Kansas University’s men’s basketball team is scoring points at an unprecedented rate.
The fastbreaking Jayhawks, 22-2 following Monday’s 110-103 overtime victory at Texas, lead the country in scoring at a school-record pace of 92.6 points per game. The old school standard is 92.1 ppg set by the 1989-90 team.
What’s even more amazing is KU is averaging 94.6 points a game in Big 12 play. If the Jayhawks keep it up, they’ll shatter the school record of 87.1 points a game in Big Eight play during the 1989-90 season.
“This team can score points on you quickly, that is for sure,” KU coach Roy Williams said. “It’s a ‘speed team’ that needs to play at that style, yet we are working hard to score in the halfcourt, too.”
The Jayhawks have scored 100 or more points eight times, including four of their last five Big 12 games, the only non-100 point game a 98-pointer at Kansas State. Only the 1989-90 team had as many as eight 100 point games in a single season.
KU is averaging 104.2 points a game in its last five games. No college teams, just five NBA teams yes NBA teams have averaged more points than KU during the current five-game span.
“It’s a fun thing to be a part of when we keep scoring non-stop like that,” said senior Jeff Boschee, who hit six threes and scored 21 Monday. “You enjoy it even more when you see it on tape.”
The Jayhawks’ eight 100-point games follow a season in which the Jayhawks had just one 100-point game last year’s 30-point home win over Texas A&M. Prior to this year, KU had five 100-point games total in the last three seasons and just one in league play.
Williams has directed 62 100-point games during his 14 seasons; 17 in league games. His predecessor, Larry Brown, led KU to five 100-point games two in league play in five seasons. Ted Owens’ teams KU had 15 100-point games, four in league play in 19 seasons. The three-point shot wasn’t available for Owens and not all of Brown’s KU tenure.
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Color guard flap: For the first time all season, the ROTC color guard did not march onto the court for the national anthem at last Saturday’s KU-Texas Tech game.
KU’s game management staff of associate AD Richard Konzem and facilities directors Darren Cook and Brad Nachtigal suspended the group’s involvement at games until a time management problem could be resolved between the color guard and KU officials.
It seems for the past four home games, the color guard had been asked by KU officials to march from the center scorer’s table to midcourt, instead of from the north end zone to center court. The request was made to save time with players from both teams on the court for the anthem as part of the NABC’s “One Nation, One Flag” program.
The color guard the past four games continued to walk from the end zone through KU’s players with KU officials deciding to halt the tradition until the situation could be finally resolved.
“The last four or five games it has become an issue,” Konzem said. “On TV games, the most pressure from a time management standpoint is at the start of the game, making sure the tip occurs as TV comes on the air, when the players are ready to play.
“We were having a problem with the color guard walking through our team and tried to make an adjustment. The Missouri game, I stood down there and said, ‘Go, go, go,’ but I didn’t have the rank and they didn’t go. Coach (Williams) waved for them to go. The game before coach (Joe) Holladay waved for them to go. We’ve been strugging on the timing from the start and decided to go a game without the color guard and then re-evaluate it.”
On Tuesday, the re-evaluation was jeopardized when a cadet wrote a letter to the editor of the student paper indicating KU coach Roy Williams “yelled at” the color guard for not marching to center court quickly at the Missouri game. The letter writer questioned Williams’ patriotism and said the coach “won’t go to bat for the flag.”
Williams says he’s “dumbfounded and shocked” by the charge and says it’s simply “not true.” He said he promised “he did not yell at those young kids.”
Air Force Colonel Kevin McNellis wrote a letter of apology to KU athletics director Al Bohl on Tuesday. KU received permission to print some of the colonel’s letter on its website.
“Dr. Bohl, sir neither you, Roy Williams, or anyone in the KU athletic department merited the disrespectful commentary published today by the Daily Kansan. I sincerely, apologize it is undeserved. To shout unpatriotic epithets in these times is berift of reason. Undignified and undisciplined accusations woefully inappropriate….
“Sir, on behalf of all ROTC programs here at KU, I apologize for the unconscionable attack on your department and our university. Undeserved.”
Sponsored by KU’s Air Force ROTC, a special KC Washington High School color guard unit will work Saturday’s game against Baylor. And talks will continue with KU’s ROTC color guard to work out the problems for future games.
Konzem said KU officials have great respect for the color guard.
