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SPORTS / MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us."
Bobby Thomson
FACT OF THE DAY
Kansas lost the first basketball game against Missouri, 34-31, on March 11, 1907, in Lawrence.
SOURCE: KU Athletics
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
How many times in a row has Kansas defeated Missouri at Allen Fieldhouse?
A: 10. Kansas last loss at home to Missouri was a 71-63 defeat on January 24, 1999.
Kansas Athletics
SCORES
NCAA Men's Basketball:
Seton Hall 64, No. 11 Pittsburgh 61
Florida State 68, No. 18 Georgia
Tech 66
Penn State 71, No. 19 Wisconsin
79 (OT)
No. 22 Northern Iowa 67, Indiana
State 58
Louisville 68, Cincinnati 60
East Carolina 61, Tulane 46
Iona 68, Fairfield 58
Boston U 79, UMBC 61
College Basketball
College Basketball
Creighton 76, Missouri State 72
Iowa 58, Indiana 43
NBA Basketball:
Dallas Mavericks 128, New York
Knicks 78
Los Angeles Clippers 92, Washington
Wizards 78
Toronto Raptors 106, Los Angeles
Lakers 105
NHL Hockey:
NHL Hockey:
Pittsburgh Penguins 2, Philadelphia Flyers 1
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Singleton scores 23 in Florida State win
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Chris Singleton scored a career-high 23 points and Solomon Alabi made two go-ahead free throws with 22.8 seconds left, giving Florida State a 68-66 victory over No.19 Georgia Tech on Sunday.
Alabi finished with 14 points and was perfect in six trips to the foul line for Florida State, (1.5-4, 3-2 ACC), which has won its last five against Georgia Tech.
Associated Press
Shoe won't fit for small schools
MORNING BREW
If I know KU fans well enough, you already have Kansas in the national title game because you have the crim son and blue goggles on.
When Selection Sunday ensues, you have the obvious question every season: Who will be this year's Cinderella? Normally, two or three teams from a smaller conference like the MAC or Southland conference are built up heading into the first round. This year will be different because of the depth and talent in the major conferences. There is a chance the ACC, Big 12 and Big East could each get six-or-seven-plus teams into the field of 65.
The lesser-known schools typically have a small chance at getting to the Final Four (see George Mason, 11th seed in 2006 and Providence as a 6th seed in 1987). This season, there is not a dominate team. You might figure that, come tournament time, a team like Northern Iowa or Richmond could seep though the murky waters of the bracket, but it just wont happen this season.
There is an argument about what
BY ANDREW HAMMOND
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conference is the top dog at this point. The ACC has held that banner for the last few seasons and many people forget that the winner of the ACC Conference tournament has reached the final four more than 50 percent of the time since 1970. This season the Big 12 may take that crown. Kansas and Texas are leading the pack but Baylor, Kansas State and Missouri are close behind with matchups still to be played between those teams. The Big East, Big 10 and SEC are also looking strong heading into March. The Big 10 finally beat the ACC in the Big 10/ ACC Challenge after 10 seasons of trying. If that's not a sign of major conference dominance then you are still sleeping, so wake up.
If you look at the trend of mid-major-at large teams since 2005, it has shrunk from eight in 2005 to four in 2009. The way major conferences are starting to rise here in January, it looks like Cinderella will be at home sweeping and dusting instead of fist pumping and Stanky Legging her way to the final four.
Edited by Kelly Gibson
BIG 12 BASKETBALL
K-State falls to Oklahoma State
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MANHATTAN — Shorthanded and far from home, Oklahoma State did something it hadn't done since Eddie Sutton played for the Cowboys.
James Anderson scored 30 points and Obi Muonelo hit two key 3-pointers in the final minutes Saturday, lifting underdog Oklahoma State to a 73-69 victory over No. 10 Kansas State. It had been just six days since the crestfallen Wildcats (16-3, 3-2 Big 12) beat No. 1 Texas on the same floor.
