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SPORTS / THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut."
Tommy Prothro, former NFL and college head coach
FACT OF THE DAY
Source: Kansas Athletics
The women's basketball team has had a record of 13-7 in three straight seasons.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: How many points did sophomores and juniors score in Kansas' 61-59 victory against Missouri on Sunday?
A: 10. Seniors Danielle McCray and Sade Morris and freshman Carolyn Davis combined for 51 of the team's 61 points.
- Kansas Athletics
SCORES
NCAA Men's Basketball:
NCAA Men's Basketball:
No. 1 Kansas 72, Colorado 66
No. 6 West Virginia 70, No. 21
Pittsburgh 51
No. 8 Georgetown 64, South
Flordia 72
No. 17 Temple 76, Duquesne 60
No. 18 Ohio State 75, Penn State
62
No.20 Vanderbilt 75, Mississippi State 72
No. 22 Northern Iowa 59, Wichita State 56
No.24 Baylor 84, Iowa State 63 Missouri 74, Texas A&M 77
NCAA Women's Basketball:
NCAA Women's Basketball:
No. 4 Nebraska 88, No. 11 Oklahoma State 67
No. 7 Xavier 72, George Washington 56
NCAA tourney is great as it is
MORNING BREW
n Monday, the website sportsbybrooks.com
in Monday, the website sportsbybrooks.com claimed it was a "done deal" that the NCAA basketball tournament would expand from 65 to 96 teams. It cited sources at ESPN and administrators at a "powerhouse" NCAA basketball school. Nothing has been confirmed or announced as official yet.
Expanding the tournament would be a huge black eye for the NCAA in the opinion of many people. If it's not broke, don't fix it. The NCAA basketball tournament is the best sporting event in the world and watering it down with more bad teams could cause the first and most exciting round of the tournament to lose its luster. Unfortunately, it's probably inevitable.
Later on Monday, ESPN's Jeff Caplan asked Bill Self for his thoughts.
"Whatever it is, if it's 96, there's going to be 97, 98, 99 that feel like they got left out," Self told Caplan. "I think television will dictate so much of it. I think its worth discussing, but I haven't seen anyone's formula that would be the right formula. Football can't figure it out, and they deal with less teams."
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Caplan also said that Self was in favor of the expansion and that it makes sense to increase the number of teams invited to the tournament because there are so many good players and good teams.
It may be true that there has been a slight increase in talent among college basketball players, partially because of the NBA age restriction rule requiring players to be at least one year removed from high school before entering the NBA draft. However, that does not mean there has been a substantial enough increase in good teams to warrant an increase in the NCAA tournament field.
The tournament field has included at least 64 teams since 1985. Since then, a
16-seed has never defeated a 1-seed and there have been only four 15-seeds to defeat 2-seeds in the first round. The last time it happened was in 2001. A 15-seed has never advanced past the second round. Why add more worthless teams by expanding the field to 96? The tournament field is perfect the way it is.
The issue is that the NCAA is tempted by the increase in revenue it would receive by broadcasting extra tournament games. Look for a decision to be made by this summer when the NCAA can opt out of its contract with CBS.
Edited by Jesse Rangel
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY No events scheduled
FRIDAY
Tennis
vs. Notre Dame, 3 p.m.
Women's swimming at Iowa State, 6 p.m.
Track at Husker Invitational, all day
SATURDAY
Swimming at Iowa State, 10 a.m.
Men's basketball vs. Nebraska, 5 p.m.
Track at Husker Invitational, all day
SUNDAY
NCAA BASKETBALL
Women's basketball vs. Kansas State, 1 p.m.
MONDAY
Men's basketball at Texas, 8 p.m.
Marquette is vindicated with 80-69 victory over DePaul
Associated Press
BY COLIN FLY Associated Press
MILWAUKEE — Lazar Hayward had 19 points and 14 rebounds and Marquette avenged an earlier loss to DePaul with a 80-69 victory over the Blue Demons on Wednesday night to extend its winning streak to three.
