Scott McClurg/Journal-World PhotosOfficially speaking
Big 12 associate commissioner John Underwood attended Monday’s game. There’s nothing he will do to change the outcome of the controversial call on Aaron Miles, since the travel was a judgment call in the course of the game.
Lots of minutes played
Wayne Simien logged 47 minutes as did Aaron Miles. J.R. Giddens, who struggled with 3-of-13 shooting, played 45 minutes and Christian Moody 34 minutes.
“It was really grueling especially for the five who played the majority of the minutes,” KU’s Michael Lee said. “It was intense physically and emotionally.”
Of Langford, who scored 24 points, Lee said: “That’s Keith. He wants the big shots, lives for the big moments. He thrives on that kind of stuff.”
Students tease Giddens
Tech students shook Wal-Mart shopping bags at Giddens, who took the taunts good-naturedly, smiling at the students during pregame warmups.
The Wal-Mart bags were in reference to Giddens’ being involved in a notorious shopping spree that ran afoul of the law at an Oklahoma City store his senior year of high school. Giddens was cleared of any wrongdoing in the incident, which involved his uncle.
KU-ISU tickets available
A limited number of tickets are available for Saturday’s KU-Iowa State game, set for a noon tipoff at Allen Fieldhouse. To purchase tickets one can call 1-800-34-HAWKS or log onto kuathletics.com.
No undefeated talk
For the second week in a row, a reporter unsuccessfully tried to ask Tech coach Bob Knight about how difficult it was for a team to go undefeated in this day and age.
Knight’s 1975-1976 Indiana Hoosiers went 32-0 en route to winning the national title.
“I have no interest in that,” he told a Florida reporter who was trying to explore the topic on the Big 12 teleconference.
Last week, a St. Louis reporter also received an abrupt response from Knight, who at that time also “had no interest” in offering his opinion on the matter.
Tech ticket contests
To help increase student attendance this season, Tech has held a pair of contests.
For the first three nonconference home games, and then again during the conference season, Tech officials have been keeping track of the sororities, fraternities and residence halls that attend the home games. Each group with the highest turnout receives a pizza party thrown and attended by Knight.
“I just told them we were disappointed in the student turnout but we weren’t blaming them,” assistant Pat Knight said. “We just didn’t think it was being marketed to them and this seemed to work. They were pretty enthusiastic and receptive and said they didn’t know that seats were available.”
Lawrence Journal-World page 1C, Feb. 15, 2005Pdf
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