It had been 52 years since Oklahoma State (15-4, 3-2) beat a top 10 team on the road. Sutton, the former Oklahoma State coach, was a forward when the Cowboys beat No. 2 Kansas 52-50 in overtime in 1958.
"In this league, everybody knows what each other is going to do," said Oklahoma State coach Travis Ford, who decided on Thursday that point guard Ray Penn would sit out with a leg injury.
"But this Kansas State team is a great basketball team. It was just one of those nights."
rebounds," said coach Frank Martin. "We just missed shot after shot after shot. Didn't make free throws, didn't make lay-ups. Couldn't catch the ball. I obviously didn't do my job very well preparing this team to play."
The victory over Texas in their previous game was just Kansas State's third over a No. 1 team and boosted basketball fever among Wildcats fans to its highest point in decades. But after playing so well, the Wildcats were off their game in just about every respect.
Were the Wildcats guilty of a letdown?
ASSOCIATED PRESS
"We missed 47 open shots. We didn't get any offensive
"I don't want to hear that," Martin said.
Kansas State sliced a sixpoint deficit to one on Curtis Kelly's two free throws with 26.9 seconds to go.
But the Wildcats fouled on each of their next two possessions. Nick Sidorakis iced the victory with a pair of free throws with 5 seconds to go in a rough-and-tumble game that included three technical fouls and 36 turnovers.
Oklahoma State's James Anderson gets past Kansas State's Jacob Pullen to score Saturday in Manhattan. Anderson scored 30 points, leading Oklahoma State to a 73-69 victory.
Anderson, the Big 12's leading scorer, missed only one of 11 free throws and was 9 for 18 from the floor while tying his season high.
"I thought I had to start out strong from the beginning of the game and do whatever I could to let us be aggressive instead of them," he said. "Ever since we started preparing for Kansas State, our main focus has been playing defense, rebounding the ball and stopping them in transition. That's what we came out and did."
He was nearly unstoppable even though the Wildcats double-teamed him every time he touched the ball, scoring 19 in the first half.
Denis Clemente had 19 points for Kansas State and
longest since the facility opened 22 years ago.
Curtis Kelly had 13.
"Anybody can beat anybody," said Kansas State guard Jacob Pullen. "You have to be consistent and you have to have everyone clicking and we just did not have that tonight."
Muonelo had 14 for Oklahoma State and hit a 3-pointer to give Oklahoma State a 61-56 lead. Then with 2:11 to go his 3-pointer put the Cowboys on top 66-60.
The loss snapped Kansas State's 14-game winning streak in Bramail Coliseum, their
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY
Men's basketball vs. Missouri, 8 p.m.
TUESDAY
No events scheduled
WEDNESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Women's basketball
vs. Colorado, 7 p.m.
THURSDAY No events scheduled
FRIDAY
Track Jayhawk Invitational all day
SATURDAY
Women's tennis
at Drake, 10:00 a.m.
Women's basketball at Missouri, 5:00 p.m.
Men's basketball at Kansas State, 6:00 p.m.
SUNDAY
No events scheduled
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Villanova can't shake UConn
It was a little of both against inexperienced and overwhelmed Villanova.
Maya Moore scored 24 points and grabbed eight rebounds to help the Huskies thump Villanova 74-35 on Saturday for its 58th straight double-digit victory.
UConn's coach watched from the bench as his defense forced 17 turnovers and limited the Wildcats to a miserable 23 percent shooting.
That streak was snapped at 70 by the Wildcats in the 2003 Big East championship game. Villanova followed up that win with another victory over the Huskies the next season.
Tina Charles scored 14 points for the Huskies, who have the second-longest winning streak in women's basketball history. They are 12 wins shy of the NCAA and school record in 2001-03.
"The kids did what I asked them to do." Wildcats Coach Henry Perretta said. "It didn't show up on the scoreboard, obviously."
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