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No. 6 Iowa State defeated K-State last night in Manhattan, 62-51, helping the Cyclones move one step closer to clinching their second-straight Big 12 Conference title.
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Inside: The Kansas athletic program was ranked No.37 in the nation by The Sporting News.
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Inside: An arrest warrant was issued for Nebraska's Steffon Bradford for failing to show up in court.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2001
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'Huskers rally,beat Jayhawks
By Brandon Stinnett sports@kansan.com Kansan writerwriter
LINCOLN, Neb. — Things were going well for the Kansas women's basketball team last night, but that was before Nebraska mounted a furious comeback and handed the Javhawks a 49-46 loss.
Kansas, fresh from a stunning upset victory against No. 10 Iowa State on Saturday, held a 32-19 lead and seemed firmly in control early in the second half.
The Jayhawks (10-15, 4-10 Big 12 Conference) appeared poised for their first back-to-back victories since Dec. 1. Then, out of nowhere, disaster struck
Nebraska, behind a ferocious full-court press, exploded on a 23-5 run that spanned nine minutes in the second half, allowing the Cornhuskers to rally past the Javahaws.
"It was a tough loss for us," said Kansas coach Mari a n Washington. "I think we had every opportunity to win."
After the J a y h a w k s stormed out to an 8-0 run at the start of the second half. Nebraska completely disrupted Kansas' rhythm with intense full-court pressure.
Reves: led the Jayhawks with 13 points
Washington
Washington: "We had every opportunity to win"
said she expected Nebraska to turn up the heat in the second half, but she was surprised by how poorly the Jawhawks responded.
"It shouldn't have had as much of an impact, but it did," Washington said. "In our offense, we really wanted to take care of the ball and not rush, but we did anything but that."
Senior forward Brooke Reves emerged early in the second half for Kansas, opening with consecutive jumpers and finishing with a game-high 13 points on six-of-14 shooting.
While Reves warmed up in the second half, junior guard KC Hilgenkamp cooled down. After hitting three-of-six in the first half and leading the team with eight points, Hilgenkamp finished just four-of-12 from the field and missed all four of her three-point attempts in the second half.
"In the second half, I just wasn't hitting shots," Hilgenkamp said. "I had to start driving a lot more and looking for teammates that were open."
Senior forward Jaclyn Johnson couldn't provide a lift for Kansas on offense, either, scoring just two points and fouling out with 3:07 remaining in the game. And Kansas' other senior, guard Jennifer Jackson, scored just four points on two-for-11 shooting.
"We have to have scoring from our big three, and Jaclyn didn't have a very good game and Jennifer struggled," Washington said, referring to Johnson, Jackson and Reves.
Reves, whose nine points were a bright spot for Kansas in the second half, said this game was typical of how the season has gone for the Javahaws.
"It just kind of goes back to how we've been finishing games in the past,letting leads slide." Reves said.
Nebraska was coming off a 77-69 victory at Kansas State on Saturday. It was the Cornhuskers' first back-to-back victories since Jan. 2, and their fifth consecutive against Kansas.
Nebraska was led by sophomore forward Stephanie Jones, who scored 12 points and was an emotional leader throughout the game. Nebraska coach Paul Sanderford said the rest of the team fed off Jones' intensity.
"I thought she played with so much energy that it translated to the rest of our basketball team," he said.
Edited by Jason McKee
Kansas 91, Colorado 79
Fiery Jayhawks trample Buffs
By Chris Wristen sports@kansan.com Kansan sportswriter
After fans grumbled for the last week about sophomore forward Drew Gooden not being able to play, the No. 11 Jayhawks proved that, for a night, they could win without him.
Kansas (20-5, 9-4 Big I2 Conference) clicked on all cylinders and were good enough to outlast a late Colorado charge, beating the Buffaloes for the 24th straight time last night at Allen Fieldhouse. 91-79.
Gooden, a sophomore forward, missed his fourth game because of an injured wrist, but his absence went unnoticed. Sophomore forward Nick Collison erupted for a career-high 26 points and senior forward Kenny Gregory added 20. Senior center Eric Chenowith also scored 17, helping the front line earn Kansas coach Roy Williams' approval.
"The inside guys really did a good job and the perimeter players did a good job of getting it in there." Williams said. "We're going to shoot a good percentage when we do that. Leave out (Jeff) Boschee's numbers of not shooting it in and everything else really looks good."
Williams also praised junior forward Jeff Carey for picking up the slack. Carey had seven points, a career-high nine rebounds and two blocked shots, helping Kansas
The Jayhawks hit 50 percent of their shots, including 27-for-42 from the front line.
snap a two-game losing streak.
