Friday, March 16, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 3
Bad weather hampers golfers' score
By John Domoney sports@kansan.com Kansan sportswriter
Inconsistency in the form of weather and play, plagued the Kansas men's golf team during the past week.
After the No. 19
J ay ha w k s
slumped to a first- round score of 302 on Monday at the Louls i an A Classics, and the team found themselves in a tie for
11th place with North Texas. Poor play on Monday put the team in a tough position for Tuesday's competition, but Kansas knew it was capable of playing better golf.
"We looked where we were on
Monday and how far the leaders were ahead of us," said senior Conrad Roberts. "Our main goal was to play as best as we could."
Kansas regrouped and shot a 283, which tied for the second-best rounds shot by a team at the tournament, on Tuesday to finish with a 36-hole total score of 585 for a sixth-place in the 15-team field. Tennessee placed first with a score of 572.
It wasn't just Kansas' poor play that was unexpected, the weather didn't cooperate with the team either. As the temperature rose and the sun appeared in Lawrence earlier this week, the skies opened up and rained all of Monday afternoon in Lafayette, La.
Because of the wet weather, Monday's afternoon round was canceled. Cancellation of that round
"They need to play well the next couple of weeks and get back where they belong."
Ross Randall
Golf coach
came as a surprise to coach Ross Randall, who had placed an emphasis on the team playing well and making a move during the Monday afternoon round.
"We obviously had a poor start to the first round, and we lost a chance to get in two rounds on Monday," Randall said. "We didn't have enough rounds to catch up."
The Jayhawks' play on Tuesday gave Randall and the golfers reason
"I told the team, 'Look, you've dug yourself a hole so do the best you can,'" Randall said. "We didn't want to lose to teams in our district, and we managed to beat Tulsa by a couple of strokes."
to be positive.
The Jayhawks will travel to the Cleveland Collegiate Championships to be played March 19-20 at the Palmetto Golf Club in Aiken, South Carolina. The team is looking forward to this tournament to erase the memories of their round on Monday and to capitalize on their momentum coming off their play on Tuesday.
"What they want to do is justify their ranking," Randall said. "They need to play well the next couple of weeks and get back where they belong."
- Edited by Doug Pacey
Tech should ask Knight to sign behavior clause
Bv Jim Litke
Associated Press
The day after you sign the deal is a little late to ask the devil whether he's changed.
So go ahead Texas Tech, hire Bob Knight. Welcome him on campus with open arms, pass the hat among the alumni, wait the 10 days mandated by state law and sign the contract.
But do yourself a favor. Don't leave the behavior clause out.
Too much of what we've already heard from that farflung corner of northwest Texas smacks of amnesia. Earlier this week, James Sowell, who heads up the Tech board of regents, said there was no point hiring a coach who needs a behavior clause. Then he turned around and said, "I think if a guy was an embarrassment to a university, that would have come up in 29 years.
"I personally wouldn't want anything to happen to this university that would be an embarrassment," he added. "But I'm willing to be open-minded."
Now all Tech needs is a promise from Knight to do the same in writing
Since being forced out of Indiana, nothing about Knight
changed.
He tried to wrestatape recorder from a Playboy magazine interviewer while barreling down the interstate at 65 mph.
He shilled for a Web
Knight: recently named coach of Texas Tech
site that promotes gambling on college games. And he filed notice he might sue the university that -Sowell's observation aside - he embarrassed on and off for 29 years.
In other words, Knight still decides which rules he follows and which he ignores. That was the bargain he laid out Wednesday night when he turned up on Bob Costas' On the Record cable television show on
HBO.
"I obviously think there are some things that are necessary in the building of a basketball program that can be successful," Knight said. "If they think and I think that those are the same things, then we'll just see what happens."
Yesterday, he arrived in Lubbock to deliver the same message in person. Knight appeared briefly at a news conference, shared reminiscences of a childhood trip to the region and told out-of-town reporters to help the local economy by going out to eat. He promised that within days he would reveal a "foolproof" way of dealing with the media, then left without taking questions. The whole thing wrapped up a few hours before his old school, Indiana, tipped off in the NCAA tournament.
