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Monday, November 22, 1993
SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Defense key to Kansas victory
Crowd serves as motivation for Jayhawks in NIT game
Doug Hesse/KANSAN
By Mark Button
Kansan sportswriter
It is possible that 31,600 ears could still be ringing after Friday night's 73-66 Kansas defeat of California.
A capacity crowd of 15,800 roared thunderously throughout the 40 minute basketball game at Allen Field House.
nat was loudest it's been here since I can ever remember," said junior center Greg Ostertag. "It got so loud at one point that my ears hurt."
If Ostaterg's ears still ring, it could be his own fault. When he stole the ball from CalJunior center Ryan Jamison at half-court three minutes into the game and ran the floor for a layup, the crowd burst into an ovation that set the decibel level for the game.
The No. 9 Jayhawks held the No. 6 Golden Bears to 36 percent shooting and produced 19 turnovers and blocked nine shots.
"Defensively I thought we played real well," Williams said. "I thought that was the key to the game."
Kansas used a three player rotation defensively on Cal's preseason All-American sophomore point guard Jason Kidd. Senior guard Steve Woodberry, sophomore guard Calvin Rayford and freshman guard Jacue Vaughn kept Kidd busy throughout the game.
Kidd, who turned the ball over seven times, said the plan worked.
Kansas senior forward Richard Scott goes for a basket while California's Stevie Johnson attempts to block. Kansas defeated California 73-56 Friday night in Allen Field House, with Scott scoring a team high 20 points and pulling down nine rebounds.
Another source of motivation for the crowd was Kidd himself. The Oakland, Calif, native almost signed with Kansas two years ago. He received "boos" upon his announcement in the Cal starting line-up and was heckled by Kansas fans throughout the game.
"Their three guards were keeping me tired," Kidd said.
"I get that everywhere I go," Kidd said. "It wasn't a big deal. The crowd doesn't play defense, it doesn't shoot the ball or anything else on the court."
However, as often is the case, the crowd's volume ran parallel to the Hawks performance.
The field house grew silent in the first eight minutes of the second half as the Jayhawks hit a hul. California outscored Kansas 17-5 in that time span. Not all the Kansas players disappeared, though. All five Jayhawk points during the Cal run came from Richard Scott.
"Richard Scott was a man," Williams said of senior forward, who scored a team-high 20 points and grabbed nine rebounds. "We were really struggling, and he was just dominating things inside."
Kansas withstood the Cal run. but with some unlikely help.
Jayhawk freshman center Nick Proud, who has dealt with both mononucleosis and knee surgery within the last year, stepped in and played possibly the best minute-for-minute basketball Kansas fans have ever seen. In just 5:22, the Sydney, Australia, native scored 12 points, including hitting of six of seven free-throws, and swiped four rebounds.
"He was in there three times. If you go more than a minute and a half with him, he looks like the dead Australian," Williams said. "But he does have very good touch. The biggest thing with Nick is getting his conditioning going and getting his stamina up."
Despite that early second half let-down, Williams said he was happy with the Jayhawks performance.
"I've told friends of mine that there are going to be times when we're fantastic, and there are going to be times were we're going to be as ugly as can be," he said. "And sometimes it's going to be in the same game. I think they saw that tonight."
With the victory, Kansas advances to the semifinals against No. 11 Minnesota in New York. Win or lose, the Jayhawks are guaranteed one more game.
"It'll give us confidence going into the season," Scott said. "It's keeping us out of practice, that's what the players like, but we're going to go up there and try to win the whole thing."
By the numbers
KANSAS (72)
Scott 4132-62 10, Woodbury 6132-14 14, Ostertag 593-4 13, Prod 34
67-12, Vaughn 11-4 12, Rayford 14-2 44, Richer 14-1 23, Pearson 14-
0.02, Pollard 0.11 21, Gurley 0.2 0.00, Williams 0.0 0.00, Totals 27-59
16-30 73.
CALIFORNIA(56)
Murray 10-31 3-324, Kidd 8-15 4-822, Jamison 2-30 2-24, Buckley 1-60 0-
2, Stewart 1-20 0-2, Duck 0-2 2-22, Jones 0-3 0-0, Johnson 0-2 0-0,
McQeuen 0-1 0-00, Totals 22 63-91 55-6.
Halftime — Kansas 41, Cal 22. Fouled out — Pollard (Kansas), Duck (Cal).
