2B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
TUESDAY, MARCH 7. 2006
ATHLETICS CALENDAR
TODAY
Women's basketball vs. Kansas State, Big 12 Tournament, 6 p.m., Dallas
WEDNESDAY
CLOSEOUT
Softball vs. Missouri State, 2 p.m., Arrocha Ballpark
Baseball vs. Baker, 3 p.m., Hoglund Ballpark
Softball vs. Missouri State, 4 p.m., Arrocha Ballpark
Frankenstein
Player to watch:
Destiny Frankenstein. Frankenstein, a senior infielder, hit her ninth home run of the season against Tulsa to win the Best Western Airport Festival.
THURSDAY
THURSDAY
Swimming, Zone Diving, all day, Columbia, Mo.
FRIDAY
Softball vs. Eastern Michigan,
Jayhawk Classic, 2 p.m., Arrocha
Ballnark
Baseball at Clemson, 3 p.m., Clemson, S.C.
Softball vs. Minnesota, Jayhawk
Classic, 4 p.m., Arrocha Ballpark
Track. NCAA Indoor Championships, all day Favetteville, Ark
Swimming. Zone Diving, all day,
Columbia, Mo
- Women's golf, The "Mo" morial, all day, College Station, Texas
SATURDAY
Tennis vs. Iowa, 11 a.m., Robinson Courts
Baseball at Clemson, 1 p.m., Clemson, S.C.
Softball vs. Portland State, Jayhawk Classic 9 on Armorco Ballpark
Softball vs. Eastern Michigan, Jayhawk Classic, 4 p.m., Arrocha Ballpark
Track. NCAA Indoor Championships, all day. Favetteville, Ark.
Swimming. Zone Diving, all day,
Columbia, Mo.
- Women's golf, The "Mo"morial, all day, College Station, Texas
BIG 12 BASEBALL
Week jumbles rankings
BY SHAW SHROYER
sshroyer@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
In games from Feb. 27 through Sunday, Kansas was one of three Big 12 teams to go unbeaten. The Big 12 Conference went 28-9 overall last week and half of the conference remained ranked. Texas A&M, Baylor and Oklahoma all jumped up the Collegiate Baseball rankings, while Nebraska and Texas both dropped a few spots.
No. 6. Nebraska (8-2)
Nebraska swept the competition against Notre Dame, Arizona and
Minnesota last weekend, winning the Dairy Queen Classic in Minneapolis.
In an 11-1 victory against Notre Dame on Friday, junior pitcher Joba Chamberlain earned his second victory of the season. Chamberlain struck out 11 batters and walked just one in seven innings, while keeping the Fighting Irish off the scoreboard.
15. Texas A&M (13-2)
The Aggies had a big week,
moving up 14 spots in the rank-
ings. Texas A&M
STANDINGS
finished off the Domino's Pizza Aggie Baseball Classic on Monday in College Station, Texas, with a 5-3 victory against UNC-Greensboro.
It then traveled to Gainsville, Fla., to face No. 7 Florida to take the series 2-1. The Aggies gave up only four runs to
Kansas State 9-1
Texas A&M 13-2
Oklahoma State 8-2
Nebraska 8-2
**Kansas** **13-4**
Oklahoma 11-4
Baylor 9-3
Texas Tech 11-5
Missouri 8-5
Texas 10-8
Note: No conference games
te: No conference games have been played yet.
the Gators, which all came in the second game.
Source: www.big12sports.com
On Friday, junior pitcher Kyle Nicholson shut out Florida for six innings and won his third game of the season as the bullpen sealed the 4-0 victory.
17. Texas (10-8)
C o m i ng into the weekend,
Texas was 9-6 and UNLV was 4-8. But
UNLV defeated Texas
in the first two games, 13-12 and 9-8. Texas salvaged a 9-8 victory to conclude the series. During its championship season in 2005, Texas didn't record its eight loss until April 27.
19. Baylor (9-3)
game weekend series. The Bears dropped the first game of the series, 4-3, but won the series with 5-3 and 4-2 victories in the next two games.
led Baylor on offense throughout the Long Beach State series, going 5-of-11 with two runs scored.
Senior catcher Zach Dillon
23. Oklahoma (11-4)
Oklahoma lost its first game of the week, 12-2, to No. 28 Wichita State Oklahoma
rebounded to defeat UC-River side last weekend.
Oklahoma senior pitcher Daniel McCutehen pitched 10 scoreless innings, struck out six and walked only two UC-Riverside batters before Oklahoma rallied to win in the bottom of the 10th inning.
Kansas State (9-1)
The Wildcats won five games in seven days and extended their winning streak to
seven games. All five games were in Manhattan, kicking off what is to be a 15-game home stand before conference play begins.
Kansas State started its week with a two-game, mid-week sweep of South Dakota State and went on to beat Eastern Illinois over the weekend in four straight games. The fourth game of the series was scheduled for Monday.