Lubbock might not be the end of the college basketball world, but as the saying goes, you can see it from there. Yet the place was already buzzing in a way it hadn't in years. Faculty members fired off angry e-mails to one another and dropped off a
petition at Tech president David Schmidly's office pleading with him not to hire Knight. T-shirt vendors on both sides of the debate were making a killing.
"Put The Kids To Bed And Glue Down The Chairs," the message on one shirt blared, "KNIGHT TIME. Is Coming."
And when it does, the university had better have a Plan B. Right now, the only plan in place for dealing with Knight is Gerald Myers, an old coaching crony who is the athletic director at Tech. When the school opened its new arena in 1999, Knight did Myers a huge favor by bringing his Indiana team there to christen the joint. By some happy coincidence, the street running in front of the building is named Indiana.
Unlike the rest of the administration, Myers knows exactly what he's getting. Knight will make Texas Tech competitive in the Big 12 almost immediately. He will run a clean program. He will graduate nearly all of his players, something Tech's athletic programs have found troublesome. Knight will also generate more publicity in a week than James Dickey, his predecessor, could during all but one week of his nine years at the school.
Yet it was that one week that should give the rest of the Tech administrators pause. Schmidly should remember what it felt like to break one of sport's unwritten rules — how unseemly it looked to court Knight before letting Dickey know he'd lost the job.
That kind of notoriety is part of any bargain with Knight. He will get Tech to 20 wins a season and the NCAA tournament in a hurry. He's still that good a coach. But Knight will need a half dozen seasons or more to pass former North Carolina coach Dean Smith on the career wins list.
Living with Knight is going to require an open mind and an athletic director willing to look the other way. At the minimum, slip a behavior clause into the deal and put a law firm on retainer. Otherwise, the only authority Knight will ever recognize is his own.
Young rowing team to face off against Texas Longhorns
By Jay Mullinix
By Jay Mullinix sports@kansan.com Kansan sportswriter
After waiting nearly five months, the Kansas women's rowing team will finally be back competing on the water Saturday, March 24, when the team heads south to square off with Texas.
Before leaving for Austin, however, the team will hold its spring training session in Lawrence from Saturday, March 17 to Wednesday, March 21. The session will consist mostly of two-a-day practices and endurance training, giving the team one last opportunity to fine tune things before the first regatta.
While the time spent practicing together is invaluable, senior
Heather Muir said that competition itself is the best gauge of the team's progress.
"We've been waiting to compete for a long time," she said. "It's good that we've raced each other over winter break and in practice, but you can't really assess how you're doing until you get out there against another team."
Coach Rob Catloth said that this regatta is important for evaluating his team's progress because it pits the relatively young Jayhawks against a Longhorns team that has already had two races.
"I don't know entirely where we're at just because we have so many young girls," Catloth said. "Plus, Texas has had quite a bit more water time than us, so I'm looking forward to seeing how we compete."
A win for the Jayhawks also goes a long way in putting the team in good standing when the NCAA rankings come out in late March. Each year, the top 15 teams compete in the NCAA Championships. The Jayhawks finished last season ranked 20th.
"Every single race you have affects your ranking and plays into your attempt to make it to the NCAAs," said Catloth. "So it's important to do well in each race if we want to get there."
After rowing against Texas, the Jayhawks will have their lone home regatta of the season Saturday, March 31 and Sunday, April 1 on the Kansas River. Kansas will play host to Kansas State, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts and Tulsa. Edited by Sunder Wallace.
— Edited by Sydney Wallace
NCAA tourney opens with underdog Georgia State victory
The NCAA tournament opened yesterday with a series of close calls and upsets, with Georgia State beating Wisconsin in the biggest surprise of the day.
Maryland and Kentucky escaped. Ohio State and Wisconsin, a Final Four team last year, did not.
The Panthers, led by former Maryland coach Lefty Driesell, knocked off the sixth-seeded Badgers 50-49 in Boise, Idaho, to set up a second-round showdown with the Terrapins.
"I told my team this might be the greatest win I've ever had," said Driesel, fired by Maryland 15 years ago. "We came back in the second half and showed what kind of club
Maryland beat George Mason 83-60 in the second West Regional game in Boise.
Georgia State's
Kevin Morris led Georgia State (29-4) with 18 points. Mark Vershaw had 19 for Wisconsin (18-11).
