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SPORTS / MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. I just can't figure out where else to play!"
Pat Williams, former Orlando Magic general manager
FACT OF THE DAY
Allen Fieldhouse is the 23rd largest stadium in terms of stadium capacity in Division I basketball.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Whose stadium has the largest capacity in Division I basketball?
SU Athletic
A: Syracuse's.The Carrier Dome has 49,250 seats and has a listed capacity of 33,000 as a basketball arena.
SCORES
Men's College Basketball
No. 19 Pittsburgh 70, No. 3 Villanova 65
No. 6 Duke 67, Virginia Tech 55
No. 9 Ohio State 74, No. 11 Michigan State 67
No. 14 Wisconsin 70, Northwestern 63
Women's College Basketball
Kansas 51, Texas Tech 68 Michigan State 71, No. 7 Ohio State 68
No.8 Duke 71, Maryland 59
No.11 Oklahoma 64, Kansas State 58
No. 16 Kentucky 71, South Carolina 50
No. 19 Georgia Tech 77, Miami (Fla.) 73
No.20 Georgia 57, Florida 64
No.25 Vanderbilt 68, Mississippi
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BASKETBALL
Pittsburgh knocks off No. 3 Villanova
PITTSBURGH — Ashton Gibbs scored 21 points and No. 19 Pittsburgh upset No. 3 Villanova 70-65 on Sunday.
Gilbert Brown added 16 points, including a thunderous dunk off a baseline move with 1:29 left that gave the Panthers (21-6, 10-4 Big East) a six-point lead.
The first meeting between the two teams since Villanova's dramatic NCAA tournament win last year turned out to be another typical, physical Big East matchup. Led by McGhee's active play, Pitt led by 10 early and went up 29-23 at halftime.
Associated Press
NBC slow with Olympic news
MORNING BREW
Olympic coverage has given Americans a new thing to toast tape delay and TV broadcastin
tape delay and TV broadcasting. With the Olympics on every two years, the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat help captivate an American audience. But there is another agony: knowing the results before they are shown on NBC.
In our ever-changing world, we've learned to access our news much quicker. That makes covering events live much easier. Unless you're NBC Sports President Dick Ebersol and you insist on showing events that take place at 2:30 in the afternoon in Vancouver during primetime.
The best case for this example is Lindsey Vonn winning a gold and silver medal in skiing this past week. While these events took place in the afternoon in an American-friendly time zone, Americans had to scramble to the Internet for websites such as twitter.com, vancouver2010.com and nbccolympics.com just to get any news on Vonn's medal quest.
NBC should have broadcast the event live and not have allowed CNN, ESPN and the World Wide Web to beat them to the punch. It's hard when the Olympic Games
BY ANDREW HAMMOND
ahammond@kansan.com
twitter.com/ahammadiostat
are in a country with an odd time difference, but that should be no problem if it's in Canada. The network did show Vonn's medal-winning runs during the prime-time coverage, but a good percentage of Americans already knew what happened. The next thing you know Bob Costas will come on just before the evening broadcast and say "OK America, if you don't want to know what happened, earmuffs" NBC needs to show events live and not lose ratings if an American hopeful disappoints.
Next I believe should change what is shown during primetime coverage. For all of you figure skating fans on there, you might want to put earmuffs on for what
I'm about to say, Figure skating does not need to be on primetime. Your average American audience likes to see the good American story, but NBC shouldn't show the top two Russian ice dancing pairs while the USA takes on Canada in hockey. While NBC holds the rights to the NHL TV package, you will have to see Patrick Kane from the US against Sidney Crosby and Canada on MSNBC. NBC already has low hockey ratings. I'm sure that covering pairs figure skating on the major network would fall short of a USA-Canada hockey game in ratings.
— Edited by Kristen Liszewski
Medals keep rolling in for team USA
OLYMPICS
Bode Miller of the United States races down the course in the slalom portion of the men's super combined downhill event Sunday at the Olympic Winter Games in Whistler, British Columbia. Miller won gold in the event, tying the record for most Alpine medals won by a man in a single Winter Olympics.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
VANCOUVER,British Columbia These weren't miracles. Bode and Ryan Miller are too good for the feats they pulled off Sunday to be total shockers.
Bode Miller won the first gold medal of his Olympics career, taking the super-combined with plenty of flair - roaring back from seventh after the downhill with a blazing slom run. Then, hours later, goaltender Ryan Miller made 42 saves to help the U.S. hockey team upset Canada 5-3 in one of its biggest wins since the famous Miracle on Ice in 1980.
The hockey win gave the Americans a perfect record in the preliminary round and assured them a berth in the quarterfinals. Bode Miller's victory bumped the U.S. medal count to seven gold and 24 overall to lead all countries.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
One more medal and the Americans will match the 25 they won in 2006, their most at a Winter Olympics not held at home. Miller's performance at that Olympics was forgettable, when he partied away his status as the favorite going into the games.
