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— BIG 12 CONFERENCE —
Big 12 battles corruption
By Brandon Schulte
Staff writer
Microsoft and NCAA men’s bas
ketball may have more in common
than most people might think.
Both are giants of their domains -
Microsoft of the computing industry
and men’s college basketball of inter
collegiate athletics. But the two are
linked in a more sinister way as well:
both have recently undergone probes
by a federal grand jury.
But unlike the Microsoft investi
gation, which centered on anti-trust
laws, a grand jury in Kansas City,
Mo., is hearing testimony on the cor
rupt underworld of summer recruit
ing that involves shoe companies and
advisors who act more like agents
than coaches.
So far only a few players have
been affected by illicit actions during
the summer, but two of the three play
ers who have lost eligibility over the
scandal so far come from Big 12
country.
Missouri became the first confer
ence school to be bitten by the
inquiry, as freshman Kareem Rush
was suspended in conjunction with
an investigation of his brother JaRon
Rush, a sophomore at UCLA, who
was suspended on Dec. 9 for alleged
ly receiving money.
Then just last week Oklahoma
State’s Andre Williams was the sec
ond Big 12 player to be implicated in
a similar scandal as he was ruled inel
igible by the NCAA for the rest of the
season for receiving a high school
scholarship. The NCAA said he also
would have to repay $20,000 to his
Maine prep school.
OSU has filed an appeal on his
behalf and Coach Eddie Sutton said
there were conflicts with the summer
recruiting process.
“I think it’s a problem; any col
lege coach will tell you that,” Sutton
saia.
“There are a lot of great people
that work with players over the sum
mer, but there are others that you
wouldn’t want working with your
players over the summer.”
The NCAA intends to discuss the
issue of the summer recruiting this
week at its annual meeting in San
Diego. While most Big 12
Conference coaches don’t expect any
changes to result from the meeting,
they have mixed views on how sum
mer recruiting should be handled.
Kansas Coach Roy Williams
thinks all parties in the issue should
be brought together to discuss the
issue.
“There is not an easy answer,”
Williams said. “The first thing we
need to do is to get everyone involved
together - the coaches, the NCAA
officials, the high school federation
— BIG 12 NOTEBOOK —
Kansas joined elite company
this weekend with its 84-69 win at
Colorado on Saturday. It became
the third team in NCAA history to
post 1,700 victories - a mark previ
ously reached by North Carolina
and Kentucky.
Coach Roy Williams, who was
also in charge for all-time wins No.
1,400, 1,500, and 1,600 in KU his
tory, realized the importance of the
victory mark. “I’m just glad I
haven’t been here for all 1,700,”
Williams joked. “I appreciate the
history and I know how important
it is to the folks around here and to
folks around the country.”
Iowa State junior Jamaal
Tinsley carved his own niche into
Big 12 Conference lore by record
ing only the second triple-double in
Big 12 history.
He accomplished the feat by
scoring 12 points, handing out 11
assists and grabbing 11 rebounds in
ISU’s 86-81 win over Missouri on
Saturday.
For his play this past week he
was named as the Phillips 66 Big
12 Rookie of the Week.Former
Baylor player Brian Skinner
recorded the first triple-double in
conference history in the 1997-98
season.
■
Oklahoma’s Eduardo Najera
averaged 19.5 points in two victo
ries over Texas A&M and Lamar
last week.
Najera is the only Sooner to
reach double figures in every game
this season. Judging by his consis
tency, it’s no coincidence OU is off
to its best 14-game start since also
going 13-1 in the 1988-89 season.
and the shoe companies - If we could
get everyone together I think we
could resolve some things.”
Kansas State Coach Tom Asbury
said summer recruiting wasn’t the
culprit, but rather the early signing
period was.
“I’ve got a quick fix,” he said.
“Eliminate the fall signing period.
I’ve said that for two'Or three years.
That way the summer would be an
evaluation period instead of a hands
on recruiting period.”
