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Wednesday, December 4, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Kansas tops class in talented Big 12
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Big 12 basketball teams have opened their first season by going 34-4 against non-conference opponents, and league coaches have no trouble explaining why.
"There are two reasons. Coaches in this league are smart enough to know how to schedule. Number two is we've got the best team in the country in our league," Oklahoma coach Kelvin Sampson said yesterday during the Big 12's weekly conference call.
Kansas took the top ranking this week after winning the Maul Classic and starting 5-0. Iowa State is ranked ninth, and Texas is No. 18.
Some of the league's younger teams — like Oklahoma State, Kansas State and Colorado — have scheduled some softer early-season opponents as they try to blend new and old players in time for the conference season.
K-State's Tom Asbury, whose Wildcats have started 3-0, said, "We haven't played a great schedule yet, to be quite honest. It's going to get progressively more difficult for us. We're shooting the ball better than we were a year ago. We're defending fairly well."
Norm Stewart, who has been at Missouri for 29 years, has defended the quality of play in the Big Eight for years. Now he finds himself doing the same thing in the Big 12.
"It itens like every year we talk about how we're going to be down a little bit. Maybe some of the teams aren't going to be quite as good," Stewart said. "If anybody thinks it's easy, maybe they ought to get a job in this league. Texas Tech had a good win. A lot of us had good wins."
Everybody knew that Kansas, which replaced Cincinnati as No. 1 Monday
and plays Cincinnati today, was going to be good with all five starters back and an experienced bench.
But Texas Tech has been the surprise, with three victories to start the season after losing four starters and 60 percent of its offense. The Red Raiders shot 58 percent in beating then-No. 25 George Washington Saturday and are shooting more than 60 percent on three-pointers.
Baylor coach Harry Miller said, "There are great teams all the way around. Even some teams that some people thought might be down. Look at Tech. A lot of people thought this might be the year to get (coach) James Dickey, but now they're having second thoughts. It appears there are a number of very good teams in our league and several great ones."
Dickey says point guard Cory Carr has been the key for his team. Carr was the first man off the bench last season, a role that he accepted and that Dickey says was the best formula for his team.
"It just blended well in the chemistry of our rotation to bring him off the bench," Dickey said. "We had some players that gave us some quality minutes off the bench. Most people just looked at us as having lost four seniors and 60 percent of our offense."
Kansas is the undisputed class of the league, and 6-11 junior Raef LaFrentz has started strongly for coach Roy Williams. LaFrentz was most valuable player in the Maui Classic.
"Iasked him to concentrate more on defense, and he has done that," Williams said. "The youngster also has the ability to score."
Williams is also pleased with the play of Jerod Hase, whose prolonged shooting problems last year were the ultimate downfall of the Jayhawks.
"We discussed all the things we have accomplished. Compared to last year, we all have improved a lot," Kansas sophomore outside hitter Moira Donovan said.
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VOLLEYBALL
team meeting.
Kansas set a team single-season record of block assists (510). The Jayhawks also set two, single team match records for a three game match in attack percentage (.459) and assists (54). In four game matches, Kansas broke team single-match records in attack percentage (.336) and block assists (33).
"We really matured as a team together," Kansas junior middle blocker Maggie Mohrfeld said. "All areas of everyone's game improved. Everyone has improved since last year, and we're only bound to get better."
Besides setting team records, members of the team established top 10 school performances this season.
Mohrdhf was the only player to set a single-season record. She set a single-season block assists record with 112.
Donovan had 422 kills this season, which ranked her second, and she had 1,071 total attempts, which placed her third in Kansas' single season records.
Kansas junior right side hitter Kendra Kahler was ninth with 348 kills, and she had 978 total attempts, for which she was listed eighth in Kansas's single season records.
Kansas sophomore setter Laura Rohde had 1,098 assists this season, ranking second in Kansas' single-season records.
"We come back in January. They'll do some conditioning until we start spring practice in late February." Schonewise said. "We'll go for six weeks. We'll be practicing three hours a day, lifting twice a week."
Freshman middle blocker Amanda Reves' 80 block assists moved her into sixth place in Kansas' single-season records.
Now that the competitive season is finished, Schonewise said, the team will be conditioning until January.
Kansas will play matches in March and early April. When the spring season is finished, the team will have a conditioning program that will take them through August when the fall season begins.
"We're going to be working hard," Donovan said.
The Jayhawks will have the entire team returning next year, because Kansas did not have any seniors on the team this season.
"We've played some really good matches with some top teams, and we're going to learn from it," Schonewise said. "We're young, and it's an exciting time for us."
the basketball. As a team, we're turning it over too much," said Williams. "I'm very pleased with what Ryan's doing. He's concentrating so much on defense and running the club. He's ignored his shooting a little bit."
aging 20 turnovers a game.
CINCINNATI
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"He's (Robertson) the only one doing a good job of taking care of
Plenty of scrutiny already has fallen on Vaughn's replacement as point guard, sophomore Ryan Robertson, but Williams said that shouldn't be the case. Robertson has 30 assists to go with only 13 turnovers.
Huggins said he hoped that the experience the Bearcats would gain from tonight's battle would enable this clash with Kansas to be just the first this season and that the second would be at the Final Four.
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