Now, with a medal of each color after three races, Miller is one of the feel-good stories of the Vancouver Games.
"The level I skied at is at the very top," he said. "It feels amazing."
Across Vancouver, bars, restaurants and streets were packed Sunday, mainly because of the U.S.-Canada hockey game the host country was anticipating for years. With a trio of rivalry games at Canada Hockey Place, and six gold medals handed out elsewhere, the day was dubbed "Super Sunday"
However, it got off to a sad start with Joannie Rochette - Canada's best hope for a medal in women's figure skating - learning that her 55-year-old mother died of a massive heart attack.
Rochette wiped her eyes and took a deep breath before stepping onto the ice for afternoon practice, then blinked hard during her first few laps around the rink. She'll remain in the event, which starts Tuesday, "to fulfill the goal they had together," said Rochette's agent, David Baden.
In other events decided Sunday, Germany's Magdalena Neuner won her second gold medal of these games in biathlon and Switzerland's Michael Schmid won the Olympics debut of men's skicross, a cousin to the NASCAR-ion ice snowboarding race featuring four racers charging through a winding course filled with jumps
Andre Lange of Germany won the two-man bobsled, and speedskater freen Wust of the Netherlands took the women's 1,500 meters.
HOCKEY
The U.S. came out wearing jerseys nearly identical to those worn by the 1960 gold-medal winning team at Squaw Valley, which also was the last group of Americans to beat Canada in the Olympics.
The U.S. lived up to the threads with Brian Rafalski scoring just 41 seconds into the game and Rafalski scoring again later in the period.
Defending champion Ted Ligety jumped from 15th to fifth with the fastest time in the slalom. Unfortunately for him, there was only one slalom leg this time, after two in Turin.
Evgeni Malkin scored twice for Russia and Ovechkin had two assists.
SKATER'S MOTHER
Chris Drury and Jamie Langenbrunner scored to put the U.S. up 4-2, and the Americans held off a relentless late surge
One play summed up the first game, a rematch of the 1998 goldmedal game between Russia and the Czech Republic; Russia's Alex Ovechkin flattening jaromir lagr with a hit at center ice that also broke his visor. The Russians won 4-2 to claim first place in their group.
A few hours after learning of her mother's sudden death, Rochette was back on the ice. Dressed in black tights and a black Canadian team hoody, she appeared in the runway as the rest of the skaters in her practice session took the ice.
by Canada that included Sidney Crosby's goal with 3:09 remaining.
"I wish I had a concussion and just forget what happened," lagr said. "But I remember it."
Once Miller took over the lead, he had to wait out six challengers. The last was Aksel Lund Swindal of Norway, who finished a spot ahead of Miller in the super-G and the downhill.
Rochette quickly settled into the comfort of her practice routine. She showed no lapses in concentration, jumped well and did a light run-through of her tango short program, even flashing a saucy smile at one point. In the stands, her father repeatedly rubbed his eyes.
SUPER-COMBINED
When Swindal pulled up midway through the race, that was it. Miller tied the record for most Alpine medals won by a man at a single Winter Olympics.
"It's going to be hard for me go keep doing this," said Miller, who could still have two events left. "This is incredibly emotionally exhausting."
"Joannie is doing as well as one can expect. It has been an emotional roller coaster for her," Skate Canada CEO William Thompson said. "She made the decision that she wants to compete and maintain her training schedule. It is providing her with stability in a very uncertain time of her life."
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY
Baseball
vs. Eastern Michigan in
Minneapolis,
5 p.m. doubleheader
Women's golf at Kiawah Island Classic, all day
TUESDAY
Women's golf at Kiawah Island Classic, all day
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
Women's swimming at Big 12 Championships, College Station, Texas all day.
THURSDAY
Women's basketball
vs. Iowa State, 6:00 p.m.
Women's swimming at Big 12 Championships College Station, Texas all day.
FRIDAY
Softball
vs. Kentucky In Chattanooga, Tenn.
11:30 a.m.
baseball vs. Sacramento State in Peoria, Ariz., 4 p.m.
Track at Big 12 Indoor Championships in Ames, Iowa, all day
Softball vs. Tennessee at Chattanooga, 4:30 p.m.
Women's swimming at Big 12 Championships, College Station, Texas all day
SATURDAY
Women's tennis
vs. New Mexico State.
10 a.m.
Softball vs. Tennessee Tech in Chattanooga, Tenn, 11:30 a.m.
Men's basketball at Oklahoma State, 3 p.m.
Softball
vs. Lipscomb in
Chattanooga, Tenn.
4:30 p.m.
Baseball vs. Sacramento State in Peoria, Ariz., 4 p.m.
Baseball vs. Gonzaga in Peoria, Ariz., 8 p.m.
Track at Big 12 Inoodr Championships in Ames, Iowa, all day
Women's swimming at Big 12 Championships, College Station, Texas, all day