KU had a giant flag spread over the field at a football game this past season. Saying he is patriotic even to the point of sometimes being “corny,” Williams said he ordered his players to make sure they were in their seats for that flag presentation at the football game.
“We’ve had great cooperation with the ROTC program,” associate athletics director Doug Vance said. “We’ve worked with them for many years, including the flag involvement at one of our (football) games. Our intention has been to have a patriotic theme all season.
“For whatever reason we’ve been unable to resolve this situation so we’ve suspended their involvement until we get it resolved. Pregame activities are carefully choreographed with a time format mandated by the Big 12 Conference. We take that seriously.”
Gooden, Collison, Hinrich honored: Kansas University juniors Drew Gooden and Nick Collison were named two of 20 finalists for the Naismith College Basketball Player of the Year Award on Tuesday. The winner will be announced on April 5 in Atlanta. Meanwhile, KU’s Gooden and Kirk Hinrich were honored as first-team District 12 picks on the National Assn. of Basketball Coaches team. Nick Collison was named second team. The award combines basketball ability and academics. List of Naismith finalists in scoreboard.
Kansas University’s men’s basketball team is scoring points at an unprecedented rate.
The fastbreaking Jayhawks, 22-2 following Monday’s 110-103 overtime victory at Texas, lead the country in scoring at a school-record pace of 92.6 points per game. The old school standard is 92.1 ppg set by the 1989-90 team.
What’s even more amazing is KU is averaging 94.6 points a game in Big 12 play. If the Jayhawks keep it up, they’ll shatter the school record of 87.1 points a game in Big Eight play during the 1989-90 season.
“This team can score points on you quickly, that is for sure,” KU coach Roy Williams said. “It’s a ‘speed team’ that needs to play at that style, yet we are working hard to score in the halfcourt, too.”
The Jayhawks have scored 100 or more points eight times, including four of their last five Big 12 games, the only non-100 point game a 98-pointer at Kansas State. Only the 1989-90 team had as many as eight 100 point games in a single season.
KU is averaging 104.2 points a game in its last five games. No college teams, just five NBA teams yes NBA teams have averaged more points than KU during the current five-game span.
“It’s a fun thing to be a part of when we keep scoring non-stop like that,” said senior Jeff Boschee, who hit six threes and scored 21 Monday. “You enjoy it even more when you see it on tape.”
The Jayhawks’ eight 100-point games follow a season in which the Jayhawks had just one 100-point game last year’s 30-point home win over Texas A&M. Prior to this year, KU had five 100-point games total in the last three seasons and just one in league play.
Williams has directed 62 100-point games during his 14 seasons; 17 in league games. His predecessor, Larry Brown, led KU to five 100-point games two in league play in five seasons. Ted Owens’ teams KU had 15 100-point games, four in league play in 19 seasons. The three-point shot wasn’t available for Owens and not all of Brown’s KU tenure.
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Color guard flap: For the first time all season, the ROTC color guard did not march onto the court for the national anthem at last Saturday’s KU-Texas Tech game.
KU’s game management staff of associate AD Richard Konzem and facilities directors Darren Cook and Brad Nachtigal suspended the group’s involvement at games until a time management problem could be resolved between the color guard and KU officials.
It seems for the past four home games, the color guard had been asked by KU officials to march from the center scorer’s table to midcourt, instead of from the north end zone to center court. The request was made to save time with players from both teams on the court for the anthem as part of the NABC’s “One Nation, One Flag” program.
The color guard the past four games continued to walk from the end zone through KU’s players with KU officials deciding to halt the tradition until the situation could be finally resolved.
“The last four or five games it has become an issue,” Konzem said. “On TV games, the most pressure from a time management standpoint is at the start of the game, making sure the tip occurs as TV comes on the air, when the players are ready to play.
“We were having a problem with the color guard walking through our team and tried to make an adjustment. The Missouri game, I stood down there and said, ‘Go, go, go,’ but I didn’t have the rank and they didn’t go. Coach (Williams) waved for them to go. The game before coach (Joe) Holladay waved for them to go. We’ve been strugging on the timing from the start and decided to go a game without the color guard and then re-evaluate it.”
On Tuesday, the re-evaluation was jeopardized when a cadet wrote a letter to the editor of the student paper indicating KU coach Roy Williams “yelled at” the color guard for not marching to center court quickly at the Missouri game. The letter writer questioned Williams’ patriotism and said the coach “won’t go to bat for the flag.”
