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The Big 12 is a combined 53
13 up to this point in the season.
The league’s highest non-confer
ence winning percentage is in
jeopardy at 76.8 percent. The 1999
campaign has produced an 80.3
percentage after being 65.8 last
season.
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Iowa State senior Marcus Fizer
was named the Big 12 Player of the
Week after being named the MVP
of the Norwest Cyclone
Challenge. Fizer led the Cyclones
to the championship while averag
ing 25.5 points and 10 rebounds
per game.
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Sophomore Chris Owens of
Texas was named the Big 12
Rookie of the Week. Owens_s£ored
•P9 points and grabbed IT'
rebounds in the Longhorns 88-81
loss against No. 2 Arizona. He is
UT’s third leading scorer, averag
ing 14.2 per game and second in
rebounding, with a 6.8 average.
Last week’s Rookie of the
Week, Baylor forward Terry
Black, is averaging 18.6 points
and 13.8 rebounds for the Bears.
Black is also No. 1 on the team in
steals (3.2) and No. 3 in assists
(3.2).
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Kansas, coming off a 97-77
victory over Middle Tennessee
State, \yill be in Chicago for the
Great Eight Tournament. KU will
face off against Michigan State
Tuesday night. The tournament
includes teams from last-year!s
NCAA tournament that made it to
the final eight. It will include six
of the top seven teams in the coun
try, excluding No. 18 Temple and
No. 24 Gonzaga.
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Oklahoma State continued its
hot start behind solid guard play
and the surprise start of Brian
Montanoti. Montanoti, a 6-foot-9
senior, is averaging 12.7 points
and 9.8 rebounds to complement
leading scorer Desmond Mason
(18.7). Point guard Doug Gottlieb
has a 4.1 to 1 assist to turnover
ratio with 70 assists in six games.
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Kansas, Oklahoma and
Oklahoma State remain 6-0 in the
non-conference season, while
Nebraska (3-3) and Texas A&M
(2-2) round out the cellar aT.500
with five of the conference’s 13
losses.
Notebook compiled by staff
writer Joshua Camenzind.
Stanford up for
volleyball title
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By Samuel McKewon
Senior staff writer
It’s been a night-to-night grind for
Stanford’s Kerri Walsh for three
years.
The two-time Pacific 10
Conference player of the year has bat
tled a shoulder injury for the majority
of her career. It started to plague her
after a solid freshman season and
hasn’t stopped since.
“I’ve had to deal with it my whole
career at Stanford,” Walsh said. “My
career would have been so much dif
ferent if I had a better shoulder. But
it’s made me a better player.”
And the addition of freshman out
side hitter Logan Tom made Stanford
a better team, Walsh said.
Tom has graced the cover of
Sports Illustrated for Women and is
r“wisely considered to be one of the
best junior volleyball players in histo
ry
She has already competed with
the U.S. National Team. This season,
she took pressure off Walsh, helping
lead the Cardinals to a 28-2 record so
far this season.
Tom averages 4.57 kills per game
and is hitting .323 this season. Walsh,
on the other hand, comes with a more
all-around game, hitting .365, aver
aging 3.2 kills per game and 1.32
blocks.
With Tom in the lineup, Stanford
has already made it further in the
tournament than it did last year, when
it was upset by Texas. Cardinal Coach
Don Shaw, who has won four nation
al titles in the 1990s, said Stanford
was too “banged up” to beat many
teams last year.
Enter Tom and a new, more effec
tive role for Walsh, who didn’t have
to take as many swings.
— “It was good from the get-go,”
Walsh said of the 1999 team. “We
were missing Logan Tom last year.
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But when Arizona is
on they re as good as
any team in the
nation ”
Don Shaw
Texas volleyball coach
We were missing the big hitter. Now
that we have that, we’re much bigger
and much harder to stop.”
The Cardinals dropped a game in
their second round match against
Santa Clara, but Shaw wasn’t too
concerned.
Stanford is still a young team that
has had some injuries this season,
which forced chemistry to happen a
little later than usual. The chemistry
is there now as the Cardinals face
Arizona in the third round of the tour
nament.
Shaw thinks the Wildcats, who
upset Texas to make it to the third
round, will make for a tough oppo
nent.
Already Stanford has disposed of
UA twice, sweeping the Cats both
times.
“But when Arizona is on,” Shaw
said, “they’re as good as any team in
the nation.”
The coach says the same about his
own team. Wilile Shaw said there are
“six or seven” teams capable of win
ning the national title, No. 2 Stanford
was high on the list, mostly in part to
strong leadership from Walsh, whom
Shaw called one of the tougher play
ers he’s ever coached.
“I think at this point Kerri looks at
it and says, ‘we have two Weeks to
go.’ If we have to detach her arm
when she’s done in order to make it
through, she’s willing to pay that
price.”
Pro athletes implicated
in strip club investigation
NEW YORK (AP) - An Atlanta
strip club linked to organized crime
provided thousands of dollars’ worth of
strippers and alcohol to professional
athletes including Patrick Ewing,
Dennis Rodman and Charles Oakley,
the Daily News of New York reported
Tuesday.
The Gold Club allegedly gave the
athletes phony money called “Gold
Bucks” that it normally sells to patrons
so they can give them to strippers or
rent a private VIP room, the Daily
News said. It added that athletes also
got free drinks.
The newspaper quoted unidenti
fied federal sources and investigative
records as saying that during five
nights in April 1998, “Patrick Ewing
and friends” ran up a bill of $2,233,
including a $991 tab in a single night at
the club.
Oakley, who left the New York
Knicks in June 1998 and now plays for
Toronto, paid $1,313 and $665 on two
nights in June 1997, while Rodman
paid $411, $516, $786, $895, $926,
and $946 in Gold Bucks during visits
from 1995 to 1998, the newspaper said.
Steven Kaplan, owner of die Gold
Club, and 14 other defendants were
indicted Nov. 4 on charges including
prostitution, racketeering, money
laundering, loan-sharking and credit
card fraud. They have pleaded inno
cent.
No athletes were named in the
indictment and none faces allegations
of wrongdoing. NBA spokesman
Brian McIntyre said the league was
monitoring developments.
Lori Hamamoto, a spokeswoman
for the Knicks, said the club would
have no comment. Calls Tuesday to
agents for Ewing, Rodman and Oakley
were not immediately returned.
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