Monday, February 12. 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 3
Bench players step up
Ballard, Carey see playing time rise in Saturday's win
Kansas sophomore forward Drew Gooden watched from the sidelines as his teammates battled the Oklahoma State Cowboys Saturday. A wrist injury from a fall last week did not heal quickly enough, so doctors put Gooden's wrist in a cast. He will miss at least the two of the team's upcoming games.
Photo by Matt Daucherty/KANSAN
By Zac Hunter
By Zac Hunter sports@kansan.com Kansan sportswrier
The Kansas bench will be seeing some valuable minutes with sophomore forward Drew Gooden out of action for Saturday's game and this week's games against Bavlor and Iowa State.
Junior forward Jeff Carey, who is averaging just seven-and-a-half minutes on the season, had his minutes more than double to 16 in Kansas' 77-61 win against Oklahoma State on Saturday — and he made those minutes count.
Although scoring only two points, he pulled down five boards, dished out two assists and had a block.
Just hours before tip-off, Gooden joined the rest of the 'Hawks for their pregame rituals, but there was something different. With most of his teammates thinking his wrist injury was not serious, doctors decided to take no chances and fitted his right wrist with a cast.
"That kind of shocked me, because I thought the worst was over," Carey said. "At that moment, I just knew I was going to play a lot. Before the games sometimes, I don't know how much I'm going to play, but I'm always thinking that if I get in, I'm going to play hard."
Carey's biggest contribution appeared to be on the defensive end. For a good portion of his minutes, Carey was matched up with Cowboys center Fredrik Jonzen, who is averaging 15 points and is hitting better than 50 percent of his shots. Jonzen scored 11 points in 39 minutes.
"I think Jeff Carey and Nick Collison really did some nice things on Jonzen because I think Fredrik is a heck of a player too," said Kansas coach Roy Williams.
Also seeing additional playing time was junior guard Brett Ballard, who was just fractions of an inch away from drilling all three shots he took. Instead, he
scored six points on 2-for-3 shooting from behind the three-point arch.
"He does have an ability to hit the shot," Williams said. "When he goes out there, he gives everything he has, and you love youngsters like that."
Ballard was averaging only three minutes but saw his time on the court more than triple. Adding two assists and steals to three rebounds doubled almost every statistical category for Ballard, who had just two steals, three assists and one rebound all season.
"I know I didn't play a perfect game by any means." Ballard said. "We have a little bit of a void on the bench. Hopefully I'll get to play some, but like I said, as long as we keep winning, then everything is fine with me."
— Edited by Jennifer Valadez
BOX SCORE
No. 5 KANSAS 77, OKLAHOMA STATE 61,
OKLAHOMA STATE (14-6)
Sanders 6-12 0-1 13, A. Williams 0-2 3-6 1,
Jonzen 4-9 3-11, Baker 4-14 2-12 1, V.
Williams 3-11 7-18 13, Crawford 3-6 0-7 1,
Anderson 0-0 0-0 0, Broxie 1-2 0-2 0, Marlow
0-0 0-0 0, Totals 21-56 15-22 61.
KANSAS (19-3)
Collison 4-10 2-5 10, Gregory 5-12 0-10 10,
Chenowith 6-11 5-8 17, Hinrich 7-12 3-4 10,
Boschee 6-0 5-0 7, Bardall 2-3 0-1 0, Carey 1-4 0-0 2, Axell 1-2 2-2 5, Totals 29-59 12-20 77.
Hafftime — Kansas 38, Oklahoma St. 35. 3-
Point goals — Oklahoma St. 4-18 (Baker 2-9,
Crawford 1-1, Sanders 1.6, V. Williams 0-2),
Kansas 7-12 (Hinch 3.4, Ballard 2-3, Axtell 1-
1, Boschee 1.3, Gregory 0-1), Fouled out
— Jonzen, Rebounds — Oklahoma St. 34 (V.
Williams 8), Kansas 42 (Chenowith 12),
Assists — Oklahoma St. 11 (Baker, V. Williams
4), Kansas 19 (Hinch 5). Total fouls —
Oklahoma St. 21, Kansas 19. A — 16,300.
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