Williams says he’s “dumbfounded and shocked” by the charge and says it’s simply “not true.” He said he promised “he did not yell at those young kids.”
Air Force Colonel Kevin McNellis wrote a letter of apology to KU athletics director Al Bohl on Tuesday. KU received permission to print some of the colonel’s letter on its website.
“Dr. Bohl, sir neither you, Roy Williams, or anyone in the KU athletic department merited the disrespectful commentary published today by the Daily Kansan. I sincerely, apologize it is undeserved. To shout unpatriotic epithets in these times is berift of reason. Undignified and undisciplined accusations woefully inappropriate….
“Sir, on behalf of all ROTC programs here at KU, I apologize for the unconscionable attack on your department and our university. Undeserved.”
Sponsored by KU’s Air Force ROTC, a special KC Washington High School color guard unit will work Saturday’s game against Baylor. And talks will continue with KU’s ROTC color guard to work out the problems for future games.
Konzem said KU officials have great respect for the color guard.
KU had a giant flag spread over the field at a football game this past season. Saying he is patriotic even to the point of sometimes being “corny,” Williams said he ordered his players to make sure they were in their seats for that flag presentation at the football game.
“We’ve had great cooperation with the ROTC program,” associate athletics director Doug Vance said. “We’ve worked with them for many years, including the flag involvement at one of our (football) games. Our intention has been to have a patriotic theme all season.
“For whatever reason we’ve been unable to resolve this situation so we’ve suspended their involvement until we get it resolved. Pregame activities are carefully choreographed with a time format mandated by the Big 12 Conference. We take that seriously.”
Gooden, Collison, Hinrich honored: Kansas University juniors Drew Gooden and Nick Collison were named two of 20 finalists for the Naismith College Basketball Player of the Year Award on Tuesday. The winner will be announced on April 5 in Atlanta. Meanwhile, KU’s Gooden and Kirk Hinrich were honored as first-team District 12 picks on the National Assn. of Basketball Coaches team. Nick Collison was named second team. The award combines basketball ability and academics. List of Naismith finalists in scoreboard.
Kansas University’s men’s basketball team is scoring points at an unprecedented rate.
The fastbreaking Jayhawks, 22-2 following Monday’s 110-103 overtime victory at Texas, lead the country in scoring at a school-record pace of 92.6 points per game. The old school standard is 92.1 ppg set by the 1989-90 team.
What’s even more amazing is KU is averaging 94.6 points a game in Big 12 play. If the Jayhawks keep it up, they’ll shatter the school record of 87.1 points a game in Big Eight play during the 1989-90 season.
“This team can score points on you quickly, that is for sure,” KU coach Roy Williams said. “It’s a ‘speed team’ that needs to play at that style, yet we are working hard to score in the halfcourt, too.”
The Jayhawks have scored 100 or more points eight times, including four of their last five Big 12 games, the only non-100 point game a 98-pointer at Kansas State. Only the 1989-90 team had as many as eight 100 point games in a single season.
KU is averaging 104.2 points a game in its last five games. No college teams, just five NBA teams yes NBA teams have averaged more points than KU during the current five-game span.
“It’s a fun thing to be a part of when we keep scoring non-stop like that,” said senior Jeff Boschee, who hit six threes and scored 21 Monday. “You enjoy it even more when you see it on tape.”
The Jayhawks’ eight 100-point games follow a season in which the Jayhawks had just one 100-point game last year’s 30-point home win over Texas A&M. Prior to this year, KU had five 100-point games total in the last three seasons and just one in league play.
Williams has directed 62 100-point games during his 14 seasons; 17 in league games. His predecessor, Larry Brown, led KU to five 100-point games two in league play in five seasons. Ted Owens’ teams KU had 15 100-point games, four in league play in 19 seasons. The three-point shot wasn’t available for Owens and not all of Brown’s KU tenure.
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Color guard flap: For the first time all season, the ROTC color guard did not march onto the court for the national anthem at last Saturday’s KU-Texas Tech game.
KU’s game management staff of associate AD Richard Konzem and facilities directors Darren Cook and Brad Nachtigal suspended the group’s involvement at games until a time management problem could be resolved between the color guard and KU officials.
