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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2008
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
McIntosh's energy lifts team to victory
BY ANDREW WIEBE
awiebe@kansan.com
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Taylor McIntosh couldn't stand the thought of six consecutive losses to conclude her senior season. Her performance in Tuesday night's 73-67 victory against Nebraska certainly showed how determined she was to stop Kansas' slide.
"I just felt loose and ready to play," she said. "OK, this might be our last conference game but just leave it out on the floor and have no regrets. I felt it and I think my teammates fed off of my energy."
game at our place."
With season-leading scorer Danielle McCray held scoreless in the first half, Kansas relied on McIntosh to provide offensive punch. She responded by scoring seven points and ripping down seven rebounds in the first 20 minutes to pace the Jayhawks. It was exactly the kind of response coach Bonnie Henrickson needed from her most experienced player.
Against Nebraska's dominating post duo of senior Danielle Page and junior Kelsey Giffin, McIntosh showed why she has started 115 of 118 games for Henrickson in four years. Nearly every loose ball
"She kind of had that look in her eye, flew around and was all over the boards," Henrickson said. "Made big shots in the paint off of extra passes, and ironically that was how she was during the Nebraska
and defensive rebound found its way into her hands.
McIntosh, a 5-foot-11 senior forward, brought her best when it mattered most.
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Senior forward Taylor McIntosh takes the ball to the basket during the first half of the game. McIntosh scored 13 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in the game.
In the end she gave all she had.
points and 6.8 rebounds a game during the previous 29 games.
McIntosh scored 13 points on 5-
"I think we just got tired of losing and how we were losing," McIntosh said. "We are better than we've shown lately."
"I think we just got tired of losing and how we were losing. We are better than we've shown lately."
The spike in production couldn't have come at a more opportune time for Kansas, she averaged 6.7
5 shooting and was 3-3 from the free-throw line. On the boards she was even more dominant, helping the Jayhawks win the rebounding battle 38 to 35 with 11 hard-earned boards.
TAYLOR MCINTOSH
Senior Forward
fouling out with 4:25 left and Kansas up by 12. But her team-mates simply wouldn't allow her effort to go to waste. Though a 17 point lead deteriorated, leading to a more than a few anxious moments
Kansas will play at least one more game.
"I wasn't nervous," McIntosh said about the four minutes she spent on the bench at the end of the game. "Especially since everyone came off the bench ready to play."
— Edited by Patrick De Oliveira
Jon Goerina/KANSAN
Sophomore guard Kelly Kohn takes contact by a Nebraska defender on her way to the basket during the first half of Tuesday's game against Nebraska. Kohn came off the bench and scored 11 points on 4-for-6 shooting, including 2-of-4 from three-point range, in 16 minutes. Kansas defeated Nebraska 73-67 in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament.
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Sophomore guard Sade Morris takes the ball to the basket during Kansas' game against Nebraska. Morris finished with 13 points, six assists, two blocks and three steals in 36 minutes. The Jayhawks won the game despite turning the ball over 24 times.
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Women's Big 12 Tournament
of the tournament. The Cyclones dished out 21 assists, led by sophomore guard Alison Lacey with 10, and turned the ball over only five times.
NO. 8 IOWA STATE 76,
NO. 9 COLORADO 50
Iowa State turned 20 turnovers into an astounding 27 points to blow by Colorado in the first game
Freshman guard Kelsey Bolte and junior guard Heather Ezell combined to score 44 points. Colorado senior forward Jackie McFarland tried to keep her team in the game with 21 points and seven rebounds, but her six turnovers helped seal its doom.
NO. 7 TEXAS 75,
NO. 10 TEXAS TECH 63
Sophomore guard Brittainey Raven paced the Longhorns with 16 points, but she had plenty of help as three of her teammates scored at least 13 points to help the Longhorns coast to a win. The biggest difference of the game was that Texas Tech shot only 35.2 percent from the floor while Texas shot a lights-out 48.3 percent.
These two teams played less than a week ago in the final regular season game of the year with Texas coming out on top in that contest as well.
Junior guard Dominic Seals led