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THE BATTALION
Tuesday, February 11, 2003
Big 12 race tight at the top
By Jaime Aron
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS — The Big 12
men’s basketball season has
reached the midpoint, and the
only thing settled is that it’s
going to be a heck of a race to
sort out the top seeds in the con
ference tpumarrtent.
Oklahoma, Oklahoma State
and Kansas all came out of the
first eight games with one loss.
Texas lost twice, yet is No. 6 in
the country, second-best among
Big 12 teams.
“A lot of times in years past,
there’s been one team that has
sort of separated themselves,”
Kansas coach Roy Williams said
Monday in a weekly conference
call with reporters. “Right now,
no one has.”
The second half tipped off in
style Monday night with the two
highest-ranked teams — No. 5
Oklahoma and No. 6 Texas —
meeting in Austin.
The Sooners, Longhorns,
Cowboys and Jayhawks are still
good bets to finish in the top four
when the season ends March 9.
Doing so means a first-round bye
in the conference tournament.
What remains to be deter
mined is what order they'll be in.
Looking at the head-to-head
schedule for those four teams,
Oklahoma has the toughest road
and Kansas the easiest.
Counting Monday night’s
game, the Sooners play four of
iheir last eight against its top
challengers — Texas twice and
Ihe others once. The Longhorns
lave the two against the Sooners
and Oklahoma State once.
The No. 13 Cowboys play
OU, UT and Kansas once, plus
lave a game in Boulder, where
Colorado has knocked off Texas
and Kansas.
The No. 9 Jayhawks play at
Oklahoma and are at home
against Oklahoma State.
Wiliams compares these
Wnine games to the final nine
ij of the Masters.
“That’s where tfie tourna
ment is won and lost,” he said.
For the league’s second tier,
the closing stretch is a chance to
impress the NCAA tourna
ment’s selection committee. The
Big 12 has had six teams make it
the last three years.
“1 think for sure six teams
will and should get NCAA
bids,” said Colorado coach
Ricardo Patton. “There’s seven
quality teams in this league that
all could get in.”
I think for sure
six teams will and
should get NCAA
bids. There’s seven
quality teams in this
league that all could
get in.
— Ricardo Patton
Colorado Head Coach
The Big 12 is third in RP1
ratings, which could help the
chances of a seventh team get
ting invited. The league’s rank
ing was boosted by going 112-
31 in non-conference play. The
78.3 winning percentage is tops
in the Big 12’s seven-year histo
ry, and the 112 wins tied the
mark set last season.
“In this league, you can be
improved and not show any gain
up the ladder. As a matter of
fact, you can improve and slide
back one,” Sooners coach
Kelvin Sampson said.
The middle section of the
standings are stacked with No.
21 Missouri (5-3 in Big 12),
Colorado (4-4), Texas Tech (3-
5) and Texas A&M (3-5).
“There’s always room for
improvement. I’ve never seen a
perfect player or a perfect team,”
Red Raiders coach Bob Knight
said. “I’d like us to average 150
points a game, and we're not
quite doing that right now.’’
Missouri has had to juggle to
replace some key players.
Coach Quin Snyder said 6-foot-
10 reserve Jeffrey Ferguson is
expected to return Wednesday
night against the Aggies. He’s
missed three games because of a
disciplinary suspension.
The Buffs have won every
home game and lost every road
game. A loss to Nebraska, which
hasn’t beaten anyone else in the
Big 12, looks even worse con
sidering Colorado is talented
enough to have beaten Texas
and Kansas.
A&M is buoyed by senior
Bernard King, who on Saturday
became the leading scorer in
conference history, and fresh
man Antoine Wright..
“In past years, it seemed like
our season was over at this
point,” Aggies coach Melvin
Watkins said. “Now it feels like
we’re in the hunt. There’s light
at the end of the tunnel, and the
kids see that.”
Teams looking to make a bet-
ter-late-than-never run includes
Iowa State and Kansas State
(both 2-6) and Baylor and
Nebraska (both 1 -7).
Baylor recently played five
straight games against ranked
teams and is nearing the end of a
run against eight ranked teams
in 10 games. The Bears are com
ing off a drubbing by Oklahoma
and next face Kansas and
Oklahoma State.
“There’s a lot of teams in our
league that might be 1-7 playing
that same schedule,” Baylor
coach Dave Bliss said.
Kansas State coach Jim
Wooldridge told his team before
the season that they’d evaluate
their league play in two halves.
They discussed Sunday making
a fresh start in the second half.
“I think it helped to let them
know the world hasn’t ended,”
said Wooldridge, whose
Wildcats have lost four straight.
“If we can turn this around in
the next eight games, we can
finish in the mid-part of our
league, which would be a big
accomplishment for us.”
|Tao a hit among Chinese fans
By Joe McDonald
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING —Although he scored just two points
in Sunday’s NBA All-Star game, Yao Ming was a
smash hit with Chinese fans who relished the atten
tion heaped on the country’s first basketball star.
Fans watched in restaurants and stores as the
game, shown at mid-morning Monday in China,
was carried live by state television in a broadcast
available to some 300 million homes.
“The NBA game was more wonderful because
ofYao Ming,” said Fei Fusheng, a member of the
fan club for Yao’s former team, the Shanghai
Sharks. Fei watched in a Shanghai bar as the West
team defeated the East 155-145 in double overtime.
Yao, a 7-foot-6 rookie center, made his only bas
ket 65 seconds into the game. Yao didn’t attempt
another shot in the game and played 17 minutes.
Yao’s All-Star game appearance also raised
lopes for promoting Chinese basketball. The NBA
publishes a Chinese-language version of its maga
zine and is considering staging exhibition games in
the country.
“Yao Ming has taken Chinese basketball onto
the world stage,” said Li Yaoming, deputy executive
manager of the Sharks. “Yao Ming is also serving as
a bridge for the NBA to open up the big Asian mar
kets they have dreamed for years.”
Yao played for the Sharks
until last year, when he went to
the Houston Rockets as the over
all No. 1 pick in the NBA draft.
He adjusted quickly to the NBA
game, and the fans — voting on
ballots available in Mandarin for
the first time — selected Yao to
start for the West team ahead of
Shaquille O’Neal.
Fei said that despite scoring only one basket in
Sunday night’s game, Yao performed well.
“No matter how many points he scored, you
could obviously tell that the team’s defense would
have been weakened ifYao Ming weren’t there,” Fei
said. “He should play longer next time.”
YAO MING
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