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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
athletics calendar
TODAY
Baseball vs. North Dakota State, 3 p.m. and 6 p. Holgound Ballpark
WEDNESDAY
Women's basketball
Baseball vs. North Dakota State, 3 p.m. Hoglund Ballpark
FRIDAY
vs. OKLAHOMA, 7 p.m. Allen Fieldhouse
Track at Big 12 Championships, All day, Ames, Iowa
Softball vs. Kent State, 1 p.m. Louisville, Ky.
Softball vs. Louisville, 3 p.m. Louisville, Kv.
Baseball vs. Stanford, 7 p.m. Stanford, Calif.
SATURDAY
Women's golf at FSO
Chrysler Challenge, All day,
Destin, Fla.
Track at Big 12 Champion ships, All day, Ames, Iowa
Softball vs. Iowa, Noon;
Louisville, Ky.
Baseball vs. Stanford, 3 p.m. Stanford, Calif.
Men's basketball vs. Iowa State; 5 p.m. Allen Fieldhouse
Women's basketball
SUNDAY
Women's golf at FSU Chrysler Challenge, All day, Destin, Fla.
Baseball vs. Stanford, 1 p.m. Stanford, Calif.
Softball vs. TBA, TBA Louisville, Kv.
>> NASCAR
Chris O Meara/ASSOCIATED PRESS
MASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombia, gets his car serviced in the pits during the Daytona 500 race Sunday afternoon at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Fashionably finished 19th in the 43-car field.
Dramatic Daytona 500 finish stumps announcers
BY JIM LITKE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The first 150 laps of the Daytona 500 was like watching drivers circle the lot at the grocery store politely waiting for parking spots to open up.
Then the sun went down, a full moon popped up and everybody started behaving like the Wolfman — suddenly in a hurry and only too eager to mix it up.
The last 50 laps featured five wrecks, all involving multiple cars, and small wonder. There was no rooibat. With three dozen circuits left, the top 20 were separated by a second. With six laps to go, the field was as tightly packed as it was at the start.
At the finish, as car parts, smoke and sparks flew through the air behind them like the climactic chase scene from "The Road Warrior," Kevin Harvick and Mark Martin were racing side by side at around 200 mph separated by the length of a car hood. Seconds later, providing a perfect exclamation point, Clint Boyer skidged across the line with his car upside down — and on fire.
The guys calling the race on Fox, with decades of NASCAR experience between them, scoured their collective memory banks to come up with an ending nearly this wild.
One nominated the 1979 Daytona 500, when Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison battled on the final lap, spun into the infield, started throwing insults and then punches
Grand as that race was, driver-turned-broadcaster Darrrell Waltrip came up with an even better one.
as Allison's brother, Bobby, pulled over and joined the fray. Richard Petty made up a half-lap deficit and snuck across the finish line.
"This finish," he said, recalling last year's NASCAR-inspired hit comedy, "It's 'Ricky Bobby'. It couldn't have been any better."
Martin, the sentimental favorite, was trying to win his first Daytona title in 23 tries.
"Wildest thing I've been part of",
Harvick said after officials posted
his margin of victory at .020 seconds,
"in a long time."
Nor better-timed.
"We were inches or feet or what ever. We were short. It was so close," he said finally, "but it was second."
FOOTBALL
Jayhawks promote two assistant coaches
Mark Mangino did not look far to fill two assistant coaching vacancies. Last Thursday Mangino announced that Je'Ney Jackson will become the cornerbacks coach and Tim Beck will step into the role of passing game coordinator.
Jackson, who served as Kansas' strength and conditioning coach for the past two years, takes over a largely untested group of corner-backs. Junior Aqib Talib was an All-Big 12 Conference selection last
season, but sophomore Anthony Webb and junior Raymond Brown have yet to prove themselves.
On the offensive side, Beck will continue to coach the team's wide receivers, but will also take more responsibility over the passing game. Coupled with the addition of offensive coordinator Ed Warinner, Beck's promotion means changes in the offensive game plan could be in order next season.
