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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I've got a technique. It's called just go get the damn ball."
— Charles Barkley blacksportsonline.com
FACT OF THE DAY
Mario Chalmers, who will be in town along with Cole Aldrich and Sherrron Collins for both Saturday's game against Colorado and a book signing at The Oread Hotel, ranks second in all-time steals at Kansas with 283. Brady Morningstar and Tyshawn Taylor rank 24th(116) and 25th(115) respectively.
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: How many homeruns has women's softball hit in their first five games?
A: Five, all by different players including two grand slams.
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Sophomore player owns the court
MORNING BREW
Here's a quick mid-season basketball pop quiz. What sophomore leads the Big 12 Conference in scoring.
BY JOEL PETTERSON jpetterson@kansan.com
the Big 12 Conference in scoring,
rebounding and blocks, and is in the top 10
for field goal and free throw percentage
during league play?
If you guessed Alec Burks or Jordan Hamilton, give yourself a consolation prize. Those aren't terrible guesses, but the correct answer is Brittney Griner – of the No. 1 Bavlor Lady Bears.
If you're unfamiliar with Griner, here's the scouting report: She's averaging 23.6 points, 9.2 rebounds, and 4.27 blocks per game in league play. Her 118 blocks on the year are 22 more than the nearest Big 12 player. In her last three games, she's scored 23, 29, and 26 points. In her last game, against No. 5 Texas A&M, she scored 23 points in just the second half, including a stretch where she had 13 straight Baylor points.
I know, I know, it's women's basketball. Who cares, right? Maybe you've seen Griner show up on Sportcenter or YouTube every so often, or perhaps you've never heard of her, but if there was ever a time to care about Big 12 women's basketball, it's now. And that's solely because of one 6-foot-8 inch woman.
In a nutshell, she's scary good.
Just listen to what her coach, Kim Mulkey, had to say about her star player after Baylor throttled Kansas 76-37: "People want to
say Brittney's going to change the game ... but there's not going to be a lot of girls that come along who are built like Brittney that can play above the rim."
Yeah, probably, like, none.
Watching Griner in a college game is like watching a middle schooler join a group of third-graders playing a pick-up game on the playground. With her ridiculous 7-foot-4-inch wingspan, she does almost whatever she wants to underneath the basket.
Also, she can, and does, dunk. On a regular basis, actually. She has done it since high school. The ridiculousness of that statement can't be overstated. WNBA.com has a list of all the times that players have dunked in professional regular season games in the history of the league. The list is about as long as my fingernail. The last time a woman slammed in the league was 2008. Griner did it 52 times her senior year of high school.
And that was without playing organized basketball until her freshman year.
BASKETBALL
All the attention she's garnered isn't the easiest thing for a 20-year-old to handle, but the consensus on Griner is that she's also a great ambassador for all of women's basketball.
One of my most frightening moments assignments as a journalist was asking Griner, nearly a half-foot taller than me, about the time she punched an opposing player her freshman year. But she responded with the grace and poise that have helped her move past that embarrassing episode to becoming perhaps the most dominant player in women's college basketball history - all before her 21st birthday.
Edited by Caroline Bledowski
Top big man selects Arizona Wildcats
Another top recruit in the 2011 class didn't select Kansas in favor of Arizona.
Angelo Chol, Rivals.com's No. 76 rated player, verbally committed to Arizona over Kansas and North Carolina on Thursday. Chol joins Josiah Turner, No.10 by Rivals, who committed to
Arizona over Kansas on Sept. 19.
The 6-foot-9 Chol, from San
Diego's
Hoover
High School,
narrowed
his choices
down to
three on
Tuesday
when he
ruled Washington and Alabama out on
Chol
Tuesday.
Chol would have provided depth on the inside for the Jayhawks if juniors Marcus and Markieff Morris and sophomore Thomas Robinson decided to forgo their remaining years for the NBA draft.
Chol is averaging 23.4 points, 14.8 rebounds and 8.1 blocked shots per game this season.
Mike Lavieri
Arizona defeats Washington State
NCAA
TUCSON, Ariz. — Derrick Williams had 26 points and eight rebounds, and No. 12 Arizona withstood a big night from Klay Thompson to hold off Washington State 79-70 Thursday night.
Williams had been relatively quiet the previous two games, scoring a combined 23 points
as he tried to fight through collapsing defenses and the bulky bandage on his sore right pinky. Williams got to the rim and the line, hitting 7 of 10 shots and all 12 of his free throws. He also got some help from Solomon Hill, who scored all of his 12 points in the second half to give Arizona (22-4, 11-2 Pac-10) its 14th straight home win.
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10 a.m.
vs. Bethune Cook-
man 12:30 p.m.
Deland, Fla.
Baseball
TCU
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NBA
Chicago Bulls defeat San Antonion Spurs
CHICAGO — Derrick Rose had a career-high 42 points and the Chicago Bulls headed into the All-Star break with an impressive 109-99 victory over the NBA-leading San Antonio Spurs on Thursday night.
Rose slithered through San Antonio's stout defense for 21 points in the first half, making eight of 12 shots from the field.
He scored Chicago's last six points of the second quarter.
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