Darius Johnson-Odom added 21 points and Jimmy Butler 18
for the Golden Eagles (14-8, 5-5 Big East), who didn't trail until Mike Stovall's jumper with seventh of a second to play snapped DePaul's 24-game conference losing streak.
In the rematch, Marquette never trailed, building a double-digit first-half lead and using a 12-0 run early in the second half to open a big advantage.
DePaul (8-14, 1-9) is still searching for its second win under
interim coach Tracy Webster, who fell to 1-7 since replacing Jerry Wainwright.
Mac Koshwal led DePaul with 18 points, but the Blue Demons shot 38 percent from the field. Will Walker, who had been averaging 16.3 points, scored 13 on 5-of-20 shooting.
Marquette's 12-0 run in the second half gave the Golden Eagles a 47-23 lead. In the spurt, Marquette did it inside and out
- using an extra pass to find Hayward open for a 3-pointer and then getting a driving basket by Johnson-Odom.
Moments later, Johnson-Odom stepped into the passing lane moments later for a steal and two-handed dunk. Hayward followed with another three, admiring his follow-through on his basket that just beat the shot clock.
The closest DePaul could come was within 73-64 with 1:08
remaining, but Marquette finished by hitting 13 of its final 14 free throws to seal it.
Hayward, who had the biggest double-double of his career since putting up 19 points and 18 rebounds against IPFW last season, took over midway through the first half.
DePaul, which last won in Milwaukee 10 years ago, has lost four straight and 37 of its last 40 in Big East play.
NCAA BASKETBALL
Baylor outplays Iowa State ties winning season record
BY STEPHEN HAWKINS
Associated Press
WACO, Texas — LaceDarius Dunn scored 21 points, including four 3-pointers, Ekpe Udoh had his 11th double-double of the season and No. 20 Baylor backed up its big win on the road with an 84-63 victory over Iowa State on Wednesday night.
Udoh had 19 points, 10 rebounds and five blocked shots while Tweety Carter scored 14 points for the Bears (17-4, 4-3 Big 12), who were coming off an overtime victory Saturday at then-No. 6 Texas. They had lost to Kansas State before that in their last home game to end a school-record 11-game winning streak at the Ferrell Center.
RESUME STUDENT
Baylor's LaceDarius Dunn shoots past Iowa State's Craig Brackins Wednesday. Baylor won the game 84-63.
Anthony Jones hit a 3-pointer to start a 7-0 run for Baylor and stretch its lead to 10 after Iowa State (13-9, 2-5) got a free throw in the open seconds after halftime. There had been six ties and six lead changes in the first half, but none after that.
After Carter missed a three, Brackins was ahead of everybody when he got a long pass and went up for a slam. He missed when A.J. Walton caught up and swatted at the ball. McDermott was livid that a foul wasn't called, and play continued with Dunn hitting from long range to make it 65-49.
Dunn made a 3-pointer on the first shot of the game, and his last came with 6:15 remaining with an extremely frustrated Iowa State coach Greg McDermott fuming on the sideline.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Craig Brackins had 19 points and Marquis Gilstrap added 15 for the Cyclones, who have lost four of five.
McDermott went under the basket to have words with the official during an ensuing timeout. When there was another timeout only seconds later, he conversed with another official though he avoided getting a technical foul.
Things really turned fun for Baylor after that, with slam dunks
Dunn had the first slam on an ally-op pass from Udoh, who got the next slam before Quincy Acy, who finished with 10 points, threw one down. Walton was open at the basket the next time down, but settled for a lawp instead.
from three different players on consecutive possessions,
The final margin was the largest of the game and Baylor had only eight turnovers.
Udoh should have had another assist, but instead was given a missed shot when his pass rolled off the rim — and was grabbed by
Acy for a slam. That ended a wild sequence when Carter missed a 3-pointer and the ball bounced to the other end of the court. Dunn outran several Cyclones and saved it from going out of bounds to Walton.
Iowa State has lost 17 consecutive games against ranked teams, including five this season.
It is only the fourth time in school history the Bears have won at least 17 games in their first 21. The others were all NCAA tournament teams — 1946, 1948 and 2008.