It seems for the past four home games, the color guard had been asked by KU officials to march from the center scorer’s table to midcourt, instead of from the north end zone to center court. The request was made to save time with players from both teams on the court for the anthem as part of the NABC’s “One Nation, One Flag” program.
The color guard the past four games continued to walk from the end zone through KU’s players with KU officials deciding to halt the tradition until the situation could be finally resolved.
“The last four or five games it has become an issue,” Konzem said. “On TV games, the most pressure from a time management standpoint is at the start of the game, making sure the tip occurs as TV comes on the air, when the players are ready to play.
“We were having a problem with the color guard walking through our team and tried to make an adjustment. The Missouri game, I stood down there and said, ‘Go, go, go,’ but I didn’t have the rank and they didn’t go. Coach (Williams) waved for them to go. The game before coach (Joe) Holladay waved for them to go. We’ve been strugging on the timing from the start and decided to go a game without the color guard and then re-evaluate it.”
On Tuesday, the re-evaluation was jeopardized when a cadet wrote a letter to the editor of the student paper indicating KU coach Roy Williams “yelled at” the color guard for not marching to center court quickly at the Missouri game. The letter writer questioned Williams’ patriotism and said the coach “won’t go to bat for the flag.”
Williams says he’s “dumbfounded and shocked” by the charge and says it’s simply “not true.” He said he promised “he did not yell at those young kids.”
Air Force Colonel Kevin McNellis wrote a letter of apology to KU athletics director Al Bohl on Tuesday. KU received permission to print some of the colonel’s letter on its website.
“Dr. Bohl, sir neither you, Roy Williams, or anyone in the KU athletic department merited the disrespectful commentary published today by the Daily Kansan. I sincerely, apologize it is undeserved. To shout unpatriotic epithets in these times is berift of reason. Undignified and undisciplined accusations woefully inappropriate….
“Sir, on behalf of all ROTC programs here at KU, I apologize for the unconscionable attack on your department and our university. Undeserved.”
Sponsored by KU’s Air Force ROTC, a special KC Washington High School color guard unit will work Saturday’s game against Baylor. And talks will continue with KU’s ROTC color guard to work out the problems for future games.
Konzem said KU officials have great respect for the color guard.
KU had a giant flag spread over the field at a football game this past season. Saying he is patriotic even to the point of sometimes being “corny,” Williams said he ordered his players to make sure they were in their seats for that flag presentation at the football game.
“We’ve had great cooperation with the ROTC program,” associate athletics director Doug Vance said. “We’ve worked with them for many years, including the flag involvement at one of our (football) games. Our intention has been to have a patriotic theme all season.
“For whatever reason we’ve been unable to resolve this situation so we’ve suspended their involvement until we get it resolved. Pregame activities are carefully choreographed with a time format mandated by the Big 12 Conference. We take that seriously.”
Gooden, Collison, Hinrich honored: Kansas University juniors Drew Gooden and Nick Collison were named two of 20 finalists for the Naismith College Basketball Player of the Year Award on Tuesday. The winner will be announced on April 5 in Atlanta. Meanwhile, KU’s Gooden and Kirk Hinrich were honored as first-team District 12 picks on the National Assn. of Basketball Coaches team. Nick Collison was named second team. The award combines basketball ability and academics. List of Naismith finalists in scoreboard.
Kansas University’s men’s basketball team is scoring points at an unprecedented rate.
The fastbreaking Jayhawks, 22-2 following Monday’s 110-103 overtime victory at Texas, lead the country in scoring at a school-record pace of 92.6 points per game. The old school standard is 92.1 ppg set by the 1989-90 team.
What’s even more amazing is KU is averaging 94.6 points a game in Big 12 play. If the Jayhawks keep it up, they’ll shatter the school record of 87.1 points a game in Big Eight play during the 1989-90 season.
“This team can score points on you quickly, that is for sure,” KU coach Roy Williams said. “It’s a ‘speed team’ that needs to play at that style, yet we are working hard to score in the halfcourt, too.”
The Jayhawks have scored 100 or more points eight times, including four of their last five Big 12 games, the only non-100 point game a 98-pointer at Kansas State. Only the 1989-90 team had as many as eight 100 point games in a single season.
KU is averaging 104.2 points a game in its last five games. No college teams, just five NBA teams yes NBA teams have averaged more points than KU during the current five-game span.
