6B the university daily kansan
sports
wednesday, march 17,2004
Danica Moore, Hill City sophomore, grabbed an offensive rebound from Jessica Koerner, Garden City second year pharmacy student during an intramural basketball game Sunday night at the Student Recreation Fitness Center. Moore's team won the game
Intramural teams duel in playoffs
By Laura Francoviglia
lfrancoviglia@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
Amanda Kim Stairrett/Kansan
Each week during the intramural season, the Kansas will profile an intramural game of the week. This is the second week of the feature.
From the pregame huddle and the shout of "defense," Keep Shooting had a game plan to eliminate the Pharmacy Girls.
It worked.
Keep Shooting took control of the ball early on in the intramural playoff game, ending the season for the Pharmacy Girls with a final score of 45-21.
"It was a hard-fought game," said Keep Shooting's Lauren Jenkins, St. Louis freshman. "It wasn't easy."
The Pharmacy Girls took advantage of turnovers, but when players made it to the other end of the court, shooting troubles
"They put that much time into it, they deserve to win."
Sara Raugust Second-year pharmacy student
Sara Raugust
plagued them.
"They were the best we were up against this semester," Jenkins said.
The Pharmacy Girls had stamina and played aggressively until the final buzzer, even though the score was 25-7 at the half and Keep Shooting increased the spread by six points in the second half.
Keep Shooting's Liz Rinehart said the Pharmacy Girls had looked aggressive when she watched its previous game. Rinehart, Wellington junior, said she and her teammates usually watched their next matchup to work out game strategies.
"They put that much time into it; they deserve to win." said the Pharmacy Girls' Sara Raugust, Hillsbourough second-year pharmacy student.
Raugust said her team had not practiced between games during the season.
"They are super serious, and I'm just here to burn calories and have fun," said Pharmacy Girls member Andi Olson, Fredonia second-year pharmacy student.
Keep Shooting's coach, Tony "T-Diddy" Daniels, said his strategy was simple: He coached his team from the sideline to keep the floor balanced, to go for the layup when the lane was open and to pass to shoot.
The Pharmacy Girls are here to play good competitive basketball, said team member Jessica Koerner, Garden City second-earn pharmacy student.
"we lost to a very good team," she said.
Koerner also said the refereeing was unfair, but even if it had been fair, she said Keep Shooting still would have won.
"We were hammered from underneath," Koerner said. "They dominated because they're bigger."
Daniels said the referees went easy on his team. He said the referees let more fouls go than they should have.
In the last minutes of the game, Daniels said he focused on letting the clock run out because the game was getting physical.
"We've got another game to play on Wednesday; we don't want anybody to get hurt," Daniels said.
Across the gym, Daniels watched the Lady Jayhawkers narrowly defeat Hawks Heat. Keep Shooting will square off against the Lady Jayhawkers, the intramural championship, tonight at Allen Fieldhouse.
Former Missouri player Clemons sticks to claims that he was paid
— Edited by Meghan Brune
The Associated Press
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Former Missouri guard Ricky Clemons renewed in a television interview his claim of receiving money while playing basketball for the Tigers.
"I never got more than $500 at a time. I never kept up with it. I just received the money." Clemons told interviewer James Brown on HBO's Real Sports, which aired last night on the cable network.
the Tigers' program last year after a single season.
"Did you ask for money or was it just being given to you?" Brown asked.
"It was just being given to me. Sometimes in cash, but if it was something major that had to be paid for — go get a money order. You can't trace that," said Clemons, who was kicked out of
Missouri's coaches and players have denied giving Clemons money.
The NCAA is investigating the Missouri basketball program, and the university is
Clemons
conducting its own investigation in cooperation with the NCAA
Citing the ongoing investigations, Chad Moller, the school's sports information director, refused to comment yesterday about the HBO report.
The professor leading the school investigation, Michael Devaney, also declined comment yesterday about Clemons' late $ ^{e+}$
"I never got more than $500 at a time. I never kept up with it. I just received the money,"
Rickey Clemons
Former Missouri guard
allegations.
Missouri played last night at Michigan in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament.
The Tigers were not selected for the NCAA tournament after posting a disappointing 16-13 record and losing by 25 to archrival Kansas in the Big 12 Tournament.
Clemens previously alleged receiving money by check.
His former girlfriend, Jessica
Bunge, has also asserted that Clemons received money during stops at the Hearnes Center, Missouri's home arena.
In a tape of the interview provided to The Associated Press by HBO, Brown asked Clemons: "Were you paid by coaches at the University of Missouri?"
Clemons replied: "Yes."
The athlete, who has moved to North Carolina, said he didn't know the total amount he received.
Brown asked whether Clemons knew it was wrong to accept cash as a college athlete.
"It never crossed my mind.
It happens everywhere. You don't talk about it.
And you feel like you're never going to get caught," Clemons said.
Clemens was booted from the team last year after a judge
ordered him to jail for violating conditions that allowed him to serve a sentence in a halfway house for a domestic incident involving Bunge.
"I paid the ultimate price, I lost my scholarship," Clemens said. "Going through that, now I know you don't take money from a coach ..."
Clemons also renewed claims that a Missouri assistant coach, Tony Harvey, provided money to his former teammates Arthur Johnson and Ricky Paulding, who as seniors are completing their careers at Missouri.
Harvey has denied the allegation and Johnson and Paulding have denied receiving money.
"They had a bill, like a rent payment, that had to get paid," Clemons said. "Coach Harvey paid it. They are his guys."
He added that the allegations
and investigations were "bigger than Ricky Clemons now."
Bunge also claimed Clemons received improper academic assistance to enroll at and play for Missouri, charges the basketball program has denied.
Those claims are a partial focus of Devaney's internal investigation.
Devanay told the AP that the school should "have a better idea later this month about where all of this is heading."
The electrical engineering professor initially had hoped to complete the investigation by last December, as Missouri was starting its basketball season.
"It it seems like every time I've estimated when this is going to come to closure, I've been wrong." Devaney said. "I hope to have a feel for where the NCAA is later this month."
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