"It's a relief," Chenowith said.
"We're happy we won, number one. Number two, we didn't want to have a three-game losing
Nobody does." Kava s av o i d e d adding to its worst slump of the season because of Collison's big day. His 14 first - h a l f points kept Colorado (15-12, 5-9) at bay and his seven assists in the game fueled the rest of the offensive attack.
Chenowith; scored 17 points for the Jayhawks
" N i c k
Collison was
just flat-out
sick last week;
he was sick at
Waco and he
was sick at
Iowa State,
Williams said.
"I was really
happy to see
Gregory: crushed a dunk at the end of the first half
him bounce back and have a heck of a night tonight."
The Jayhawks came out fast and looked to punch the Buffaloes out of the gym early as sophomore point guard Kirk Hinrich found Collison for dunks on two of the first three possessions. But Colorado's Nick Mohr scored eight points in the first four minutes and kept the Buffaloes close.
A 6-0 run sparked by Richard Fox's layup gave Colorado the lead, but Kansas countered with a 6-0 run of its own.
Colorado hit just three field goals in the last seven minutes of the half as Kansas closed with a 16-7 run capped by a buzer-beating dunk by Gregory. Carey fielded a long rebound of Boschee's missed free-throw and hurled a shot from the far corner. Gregory was there for the follow and slammed it home as time expired that left the docile crowd in a temporary frenzy.
"The way it worked out, I'll have to say it was a pass," Carey said of the play. "If it had gone in it was a shot."
BOX SCORE
- Edited by Brandy Straw
No. 11 KANSAS 91, COLORADO 79
COLORADO (15-12)
Mosley 5-10 10-11 20, Harrison 4-11 4-14 5,
Pelle 6-12 3-17, Winston 1-15 4-02 1, Mohr
3-6 0-0 8, Brimmer 0-4 0-0, Morandis 1-
0-0 2, Harper 0.1 2-2, Wilson 4-6 2-1
11, Fox 2-6 0-4, Totals 26-66 21-22 79.
KANSAS (20-5)
Collison 10 14 6 9 26, Gregory 10 15 0 2 0
Chenowith 7 13 3 4 17, Hinch 8 3 7 1 5,
Bossey 2 9 1 6, Ballard 0 3 0 0 0, Nash
0-1 0-0 0, Carey 3-7 1-2 7. Totals 35 70 18-
25 91
Halftime—Kansas 41, Colorado 32. 3Point goals—Colorado 6-15 (Harrison 3-6, Mohr 2-5, Wilson 1-1, Winston 0-1, Brimmer 0-2), Kansas 3-15 (Hinch 2-4, Boschee 1-6, Collision 0-1, Gregory 0-1, Carey 0-1, Ballard 0-2). Fouled out—Harrison, Pelle, Chenwith, Rebounds—Colorado 37 (Pelle 16), Kansas 44 (Gregory, Chenwith, Carey 9). Assists—Colorado 12 (Mohr 4), Kansas 22 (Hinch 8), Total fouls—Colorado 23, Kansas 19. A—16,100.
Kansas forward Nick Collison drives for two of his career-high 26 points against Colorado forward Stephane Pelle (left) and center Richard Fox last night at Allen Fieldhouse. The Jayhawks defeated the Buffaloes 91-79. Photo by Laurie Sisk/KANSAN.
'Hawks too beefy for Buffaloes to handle
sports@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
By Zac Hunter
When Colorado fed the Fox, good things happened.
Unfortunately for the Buffaloes, there weren't enough fouls or minutes to keep sophomore Richard Fox in the game last night in Allen Fieldhouse. Fox is the only beef on Colorado's team, standing an imposing 6-foot-11 and 270 pounds.
Of Colorado's starting front-court, only forward Stephane Pelle and Jamahl Mosley could come close to matching the 'Hawks' size inside. Yet their efforts were futile in the 91-79 loss to Kansas.
Colorado center Richard Fox tries to block out Kansas senior center Eric Chenowith during the Jayhawks' 91-79 victory last night. Fox ended the game with four points. Photo by Laurie Sisk/KANSAN.
When Kansas center Eric Chenowith, who scored 17 points and pulled down nine rebounds, got on a roll inside, Colorado coach Ricardo Patton looked down the bench to Fox to slow the surge.