“It’s a fun thing to be a part of when we keep scoring non-stop like that,” said senior Jeff Boschee, who hit six threes and scored 21 Monday. “You enjoy it even more when you see it on tape.”
The Jayhawks’ eight 100-point games follow a season in which the Jayhawks had just one 100-point game last year’s 30-point home win over Texas A&M. Prior to this year, KU had five 100-point games total in the last three seasons and just one in league play.
Williams has directed 62 100-point games during his 14 seasons; 17 in league games. His predecessor, Larry Brown, led KU to five 100-point games two in league play in five seasons. Ted Owens’ teams KU had 15 100-point games, four in league play in 19 seasons. The three-point shot wasn’t available for Owens and not all of Brown’s KU tenure.
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Color guard flap: For the first time all season, the ROTC color guard did not march onto the court for the national anthem at last Saturday’s KU-Texas Tech game.
KU’s game management staff of associate AD Richard Konzem and facilities directors Darren Cook and Brad Nachtigal suspended the group’s involvement at games until a time management problem could be resolved between the color guard and KU officials.
It seems for the past four home games, the color guard had been asked by KU officials to march from the center scorer’s table to midcourt, instead of from the north end zone to center court. The request was made to save time with players from both teams on the court for the anthem as part of the NABC’s “One Nation, One Flag” program.
The color guard the past four games continued to walk from the end zone through KU’s players with KU officials deciding to halt the tradition until the situation could be finally resolved.
“The last four or five games it has become an issue,” Konzem said. “On TV games, the most pressure from a time management standpoint is at the start of the game, making sure the tip occurs as TV comes on the air, when the players are ready to play.
“We were having a problem with the color guard walking through our team and tried to make an adjustment. The Missouri game, I stood down there and said, ‘Go, go, go,’ but I didn’t have the rank and they didn’t go. Coach (Williams) waved for them to go. The game before coach (Joe) Holladay waved for them to go. We’ve been strugging on the timing from the start and decided to go a game without the color guard and then re-evaluate it.”
On Tuesday, the re-evaluation was jeopardized when a cadet wrote a letter to the editor of the student paper indicating KU coach Roy Williams “yelled at” the color guard for not marching to center court quickly at the Missouri game. The letter writer questioned Williams’ patriotism and said the coach “won’t go to bat for the flag.”
Williams says he’s “dumbfounded and shocked” by the charge and says it’s simply “not true.” He said he promised “he did not yell at those young kids.”
Air Force Colonel Kevin McNellis wrote a letter of apology to KU athletics director Al Bohl on Tuesday. KU received permission to print some of the colonel’s letter on its website.
“Dr. Bohl, sir neither you, Roy Williams, or anyone in the KU athletic department merited the disrespectful commentary published today by the Daily Kansan. I sincerely, apologize it is undeserved. To shout unpatriotic epithets in these times is berift of reason. Undignified and undisciplined accusations woefully inappropriate….
“Sir, on behalf of all ROTC programs here at KU, I apologize for the unconscionable attack on your department and our university. Undeserved.”
Sponsored by KU’s Air Force ROTC, a special KC Washington High School color guard unit will work Saturday’s game against Baylor. And talks will continue with KU’s ROTC color guard to work out the problems for future games.
Konzem said KU officials have great respect for the color guard.
KU had a giant flag spread over the field at a football game this past season. Saying he is patriotic even to the point of sometimes being “corny,” Williams said he ordered his players to make sure they were in their seats for that flag presentation at the football game.
“We’ve had great cooperation with the ROTC program,” associate athletics director Doug Vance said. “We’ve worked with them for many years, including the flag involvement at one of our (football) games. Our intention has been to have a patriotic theme all season.
“For whatever reason we’ve been unable to resolve this situation so we’ve suspended their involvement until we get it resolved. Pregame activities are carefully choreographed with a time format mandated by the Big 12 Conference. We take that seriously.”
Gooden, Collison, Hinrich honored: Kansas University juniors Drew Gooden and Nick Collison were named two of 20 finalists for the Naismith College Basketball Player of the Year Award on Tuesday. The winner will be announced on April 5 in Atlanta. Meanwhile, KU’s Gooden and Kirk Hinrich were honored as first-team District 12 picks on the National Assn. of Basketball Coaches team. Nick Collison was named second team. The award combines basketball ability and academics. List of Naismith finalists in scoreboard.