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friday, february 13.2004
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Team wants to forget about recent loss
MEN'S BASKETBALL: Three-game stretch only test before Texas
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Guard Maria Villarroel leads Oklahoma, averaging just under 14 points per game.
The Sooners' other four starters — Caton Hill, Dionnah Jackson, Leah Rush and Erin Higgins — also average double figures in points.
The game will be an uphill battle for Kansas, who comes in sporting a 9-12 mark, 2-8 in Big 12 play.
With that fight, the Jayhawks will look to the present in hopes of a brighter future.
"We're just going to keep fighting," Woodard said.
"We just have to get together," Hallman said, "and hopefully by the time the conference is over and the Big 12 Tournament is started, we'll be ready."
Edited by Nikki Nugent
PROJECTED STARTERS
names;
Forward Crystal Kemp,
soph.
Forward Tamara Ransburg,
soph.
Guard Aquanita Burras, jr.
Guard Larisha Graves, jr.
Guard Erica Hallman, soph.
Forward Caton Hill, sr.
Forward Leah Rush, freshman
Oklahoma:
Guard Maria Villarroel, sr.
Guard Erin Higgins, freshman
Guard Dionnah Jackson, jr.
KEY BENCH PLAYERS
Forward Lauren Ervin, freshman
Kansas:
Forward Kandis Bonner, jr.
Guard Blair Waltz, jr.
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Sunday's game begins a three-game stretch against three of the five worst teams in the conference based on records.
Kansas Basketball Notebook
This will also be the Jayhawks' only road test before they head to Austin, Texas, for a key matchup against the Texas Longhorns on Feb. 23. Self said his team's energy, both home and away, has been inconsistent, but this weekend's game is as close to a must-win situation as there could be.
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"I think we play with more energy at home," Self said. "I think the biggest thing is to understand how this team can win games away from home. We aren't going to go into places and just outscore neeob."
"I think the biggest thing is to understand how this team can win games away from home. We aren't going to go places and just outscore people."
outscore people."
Bill Self
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Kansas (15-5 Overall, 7-2 Big 12 Conference)
Probable Starters
Probable Starters
Pos. No. Name Class PPG RPG
G 11 Aaron Miles Jr. 9.6 4.2
G 5 Keith Langford Jr. 15.9 4.6
G 15 J.R. Giddens Fr. 10.3 3.6
F 44 David Padgett Fr. 7.4 5.2
F 23 Wayne Simien Jr. 16.4 9.3
Top Reserves
G 25 Michael Lee Jr. 5.9 3.0
F 42 Jeff Graves Sr. 5.4 4.3
Nebraska (13-7 Overall, 3-6 Big 12)
Probable Starters
Pos. No. Name Class PPG RPG
G 4 Nate Johnson Sr. 12.4 3.8
F 50 Andrew Drevo Sr. 11.0 4.5
F 44 John Turek Jr. 8.9 5.7
G 12 Jake Muhleisen Jr. 8.3 3.3
G 21 Corey Simms Jr. 4.4 3.6
F 20 Brian Conklin Sr. 7.1 3.2
G 3 Charles Richardson Fr. 2.4 2.1
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I criticize the Cowboys (God knows I love 'em), my coach criticizes me, the fans criticize the coach and the players and the fans get criticized at work.
Students? I don't know, maybe criticism isn't a big factor when you have a free mind, alcohol and the number to the Free for All. I think it's all hilarious. Just think: so many athletes work hard because someone, somewhere said that they weren't capable. There's always a coach who tries to rally his team because an analyst said his team wasn't very good.
There's always a fan comparing strange stats because someone else said that their favorite player or team wasn't good. I have never heard anyone give an excuse about something when
things are going well, myself included. I don't want to be the one at the end of the season telling a reporter that things were bad because of the coaching change and the new system. That's malarkey. You have a job: Do it or get fired.
Former Broncos owner sues for sale violation
Now don't go crazy and think that I was referring to my coach. That was for anybody. All I'm saying is that criticizing someone else all starts from criticizing yourself. As for the Big 12 Conference race, we stumbled as everyone knows, but the law of matter says that nothing can be destroyed. The same is said for the will and goals of the Jayhawks. And that goes for the real fans, too.
