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SPORTS / THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious."
— Charles Shackleford,
former professional basketball player
FACT OF THE DAY
The women's basketball team's last game against Iowa State in Ames, Iowa, was the most attended Kansas game this season. In all, 9,798 people saw the Cyclones defeat the Jayhawks 53-42.
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Since Danielle McCray's injury, what two players have led he team in scoring?
A: Freshmen Monica Engelman and Carolyn Davis. Engelman has led twice, and Davis has led three times.
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CORRECTION
In Wednesday's sports section, a cutline on the softball photo stated that Kansas defeated Baylor on Saturday afternoon. Kansas did not play Baylor on Saturday and has not played Baylor this season.
SCORES
NCAA Men's Basketball:
No. 3 Purdue 59, Minnesota 58
No. 7 Villanova 74, South Florida 49
No. 9 Ohio State 75, Penn State 67
No. 12 Pittsburgh 53, Notre Dame 68
No. 1BYU 82, San Diego State 68
No. 20 Temple 49, Dayton 41
No. 21 Texas 69, Oklahoma State 59
No. 24 Baylor 70, No. 22 Texas A&M 66
Making night of senior nights
MORNING BREW
ttention students:
A Senior night is this Wednesday You have less than one week to come up with a plan to give Sherron Col lins the most epic senior night imaginable.
Remember last year when a group of students created the enormous John Brown sign? It got attention. It added to the intensity of the game against
To not do anything more during this game than what you normally do would be a travesty and an insult to one of the greatest Kansas basketball players.
Missouri. People will remember it for a long time.
Now the time has come for a group of students to top that. This is your opportunity. Make a sign. Make one that will put John Brown to shame. Collins deserves it.
Never forget the player with the second biggest three-pointer in
Collins
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Kansas basketball history. If Collins hadn't stolen the in-bounds pass and made the subsequent three-pointer late in the game against Memphis, then Mario Chalmers never would have goten a chance to tie the game at the end. It was also Collins who dished the ball to Chalmers when Chalmers made the tying three-pointer.
Collins made historical plays in the National Championship game. He stayed four years at Kansas. He is a fan favorite. He leads or is at the top of many statistical categories. For these reasons and many more he deserves one of the biggest
senior send-offs ever.
I have noticed some rumors online that say that students are already conjuring up ideas for senior night antics. I trust in the creativity of the best fans in college basketball to bring something that will stand out.
This is the opportunity to say thanks to a player who has given us all countless good memories over the last four years.
- Edited by Ally Shaw
U.S. hockey team reaches semifinals
OLYMPICS
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VANCOUVER,British Columbia — Lindsey Vonn went down hard. Zach Parise made sure the U.S.men's hockey team didn't.
Finland and Czech Republic game. NBC already has said it will show the semifinal game live, in all time zones, at noon PST Friday.
Hours after Vonn tumbled into the safety netting in the giant slalom and was taken for X-rays, the hockey guys found themselves in trouble against Switzerland. The game was scoreless a couple minutes into the third period until Parise broke through. He added an empty-net goal in the closing seconds to seal a 2-0 victory and put the Americans into the semifinals.
Next up is the winner of the
Vonn's status isn't so clear.
She broke her right pinkie
finger in Wednesday's crash, and it wasn't immediately known if she will ski her final event
— the slalom
— on Friday.
Vonn landed on her left
Vonn
hip and battered her chin with a ski as she fell. She's already been dealing with a bruised right shin.
The cover girl coming into these Winter Games, Vonn's scorecard so far shows two medals (a gold and a bronze) and two wipeouts.
In the event finals completed so far Wednesday, Germany picked up another medal, making 24 overall. The Americans are stuck at 26. Both countries are tied for the most gold with seven.
The best hopes for the United States was in the women's bobsled later in the day. But even that is muted by the fact Germany might win the other two medals.
The other big event Wednesday was the hockey game between international superpowers Canada and Russia, with only one advancing.
Swiss goalie Jonas Hiller kept the game scoreless by stuffing Parise several times, with two more of Parise's shots clanking against the goal posts.
HOCKEY
Parise scored 2:08 into the final period by redirecting a shot by Brian Rafalski early in a power play. Switzerland fought to tie it, but Ryan Miller made 19 saves
Then there was the shot that Hiller tried swatting away, but it went off his shoulder and into the net — a millisecond or two after the second period ended.
American Julia Mancuso, the defending Olympic champion, was next, and starters made the mistake of sending her out while Vonn was still down.
That meant a restart, which is tough on the body and the mind. She wound up 18th - and furious. She'll have at least one night to keep stewing over it.
Elisabeth Goergl of Austria was the leader. The top American was Sara Schleper, in 14th place.
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Also notable in this event was Marjan Kalhor becoming the first Iranian woman to compete at a Winter Olympics. The 21-year-old Kalhor, who wore a pink head scarf beneath her safety helmet to comply with Islamic dress code, was all smiles at the end of her run, despite being the slowest of 68 skiers who finished the run.
While this is Vonn's worst event, no skier wants to go out like she did.
GIANT SLALOM
"I was like a pretzel" she said,
"so tanned up."
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Now the Americans are two wins from their first Olympic gold medal since the "Miracle on Ice" in 1980.
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"We were close to getting frustrated." Miller said.
and Parise scored again with 11.2 seconds left.
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THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
Women's basketball vs. Iowa State, 6 p.m.
TODAY
Swimming at Big 12 Championships, College Station, Texas all day.
FRIDAY
Softball
Baseball
vs. Kentucky in Chattanooga, Tenn., 11:30 a.m.
Softball
Baseball vs. Sacramento State in Peoria, Ariz., 4 p.m.
Track
Southeast vs. Tennessee at Chattanooga, Tenn., 4:30 p.m.
AT big 12 Indoor Championships in Ames, Iowa, all day
Swimming at Big 12 Championships, College Station, Tevas, all day
Tennis
SATURDAY
Softball
Softball
vs. Tennessee Tech in
chattanooga, Tenn.
11:30 a.m.
tennis
vs. New Mexico State,
10 a.m.
Softball
Baseball
Men's basketball
at Oklahoma State,
3 p.m.
Baseball vs. Sacramento State in Peoria, Ariz., 4 p.m.
vs. Lipscomb in Chattanooga, Tenn., 4:30 p.m.
Tennis at UTEP, 10 a.m
Baseball
vs. Gonzaga in Peoria,
Ariz., 8 p.m.
Baseball
vs. Gonzaga in Peoria,
Ariz., 11 a.m.
Softball vs. Austin Peay in Chattanooga, Tenn., 9 a.m.
Track at big 12 Indoor Championships in Ames, Iowa, all day
Swimming
at Big 12
Championships,
College Station, Texas,
all day.
SUNDAY
Softball
Women's basketball at Baylor, 4 p.m.
THE EMILY TAYLOR & MARILYN STOKSTAD WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP LECTURE
An Evening with Mary & Janet Murguía
Thu February 25, 7:30 p.m., Woodruff Auditorium
Thu February 25, 7:30 p.m., Woodruff Auditorium Moderated by Barbara Ballard, Kansas State Representative—44th District
Join us for an evening with KU Alumni. Janet and Mary Murguía. These sisters have dedicated their lives to public service, after obtaining both their undergraduate and their law degrees from the University of Kansas. Janet Murguía is the President and CEO of the National Council of La Raza.Mary Murguía is a US District Court Judge in Arizona.The Emily Taylor & Marilyn Stokstad Women's Leadership Lecture is named for two women who were prominent leaders at the University of Kansas.
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This event is free and open to the public. www.hallcenter.ku.edu