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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2008
trivia of the dav
Q: Who is the only Iowa State basketball player to be named a Consensus First Team All-American?
A: Marcus Fizer in the 1999-2000 season. Fizer averaged 22.8 points and 7.7 rebounds and led the Cyclones to an Elite Eight berth that season before declaring for the NBA Draft.
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fact of the day
Fizer plays for Maccabi Tel Aviv Basketball Club, a team that has won five Euroleague Championships in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is teammates with fellow American Will Bynum, who led Georgia Tech to the national championship game in 2004.
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quote of the day
"This is the biggest shot I ever took in my life. I mean, it's like a dream come true, making a shot like this at this high level. I mean, words can't describe how I feel right now."
— Will Bynum, after making a game-winning basket against Oklahoma State in the 2004 Final Four
on tv tonight
Men's College Basketball
— Kansas at Iowa State,
6 p.m., ESPN
— Georgia Tech at Duke,
8 p.m., ESPN
— West Virginia at DePaul,
8 p.m., ESPN2
Women's College Basketball:
— Iowa State at Missouri,
6:30 p.m., FSN
Kansas calendar
TODAY
Swimming & Diving. Big 12 Championships, All day, Austin, Texas Baseball vs. Arkansas, 3 p.m., Fayetteville, Ark. Men's basketball vs. Iowa State, 6 p.m., Ames, Iowa Women's basketball vs. Texas, 7 p.m., Lawrence
THURSDAY Swimming & Diving, Big 12 Championships, All day, Austin, Texas
Big 12 men
| | Big 12 | Overall |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Texas | 11-2 | 24-4 |
| Kansas | **9-3** | **24-3** |
| Kansas State | 8-5 | 18-9 |
| Texas A&M | 6-6 | 20-7 |
| Baylor | 6-6 | 18-8 |
| Oklahoma | 6-6 | 18-9 |
| Texas Tech | 6-6 | 15-11 |
| Nebraska | 5-7 | 16-9 |
| Missouri | 5-7 | 15-12 |
| Okla. State | 5-7 | 14-12 |
| Iowa State | 4-8 | 14-13 |
| Colorado | 2-10 | 10-16 |
Big 12 women
| | Big 12 | Overall |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Baylor | 11-2 | 23-3 |
| Oklahoma | 10-3 | 20-5 |
| Kansas State | 10-3 | 18-8 |
| Okla. State | 9-4 | 21-5 |
| Texas A&M | 8-5 | 20-7 |
| Nebraska | 7-6 | 18-9 |
| Iowa State | 5-8 | 16-10 |
| Texas | 4-9 | 16-11 |
| Texas Tech | 4-9 | 16-11 |
| Colorado | 4-9 | 15-11 |
| **Kansas** | **4-9** | **15-11** |
| Missouri | 2-11 | 9-17 |
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FOOTBALL
Former Kansas players
finish NFL Combine tryouts
Two former Jayhawks completed NFL Combine workouts this week. Cornerback Aqib Talib fared well
across the board.
Talib finished in
the top three at
his position in
the vertical jump,
broad jump and
three-cone drill,
and clocked a
4. 47 second 40-yard dash.Talib weighed
Talib
Defensive tackle James McClinton didn't find as much success as Talib. McClinton performed just 23 bench press repetitions and ran his 40-yard dash in 5.49 seconds, more than a second slower than the top defensive lineman.
in at 202 pounds and was just over 6-foot, making him the second-tallest and fifth-heaviest cornerback in the 2008 draft class.
— Asher Fusco
>> NBA
Yao Ming out for the season
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HOUSTON — All-Star center Yao Ming is out for the season with a stress fracture in his left foot, a stunning blow to the surging Houston Rockets.
General manager Daryl Morey made the announcement Tuesday, hours before the Rockets put their 12-game winning streak on the line against the Washington Wizards.
Yao was having a terrific season, averaging 22 points and 10.8 rebounds per game.
"It is not an injury we feel he can play with." Rockets team doctor Tom Clanton said. "I've made the recommendation that it be treated surgically and we are working with him to get other opinions just to be certain that that is indeed what should be done."
If Yao chooses surgery, Clanton said, it would involve placing screws
across the bone to hold it together. The second option would be to treat it with a cast and crutches. Both options involve a healing time of about four months.
Clanton would not say when Yao could play again, but said he didn't expect the center to miss the Beijing Olympics in August.
Morey told the team before Tuesday's shootaround and added that he didn't believe the injury compromised Houston's playoff hopes. The Rockets were 36-20 entering Tuesday's game.
"We've been playing exceptional ball and Yao's been a huge part of that," Morey said. "We feel very confident about our playoff push. We've managed to step up and play well without Yao in the past and coaches and players feel confident that we're going to continue to play well and make the playoffs this year."
Morey acknowledged that it was
This is Yao's fourth major injury in the last two years. He missed 32 games last season with a fracture in his right leg and 21 games in late 2006 with a toe infection that required surgery. He missed four games in April 2006 after breaking his foot.
difficult news to receive when the team has been playing so well.
"It's a pretty big swing from a high to a low, with how we were playing." Morey said. "We feel like our supporting cast is superior to when we played without Yao in the past. We remain ready for the challenge ahead."
Clanton said there was no specific event that led to the injury, but rather an "accumulation of stresses on the bone. Yao first experienced soreness and pain in his ankle before the All-Star game and tests were done Monday.
Houston went 20-12 when Yao was injured last season.
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