Friday, February 9, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 3
Basketball
Guards: Boschie is hitting 48.3 percent of his three-pointers in Big 12 Conference games and Hinrich is averaging 7.3 assists per game, but the Cowboys have Baker, the Big 12's second-leading scorer and scrappy Williams. Advantage: Oklahoma State.
Men's Basketball
kansasstarters
Kansasstarters
No. Pos. Name PPG RPG
10 G Kirk Hinrich 10.1 4.3
13 G Jeff Boschee 10.8 2.0
20 F Kenny Gregory 16.5 7.3
0 F Drew Gooden 15.6 8.4
44 C Eric Chenowith 10.1 8.4
Forwards: Gooden, Collison and Gregory are the sharpest offensive front in the Big 12, but Oklahoma State's Sanders and Jonzen aren't bad either. Advantage: Kansas.
lastgame
Kansas lost at home
to No. 12 Iowa
State, 79-77.
KANSAS LEADERS
Scoring
| | Points | PPG |
| :--- | :---: | :---: |
| Gregory | 297 | 16.5 |
| Gooden | 327 | 15.6 |
| Collison | 280 | 13.3 |
Field Goals
| | Made | Att. | %age |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Collison | 82 | 127 | .646 |
| Gregory | 90 | 148 | .608 |
| Gooden | 88 | 164 | .537 |
Three-point shots
| | Treys | Att. | %age |
| :--- | :---: | :---: | :--- |
| Hinrich | 30 | 60 | .500 |
| Boschee | 43 | 112 | .384 |
| Axtell | 17 | 46 | .370 |
Free Throws
| | Made | Att. | %age |
| :--- | :---: | :---: | :--- |
| Hinrich | 46 | 54 | .852 |
| Boschee | 27 | 34 | .794 |
| Collison | 49 | 72 | .681 |
**Rebounds**
Off. Def. Total Avg./G
Chenowith 56 121 177 8.4
Gooden 53 123 176 8.4
Gregory 61 71 132 7.3
**Steals**
Steals SPG
Collison 27 1.3
Boschee 26 1.23
Hinrich 25 1.2
**Assists**
Assists APG
Hinrich 154 7.33
Boschee 84 4.0
Gregory 44 2.1
**Blocks**
Blocks BPG
Collison 35 1.66
Chenowith 34 1.62
Gooden 19 0.9
Kansas
Oklahoma State
No. 5 Kansas (18-3, 3-0) vs. Oklahoma State (14-5, 5-3) 3 p.m. tomorrow in Allen Fieldhouse.
Rankings in the Big 12*
Kansas
**Scoring:** 1st (83.8 points per game)
**Shooting Percentage:** 1st (50.6 percent)
**Three-point Shooting Percentage:** 2nd (40.4 per cent)
**Free-throw Shooting:** 9th (64.6 percent)
**Rebounds:** 1st (44.0 per game)
**Steals:** 9th (6.90 per game)
**Assists:** 1st (20.67 per game)
**Blocks:** 2nd (5.29 per game)
Coaches: Roy Williams has lost to Oklahoma State only once in Lawrence since he'd been at Kansas. A win against the Cowboys would tie him with Ted Owens for No. 2 in career wins at Kansas. Eddie Sutton's no slouch either. He's taken four different teams to the Final Four — Oklahoma State, Arkansas, Tulsa and Kentucky. Plus, he's helped his Cowboys maintain their focus and deal with their, tragedy in a winning manner. Advantage: Even.
**intangibles:** Kansas has lost two of its last three games and is known for explosive performances following home losses. Oklahoma State is riding an emotional wave after dedicating its season to two deceased teammates. Advantage: Even.
lastgame Lost in overtime at Nebraska.
Center: Chenwhen averages 10.1 points and 8.4 rebounds per game. Oklahoma State's listed centers, Keep and Marlow, average a combined 6.8 points and 4.8 boards. Advantage: Kansas.
