UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, December 6, 1996
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DIXON
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kid that we've played against since I've been here."
Halterman, who has coached the Cowboys for 14 years, said the change from shooting guard to point guard was a difficult shift.
"It's a major change," Halterman said. "She's done it with a lot of success."
Dixon worked out at home last summer in New Jersey with her father, Russell "Boo" Bowers. Bowers was one of the top scorers in the nation during his collegiate basketball career at American University. He was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers and played for them for two years before playing overseas in Italy and Argentina.
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"I think a lot of people don't know what it takes to be successful or to be a great player," Dixon said. "My father, he knows what it takes. Being around him and seeing him excel at whatever he was doing, I had no choice but to know how to be successful. And just being around him I picked it up."
Dixon said Bowers also knows how important it is to get an education because he tore his knee during his senior season.
"When he tore his knee, it forced him to get his education, and I think that's one of the things he's trying to instil in me," Dixon, a child psychology major, said.
Dixon leads the team this season with an average of 16.3 points per game and 20 assists, and she is second on the team with an average of 6.8 rebounds per game. The No. 18 Jayhawks are 3-1 this season.
Kansas Junior guard Tamecka Dixon jumps up for a shot. Last year Dixon won the Big Eight Conference Player of the Year.
Title bids mark season end
Nebraska to play Texas in St. Louis for Big 12 title
The Associated Press
With a flurry of conference title games and Army playing Navy for a bowl game, the regular season is set for a roaring finish.
The Southeastern Conference will stage its fifth league championship Saturday, with No. 4 Florida back again to play No. 15 Alabama at the Georgia Dome.
If they win, the Gators would play No. 11 Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 1, and the Crimson Tide would end up in the Citrus Bowl.
The new Big 12 Conference and expanded Western Athletic Conference also joined the league-title game trend. Third-ranked Nebraska (10-1) plays Texas (7-4) in the Big 12 game at St. Louis. The Cornhuskers need to win to play No. 1 Florida State in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 2.
In the WAC, No. 6 Brigham Young will play No. 20 Wyoming (10-1). BYU (12-1) still could attain a Fiesta Bowl bid. But even a victory won't assure the Cougars of a spot in the bowl alliance. Other teams being considered for the Fiesta Bowl include No. 7 Colorado, No. 8 Penn State and No. 9 Tennessee.
The WAC desperately needs BYU in the Fiesta Bowl to support its claim that it is a major football conference.
"We're talking about what this means to the WAC 10 years down the road," said Karl Benson, conference commissioner. "We can't continue to be treated like a second-tier conference."
Also, Army (9-1) plays Navy (8-2)
at Philadelphia, with an Independence Bowl berth going to the winner. It's the first time in 33 years both teams enter the game with winning records.
In 1963, Army was 7-2 and Navy 8-
1 Navy won 21-15
SEC Championship
The Gators, trying to rebound after last week's 24-21 loss to Florida State, are shooting for their fourth consecutive SEC title.
"It wouldn't be bad to fill up all four fingers on one hand with SEC rings," said linebacker James Bates.
Alabama would like to stop Florida's march, and defend the honor of Bear Bryant — the only coach to win five consecutive league titles.
"I always say the people here love coach Bryant and they tolerate the rest of us," said Gene Stallings, a Bryant protege who is stepping down after seven years as the Alabama coach. "I understand my role."
Danny Wuerffel, who threw three interceptions and was sacked six times last week, will try to help the Gators rebound.
"This is still a ring game for us," Wuerffel said. "Obviously, we have high expectations, and would love to be in the big picture.
"But by no means have we forgotten how important it is to win the SEC. That's a phenomenal accomplishment for anybody, and that's what we have our sights on right now."
Alabama wasn't eligible for the 1995 championship game because of NCAA sanctions.
Big 12 Championship Texas, a 20-point underdog to Nebraska, hopes it can back quarterback James Brown's victory prediction.
"After losing early in the year
Big 12 Championship
they've kind of steamrolled through their schedule," said Texas coach John Mackovic. "I can't ask our players to forget that. Our job is to find a way to play them and beat them."
The Cornhuskers are fourth best in the nation against the run and fifth against the pass. They have allowed only 12 touchdowns all season and have an outside chance at a third consecutive national title.
Texas lost to Notre Dame, Virginia, Oklahoma and Colorado. But with Brown at quarterback and Ricky Williams at tailback, the Longhorns could be dangerous.
This is only the fifth meeting of two teams ranked among the alltime leaders in victories.
"I think we're going to win by three touchdowns," Brown said Monday.
WAC Championship
BYU is a 10 1/2-point favorite in the game that matches the two division winners in a conference that grew to 16 teams this year.
KU divers swimmers conclude fall season
For BYU, it's a chance to cap its best season since winning the national title in 1984. It could be Wyoming's only chance to get into a bowl game under lame-duck coach Joe Tiller, despite a record that might ordinarily attract some postseason attention.
The WAC has already voiced its displeasure to directors of the bowl alliance, and the presidents of the 16 WAC universities will meet in a conference call today to discuss options if BYU wins and does not get a Flesta Bowl bid.
If Wyoming wins, of course, Benson will have little to worry about. The Cowboys will head for the Holiday Bowl while BYU would likely be relegated to the Copper Bowl.
The Kansas swimming and diving team will conclude its fall season this weekend at the Iowa Invitational in Iowa City, Iowa.
By Matt Woodruff
Kansan sportswriter
The swimmers who did not travel to the Georgia Invitational on Nov. 15-17 will compete against Iowa, Nebraska and the Iowa State women.
The Jayhawks who did compete in
Georgia will focus their attention on preparing for the spring season.
"The three weeks after Thanksgiving is just a real tough conditioning period because when we come back from that, there's really only eight weeks until the conference championships," said swimming coach Gary Kempf. "During that time we'll want to spend more time rounding out the rough corners so we can be ready to go."
Gary Kemp
"We've had a real good semester. We've learned a lot
learned a lot
Gary Kempf
Swimming coach
The men's squad is 3-1 with victories against Missouri, Iowa State, and Southwest Missouri State. Its only loss was against 18th-ranked Texas A&M. The men finished third in Athens, Ga.
as a coaching staff...”
The women have a perfect record of 3-0 in duals and also placed third at Georgia.
In Speedo America's Top 25 College Swimming Coaches' Poll, which was released on Nov. 27, both the men and women increased their rankings. The Jayhawk men's team is ranked 24th, up from its preseason ranking of 25th, and the women's team is ranked 20th, up from its 22nd spot in the preseason.
"We've had a real good semester," Kempf said. "We've learned a lot as a staff, and it has shown us how our training is working and how much rest we will need before we go to conference championships. The semester's been a good learning curve for us as well as the athletes."
Diving coach Dear Fearon said that he was happy with the progress he had seen from his divers, especially the freshmen.
"They have improved every week," Fearon said. "We're really doing a great job getting the tops of our dives, and we just need to work on getting the bottoms and finishing off our dives."
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