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SPORTS
Save the date for these season highlights
BY TIM DWYER
tdwyer@kansan.com
There's a new football coach, a No.1 recruit in basketball and tensions between Big 12 schools have reached heights worthy of hyperbole following this summer's near dissolution of the conference. Here's a rundown of some of the important dates for Kansas Athletics in the coming semester.
SEPT.4—FOOTBALL
North Dakota State at Kansas Coach Turner Gill finally puts
coach turned his new team to the test. Gill, hired after turning around perhaps the nation's worst
SEPT.11 — FOOTBALL
football program at Buffalo, still has to prove himself to a number of doubters among the Jayhawk faithful. This is step one.
Georgia Tech at Kansas
The Jayhawks host the ACC's reigning champion, which possess arguably the best running attack in the nation with coach Paul Johnson's vaunted triple-option scheme. This is Gill's first real chance to make a statement.
OCT.14-FOOTBALL
Kansas State at Kansas
The Jayhawks' first regular season Thursday game of the 21st Century will double as Gills' debut in the Sunflower Showdown.
OCT.15-MEN'S BASKETBALL
Late Night in the Phog
Kansas' annual scrimmage/ dance-off is always a packed house. This year will be no different. Travis Releford and Mario Little will play in public for the first time since burning their red shirts, and Josh Selby will start his campaign to live up to his No. 1 prospect hype.
Washburn at Kansas (Exhibition)
NOV. 2 — MEN'S BASKETBALL
NOV. 6,13 — FOOTBALL NOV. 27 — FOOTBALL,MEN'S BASKETBALL
Colorado at Kansas and Kansas at Ne-
This game doesn't count toward the standings,but it's the first chance for a look at the Jayhawks without Collins, Aldrich and Henry. Even with the losses, Kansas is pegged as a preseason top-10.Look for Selby to start and shine.
braska
These two schools could have cost the Jayhawks
their status in a BCS conference. The Big 12 held together despite Colorado and Nebraska's impending departures, but there's plenty of resentment left in Kansas fans. Turner Gill gets his first and last shot at alma mater Nebraska as a conference rival.
Kansas vs. Missouri (Football);
Kansas vs. Arizona (Basketball)
Big day for the Jayhawks. Wake up with the Border Showdown in football and catch a battle of perennial basketball powers for a nightcap, as the Jayhawks
nightcap, as the Jayhawks and Wildcats square off in the de facto championship game of the Las Vegas Invitational in Sin City.
DEC.2 — MEN'S BASKETBALL
UCLA at Kansas
Two of the most storied programs in history meet up in Lawrence. UCLA had
a down year last year, but pulled a strong recruiting class and should regain some of its former glory in 2010-2011. Anything less than a win would still be a disappointment for the Jayhawks, though.
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