University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 22, 1990
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Colorado women end Kansas streak Buffaloes win after Jayhawks get slow start
Buffaloes win after Jayhawks get slow start
By Brent Maycock
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas women's basketball team could not recover from a slow start and lost to Colorado 70-59 last night at Allen Field House.
The loss snapped the Jayhawks five-game winless streak and dropped them out of a tie for third place in the Big Eight Conference that they had shared with Oklahoma, and also the final home game for the Jayhawks this year.
"We didn't play very well at all in the first half," Kansas coach Marian Washington said. "But I was pleased with our second-half effort."
Kansas and Colorado were still tied 8-8 with 13-48 left in the game. However, the Buffalo outs scored the Jayhawks 15-3 in the next nine minutes and never looked back.
The Jayhawks have a 19-8 record overall and are 8-5 in the Big Eight. Colorado improved its record to 16-10 and 9-4.
Colorado maintained its margin through the final three minutes of the first half. The Buffs scored 29 and held at halftime.
In the second half, Kansas chipped away at the Colorado lead, eventually cutting the margin to seven points.
With Colorado leading 42-28 more than four minutes into the period, the Jayhawks went on a 7-0 run. The spurt was capped by a steal and fast-break layup by senior point guard Lisa Braddv.
Kansas' score was 42-35 with 14:12 left. Colorado scored the next four points to end the run.
We outplayed them the second half, but it was the first half that did us in." Washington said. "We just did not respond."
The Jayhawk wore never closer than nine points in the game's final four minutes. Colorado's lead was 68-59 with 1:23 remaining. However, the Buffs refused to fold under pressure and held off the Jayhawk comeback.
"I thought Colorado did a nice job," Washington said.
"We thought we could chip away, but the turnovers really hurt us."
Kansas committed 23 turnovers — 14 in the first half.
Colorado had only 10 turnovers.
Colorado center Debbie Johnson had 24 points despite making only 8 of 22 field goal attempts. Kansas held Colorado to a 32,4 shooting percentage.
onward Misti Chennauld tied her career high of 19 points and was the Jayhawks' leading scorer. Braddy made 12 points and was the only other Jayhawk in double figures.
"They do a really good job of denying the post the ball, so we just had to get it in our minds that we were going to have to get the front position," Chennault said. "Their guards are very scrappy. They're always going for the ball."
Braddy and guard Shannon Bloxom, who is the second-leading scorer for the Jayhawks, were in an auto accident Tuesday. Although neither player was seriously injured, Bloxom received 10 stitches in her head.
Bloxom, who averages 12.2 points a game, had only three points.
"I don't like making excuses, though," Washington said. "I feel we have enough people that we can still be able to compete. Shannon was not in the game tonight, and we need her to open things up."
Kansas was outrebounded for the fifth consecutive game.
Forward Terrilyn Johnson was the top rebounder for the game despite playing only five minutes in the first half. She had 11 rebounds.
"If you look at the matchups, they've got a big inside game," Washington said. "So Terrilyn just had an awesome rebounding night."
Kansas' next game will be against Kansas State on Saturday in Manhattan. The Wildcats are the leaders in the Big Eight with a 10-3 record.
Kansas guard Kay Kay Hart was named to the academic All-Bright Conference first team yesterday.
Hart, who received a 3.73 grade point average during the Fall 1989 semester, was one of eight players chosen for the team. Her
NOTES
A total of 17 student athletes made the 1909 roll. All academic absences must have a 3.0 GPA and be a regular on-roll.
Kansas forward Shannon Bloxom, right, intercepts a pass from Colorado guard Annan Wilson in the second half of the Jayhawks' 70-59 loss.
"Grades are important, but I'm more interested in doing the best job I can," Hart said. "The athletic part helps because you are on a schedule, and you just have a habit of planning everything out."
Jayhawks subdue Buffs in big Boulder win
Bv Molly Reid
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas rocked the Rockies last night.
In front of a sold-out crowd at the CU Events Center, Kansas jolted Colorado 103-71. The game marked Hawks' biggest rout ever in Boulder.
The victory raised Kansas to 26-2 overall and kept them in second place in the Big Eight Conference with a 9-2 record. Colorado remained at the bottom of the Big Eight, falling 5 overall and 2-10 in the conference.
Coach Roy Williams said the Jayhawks' shooting helped prevent Colorado from pacing the game.
Kansas shot an amazing 40 of 61, 65.6 percent, from the field and 9 of 14, 64.3 percent, from the three-point field goal range.
game three times before the Jay-
hawks turned up the current.
For almost 15 minutes in the first half, the Buffaloes made a strong statement. They stayed within four points of No. 2 Kansas and tied the
"We had good shooters taking good shots," Williams said. "With a shooting percentage like that, it is hard to control the tempo."
Guard Kevin Pritchard flipped the switch.
With just under four minutes left in the first half, Pritchard, who hit 100 percent of his field goal attempts last week, putting Kansas up 7-29 at halftime.
During the last run of the first half, Pritchard turned two of his own steals into two three-point baskets. The 6-foot-3 senior went seven of nine in the field and missed one of two free throws for a team high of 18 points.