"Of all the post players, the one thing I bring that they don't is the size," Fox said. "I knew why I
was going in there and that was to bang with him and try to push him out, away from the block." Although Fey, wasn't the shin.
tight of the Colorado team, he was effective when he played. In 14 minutes of play, he scored four points and pulled down four
Although Fox wasn't the shin-
rebounds. But his minutes were limited because of foul trouble.
"They're obviously bigger than us," said Fox, who collected four fouls. "Going into the game, we wanted to get them into foul trouble, but we got into foul trouble earlier. I rely on my size and my strength, and definitely that was limited tonight by the officials."
With 13:13 left in the game and Kansas taking control inside, a group of spectators in the south stands began to chant "We want Fox."
With 10:10 remaining, Patton gave the fans what they wanted. But nothing Fox did could contain Kansas' explosive front-court.
Chenowith combined with sophomore forward Nick Collison and senior forward Kenny Gregory to score 63 of Kansas' 91 points.
Gregory, who scored 20 points,
kept hanging around the rim. He
gave the Jayhawks a nine-point
lead at halftime, when he turned
a desperation shot by Jeff Carey
into a thunderous dunk.
"D.J. (Harrison) was kind of outside the lane and didn't look over his shoulder to see Gregory behind him," Patton said. "And again, that's a mental error and we had some of those."
Collison led the Jayhawks with a game-high 26 points and was the source of much of Patton's frustration.
"They're much bigger than we are inside, and they capitalize on pounding inside." Patton said.
But Kansas' dominance in the paint didn't discourage the Buffaloes from making a run that cut the lead to four points midway through the second half. Colorado used a hot second half by Mosley and Harrison, who combined for 25 points in the half, and got back in the game before the Buffs' lead faltered.
"I believe Colorado gave Kansas all it wanted tonight," Patton said. "We gave ourselves a chance against a very good basketball team."
- Edited by Jacob Roddy
Football recruit finds success in spotlight
By Jeff Denton
sports@kansan.com
Bv Jeff Denton
Kansan sportswriter
Two years ago, Greg Heggans was fine with being in the background.
But even as a sophomore in high school, the Kansas football team couldn't help but show its interest in Heaggans, a multi-dimensional threat from Schlagle High School in Kansas City, Kan., who has orally committed to the Javhawks.
He starred mostly as an option quarterback, rushing for 45 touchdowns in his first two varsity seasons. Despite the offensive production, he still lived in the shadow of his older brother, Gary, a wide receiver who is a year older than Greg.
He could not shake the stigma of being Gary's younger brother until last summer when the older Heaggans left for Purdue on a football scholarship.
But no one trusted Greg to take on a larger role more than Schlagle coach Steve Sczygiel.
The focus was on Greg from the getgo." Szczygiel said. "But he was concerned about his brother and wanted him to have much of the attention. That really says a lot about his character."
"I loved playing with my brother," said Henggans, a 6-foot-1 and 185-pound athlete. "But at the same time, it was good for me to be out of his shadow."
Greg agreed with his coach.
In his senior campaign, Heaggans flourished. He captained the offense, returned kicks and blanketed the field as a defensive back. This prompted a large number of college scouts to pack the bleachers at Schlagle.
Kansas coach Terry Allen said he saw the potential that Greg could have at his projected college position, the same one that his older brother plays.
Weight: 185 pounds
40 time: 4.46 seconds
THE HEAGGANS FILE
Height: 6-foot-1
Height: 6-foot-1
Weight: 185 pounds
Vertical Jump: 38 inches
Notable statistics: Rated as the No. 1 athlete in the state of Kansas by Jon Kirby of MokenFootball.com. rushed for 64 career TDs; six kickoff return TDs in his career; rushed for a career-high 313 yards on 16 attempts as a junior; threw for seven TDs as a senior.
"Very few teams kicked to Greg this
"Greg's speed really caught our eye," Allen said. "I think that his natural college position is wide receiver, and that is where he would most like to play."
Szczygiel said he thought Heagans would have no problem making the transition to wide receiver.
season because they were afraid of him," he said. "He is explosive and competitive. He will be an exciting college player."
Even after giving an oral commitment to Kansas early in his senior season, Heaggans was still being pursued by other big-name programs. Notre Dame and Northwestern courted him, and Purdue offered him what no one else could, a reunion with his older brother. But Heaggans was sold on Kansas because of its proximity to home.
"The recruiting process was confusing," Heaggans said. "But KU was on me the hardest, and that meant a lot. Plus, my parents can make the games, so can my friends and people in the community. I weighed my options, yeah, but I made the best decision signing with Kansas. I can't wait to move forward."
Edited by Melinda Warner
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