Rebounds — Kansas 48 (Ostertag 12), Cal 37 (Jamison 10). Three-point goals — Kansas 3 (Woodberry 2, Vaughn), Cal 3 (Kidd 2, Murray).
Assists — Kansas 15 (Woodberry 5) Cal 13 (Kidd 6). Total fouls — Kansas 17, Cal 27.
A-15, 800.
Ostertag's play shines in game
Kansas' junior center Greg Ostertag might be prophetic.
By Mark Button
Kansan sportswriter
Prior to Friday night's game against California, which Kansas won 73-56, the 7-foot-2 big man from Duncanville, Texas, had a vision.
"I told Coach before the game that I was going to get out into the passing lane and get a steal," Ostertag said. "And I told him I would drive the floor for a dunk."
Three minutes into the game, Ostertag's vision materialized.
Kansas freshman point guard Jacque Vaughn had just nailed a threepointer giving the Jayhawks a 9-4 lead. The ensuing possession saw the Cal point guard, sophomore Jason Kidd, push the ball up court to Golden Bear junior center Ryan Jamison. Ostertag swiped the ball from Jamison, streaked down the right side of the court and softly laid the ball off the glass for two points and a thunderous ovation.
"I didn't dunk it," Oystert said. "But I think Coach was happy with it."
He was right—and wrong.
"I've always said that Greg could be a fantastic player," Kansas coach Roy Williams said. "But it upsets me because he should do it more than once."
In addition to his steal, drive and layup. He scored a total of 13 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and blocked four shots. Eight of his rebounds came in the first eight minutes.
"I think this was my best game as a Jayhawk," said Ostertag, who in the first two Kansas games has blocked 11 shots and grabbed 19 rebounds. "I'm getting my timing down to where I had it in high school when I did block a lot of shots. I think that'a big part of my game, blocking shots and having my presence felt in the middle."
KANSAN
His presence has definitely been felt thus far. He has the 11 blocked shots, but what doesn't show up in the statistics is the number of shots disrupted because of his attempt to block shots
Source: The Associated Press
No one knows this more than his teammates.
"I have to practice against him everyday," said senior forward Richard Scott, who swatted away two Cal shots himself. "It's no fun shooting over him. When he stands up straight, he's like 10 feet tall."
Williams said he was pleased with Ostegtas's work but not satisfied.
"He can be better than that," Williams said. "He's got to have some consistency and be able to do that for a long period of time."
Kansas ready for first game
By Gerry Fey
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas women's basketball team does not know much about tonight's opponent, but the Jayhawks do know how important this game is against New Zealand.
"I'm going to take it serious," Kansas freshman guard Tamecka Dixon said. "It's just an exhibition game but
Kansas will play its first game this season against New Zealand at 7 tonight at Allen Field House.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
we use it to see how good we really are.
"We know that they press, and they are a good team."
Even though the game is an exhibition, Dixon said it was good for Kansas to play a tough team in its first game.
"Being that we're playing a quality team, we can find out where we're at," she said. "If we played a team that wasn't really good and blew them out, we still wouldn't know how good we are."
Kansas coach Marian Washington repeatedly has said that the freshmen would get playing time this season because the team has only 10 scholarship players.
"Our freshman are going to see some time," Washington said. "Tamecka is going to help out at point guard. We're still relatively young, but it's very nice to combine the older players with the risk-taking younger players."
Dixon said she would be happy in any role that helped the team.
"I'm hoping to play," Dixon said. "It doesn't really matter, as long as I can contribute."
Kansas senior Lisa Tate said that winning was important but that it was not the most important thing.
"I think it's more important to get experience for our younger players," Tate said. "But even though this won't be on our record, we have to take it seriously."
Tate said the inexperienced players would probably make mistakes but that the team would support them. This year's freshmen are Dixon, forward Shelly Canada, guard Angie Halbleib and forward Jennifer Trapp.
"I think they have to get used to the crowds," Tate said of the freshmen. "The crowds away can be loud and obnoxious — like at Oklahoma, the crowd is really obnoxious."
I'll be a little nervous," Dixon said. "At my state championship game in high school, there were 3,000 people. I know I will be more relaxed as the game goes on."
Tate was the Big Eight leader in blocked shots last year, but she said she still had pregame jiggers.
"Yeah, I get nervous," she said. "But when the game starts, you kind of get used to it, and you're not nervous."
Although Kansas is the preseason pick to win the conference this year, Tate said the team must work on many things.
"Some days we have really good practices," she said. "Then other times we don't. We can't underestimate anybody."
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