KANSAN.COM / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2011 / SPORTS / QA
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"We get faster with Tyshawn in the game. Without him in the game, we're not as fast a team. One guy changes the look of who we are with his speed, without question."
Bill Self
FACT OF THE DAY
Women's basketball player Monica Engelman closed regular-season play leading the Big 12 in three-point field goal percentage in conference games. She knocked down 43.1 percent from beyond the arc.
Kansas Athletics
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Which university has the longest active streak of NCAA tournament appearances?
A: Kansas with 22
Best teams win despite the draw
Kansas Athletics
MORNING BREW
I'm not going to lie. A couple of weeks ago, I possibly committed what could've been the greatest sin ever committed within the confines of the Phog. Before a women's basketball game, I was perusing Facebook like any typical college student when I saw that my friend had tagged me in a post with a link to the video of Ali Farokmanesh's deadly three-point shot in last year's NCAA tournament.
I watched it. In Allen Fieldhouse.
I couldn't help but think about how mad I was at my sin. I kept asking myself what it would take to repent. But then some good came out of it because it got me thinking.
BY ETHAN PADWAY
epadway.kansan.com
twitter.com/epadway
I keep thinking about how everyone is always saying how one team has an easy bracket and another, more-deserving team doesn't. Last year, I was one of those people. Last year, I openly contemplated how the NCAA tournament committee gave Kansas the toughest route and Duke a cakewalk. I read articles where countless sports pundits wrote the same thing.
This year, I heard people saying throughout the Big 12 tournament how they wanted the Jayhawks to play Kansas State but not Colorado because Colorado was hot. Or how
they were terrified of Butler being the No. 2 seed in our bracket (before the Brandon Davies suspension). My mind kept rewinding to last year's tournament.
Going in, Kansas was the No. 1 overall seed. Every pundit picked the Jayhawks. And you can't convince me to this day that Northern Iowa was the better team that fateful Saturday in March down in Oklahoma City. But the fact of the matter is, Kansas came out flat and lost. Plain and simple, it didn't matter that it had the toughest road to go or that Michigan State was waiting in the next round. The Jayhawks didn't get that far.
care who is in what bracket, the fact of the matter is at the end of the day, if the Jayhawks make it deep enough, every game will be a hard game. Teams can get lucky in their first game, but eventually they will have to play the best team.
This year, I've taken a new approach. I don't
So, since the field has already been set, there is no use crying over spilled milk saying this team has it easy (Pittsburgh) and that team has it hard (Ohio State). The best team on paper may not always win, but the best team on the court certainly will come that day in April.
Edited by Corey Thibodeaux
ROWING
Kansas takes last three events of weekend
BY LAUREN DRUMMOND
Idrummond@kansan.com
The Kansas rowing team raced in the Oklahoma Invitation over the weekend. The team started out strong winning its first two races against the Sooners and went on to win their final three events against
Creighton, totaling seven victories over the weekend.
Rowing has now won at least one racing session in the last four competitions it has raced in. The Jayhawks didn't have much time to prepare for this weekend, however.
"We haven't been on the water too many times," coach Rob Cattolh
said in a press release. "So, just having more races helped."
Saturday evening was better for the Jayhawks' novice team. It won both races, despite the outcomes being very close. Kansas topped Oklahoma by a mere 1.6 seconds in the first of two races,and beat the Sooners overall by only eight-
tenth of a second, posting a final
score of 7:47.05.
Catloth was pleased with his rowers' efforts.
"They had a really good opening weekend for only being on the water six or seven times," he said. "They got better as the race went on, and that's what we're looking for."
for people to do."
In the morning race session on Sunday, the Jayhawks defeated the Tula队 by eleven seconds in the first race, finishing with a time of 8:03:61 and by four seconds in the second race, with
a final time of 7:48.06.
Now the Jayhawks can take a rest before they host Texas at Wyandotte County Lake in Kansas City, Kan., on April 2. Catloth said he wanted the team to use this time off to improve, hopefully getting some much needed practice on the water.
"The primary thing is getting water time. We really just need water time," Catloth said. "We basically haven't done any race preparation."
Edited by Corey Thibodeaux
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