THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2006
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 9A
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Serenading and Diving at Big 12 Championships, All day, Columbia, Mo.
FRIDAY
- Sullivan vs. Frasano State, Palm Springs Classic, Noon, Palm Solomon Calif.
+ Baseball vs. Baskron, Music City Challenger, 2 p.m., Nashville, Tenn.
Player to watch: Matt Baty The
senior outfielder and team captain has been slowed by an injury so for this season. If Basty can't come back in full force, junior college transfer Kyle Murphy will see the focus turn to him.
♦ Softball vs. Cal State Fullerton,
Palm Springs Classic, 5 p.m., Palm
Springs, Calif.
- Swimming and Diving at Big 12 Championships, All day, Columbia, Mo.
❖ Softball vs. UCLA, Palm Springs Classic, 3 p.m., Palm Springs, Calif.
SATURDAY
- Baseball vs. Lipscomb University, Music City Challenge, 2 p.m., Nashville, Tenn.
Track and Field at Big 12 Indoor Championships, All day, Lincoln, Neb.
♢ Softball vs. UC Santa Barbara,
Palm Springs Classic, 10:30 p.m.
Palm Springs, Calif.
+ Men's Basketball at Texas, 8 p.m. Austin, Texas
- Track and Field at Big 12 Indoor Championships, All day, Lincoln, Neb.
- Swimming and Diving at Big. 12 Championships, All day, Columbia, Mo.
- Tennis at Arkansas, 1 p.m., Fayetteville, Ark.
♦ Women's Basketball vs. Missouri
11 a.m., Allen Feldhouse.
SUNDAY
- Softball vs. Pacific, Palm Springs
Classic, 1 p.m., Palm Springs, Calif.
* Baseball vs. Vanderbilt, Music City
Challenge, Noon, Nashville, Tenn.
Anna Faltermoeior/KANSAN
INTRAMURALS
Bugeaters share unusual origin
From left Jim Lusk and Brent Uhrig, Omaha seniors, goof around after their game on Sunday night at 5:10 p.m. at the Student Recreation and Fitness Center, Lusk and Uhrig are both members of team Bugeaters.
BY HEATH RIFFEL
hriffel@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSMWTER
Editor's note: This week's team profile features Jim Lusk and Brent Uhrig, Omaha, Neb., seniors, and members of The Bugeaters men's intramural basketball team. The Bugeaters finished the regular season 0-2-1.
Riffel: How did your team get its name?
Lusk: The initiation requirement is to consume 37 different types of bugs — none of this weak ladybug stuff either.
Lusk: We like to bang our sticks on the boards and chant "quack," beginning at a low volume and giving a nice crescendo from there.
Riffel: Does your team have a motto, chant or cheer?
Riffel: What are your team's expectations for the season?
Lusk: We would like to score at least 19 legitimate baskets.
Riffel: How did your team form?
Uhrig: That, and execute a flawless three-man weave.
Uhrig: We were actually involved in a heated locker room debate about this the other day. Four of us are leaning toward theories of evolution and the other four toward
intelligent design.
Riffel: How does your team celebrate a victory?
Uhrig: We eat large turkey legs, two at a time, and drink mead from jewel encrusted goblets. Then we like to head outside of town and pillage the first village we come to.
Riffel: Interesting. What
makes your team different from other intramural teams?
Uhrig: We all have different dads.
Riffel: What are you studying at the University of Kansas?
Uhrig: Mechanical Engineering.
Lusk: Finance.
Riffel: What is your favorite sports team?
Lusk: Kansas Jayhawks.
Uhrig; Nebraska Cornhusker football.
Riffel: What is your favorite high school memory?
Lusk: Playing ice hockey.
Uhrig: The Denver Broncos winning two Super Bowls.
Edited by Cynthia Hernandez
"I just need to focus a lot more than I have been. I can take another step up." Giles said.
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Giles
Giles began the season in the starting lineup next to sophomore center Sasha Kaun, but after nine games, there was no consistency with two near-seven-footers on the floor together.
Giles said that he and Kaun were unable to click with their time together on the floor. Kaun and Giles both prefer playing center, and neither were able to grasp the power forward position.
Now Self uses Giles with sophomore forward Darnell Jackson and Kaun with freshman forward Julian Wright.
Productive play from Giles will be a key in how far Kansas goes in the postseason. Giles said he was ready for that challenge.
It is apparent that Giles has gelled more with Jackson. The offense has been more effective when the two are together on the floor rather than when Giles and Kaun
played together.
"It was great to see CJ make some shots and Darnell knocking down shots,"Self said."Those are all positive things."
Both Giles and Jackson showed off their outside games against Baylor. They each hit jumpers from the free-throw line, and Giles had a hook shot from the right side that fell.
The Kansas backcourt has led the way offensively this season, but with the frontcourt combining for 46 points against Baylor, the team has proven to have other offensive
weapons than its talented guards.
"It is real important that we are counting on the big men to score for us," freshman guard Brandon Rush said. "I think they are doing a real good job right now."
The frontcourt will have its hands full on Saturday against Texas' talented frontcourt of LaMarcus Aldridge and Brad Buckman. The game could show whether the team can take it to that next level that Self discussed.
- Edited by Meghan Miller
Freshman Rush named to All-District 12 squad
The National Association of Basketball Coaches has named Brandon Rush to its All-District 12 second team. The freshman guard was the only Kansas player named to a team.
The official announcement was made on Saturday.The coaches in each district vote for the teams.
First Team All-District 12:
Taj Gray — Oklahoma
Curtis Stinson — Iowa State
Greg Brunner — Iowa
Richard Roby — Colorado
Ben Jacobson — Northern Iowa
Second Team All-District 12:
Brandon Rush — Kansas
Thomas Gardner — Missouri
Adam Haluska — Iowa
Cartier Martin — Kansas State
Caleb Green — Oral Roberts
— Eric Jorgensen
TENNIS
Freshman leads way for ranked Jayhawks
Coming off a victory against No. 74 Louisville, the Kansas tennis team made the leap into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings at No. 75 for the first time since February 2004.
Freshman Kenia Bukina of Obninsk, Russia, is still ranked in the singles rankings by the ITA. She was ranked No. 79 before dropping two spots to No. 81, but still holds the number one spot on the team.
The Kansas Jayhawks will take a four-match winning streak to Fayetteville, Ark., on Saturday to play the No. 60 Arkansas Razorbacks. The team will then head to Tulsa, Okla., to take on the No. 72 Tulsa Golden Hurricane on Sunday.
Olden Hurricane on Sunday Kansas has a record of 4-1.
— Antonio Mendoza
Goggles make it easier to check out the opposite sex.
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