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STAGE PRESENCE // TINHORN MOLLY
> Rising stars. Feel free to swoon.
It all started with a couple of cowboys and a colonel. Derek Jones and Dane Talley have been plucking along the past three years with Jones' basset hound and band manager, Colonel Waylon T. Cogburn, leading the charge.
charge.
"I wish he would howl so we'd have backup vocals," Jones says.
The guitar and banjo-playing partners, along with a bassist and washboard player, call themselves Tinhorn Molly and claim the genre "vaudevillian junkyard Americana."
"I made it up, but by God, that's our genre," Jones says. "We have set chord progressions, but in the end we're making up most of it as we go along."
Inspired by Johnny Cash and Marshall Tucker Band, strong elements of country and bluegrass come through in their music, but they don't play their instruments the way they were intended. "I tape party poppers onto my washboard," band member Jacob Mirocke, Pittsburg senior, who joined that band last summer, says. "My personal record so far is shooting off 14 rounds of confetti at a show in
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Basset hound blues: Tinhorn Molly, a self-described
"vaudevillian junkyard American" band, will play
their own form of rebellious bluegrass country at
the Bottleneck March 21.
Steamboat Springs."
Steamboat Springs.
Last year, the boys also found KU graduate Meaghan Schaible, or rather, she found them.
"I noticed they didn't have a bass player," Schaible says. "So I just went up to them after a show and asked if they wanted one."
show and ask if they
See the four of them combine their talents March 21 at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. Their new album Action! Adventure! Tinhorn Molly! is available for purchase.
Check them out online: http://www.tinhornmolly.com/
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Kansas coach Bonnie Henrickson encourages her players during the game Wednesday evening at Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas won the game against Wichita State 79-58.
Sophomore forward Carolyn Davis puts up a basket against Wichita State forward Michelle Price during the 2nd half of Jayhawks' opening WNIT matchup against the Shockers Wednesday night at Allen Fieldhouse. Davis put up a total of 33 total points against Wichita State.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Jayhawks focus on staying loose, yet remaining serious
BY TIM DWYER
tdwyer@kansan.com
twitter.com/udkbasketball
When the Jayhawks entered their locker room for practice Tuesday, there was a Sports Illustrated posted in each of their lockers. It wasn't the 2011 tournament preview, which in the Midwest will feature Marcus Morris on the cover. It was from last year, with a diminutive Northern Iowa guard named Ali Farokhmanesh letting out an ecstatic yell after hitting an infamous three.
"One of my coaches asked me if we should remind our guys and I said, "Yeah, remind them," coach Bill Self said. "I'm sure they all read that."
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Coach Bill Self argues with a call in the first half Thursday, Kansas will play its first NCAA tournament game Friday at 5:50 p.m. in Tulsa, Okla.
That lesson was a hard one, but it's now been learned. After last
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COMMENTARY
NCAA Tournament tips to ensure a successful bracket
Go ahead and put Kansas in the Final Four. Not that many Jayhawk fans needed the extra support, but Kansas' path to the Final Four in Houston is the easiest of the four No. 1 seeds.
If you don't plan on filling out an NCAA tournament bracket, read no further. For the other 99 percent of the population, here are some tips for winning some cash.
At least one double-digit seed makes the Sweet 16 every year. This year, look for these teams to possibly achieve the feat:
- 12th seed Richmond, the Spiders won 27 games, captured the Atlantic 10 Conference Championship, and get a favorable matchup against Vanderbilt in the first round.
- 12th seed Utah State — The Aggies were under-seeded here at 12. Many bracket projections had them as an 8 or 9 seed, so beating Kansas State shouldn't shock anyone.
BY KORY CARPENTER
kcarpenter@kansan.com
Bracket competitors should also be wary of Duke. Last year's champion is a N. 1 seed once again, but they landed in the West bracket this year, with regionals played in Anaheim, California. A potential Sweet 16 matchup with Arizona or Texas won't be fun, as either team
- 13th seed Belmont — The Bruins are an experienced team with 30 wins on the year. And with playing Wisconsin in the first round — whose slow tempo would make James Naismith proud — an early Belmont lead would make a Wisconsin comeback tough.
could take down the Blue Devils. If they advance to the regional final, they face a potential road game with 2-seed San Diego State, whose campus is just a short drive down 1-5 from Anaheim.
Jump off the limmer bandwagon. BYU's All-American Jimmer Fredette has wowed audiences all season, getting 28 points per game. However, since the season-ending suspension to forward Brandon Davies two weeks ago, BYU has been blown out by New Mexico, struggled to beat TCU, and lost handily to San Diego State. The Cougars were given a 3-seed, but St. Johns should take care of them in the second round.
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Don't put all four No. 1 seeds in the Final Four. It's only happened once — in 2008 — and it won't happen this year. Kansas and Ohio State should make the trip to Houston, but Pittsburgh and Duke won't survive their regionals.
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Edited by Brittany Nelson