Student ticket pickup began Monday for the games played between Jan. 10 and Jan.27. The games are against Oklahoma State, Missouri and Colorado. Tickets can be picked up today and Wednesday at the Allen Fieldhouse ticket office or online at kuathletics.com. There is a $1 charge for online pickup.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS HANG TEN
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High-flying Jayhawks win by 10
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BY SHAWN SHROYER
Good teams bounce back from tough losses, have bench players step up when called upon and force teams to beat you by playing tough defense.
All three of these were characteristics that factored into Kansas' 72-62 victory against USC Monday.
Kansas looked to be feeling the after effects of its loss to DePaul early in the game. After the Jayhawks first three possessions, they had two turnovers and no points to show for it.
A three-pointer by sophomore guard Mario Chalmers at the 18-minute mark ignited a half that saw three ties and seven lead changes. The teams were so close in the first half that neither team's lead reached double digits.
Junior forward Darnell Jackson got extra minutes in the first half after freshman forward Darrell Arthur got two quick fouls. Jackson gave the Jayhawks momentum heading into halftime and was also Kansas'
inside presence with a team-high nine rebounds.
"He did great," Self said of Jackson. "Darnell was terrific tonight. We zone out way too much, but he was focused and in the game."
Southern California center Abdoulayne Ndiaye got into foul trouble himself in the first half, allowing Jackson to take over the paint.
Of Kansas' last seven points of the first half, Jackson had six and the Jayhawks went into intermission with a 37-33 lead. Jackson also had a team-best six rebounds before the half.
For the game, Kansas' bench was able to outscore Southern California's, 23-3.
The intensity only increased in the second half.
Just more than three minutes into the second half, Kansas junior guard Russell Robinson accidentally poked Southern California guard Lodrick Stewart in the eye.
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Twins go head to head on court
BY DREW DAVISON
One of the Stewart twins had to lose.
Kansas defeated Southern Cal, but USC guard Lodrick Stewart was the more impressive of the two. He led the Troonars with 23 points, including 5-for-8 from three-point land, as they tell to the lajayhows by ten. Twin brother, KU guard Rodrick, only saw three minutes of action in the first half and did not play in the second.
When coach Bill Self took Rodrick out of the game, Lodrick shouted to his brother.
"I was talking to my brother to just keep his head," Lodrick said. "It's hard to not see him playing."
Rodrick said he didn't look back, but he heard his brother.
"He got mad when I was walking toward the bench," Rodrick said. "He was like, 'Man, they're taking you out already?'"
The Stewart twins do a lot of talking. Lodrick said he called Rodrick about three times a day. They even
talked an hour and a half before Monday night's tip.
"Nobody knows what it's like having the experience of having a twin," Lodrick said. "It's the best thing."
Lodrick was the best shooter for USC last night until KU guard Russell Robinson poked him in his right eye. At the 16:56 mark in the second half, Lodrick, who had 17 points at the time, fell to the floor holding his eye. He would return to the game 90 seconds later, but scored just six points the rest of the game.
"It was real blurry," Lodrick said. "I didn't want to shoot, I had terrible shots."
Trojan coach Tim Floyd was pleased with how Lodrick played defense against Jayhawk guard Mario Chalmers. Chalmers was 4-for-8 from the field, but hit just one three-pointer. Floyd, who coached at Iowa State from 1995 to 1998, liked Lodrick's scoring ability all night, as he was 9-for-15.
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Darnell Jackson,junior forward,sinks a shot in the second half of last night's game against USC in Allen Fieldhouse. Jackson scored 11 points during the Javhawks' 76-62 win over the Trojans.
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》 'HORN BORN, 'HAWK BRED
Running back deserves gratitude
No one should feel sorry for the Kansas football team. By finishing at 6-6 with the easiest schedule the Jayhawks will ever get, they did not deserve a postseason bowl bid. Football is a team game and everyone must accept part of the blame, except for one notable standout: senior running back Ion Cornish.
If anyone in the country deserves to play another college football game, it's Cornish. He carried the Jayhawks offense on his back, that is, when the coaching staff allowed him to. Cornish had arguably the greatest single-season campaign of any running back in KU history. He broke the record for most yards in one season with 1.457, beating out KU rushing legends such as Gale Sayers, Nolan Cromwell, Tony Sands and June Henley. The most amazing thing is that he accomplished this with only 21 carries per game, making his yards-per-carry average nearly six.
BY TRAVIS ROBINETT
KANSAN SPORTS COLUMNIST
TROBINETT@KANSAN.COM
That's incredible.
So why didn't he carry the ball more often? And why didn't Kansas look to him more during the fourth quarter when it surrendered the lead in five of its six losses?
Most recently against Missouri, Cornish touched the ball once in the fourth quarter, catching a pass for six yards. He finished the game with 130 yards on 15 carries, which nearly equates to a first down every play. Kansas should hire someone from the math department to explain why a hand-off to Cornish
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Katie Maloney, Overland Park junior, left, and Jaci Rooney, Kansas City, Mo., senior, talk to their team during halftime Saturday at the East Lawrence Recreation Center, 1245 E. 5th St. Maloney and Rooney coach the team as a fun way to do community service for their sorority.
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YOUTH SPORTS
Student coaches give time, support
BY COURTNEY HAGEN
It's a crisp Saturday afternoon and Katie Maloney is inside a small gym, crowded by a group of rambunctious seven- and eight-year-olds.
Between shouts of "Get in front!" and "Slow down!" she rushes back and forth to the bathroom for tissues and Band-Aids before she's back on the court to cheer for a better lavup.
The Overland Park junior will spend her holiday season volunteering as a coach in the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Winter Youth Basketball League, which began the first weekend of November. Maloney coaches a second-grade boys' basketball team with her friend, Jaci Rooney, Kansas City, Mo., senior.
Maloney and Rooney are just two of the students at the University who have chosen runny noses and sideline pointers before books and beer a few days out of the week. Both are part of a small group of students spending their time as coaches, mentors, friends and sometimes disciplinarians in sports leagues across Lawrence.
Lce lee, youth sports supervisor for Lawrence Parks and Recreation, said 90 teams were playing in the winter basketball league this year; student volunteers from the University coach 10 of those teams. Ice said he liked to recruit a small amount of KU students every year through Greek chapters and recreation services.
"One of the big benefits to using students is that you don't have the favoritism that might normally exist with a parent that volunteers to coach their child's team," Ice said. "Sometimes students' knowledge of
the game is better because they just aren't doing it as a parent because no one else will coach. Sometimes the kids relate better to the college students."
Maloney said she got involved with volunteer coaching this season for that very reason.
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