oklahomastatestarters
No. P Pos. Name PPG RPG
1 5 G Maurice Baker 20.2 7.0
5 5 Victor Williams 11.2 2.4
12 F Fredrik Jonzen 16.2 6.8
34 F Melvin Sanders 8.1 4.3
40 F Andre Williams 7.8 7.8
OKLAHOMA STATE LEADERS
Scoring
| | Points | PPG |
| :--- | :---: | :---: |
| Baker | 385 | 20.3 |
| Jonzen | 303 | 15.9 |
| V. Williams | 215 | 11.3 |
Field Goals
| | Made | Att. | %age |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Jonzen | 114 | 209 | .545 |
| Keep | 26 | 48 | .513 |
| A. Williams | 58 | 113 | .513 |
Three-point shots
| | Treys | Att. | %age |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Baker | 45 | 110 | .409 |
| Sanders | 13 | 34 | .382 |
| V. Williams | 22 | 74 | .297 |
Free Throws
| | Made | Att. | %age |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Baker | 90 | 112 | .804 |
| V. Williams | 45 | 63 | .714 |
| Jonzen | 75 | 116 | .647 |
Rebounds
| | Off. | Def. | Total | Avg/G |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| A. Williams | 58 | 91 | 149 | 7.8 |
| Baker | 47 | 85 | 132 | 6.9 |
| Jonzen | 45 | 80 | 125 | 6.6 |
Steals
| | Steals | SPG |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Baker | 42 | 2.21 |
| Sanders | 35 | 1.84 |
| V. Williams | 34 | 1.79 |
Assists
| | Assists | APG |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Baker | 86 | 4.52 |
| V. Williams | 73 | 3.84 |
| Jonzen | 38 | 2.0 |
Blocks
| Blocks | BPG |
| :--- | :--- |
| A. Williams | 41 | 2.16 |
| Jonzen | 7 | .37 |
| Sanders | 5 | .26 |
Teams vie for top spot in Big 12
By Zac Hunter
sports@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
The top of the Big 12 Conference standings looks like the home stretch at the Kentucky Derby, with several teams poised to stake their claim as No. 1.
"As you start down the stretch, and people start fighting for positions, the intensity is raised automatically because they realize what is at stake," said Kansas coach Roy Williams. "We don't go in stages ourselves, we just try to get them to understand that it does get to be more intense once you get into league play."
There are three teams within one game of Iowa State (20-3 Overall, 8-2 Big 12), which now has the top spot after beating the Jayhawks (18-3 Overall, 7-2 Big 12) on Monday.
Eric Chenowith tries to pass the ball against Iowa State defender Martin Rancik. Kansas will try to rebound from its loss against the Cyclones at 3 p.m. tomorrow against Oklahoma State.
Photo by Nick Kruga/KANSAN
"Our kids were really hurt after the game Monday night," Williams said. "The big thing for them to understand is that things aren't over with. We've got a tougher road to climb than anyone else does that is trying to win it, but we still have to play and are in control of what is going to happen."
Missouri is one of the teams looking up at the Cyclones, but the Tigers will have a hard time making a run — or even a crawl — at the Big 12 title.
The Tigers (14-7 Overall, 5-3 Big 12) lost Kareem Rush, the conference's leading scorer at 21.9 points per game, on Sunday for the season for a hand injury and junior guard Clarence Gilbert was suspended yesterday by coach Quin Snyder for the Tigers' game against Iowa State on Sunday. He was the Big 12's fourth leading scorer, 17.7 points per game. No one else on Mizzou's team is averaging more than nine points.
Oklahoma State, another team in striking distance of the top spot, will be in Lawrence tomorrow to face the Jayhawks at 3 p.m.
The Cowboys (14-5 Overall, 5-3 Big 12) lost to Nebraska 78-75 in overtime last night, but they beat Missouri 69-68 in an emotion-filled game on Monday — their first game since a plane carrying 10 members of the Oklahoma State basketball family crashed on Jan. 27.
"They are emotionally charged right now," said senior forward Eric Chenowith. "They had a big win against Missouri and they have
a lot of momentum coming into this game. We are going to have to match their emotional level and just go out and play."
If the 'Hawks are going to beat Oklahoma State they must handle the Cowboys' pressure defense. They are second to only Baylor in scoring defense, allowing just 65 points per game. Oklahoma State is also third in the conference in steals, swiping eight and a half per game.
"They just guard the ball well," said junior forward Jeff Carey. "Last year they really shut us down and didn't let us get the ball inside very much.
Last season, the Cowboys outscored Kansas 163-111 in two games — including a devastating 86-53 Javahaws loss in Stillwater, Okla.
"They have great guard pressure and they are just a solid defensive team all-around." Carey said. "They don't do anything extremely great, they just do everything well."
Letters
Jayhawk fans take
Tinsley cheers too far Good for us, good for us for what we will do in the name of a free throw.
I thought that I heard something about high school when Jamaal Tinsley walked to the throw line at the fieldhouse, but I couldn't quite make it out. As I watched the half-time SportsCenter of the late game on ESPN, Chris Fowler rightly described Kansas fans as bush when he said they were chanting "high school dropout." I am sure that Tinsley has heard it before and probably much worse, but wow, I was amazed that we, the students at KU, would overlook ourselves to such an interlake level.