Other Jayhawks followed Pritchard's example, going four of four from the free-throw line and missing the shot in the final four minutes.
"They just exploded," Colorado coach Tom Miller said. "We did a good job on Pritchard for the first 14 minutes."
Reserve guard Terry Brown topped it off by sinking his fourth three-point shot at the buzzer. Brown was four of six from beyond the three-point line and four of eight overall, contributing 14 points for the
Javhawks.
His four three-pointers increased his Kansas single-season, three-point record. Brown has 78, which is 14 fewer than Mitch Newton's record set last season.
The Jayhawks' lead was never in question in the second half.
Kansas came out sizzling and hit 82 percent of its shots in the first 10 minutes. The Jayhawks fell off to end the second half at 61.8 percent. Small turnovers kept the second-half shooting percentage kept the Buffaloes well out of the game.
"They're the best passing and shooting team I've ever seen," Miller said. "When they get a big cushion, they play more comfortably. We are able to capitalize on anything. All of our opportunities were lost."
Shaun Vandiver, the leading scorer for the Buffaloes, had 27 points in the game but demonstrated Colorado's frustration when he missed a breakaway dunk in the first 10 minutes of play, keeping the Buffaloes down 68-46.
Colorado turned the ball over on six charging calls and could not seem to
put the ball in the hole. The Buffalofoes fell behind by as much as 31 points, 97-66, with 3:43 left. Kansas topped that margin at the buzzer.
"It was a good win," Williams said. "No way did we expect to win like this. We really pride ourselves on our defense. We got to play a lot of people and it enabled us to keep everyone fresh."
Junior center Pekka Markkanen, who has been relatively silent offensively in the past several games, and points and pulled down two rebounds.
Mark Randall also came alive in the second half after slamming his head against the knee of a Colorado player. Randall was three of three field after the collision. The Colorado scored 14 points in the game.
With two missed field goals in eight attempts, forward Rick Calloway was the Jayhawks second leading Calloway score scored 17 points.
NO FEES
Kansas guard Kevin Pritchard and forward Mark Randall were named to the
Kansas 103
Colorado 71
Academic All-Big Eight men's basketball team yesterday.
| | M | W | G | GD | PT | R | A | F | T1 |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Randall | 25 | 6.10 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 8 |
| Martinez | 14 | 3.44 | 14 | 1.3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| Martinez | 14 | 3.44 | 14 | 1.3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| Pitchard | 28 | 7.7 | 12 | 1.2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| Pitchard | 28 | 7.7 | 12 | 1.2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| Brown | 13 | 4.48 | 22 | 2.2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Brown | 13 | 4.48 | 22 | 2.2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Jordan | 16 | 4.4 | 22 | 2.2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Jordan | 16 | 4.4 | 22 | 2.2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Jamison | 13 | 1.3 | 10 | 0.2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| Jamison | 13 | 1.3 | 10 | 0.2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| Nash | 3 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals 200 40 61 14 17-35 34 -21 103
Totals 200 40 61 14 17-35 34 -21 103
[Brown, P. 4th]. Cairnley 3, Calebany 1, Howard 2,
Jordan 6. Bloodied Bones: 3 (Calebany, Pharm. Nana),
5 (Cairnley, Pharm. Nana), 8 (Bloodied Bones, Pharm.
Nana). Name:
| | M | FG | FT | R | A | FTP |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| All | 4 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| Vaughan | 27 | 06 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Vaughan | 27 | 06 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Wise | 34 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 15 |
| Wise | 34 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 15 |
| Morton | 34 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 15 |
| Morton | 34 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 15 |
| Markham | 15 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Markham | 15 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Waters | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Waters | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Garcia | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Garcia | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Purchase | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Purchase | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Totals
Personalties: FD, 202-530, FT 63.3
Three goals: point goals 10, 18, 17
Team: Tenkai 1) Turnovers 10 (Wardner 7) Shields 1 (Wardner 2) Technician Home
Haltime: Kansas 47, Colorado 29. Officials: Spiller,
Sanchez and Banks.
A. 0,232
Team loses match,not poise
By Paul Auger
Kansan sportswriter
A first-round loss to 16th-ranked Peppardine yesterday at the Louisville (Ky.) Tennis Club hardly disappointed Kansas men's tennis coach Scott Farhangi.
"For the most part I felt proud of the players and how awfully hard they played." Parelman said.
Pepperdine best 25th-anked Kansas 5-1 at the USTA/ITCA National Indoor Team Tennis Champlains.
Wisconsin will meet Arkansas in the other loser's bracket match Friday.
Kansas plays Utah tomorrow at Briarwood Woods Club in Louisville. Clemson defeated Utah 5-2 yesterday. The starting time for tomorrow's match has not been determined.
For the second-straight year, Kansas has been knocked out of first-round play at Louisville. The kings lost to Arkansas 5-2 last season.
Jerry Gross at No. 2 singles was Kansas' only winner against Pepperdine. Green, ranked 44th, edged Hoffe Law of 7-5, 6-4.
