STELLAR PITCHERS Sophomore pitcher Valerie George led the softball team to a 2-0 victory against Oklahoma State Sunday. Senior Kassie Humphreys relieved in the last inning to seal the game.
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Mario Chalmers and Julian Wright walk off the court after the loss to UCLA in the Elite Eight. Both players combined for 10 points against UCLA but missed shots in the paint that could not fall in kept the Jayhawks from a victory.
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UCLA ends Kansas' season
This time, an entire game of strong defense and key turnovers came down to the most elementary of plays. The jayhawks couldn't make their layups, and the Bruins held on in the final minutes.
BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS
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UCLA 68, Kansas 55. The season ended.
"It hurts," coach Bill Self said. "I really felt like this was our year."
An impressive 14 game winning streak ended at the door to the Final Four. a door Self has never opened.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — It happens almost every year, but it still has that same devastating feeling.
Kansas lost to an experienced UCLA team that played in front of a home-state crowd. Had the Bruins not lost a week before the tournament, the seeds would have been reversed, and No. 1 UCLA would have defeated No. 2 Kansas.
In the locker room afterward, the players hung their heads and tried to make sense of what had just happened. There was no anger in the room, just a silent disbelief. This wasn't the year.
Still, they pointed to the positive things that happened, including the Big 12 Conference regular-season title and the postseason championship. It wasn't a bad NCAA tournament, either.
"It was very special just to get over that first-round hump and then come to the Elite Eight," sophomore guard Brandon Rush said. "We had two championships, so it was a pretty decent season for us."
The season ended with two weeks at the NCAA tournament, which included visits to Chicago and San Jose. There was no shortage of sto-
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