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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"If you're throwing the ball 15 times a game, what's your completion percentage? Are you completing most of them? Are they just five-yard passes or 10 to 15-yard passes, but at the end of the day to me, to be an elite quarterback is winning and losing."
- Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger
FACT OF THE DAY
The Cornhuskers are 14-0 at home this season. The men's basketball team will take them on in Nebraska Saturday at 3 p.m.
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: What two teams have had a better shooting percentage when playing the Jayhawks this season?
A: USC and Texas
— KU Athletics
More than just a basketball team
MORNING BREW
BY GEOFFREY CALVERT
gcalvert@kansan.com
The support that the Kansas basketball team showed Thomas Robinson epitomized the team's motto "Family Over Everything" They stayed up with him the night his mother, Lisa, died and attended her funeral in Washington, D.C., in between the games against Colorado and Kansas State. While it seems natural that any team, not just the Jayhawks, would rally around a hurting teammate, an incident in the Big 10 showed that this is not always the case.
While this isn't the first time a coach has practiced his players to the brink of exhaustion, Hawkeye Coach Kirk Ferentz's response is what makes this case unusual. According to ESPN's Pat Forde, Ferentz continued his ongoing recruiting spree instead of cancelling visits to return home and be with his current players in the hospital.
The Iowa Hawkeyes' football program recently had 13 players hospitalized for rhabdomyolysis, a disease that damages muscle fibers and kidneys and is exacerbated by stress, which the players contracted after enduring abnormally grueling workouts after reporting back from winter break, according to The Cedar Rapids Gazette.
I am no expert on the culture Ferentz has created in his 12 years in Iowa City, but I have a hard time believing it is similar to the one Bill Self has oversee since arriving in Lawrence in 2003.
Upon learning of Lisa Robinson's death, the basketball team put Robinson well-being
before the Texas game, despite it being the most important game to date on the Jayhawks schedule and less than 24 hours away. By staying up all night with the grieving Robinson, the Jayhawks lived up to their "F.O.E." motto, willingly sacrificing energy and preparation for the sake of helping Robinson. A team of basketball players would have gone to bed that Friday night, but the Jayhawks' basketball family is way more than a team. Self and the Jayhawks even went so far as to work with the NCAA to allow the team to pay for Lisa Robinson's funeral, fly to Washington, D.C., to attend the funeral and set up a scholarship fund for Robinson's little sister, Jayla. Both Kansas and the NCAA went out of their way to provide a fair solution for Robinson in his time of need.
Ferentz, on the other hand, did anything but go out of his way to help his players. His refusal to cut his recruiting spree in favor of
supporting his hospitalized players gave the impression that Iowa football is not a family, but a business. His actions sent the message that gaining new players is more important to him than protecting his players. Conversely, by letting Robinson take as much time off as he needed, thereby treating him as a person first and athlete second. Self undoubtedly did far more good for the team than any recruiting spree could have done.
Although the Jayhawks lost to Texas on the court, I imagine that the experience they had with Robinson during that game and in the ensuing week brought the team closer than any on court experience could have. Up in Iowa, I can't imagine that the 13 injured Hawkeyes can say they are any closer to the program, and especially not to their coach.
Edited by Caroline Bledowski
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Team faces foot injuries
BY TIM DWYER
tdwyer@kansan.com
twitter.com/udk baskeball
Kansas' three starting guards — Tyrel Reed, Tyshawn Taylor and Josh Selby — are having foot problems.
playing.
Reed has a lingering injury in his left foot — coach Bill Self said it was a bone bruise on the bottom of his foot — and saw his minutes cut at Texas Tech after it bothered him for what Self said was the first time in a game. Reed was limited to 16 minutes, 11 off his average. He also said hed be wearing a walking boot when he wasn't
Taylor rolled his ankle and left for the locker room in the second half of the Texas Tech game and didn't return. Self said Taylor was fine, though, and that he'd be on the court Saturday.
Much less was said about Selby's injury. After Thursday's press conference and about five minutes before practice was set to start, Selby, wearing a walking boot on his right foot, left Allen Fieldhouse with trainer Billy Cowgill. Team spokesman Chris Theisen said he didn't know what the injury was.
- Edited by Samantha Collins
During her sophomore season, she became the second player in Kansas history to be named the American
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Volleyball Coaches' Association National Player of the Week.
Garlington
This season, she was the top offensive producer in 20 matches for the 17-14 Jayhawks. But, as her coach points out, she does more than attack the ball.
"This year she became a much better blocker," coach Ray Bechard said. "Everyone sees the kills she had, but blocks lead directly to points and are equally important."
What people may not know is that Garlington owns a 3.79
career grade point average. She earned Academic All-Big 12 First Team honors three times, while being named to the Big 12 Commissioner's and Athletic Director's Honor Rolls every semester, according to a University press release.
"My goals were never to win awards or things like that," she said. "I wanted to always compete my hardest and give KU Athletics my all. I wanted to leave my footprint like all the female athletes before me did."
Garlington admitted the award was exciting, but said she never planned on receiving it.
This semester, Garlington will work on a spring internship in Denver, then graduate in May.
Though she is not currently pursuing professional volleyball,
she wants to stay involved in some way. She admits a part of her wants to become a coach.
As for her experience in Kansas, she will always remember her teammates and the lifelong relationships they created.
"Being in the locker room after a big win or a hard practice, being able to argue and vent and triumph together," Garlington said, "It's something that no one else understands."
Coach Bechard got everything he expected when Garlington committed to play in Lawrence.
"She has the whole student-athlete balance," Bechard said. "She exemplified what a successful student athlete should be like on this campus."
— Edited by Sarah Gregory
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floor and a chorus of "Oooh!" to go up in the Fieldhouse. There's no metric to tally those plays officially, but watch the Jayhawks now from even just a month ago and you'll see that they are less aweinducing, perhaps, but in what may not be a coincidence, they are also more efficient.
"He's doing better," teammate Mario Little said. "He's just trying to concentrate on the easy plays, and not the real good plays that make SportsCenter."
SportsCenter was one of those things Taylor would mention offhand every once in a while. After a great play, he'd laugh about how it'd be on the top plays later that day.
So despite — or more likely because of — that, Taylor has turned the ball over just three times in his last four games. In the first 18 games of the season, he failed to string together even three games with that few turnovers. In contrast, though, his assist numbers have dropped from 5.4 game in the nonconference slate to 3.6 in conference play.
Not that his teammates or his coaches are complaining. An emphasis has been made by the staff to get a shot off on every possession, and the feisty Nebraska team they face Saturday will make that a challenge. Tyrel Reed said it had been a collective effort, but Taylor had adjusted his game accordingly.
"Coach stresses that each time we've got the ball we need to get a shot," Reed said. "Definitely, I don't think we've turned the ball over as much and I think that's as a unit. Tyshawn's done a really good job of taking care of the basketball and getting us in our offense."
Along with his safer play, Taylor has seen a dip in points per game as well. Over the last four he's averaged just 4.5 points per game, compared to 8.5 on the season. He had zero against Texas Tech, his first scoreless game since Jan. 20, 2010.
But Self isn't concerned with that as long as Taylor takes care of the ball and plays defense like the "premier" defender that Self said he was.
"Tyshawn scored 13 points against K-State and was great, and I thought he was just as good against Texas Tech and he scored zero," Self said. "But to me, that's irrelevant. He didn't turn it over either game and he took the other team's point guard out."
Edited by Marla Daniels