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Monday, February 24, 1997
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Senior says goodbye with tears, cartwheel
Pollard starts last home game, sinks his first 3-pointer
By Kelly Cannon Kansan sportswriter
After weeks of sitting on the sidelines, Scot Pollard was back in action.
Pollard's return on Saturday against Kansas State marked his first start since injuring his left foot on Jan. 22 against Texas A&M.
Before the game started, each senior was called to center court and greeted by the crowd. As he walked on the floor, Pollard succumbed to his emotions.
"I'm not ashamed to cry, " he
said.
Pollard only played 13 minutes in the game despite his return. He scored eight points, pulled in one rebound and had one steal.
"I was pleased," Kansas basketball coach Roy Williams said. "I was hoping to get 15 to 22 minutes out of him. I liked some of the things he did. I don't think there's a lot of pain in that foot right now. I probably would have liked to have gotten a couple more minutes."
Williams said that if he had gotten 22 to 24 minutes out of Pollard, Pollard would have had to turn around and play again in 48 hours. Kansas faces Oklahoma tonight.
With 2:34 remaining in the second half, Pollard pulled up for a three-pointer. It was the first three-point shot that he had
ever attempted and the first that he ever made.
"He's been joking for as long as I've known him that he was going to shoot a three-pointer on this day," forward Raef LaFrentz said.
"I wanted to be the only player in Kansas history to never miss a three-point shot," he said.
Pollard said that he wasn't going to use the three-point shot as a weapon against future opponents.
The 78-58 victory over Kansas State clinched the inaugural Big 12 regular season championship. After the game, Kansas cut down the basketball net and each senior addressed the crowd. When Pollard finished speaking, he performed a cartwheel.
"I've done cartwheels once in a while in my life, but I'm not good at them." Pollard said. "I don't plan on doing a whole lot of them. There was no special reason. I just got excited."
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"It is sad coaching them the last time in the field house," Williams said. "As much as they enjoyed it, I enjoyed coaching them."
Williams expressed his thoughts about the senior's last home game.
But for Pollard, this game wasn't the end.
"We're cutting down these nets, but it's not over," he said. "We'll be cutting some more down in March."
Forward Scot Pollard, coach Roy Williams and the rest of the Kansas bench share a laugh after Pollard's first three-point goal of his career. Pollard, one of the six seniors honored on Saturday, attempted the shot with 2:34 remaining in the game.
Track teams have tough road ahead after meet
By Matt Woodruff
Kansan sportswriter
After finishing eighth and 12th in the first-ever Big 12 Conference Indoor Championships, the Kansas men's and women's track teams have their work cut out for them.
"I think that the conference always sets the standard," Kansas track coach Gary Schwartz said. "We've got a very clear picture of what that standard is now, and we've got work to do."
The meet was held at the Bob Devaney Sports Center in Lincoln, Neb., during the weekend and was an extremely competitive conference for Kansas.
The Kansas men were led by Ricardo Amezcua, who finished sixth in the 3000-meter run with a time of 8:21.25. He also finished third in the 5,000-meter run (14:21.75) and led the team with nine points. Teammate Jerry Pullins finished sixth in the 5,000 meter with a time of 14:37.12.
Other scorers for the men's team
were Andy Tate, who finished eighth in the mile (4:14.80), Matt Norton, who was sixth in the 800-meter run (1:55.12), Jason Archibald in the high jump (6-9) and Paul Tan in the triple jump (48-5/12).
In the shot put, the women put three people on the awards platform and scored 11 points with their best team effort of the season. For Kansas, Kim Feldcamp, April Kockrow, Marlea Woodman and Lisa Beran scored in either the shot put or the 20 pound weight throw.
The women also picked up five points in the pentathlon as Candace Mason finished fifth and Amber Monday placed eighth.
Nebraska swept the meet, winning against Iowa State on the men's side and edging out Texas on the women's side.
"We got some real good breaks," Nebraska coach Gary Pepin said. "There's going to be a lot of great contests between ourselves and Texas. This was a great way to start off the Big 12."
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