Langford is a Fort Worth, Texas, junior in journalism. He is also a guard for the Kansas men's basketball team.
DENVER — Lawyers for Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen opened their defense of a lawsuit filed by former owner Edgar Kaiser, presenting testimony from Kaiser's ex-wife and the former owner of the Vail ski area.
Kaiser's federal lawsuit accuses Bowlen of violating the terms of the $65 million sale of the Broncos by distributing ownership
interests in the team to members of Bowlen's family.
Bowlen's lawyers showed the jury a videotaped deposition Wednesday from Kaiser's ex-wife, Judy Kaiser, who said he knew Bowlen's family would be involved in financing the 1984 purchase.
Gillett said and his family members considered buying a majority stake in the Broncos in 1982 for $54 million but declined.
Colorado coach denies allegations
The Associated Press
Boulder, Colo. — Gary Barnett is a study in contradictions — a disciplinarian who nonetheless has been embroiled in controversy over his out-of-control players.
Hired to coach Colorado's football team five years ago, Barnett was expected to end an era of loose recruiting practices and return the school to national prominence.
Now he's at the center of the school's biggest scandal in decades, perhaps ever.
Amid accusations that a boozy round of recruiting visits by high school prospects in 2001 ended in gang rape, Barnett faces a university investigation that was all but ordered by Colorado's governor.
The latest blow came this week when a striptease operator said he regularly sends lap dancers to perform for Colorado athletes
The most recent performances were booked two weeks ago—well after the rape allegations became public and just days after Barnett promised to step down if it was shown his staff had anything to do with what he called "tawdry" behavior by student-athletes.
To top it off, a former athletics official said Barnett seemed reluctant to crack down on entertaining recruits because it could give an advantage to other schools.
"At no time did any coach take part in arranging, creating, or encouraging a party of any sort. You just don't do that."
Gary Barnett Colorado football coach
Barnett denied it all, telling The Associated Press he would be cleared by the investigation and disputed accusations in a federal lawsuit that the Boulder campus was a hostile place for women.
"I expect them to find that we have an exemplary program in every aspect," Barnett said.
Barnett blamed the players and students for the December 2001 party that led to the rape allegations and says he can't watch players and recruits 24 hours a day.
"No coach or any member of my staff had anything to do with that night," he said.
"At no time did any coach take part in arranging, creating or encouraging a party of any sort. You just don't do that."
At 57, Barnett has led Colorado to a Big 12 Conference title and a BCS bowl game.
When he took over from Rick Neuheisel in January 1999, his former players at Northwestern said Colorado was getting a new sheriff.
During the last two seasons, nine players were suspended for various violations of team rules, including curfew and behavior standards.
"Coach Barnett is such a stickler," wide receiver D.J. Hackett said. "He's really strict on rules and stuff."
Still, Barnett had his share of controversy even before becoming head coach at Colorado.
He led Northwestern to a pair of Big Ten titles and a Rose Bowl berth after the 1995 season.
He was also there during a betting scandal in which four football players were indicted and accused of lying about gambling and point-shaving activities. Barnett was not implicated.
Barnett was also with the Colorado program as an assistant coach in the 1980s when players were accused of crimes ranging from drunken driving to serial rape.
Barnett himself wasn't criticized during that mess, which tarnished the tenure of head coach Bill McCartney but didn't stop the Buffs from winning a national championship in 1990.
Since then, the program has been slapped with two years of
NCAA probation for violations that occurred mostly under Neuheisel.
The problems included illegal contact with recruits and excessive reimbursement for recruit's travel and entertainment expenses. Barnett was cited for two minor violations.
Much more serious are the accusations leveled in federal lawsuits filed by three women who say they were raped during or after the 2001 off-campus recruiting party.
No players or recruits were charged. Boulder County's top prosecutor accused the university in a deposition of using sex as a recruiting tool.
The school is appointing a panel to investigate, and the criminal investigation has been reopened.
In a deposition in one of the lawsuits, Robert Chichester, Colorado's former senior associate athletic director, said Barnett seemed unwilling to set a tone of intolerance toward rowdiness during recruiting visits.
For his part, Barnett insisted he and his staff are in "complete control" of the program.
Asked about his promise that he would resign if the probe turns up evidence of involvement, Barnett said, "There won't be. There won't be."