The Jayhawks begin spring workouts March 14. The annual spring game is scheduled for April 15.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
APTOP 25
Another 1 vs.2 showdown
The top 25 teams in the Associated Press college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 18, total points based on 25 points for a first-plate vote through one point for a 25-th place vote and last week's
RK TEAM RECORD PTS PV
1 Wisconsin (35) 26-2 1747 34
2 Ohio St. (31) 24-3 1728 1
3 Florida (4) 24-3 1647 2
4 UCLA (2) 23-3 1611 5
5 North Carolina 23-4 1647 4
Miami 23-4 1,745
Minnesota 28-3 1,908
Oklahoma 26-1 1,885
*B Texas A&M* 22-4 1,283
9. Washington St. 22-4 1,172 10
10. Pittsburgh 23-4 1,161 7
11. Nevada 24-2 1,146 11
12. Georgetown 24-2 1,009 14
13. S. Illinois 23-5 962 16
14. Air Force 23-4 13-17
15. Butter 24-4 695 13
16. Marquette 21-7 510 12
17. Vanderbilt 18-8 413 _
18. Duke 10-7 410 _
19. Texas
20. Louisville
21. BYU
22. West Virginia
23. Oregon
24. Virginia
25. Alabama
19-7 332
19-8 286
20-6 264
20-6 240 23
20-7 218 15
18-7 185
18-7 177 25
Asher Fusco
Others receiving winnings
= original tech. **Homa St. 123**
= Stamford Stadium. **881** Writtnick, 25
Boston College 74, Airton 59, Maryland
48, Notre Dame 39, UNLV 5, Kansas St.
**34** Kaiver 28, Ridgida 21, Aries 10
Clementigh 16, Old Dominion 15, Davidson 14
Davenport 13, Oakland 12, Durham 12, Drexel 4, Massachusetts 1, New Mexico St.
**Tour 3** Touch 3
3. Texas Tech 3 Tennessee 2 Vermont 1
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
APTOP25
Tar Heels climbing
The top 25 teams in the Associated Press, women's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 18, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking.
| TEAM | RECORD | PTS | PV |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1. Duke (50) | 28-0 | 1,250 | 3 |
| 2. Tennessee | 24-2 | 1,190 | 1 |
| 3. Connecticut | 24-2 | 1,129 | 5 |
| 4. N. Carolina | 26-2 | 1,116 | 2 |
| 5. Ohio St | 24-2 | 977 | 4 |
| 6. Maryland | 25-4 | 957 | 6 |
| 7. LSU | 23-4 | 947 | 7 |
| 8. Stanford | 23-4 | 869 | 9 |
| 9. George Wash. | 23-2 | 846 | 8 |
| 10. Arizona St. | 25-3 | 829 | 10 |
| 11. Georgia | 23-5 | 770 | 11 |
| 12. Vanderbilt | 23-4 | 665 | 12 |
| **13. Oklahoma** | **20-4** | **629** | **14** |
| 14. Baylor | 23-4 | 609 | 15 |
| 15. Purdue | 23-5 | 532 | 16 |
| **16. Texas A&M** | **20-5** | **498** | **13** |
| 17. Middle Tenn. | 24-3 | 465 | 17 |
| 18. Bowling Green | 24-2 | 437 | 18 |
| 19. Marquette | 22-4 | 304 | 21 |
| 20. Michigan St. | 21-6 | 300 | 24 |
| 21. Rutgers | 17-7 | 256 | 23 |
| 22. James Madison | 24-2 | 157 | 25 |
| 23. Louisville | 22-5 | 107 | 20 |
| 24. Wisconsin Green Bay | 21-3 | 102 | 25 |
| **25. Nebraska** | **21-6** | **90** | **19** |
Others receiving votes N.C. State 66,
California 61, Montana 37, Temple 18,
Pittsburgh 16, Notre Dame 11, Tulane
TCU 1, W.Kentucky. 1
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