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6B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
SPORTS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 2006
Serbian players aid KU
Team to meet eligibility requirement for WNIT
BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS
mphillips@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
AMES, Iowa - Bonnie Henrickson may have stumbled upon an unlikely recruiting pipeline: Serbia.
Freshman guard Ivana Catic (pronounced Chot-ich) has run the offense for most of the season with a scoring average of 9.1 points per game.
Now the team's other Serbian, freshman forward Marija (pronounced Maria) Zinic (pronounced Zin-ich) has notched significant minutes as well.
With the team's other forward, senior Crystal Kemp, being double-teamed on nearly every possession Saturday, Zinic put in a career-high 14 points.
"They didn't double-team her, so it gave her the opportunity to post one-on-one," Kemp said. "She's capable of making those shots every time."
Zinic showed poise even without the ball, setting screens at the end of the game that allowed senior guard Erica Hallman to drive to the basket twice in the final minute of overtime.
Smith fills defensive void
Zinic also took some of the rebounding pressure off of Kemp, grabbing five rebounds to Kemp's seven.
After a stellar defensive performance against Nebraska's junior guard Kiera Hardy, junior guard Sharita Smith was again called on to defend one of the league's best shooters.
Smith was able to hold Iowa State's junior guard Lyndsey Medders to just seven points, 12 below her season average.
"I think she's one of the best
point guards in our league," Henrickson said.
Smith was able to stay with Medders even when she had screens set for her, something Kansas defenders have struggled with so far this season.
Smith's effort has meant time practicing with the first team in practice, but she said she knew she would have to improve on offense to become a complete player.
"I'm trying to get that in there some kind of waw." Smith said.
Kansas started its possessions with the ball in Smith's hands, so she could make the pass to shooters Hallman and senior "C
She started the offense. That's not easy to do, and it's loud, but I thought her poise was fantastic."
Bonnie Henrickson Women's basketball coach
guard Kaylee Brown.
"She started the offense," Henrickson said. "That's not easy to do, and it's loud, but I thought her poise was fantastic."
Seeing the basketball players wearing Kansas T-shirts may not seem like an unusual occurrence, but tomorrow will be the first time since Jan. 28 that players have been allowed to wear their Jayhawk gear to practice.
Punishment over for players
In the middle of a stretch where the Jayhawks won just two of 11 games, Henrickson banned the players from using the locker room and wearing Kansas gear during practices.
Both restrictions were lifted after Saturday's victory.
"I'm getting soft in my old age." Henrickson joked.
The underlying message was that playing for Kansas was a privilege, and the players needed to be more prideful.
"They didn't like it, but they understood it," Henrickson said.
Stat watch:
With the 57-56 victory, Kansas improved to 6-0 in games decided by five or fewer points.
"We have pulled off some games down the stretch," Hallman said. "It just shows a lot of poise, and our younger kids are stepping up, too."
One point of emphasis for the Kansas offense has been not waiting until the end of the shot clock to make a play.
While official statistics are not kept, Kansas watched the clock go below five seconds 10 times in the first 25 minutes of the game, and just three times in the final 20 minutes.
— Coming into the game, opponents playing Kansas could expect a high-scoring shoot out. The Jayhawks ranked first in the Big 12 in three-point shot percentage, and last in three-point defense. However, neither team was able to get rolling on Saturday, and the Jayhawks finished 3-for-15, which was still better than the Cyclones' 3-for-23.
Kansas finished its non-conference schedule a perfect 11-0, and has since won enough games to guarantee the team will finish the season with more victories than losses, the requirement for being eligible for the WNIT.
- Edited by Janiece Gatson
Skating toward disaster
Mark Baker/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Canada's Patrice Lauzon swung his partner, Marie-France Durbreuil, and then dropped her during their original dance program in Figure Skating Ice Dancing at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, on Sunday.
OLYMPICS
Austrian coach at core of doping investigation
TURIN, Italy — Italian authorities seized materials in a surprise late-night sweep through the living quarters of the Austrian biathlon and cross-country teams, the first ever police anti-doping raid on Olympic athletes.
While Italian police searched the residences late Saturday and early Sunday morning, the International Olympic Committee also conducted unannounced, out-of-competition drug tests on at least six Austrian cross-country skiers and four biathletes.
Col. Angelo Agovino, commander of the Carabinieri police force in Turin, said later Sunday that officers "confiscated material of various origin ... which will have to undergo laboratory analysis."
No test results have been announced, and the Austrian cross-country relay team competed Sunday morning in the men's 4x10km relay, finishing last out of 16 teams.
"We were surprised in our room," team member Juergen Pinter said. "Suddenly the police came in and didn't let us leave on the night before the competition. This happened without any positive result from doping control in the team. There's definitely no doping in the Austrian team; it's crazy."
World Anti-Doping Agency discovered blood-doping equipment in Austria connected to Walter Mayer, an Austrian Nordic team coach banned from the Olympics for suspicion of performing blood transfusions at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.
The probe began when the
WADA learned that Mayer was with the team at the Turin Games and notified the IOC.
"The fact he was in the same area as the athletes created quite some concern to us," IOC medical commission chief Arne Liungqvist said Sunday.
Ljungqvist said the IOC had no information on the result of the police raid. The results of the IOC doping tests on the Austrians would be known within two days.
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