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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2009
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not."
— Charles Barkley
FACT OF THE DAY
During the first half against Alcorn, men's basketball went on a 36-0 run, which is one point shy of the NCAA record.
Source: Kansas Athletics
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: What team holds the record for most consecutive points scored during a game?
A: Utah State against Idaho in 2006.
Source: Kansas Athletics
FISHING REPORT
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks reported on Dec. 1 the following conditions for fishing at Clinton Lake
TROUT is fair at 0.5 pounds. Fishing has been a little tougher. Lake Henry received another load of trout the third week of November. Anglers are having success using little cleos, castmasters, roostertails and power bait.
CRAPPIE is fair at 0.75 to 1.5 pounds. Crappie are being caught on minnows or jigs within a foot of the bottom in about 18 to 22 feet of water around brush-piles.
— Stephen Montemayor
BASKETBALL Kansas State women's coach to renew contract
MANHATTAN — Deb Patterson, the all-time winningest coach in Kansas State history, has agreed to a new five-year contract.
The deal will run through the 2014 season. She is 267-150 in 14 seasons, has won two Big 12 championships and made 11 appearances in the NCAA tournament.
The school said the contract is retroactive to April 15 and will pay Patterson a base salary of $485,000 in the 2009-10 contract year. It will escalate in the succeeding years to $525,000, $550,000, $575,000 and $600,000. Performance incentives could reward Patterson up to an additional 32 percent of her base salary for each year.
The Wildcats were recognized in 2009 for having the highest team grade-point average among all BCS conference schools.
PGA
Players tied for win in Chevron Competition
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.
lan Poulet and Zach Johnson are pitied for the lead at 4-under 68 after the first round of the Chevroon World Challenge.
Padraig Harrington, winless this year, had a 69 on a beautiful day among the foothills of Conejo Valley.
Associated Press
MORNING BREW
Nets not deserving of sympathy
Lovable losers? Not the Nets.
The New Jersey Nets
set the unviable record
Wednesday for starting the season
with the most consecutive losses
with a record of 0-18.
Coming into this season, it's hard to believe out of all 30 NBA teams, the Nets is the team that's this historically bad.
The past two seasons, New Jersey finished with just 34 wins. But with Devin Harris and the development of Brook Lopez, this should have been their year to at least attempt for .500.
Their roster is not that bad. I'd much rather have their team than Golden State or Memphis. They fired head coach Lawrence Frank last Sunday and now are coached under Tom Barrise.
Chris Douglas-Roberts, the Memphis product Kansas fans know so well, is having a breakout season, averaging 16.9 points per game. The Nets picked up Rafer Alston in the offseason to take the load off Devin Harris, but he is nowhere near as effective as he
was in Orlando last year.
Granted, Harris, their best player, has only played in eight out of their 18 games because of an injury, but obviously, his presence hasn't yielded a victory.
Remember Yi Jianlan?
Somehow he found his way onto New Jersey last season and has yet to make a significant impact, except for on the injury report.
He's only played in four games this year because of a knee injury, but Net's sources said Jianlan would be back at full-court practice later this week. Not that it will make much of a difference.
The foundation is there to have a successful team, but how they haven't won a game is beyond comprehension. It's hard to tell
since their games haven't been nationally televised (and I only had NBA League Pass for a couple weeks). They may not want to win. Their coach might be terrible. Maybe the chemistry is terrible.
No matter the reason, there is no excuse for an 0-18 record. It's inexplicable. You hear athletes say it's harder to lose all your games than win them all. If that is the case, the Nets have accomplished quite a difficult feat.
Backtrack to Wednesday when Kansas beat Alcorn State by 67 points in men's basketball. A lot of the Jayhawk fans and even the players and coaches said they felt sorry for Alcorn State. It's acceptable to feel that way because they are one of the worst teams in the nation, and their athletics department can't compete financially.
The Braves really tried,but the better team showed why it was considered as such.
But the Nets don't have much of an excuse to be in this position. They already lost to the New York Knicks (4-15) at home and the
Minnesota Timberwolves (2-16).
Looking at their coming schedule, they will undoubtedly get lucky and win somewhere. They have Charlotte and their second game against New York ahead, so maybe they can break this streak as it stands.
Everyone usually embraces the underdog,but don't embrace a historic loser.
Follow Corey Thibodeaux at twitter.com/c_thibodeaux.
— Edited by Lauren Cunningham
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY
Swimming UVA Invitational, all day, Charlottesville, Va
SATURDAY
Track Bob Timmons Challenge all day
Swimming UVA Invitational, al day, Va Charlottesville, Va
SUNDAY
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Women's basketball
vs. Northern
Colorado,
1 p.m.
Men's basketball at UCLA, 4:30 p.m.
Texas quaterback chosen for AP All-Big 12 team
This Sept. 5 photo shows Texas senior quarterback Colt McCoy during first quarter action in his team's 59-20 victory over Louisiana Monroe in Austin, Texas. Three years after their first meeting, Roger Staubach, the former Heisman Trophy winner, Super Bowl winner and all-around texas icon has become a friend, mentor and occasional ooffing partner to the senior quarterback of the No. 3 Texas Lonhorns.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BY JAIME ARON
Associated Press
DALLAS — There was nothing strange about Colt McCoy's spot on The Associated Press All-Big 12 team this time around.