However, Perelman was aware that the outcome could have favored the Jayhawks if not for a couple of third-string leses
"Both matches were tight," he
John Falbo at No. 1 singles, Paul Garvin at No. 4 and Carlo Fleming at No. 5 lost the third sets of their matches.
"They were the difference between us being up 4-2 or the match being tied 3-3. he said. Five to five." "It was a bit extreme, it was an extremely close match."
said. "I broke him at 5-5 in the first set and 4-4 in the second. I was able to hold sieve and that was the key.
"I was serving for match in the third, but I never closed it out." Garvin said. "Every match was close and went point for point. We're not dwelling on this. We are looking forward to tomorrow."
Falbo dropped a 7-6 (8-1), 1-6, 4-6 match to the Waves' David Wells-Roth.
"They were better than us, but I felt like we did the best we could," said Falbo, the 11th-ranked player in NCAA Division I tennis. "We are playing good team and the best players. Every day this is preparing us for the Big Eight Conference matches."
Garvin lost to Pepperdine's Alejo Mancisidor, 6-2, 5-7, 3-6.
Swimmers to compete at Big 8 championships
Kansan sportswriter
Bv Christine Reinolds
The KU women's swimming team, currently ranked 15th in the nation, will swim side by side with their opponents at the Eight Championships in Ames, Iowa.
Although Kansas is favored to win the championship, Coach Gary Kempf said it would be a tight meet between Kansas and Nebraska. If the Jayhawks win, it will be their third consecutive Big Eight conference title. The women dominated last year's conference meet earning 703 points, racing past Nebraska who had 626.
Kansas is seeded first in 18 of the 21 swimming events and second in the other three events in the three-day meet.
the distance and sprint freestyle events. Kansas is seeded first in all freestyle events except the 1,000-yard and 1,650 freestyles, in which sophomore Kelly Redden is second. Redden is also rated second in the 400-yard individual medley.
"We're extra well-rounded and should swim deep in every event."
Although this is the first Big Eight Conference meet for the freshmen on the team, Kempf stressed that most of the swimmers were well-versed in pressure situations. The top 10 seeds are filled with six freshmen.
Kempf said the team was strong in
The Jayhawks have been tapering down to prepare for the conference, Kempf said. Practice time has decreased from 24 to eight hours a week, allowing the Jayhawks to save their strength and energy.
Washington says players take priority
The Kansas women's basketball team lost its final home game of the season last night to Colorado, the defending Big Eight Champions, 70-59. It was the team's first loss after winning five consecutive Big Eight Conference games.
Paula Parrish
Associate sports editor
But last night's game hardly will be the one this year's squad will remember the most.
Last night's loss, probably overlooked by many in lieu of the men's basketball game on television, was made more poignant considering the fact that the victory would have given Coach Marian Washington her seventh 20-victory season and her 302nd career victory.
But as usual, Washington's concern after the game was not for the record books, but for her players, specifically her four seniors, who lost the last game they will play at Allen Field House.
"It would have been nice for the seniors to win," she said. "But a friend of mine said, and its true, when young people can leave being loved by everybody, then you know that they've done something right. All four of these seniors are loved and will be greatly missed."
Although last night's loss will linger in the minds of her players for a day or so, last week's victory against Missouri, and the last second shot by senior Michelle Arnold that pushed Washington to the 300-mark, will probably linger longer. The victory marked another milestone in the career of a coach who is too often overlooked or forgotten.
"The team was happy because they wanted to be the ones that did it. That has to make you feel good," Washington said.
The Jayhawks' coach didn't even realize until after the game that the win was a joke.
"I never focused on the 300," Washington said. "It was about trying to win the ball game. It was like holding your breath, but somehow air is still keeping in and it's still building all this pressure inside. You're not focused on the pressure, but it's there."
"You don't know how much is there until you watch the shot go up and then you see it go down and then all of the sudden it just all comes out. I didn't realize how intense I was until that shot went down. I was pleased that we had won the 18 games. It wasn't until senior Lynn Page came over and gave me the basketball that I realized it was 300."
In her 17th season at Kansas, Washington has brought the women's basketball program from toddling infancy, when no scholarships were available, to the 15 scholarship maturity that it now eniows.
"I see my 300 a little differently than a lot of people," Washington said. "I went so many years without scholarships, and even though we didn't have a lot of scholarships, we played tough teams that had lots of scholarships and scholarship-bona-fide, athletes."
Washington has won five Big Eight Conference championships, the most by any coach in the league, has made two NCAA Tournament appearances and has six 20-victory seasons and one 30-victory season to her credit.
Even with all her accomplishments, Washington has been passed over again and again as Big Eight Coach of the Year, Missouri coach Mike McCarthy, and child named her 300th victory this season, was named Coach of the Decade.
But for Washington, her goals have never revolved around herself.
"The main thing wasn't to receive Coach of the Year, it was to win some Big Eight titles," she said. "They can give Big Eight Coach of the Year to somebody else. That's fine and good. But if you're not careful, Kansas is going to walk away with a conference title or a tournament title."
Answer:
Somebody had better be careful.
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