Missouri (8-5)
Missouri
Missouri
went 3-1
last week,
but failed
to complete
a sweep of
gin the UW-Milwaukee series, Missouri outscored its opponents. 41-13.
On Friday, junior pitcher Max Scherzer earned his third victory of the season in as many starts. Scherzer, who was named Big 12 Pitcher of the Week for the third time in his career last week, struck out nine UW-Milwaukee batters in only five innings of work.
UW-Milwaukee on Sunday. In one victory against Illinois State and two victories to be-
Oklahoma State (8-2)
Okla-
homa State had its six-
game winning streak
snapped in an 11-6 loss
on Sunday
against Cal State-Northridge. The Cowboys took the first two games of the series, 10-5 and 8-2.
Junior infielder Shelby Ford had another impressive week at the plate, hitting his third and fourth home runs of the season on Saturday. He went 7-of-12 with five RBI and four runs in the series.
Texas Tech (11-5)
T ex a s
Tech also
had a six-
game winning streak
end last
week when it
lost 13-5
to No. 22 Arizona State. Texas Tech went down again on Thursday, losing the first game of a three-game series against Campbell. The Red Raiders managed to win the series with 5-3 and 6-4 victories on Friday and Saturday.
Junior designated hitter Tyler Reves went 8-of-17 with seven RBI and four runs in four games last week.
Edited by John Jordan
BASEBALL KU ranks top 25 in Baseball America poll
The Kansas baseball team was ranked No. 25 on the Baseball America poll on Monday. Kansas has won 13 and lost four.
During their two-week hiatus off the polls, the Jayhawks have won seven straight games, including a three-game sweep of Western Illinois last weekend.
A midweek match-up Wednesday against Baker will end the Jayhawks first home stand of the season.
This is the Jayhawks first appearance on Baseball America's Top 25 in three years.
Kansas did not make an appearance in the Collegiate Baseball poll on Monday.
Alissa Bauer
NFL
League and union agree to extent talks
NEWYORK — NFL labor negotiations took yet another surprising turn late Sunday when the league and union agreed to postpone free agency another 72 hours. The postponemet will give the sides more time to try to reach agreement on an extension to their contract.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said the delay would give owners a chance to consider the union's latest proposal during a meeting Tuesday in Dallas.
Harold Henderson, the NFL's executive vice president for labor relations, said the union rejected a proposal that would have added $577 million for players in 2006 compared to 2005 and $1.5 billion in the six years of the extension.
- The Associated Press
MEN'S BASKETBALL
TALK TO US
Kansas, Texas share Big 12 title; Texas hogs the trophy celebration
BY DOUG TUCKER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The day before, when Kansas beat Kansas State 66-52 to clinch at least a tie with Texas, nobody from the Big 12 office was even at the game to congratulate them.
LAWRENCE — When Texas beat Oklahoma 72-48 Sunday afternoon to clinch a tie with Kansas for the Big 12 championship, the Longhorns were handed a handsome trophy to hoist in a midcourt celebration.
The co-champions from Austin were pictured in newspapers and on television proudly displaying their Big 12 trophy. The co-champions from Lawrence merely got back on their bus and went home without so much as a handshake from anybody from the conference office.
Is a conference that is headquartered in the heart of Texas, whose officials all live in the Dallas area, betraying a Texas bias?.
Kansas and Texas often wage fierce recruiting battles for the same prospects. Even the slightest edge — such as getting your
Is a conference that is head-quartered in the heart of Texas, whose officials all live in the Dallas area, betraying a 'Texas bias?
picture in the paper holding a championship trophy - can prove telling.
Needless to say, Kansas coach Bill Self and many of his fans were taken aback, and a somewhat irate Self was on the phone Monday morning with Dallas.
He heard right back from them.
"The Big 12 called me and apologized," Self said. "They
said they were sorry that our guys were not recognized, and that it was a mistake.
"Their response was, 'Bill, we made a mistake.' They said their policy is you don't recognize a team and you don't send a trophy until after it is clinched. It was a mistake by the conference office that the trophy was allowed to get to a particular school."
"The trophy was inadvertently sent to Texas due to a miscommunication from our office," said Rob Carolla, director of communications.
Carolla said part of the confusion stemmed from the fact that no one was certain heading into the final regular-season weekend who would win the title. If Kansas State had beaten Kansas and Oklahoma had beaten Texas, then the Jayhawks, Sooners
A Big 12 official told The Associated Press the problem was with the trophy company in Oklahoma City.
"I hope the policy is revisited because any team in our league that wins a championship is deserving of being recognized, any sport," Self said. "Whatever championship it is, you should be recognized by your conference. Obviously, we were not."
"It was just a miscommunication with our office and that's why the error occurred," Carolla said. "Kansas will have a trophy tomorrow."
--and Longhorns all would have tied.
Self said he's satisfied the mistake will not be repeated.
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