No doubt about it, either.
McCoy was the unanimous choice as the top quarterback on the squad released Thursday. While it might seem obvious that the league's offensive player of the year would also be a first-teamer, it wasn't that simple last year, when McCoy also got the award yet was the second-team quarterback behind Oklahoma's Sam Bradford.
But with Bradford hurt and McCoy racking up all sorts of personal and team accolades, the only real question was how many teammates would join him on the all-conference squad.
The answer: Three — his favorite receiver, Jordan Shipley; his top blocker, Adam Ulatoski; and defensive back Earl Thomas, who also joined McCoy as a unanimous selection.
Texas' four first-teamers was tops among all schools in the voting by 20 sports writers who regularly cover the league for
newspapers throughout the seven state region.
Four isn't that many for the single-team lead, especially considering the No. 3 Longhorns went 12-0. Instead, voters spread their respect across the entire conference as all 12 teams had a first-teamer, and nearly all had two selections.
Nebraska, Colorado and Texas A&M were the only schools with a single pick. The No.21 Cornhuskers — who will meet the Longhorns in the Big 12 championship game on Saturday night — were represented only by defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh, but he was among the unanimous choices and he was named the league's defensive player of the year.
The 26-man team was dominated by upperclassmen. The only underclassmen were Thomas and Missouri kicker Grant Ressel, both sophomores.
TRACK AND FIELD
Okung, Suh and Weatherspoon were among seven players who made the first team for a second straight year. The others were Baylor linebacker Joe Pawelek and defensive back Jordan Lake, Oklahoma defensive lineman Jeremy Beal and Kansas defensive back Darrell Stuckey.
Jayhawks to hold season opener, test standout recruits
Team hopes that new members will boost its performance this year
BY SAMANTHA ANDERSON
sanderson@kansan.com
The track and field team will open its season Saturday in the Bob Timmons Challenge.
The event will be an all-day indoor event starting with throws at 9 a.m. at Anschutz Pavilion.
The team is coming off of a difficult year. Last year in the Big 12 Championships the men placed 12th and the women placed 10th. Iain Trimble, a junior captain who was a redshirt last year because of an injury, said the team hoped to change that this year.
Some of the teams improvement could come from its success ful recruiting season.
The team's new recruits include freshmen Andrea Geubelle, University Place, Wash., and Rebecca Neville, Merrillville, Ind. Last summer, Geubelle competed in the USATF Junior Olympic Track and Field Championship and took first place in the triple jump. She jumped five inches farther than any of her competitors.
Neville also had a successful summer. She competed in the Pan American Junior Championships and finished sixth overall in the heptathlon.
"I think the freshmen that got recruited this year are really good," sophomore captain Shayla Wilson said. "A lot of them work really hard. I think they will be really big assets to the team this year."
Mason Finley is a new recruit on the men's team. He also competed in the Pan American Junior Championships this summer, Finley, Salida, Colo., freshman, finished first in shot put and discus, breaking the Pan American junior record in shot put.
This will be an opportunity for both teams to test their new dynamics. The meet is a smaller meet with smaller schools competing.
"He'll definitely be somebody who is going to contribute right away," Trumbled said.
"Our athletes have been training hard all fall," coach Stanley Redwine said in a press release. "This meet gives them an opportunity to perform in a competitive setting. Based on the competition this weekend, we will also be able to see where everybody stands early in the season."
The team doesn't usually play host to its first meet of the season, but it hopes to attract a large crowd and make the meet more accessible to Kansas fans.
—Edited by Samantha Foster
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Then-freshman long jumper Jamaica Collins leaps to a distance of 5.71 meters at Memorial Stadium. The track and field team hopes to improve on last year's record. The team will open its season Saturday and hopes its new recruits will contribute to a successful season.
BASKETBALL Seminoles beat Hosiers 82-74 in Big Ten challenge
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Courtney Ward scored 20 points to lead four players in double figures and No. 12 Florida State beat Indiana 82-74 Thursday night.
Jacinta Monroe added 17 points, Alysha Harvin 15 and Cierra Bravard 12 for the Seminoles
(7-0), who outscored the Hoosiers 14-5 over the final 3 minutes in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge game.
Jori Davis scored 23 points to lead Indiana (4-3). Hope Elam had 15 points and Sasha Chaplin added a double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds.
PGA
PGA Strong winds prevent play for Austrialian Open
Florida State used a 12-0 run to take a 62-54 lead with just over 8 minutes remaining.
Play was stopped early Friday after balls slid off greens. Officials
SYDNEY — Strong winds on the New South Wales Golf Club oceanside links course have suspended second-round play at the Australian Open.
were hoping to get play under way after about a four-hour delay.
Only several groups of players made it onto the course before the suspension, with co-leader Stuart Appleby parring his opening two holes to remain 6 under. Fellow Australian Scott Hend, who also shot 66 in his first round, had not started play Friday.
Associated Press