Darryl Cooper made a four-point play and a steal to set up the game-winning basket in the final minute. The win wasn't sealed until Wisconsin's Mark Vershaw missed two free throws with 3.2 seconds to play.
Maryland (22-10) used Steve Blake's late three-pointer and Juan Dixon's two free throws with 4.9 seconds left to beat George Mason (18-12). Dixon and Byron Mouton scored 22 points each for Maryland.
Arkansas lost to Georgetown 63
61. and Iowa State faced Hampton
In other West Regional play in San Diego, St. Joseph's upset Georgia Tech 66-62, and Stanford beat North Carolina Greensboro 89-60. In late games, Kent State beat Indiana 77-73, and Cincinnati played Brigham Young.
In Greensboro, N.C., Utah State beat Ohio State 77-68 in overtime, and UCLA edged Hofstra 61-48. Duke crushed Monmouth, N.J., 81-32, and Missouri beat Georgia 70-68.
In the East Regional in Uniondale.
N. Y., Kentucky edged Holy Cross 72-68, and Iowa beat Creighton 69-56. In late games, Boston College beat Southern Utah 38-65, and Southern California played Oklahoma State.
Play begins Friday in the South and Midwest regions.
East
Kentucky 72. Holy Cross 68
Consecutive three-pointers by Tayshan Prince broke a second-half tie as Kentucky held off Holy Cross.
Prince made two three-pointers inside of a minute to put the Wildcats in front, and scored 12 of his team's final 14 goals.
Prince finished with 27 points, and Keith Bogans added 17 for Kentucky
(23-9) Jared Curry led Holy Cross
(22-8) with 16 points.
Iowa 69 Creighton 56
Reggie Evans scored 16 of his 19 points in the second half to help Iowa (23-11) post its fifth straight victory.
Evans was 13-of-15 from the foul line, including 12-of-13 in the final 10 minutes. Duez Henderson added 16 points and Dean Oliver had 15. Ben Walker and Livan Pyfom scored 11 apiece points for Creighton (24-8).
Utah St. 77. Ohio St. 68. OT
Curtis Bobb scored eight of his 14 points in overtime as Utah State won its first NCAA tournament game since 1970.
Ken Johnson led the Buckeyes (2011) with 14 points, 14 rebounds and five blocks.
Bernard Rock scored 18 points and Tony Brown 17 for the 12-seeded Aggies (28-5), who had lost nine straight tournament games.
UCLA 61, Hofstra 48
UCLA (22-8) closed with a 24-5 run to snap the nation's longest Division I winning streak at 18 games.
Earl Watson scored 13 of his 15 points for the Bruins in the first half. Dan Gadzuric came up big late, scoring eight of his 14 points during the final
run. He also added 13 rebounds,
while Billy Knight led the Bruins
with 17 points.
Rick Apodaca led the Pride (26-5) with 16 points.
West
Stanford 89, N.C. Greensboro 60 Seven-footer Jason Collins scored 25 points, 20 in the first half, as top-seeded Stanford built a 23- point lead
Sophomore All- American Casey Jacobsen added 14 points, giving him 1,003 for his career.
Stanford (29-2) won its
opening game for the seventh straight year. The 29-point margin was the biggest for the Cardinal in the NCAA tournament. Greensboro finished 19-12.
FIRST-ROUND SCORES
East Regional
(1) Duke 81, (16) Monmouth 32
(1) Missouri 70 (8) Georgia 68
(1) Utah State 77, (5) Ohio State 68 (OT)
(1) UCLA 61, (13)hofstra 48
(1) Boston College 68, (14) Southern Utah 65
(1) Iowa 69, (10) Grellen 56
(1) Kentucky 72, (15) Holly Cross 68
(1) USC 69, (11) Oklahoma State 54
West Regional
(1) Stanford 89, (16) NC Greenbore 60
(1) St. Josephs 66, (8) Georgia Tech 62
(13) Kent State 77, (4) Indiana 73
(1) Georgia State 50, (6) Wisconsin 49
(1) Maryland 83, (14) Mason 80
(1) Georgetown 63, (7) Arkansas 61
(1) Iowa State 57, (15) Hampton 58
(1) Cincinnati 84, (12) BUY 59
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