2
NBA:
NBA:
Indiana at Boston, 6 p.m.
ESPN
Golden State at Dallas, 8:30 p.m., ESPN
MLB:
— Toronto at New York Yankees, 6 p.m., ESPN2
calendar
— Softball vs. Creighton, 2 p.m., Omaha
— Softball vs. Creighton, 4
p.m., Omaha
TODAY
Baseball vs. St. Mary, 6 p.m., Lawrence
— Track & Field, Texas Re lays, All day, Austin, Texas
CONRIBUTED PHOTO
THURSDAY
Following Kansas' victory against Davidson on Sunday, Nate Little, Coldwater junior, left, watches a crowd celebrating on Massachusetts Street. People filled the streets in downtown Lawrence to mark Kansas' first trip to the Final Four since 2003.
THURSDAY
—Track & Field, Texas Re-
lays, All day, Austin, Texas
Sportin' Jayhawks
TENNIS
Williams sisters may play each other in semifinals
No. 1 Roger Federer and newly engaged Andy Roddick reached the fourth round on the men's side. But Lindsay Davenport hit a bump in her career comeback when she lost to Dinara Safina 6-3, 6-4.
Roddick, seeded sixth, converted only two of nine break-point chances but still beat qualifier Ivo Minar 7-6(4) 6-4. Afterward, he confirmed he became engaged to swim-suit model Brooklyn Decker in early March.
Federer, still seeking his first tournament title this year, advanced to the fourth round when Robin Soderling retired because of illness trailing 6-4, 3-0. Soderling lost the last five games and the final 10 points.
The winner could meet Venus Williams in the semifinals. Three-time champion Venus, seeded sixth, advanced by beating 17-year-old Caroline Wozniacki 6-3, 6-3. Henin defeated Elena Vesnina 6-2, 6-2.
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — Serena Williams beat Kaia Kanepi 6-3, 6-3 and will next play top-ranked Justine Henin, renewing one of the best rivalries in tennis.
Kuznetsova defeated No. 16 Shahar Peer 7-6 (4), 6-3, and Jankovic swept Zheng Jie 6-4, 7-5.
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Tennessee forward Candace Parker is attended to by coach Pat Summit, center, and a staff member after Parker dislocated her left shoulder during the first half of the NCAA women's basketball tournament Oklahoma City Final final against Texas A&M. Tuesday in Oklahoma City.
WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Tennessee enters Final Four
BY JEFF LATZKE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Parker scored 26 points and returned after dislocating her left shoulder to lead the Lady Vols out of a second-half deficit for a 53-45 win over Texas A&M in the Oklahoma City Regional final Tuesday night.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Even with an injured shoulder, Candace Parker was still able to lift Tennessee into another Final Four.
She twice left the game in the first half with the injury and she didn't return until about halfway through the second half. She scored six of the Lady Vols' points in an 8-0 run as they overcame a 42-37 deficit, all while wearing a brace to stabilize her left shoulder.
She scored only eight points in the second half, but it was enough to push the Lady Vols (34-2) ahead when combined with a sturdy defensive effort that kept Texas A&M (29-8) scoreless for a five-minute stretch.
"I was just going to play as hard as I could and not to think about my shoulder and my situation," Parker said. "I didn't want this to be the last time that we played together."
She turned a second alley-oop attempt into a successful layup, and that got the Lady Vols' run going.Shannon Bobbitt followed with two free throws, and Parker hit two of her own to put Tennessee ahead 43-42 with 3:44 to play. She went 1-for-
Even after returning from the locker room with the shoulder wrapped, she shot an airball on her first jumper from the foul line and then couldn't convert a layup off a lob at the right block.
2 on two successive trips to the foul line to stretch the lead to three.
"People, sometimes they see Candace as more of a finesse player but I think sometimes when you see finesse players, you don't realize just how mentally tough they are until you see them fight through the adversity that she fought through tonight," Tennessee coach Pat Summitt said.
After a free throw by the Aggies' Takia Starks, Parker lost the ball in the lane but was able to recover and pass to Alexis Hornbuckle for a deep 3-pointer that gave the Lady Vols a 48-43 edge with 48.8 seconds left.
"That was an interesting 3-ball," Summitt said. "The thing about Alexis is she wants it so much."
Hornbuckle and Bobbitt each hit
Top-seeded Tennessee advances to the Final Four for the sixth time in the past seven seasons, where it will face Southeastern Conference rival LSU. The teams split their two meetings this season. The Lady Tigers beat Tennessee during the regular season, but lost in the SEC tournament championship game.
two free throws in the final minute to seal the win.
The Lady Vols are seeking their eighth national championship, and their second straight.
The best season ever in Texas A&M history concluded with another rugged defensive performance. The second-seeded Aggies held Tennessee to its lowest point total of the season.
Starks scored 12 to lead Texas A&M, 'AQunesia Franklin had 11 and Danielle Gant finished with 10.
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