I wanted to write something down, but it is hard to really explain what I feel without opening myself up to stereotypes and some blatant racist statements. But let me put some of this out there.
Tinsley was quoted by the Associate Press on March 18, 2000, as saying this: "It was like all my other friends were doing something with themselves, and I wasn't. I was just known on the streets, and I got tired of just being known in the streets."
Is Tinsley to be praised because he plays basketball? No. Being a part of the NBA, which he will be next year, is not in and of itself to be praised, but Tinsley could have ended up in a number of other places.
Edited by Doug Pacey
It is fully probable, and I want to make this clear, that Tinsley could have become a positive force in his neighborhood, wherever he ended up. But Tinsley also could have ended up being a real detriment to himself and others. So let's look at what he has done.
He has found a path to realize a dream that seemed like it was lost to him. He doesn't push drugs, he isn't in and out of prison, he is not incarcerated for life, and we find a perceived negative in his background and try to use it against him at a basketball game?
I think that it is sad and shallow of us, many of whom are White and from towns far different than the one in which Tinsley grew up. I have looked at the student section at basketball games, and we are a fairly homogeneous group. A great many of us come from rural towns and suburbs and have no idea what it is like to grow up in an urban environment in which going to high school is not always the top priority.
Often, society would like us to judge people
on the personal decisions and choices that they make. Environmental pressures that limit decision making and push people into certain situations are downplayed or downright ignored.
Tinsley made a positive personal choice. We are quick to criticize when we see somebody make a bad choice, but do we have to attack when someone has seemed to make a positive experience out of a bad situation? And you have to admire the way he plays basketball. He may talk on the court, but did Tinsley ever make one gesture to the crowd? Did he ever get up in a KU player's face? His coolness may be part of a cockey attitude, but I never saw one instance of Tinsley trying to show anyone up.
All he did was play a stellar basketball game.
so Tinsley did not graduate from high school, and that is why it is even more amazing to find him where he is. Not only geographically, in the middle of Iowa, but also personally, So it is basketball, maybe I am making too much of it, but don't become a bigoted animal because you want the ball to go in one hoop more often than another. Just think for yourself for a second before chanting along with a bunch of buffoons.
I am a white kid from a small rural town in Missouri, and I don't claim to have any knowledge of what it is like to grow up in New York, or any urban area for that matter. But it seems strange that we as students we would derive someone who has overcome previous bad decisions. I don't know if Tinsley is going to get his degree in sociology, but studying and playing basketball in Ames is a pretty good place to be now, when Tinsley wasn't sure he was ever going to get off of the playgrounds.
Trevor Loney Nevada, Mo., senior
Just a quick note about Monday's Kansas- Iowa State game.
This really is the country of opportunity, or I couldn't otherwise explain the fact that an uncoordinated so-called "athlete" like Chenowith has ever made it to a Division basketball team, in spite of his evident limitations. Nothing against the guy but, what is
with his constant and blank stare at the court floor? I am aware that, in some exotic cultures, this is a sign of submission and respect but, when it becomes the reason for repeated and unforced turnovers, looking up like the rest of the players suddenly becomes an attractive option.
On a different note, how can a coach such as Roy Williams keep on the court a player whose inability to convert free throws may become a sure liability during the last minutes of a game? Could the answer be because he repeatedly disregards the development of nonstarting players when he has the option to do so during large margin victory games?
Fortunately, Gregory stuck it out and made his last minute free throws profitable. However, and once again, fortune proved not to be a reliable ally when the coaching team chooses to make insensitive decisions ... or no decisions at all.
The desperation of such a call can only lead to a deserption shot.
Otherwise, how could anyone explain that the final and decisive time out was only called after losing and miraculously recovering the ball with nine seconds left on the clock, rather than doing it at the beginning of their possession time?
The number of unconditional fans of Roy Williams explains, better than ever, the true origin of the word "fan": fanatic (a person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics.)
Alfonso Dovall
Senior Writer, Español
Minneapolis, Minn.
1995 University of Kansas graduate
Athletic department Frederick win praise
I would just like to say that I enjoyed reading a positive article about the athletic department in the Daily Kansan.
I know I feel that Frederick has done a great job and finally I have read something positive about him. Thanks.
C. B. McGrath
1998 graduate and former Kansas basketball player Lawrence
Golden Key International Honor Society
encourages members and non-members to join us in participating in the national
University Students for Youth Day
Saturday, February 10, 2001
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Edgewood Homes, Community
Center Building
1600 Haskell Avenue
Come and help these wonderful children create very special Valentine's Day cards and distribute them to neighborhood residents!
Email laurenh@ukans.edu for more information.
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