The summer recruiting season
has turned into a bonanza for coaches
and players since the NCAA institut
ed the fall signing period more than a
decade ago in an attempt to control
recruiting costs.
■
Texas A&M freshman Bernard
King, who is averaging 16.8 points
per game, is on pace to break the
school’s single-season freshman
scoring record, which was set by
Damon Johnson in 1991-92.
Unfortunately for the Aggies
squad, King is one of the few bright
spots on the team as it sports a 4-8
record, which is the worst mark in
the conference.
■
Kansas State’s Galen Morrison
garnered Big 12 player-of-the
week honors for averaging 22.5
points in two outings for the
Wildcats last week.
The junior guard hit seven of
nine three-pointers in a 27-point
effort in KSU’s win over Nebraska
on Saturday. The 27 points eclipsed
Morrison’s previous career-high
point total of 18, which was also set
last week in a 70-64 loss to Long
Beach State.
His seven 3-pointers against
NUtied him for third most in
Kansas State history and for the
most 3-pointers by a Big 12 player
this season.
Despite a 50-6 combined record
from Oklahoma, Oklahoma State,
Iowa State and Kansas, the Big 12
Conference took a dip in two power
rating indices.
The league fell one spot in the
RPI Report from second to third
behind the Big Ten and Pacific 10
conferences and to fifth in the
Sagarin rankings, even though five
league teams are ranked in the top 30.
The Big 12 Conference note
book was compiled by staff writer
Brandon Schulte.
Sutton said the recruiting period
allowed mid-major schools that don’t
have large recruiting budgets to see
players they ordinarily couldn’t see
play.
Several coaches thought the sum
mer recruiting days should be limited,
but Oklahoma Coach Kelvin
Sampson said the summer recruiting
period needed to be ended.
“There is only one solution,”
Sampson said. “You can do every
thing you want to try to fix it, but the
only way to stop it is to eliminate
summer basketball.
“We have a set of rules in place.
What we need to do is have coaches
follow them, and the NCAA has to
enforce them.”
Cook’s comeback called ‘amazing’
COOK from page 16
But he didn’t sulk. Instead, Cook
used his injuries as motivation to
improve when he got back on the board.
Cook is not a stranger to playing
catch-up. Last season, he claimed All
American status on both the one-meter
and thifee-meter springboards follow
ing his injury-riddled redshirt season
the year before.
He spent last summer at the World
University Games and seemed to be
back in top form until the injury bug
attacked his back again with an entirely
new strain.
Last Thursday, though, Cook
caught up again.
In a performance that his diving
coach Jim Hocking called “phenome
nal,” Cook finished seventh on the
three-meter springboard at the All
American Diving Invitational. The
event featured more than 130 of the top
national and international divers.
Cook relished coming back from
injury again to become a factor in colle
giate diving.
“I think every time I get hurt, it
tends to make me push myself to do
better and improve,” he said.
Hocking was amazed at the success
his diver had in his first competition
since the injury.
“Considering that it was his first
time basically on the board being com
petitive since the injury, dealing with
the twisting and turning that a dive fea
tures, it was a remarkable job by Erik,”
Hocking said. -
The mental game has always been a
factor in sports. Hocking said Cook
faced a mental battle to maintain the
drive to return to a competing-to-win
level.
“An athlete always goes through the
doubting phase, not doing anything in
practice everyday,” he said. “But Erik
fought it out.”
Last week’s results are an important
step for Cook on his way back, but he
said he knew it would not be easy to
claim the top spot in the conference div
ing race.
The Big 12 is loaded with All
Americans, including probable U.S.
Olympian Troy Dumais of Texas.
“There are bigger meets ahead all
right,” Cook said. “With Troy in the
conference, just to get close to him is an
accomplishment”
Hocking is more upbeat about
Codk’s chances.
The coach who has seen Cook over
come so much already is no longer sur
prised by what his diver can do when
the chips are down.
“It’s tough to beat athletes like Troy
and the other All-Americans in our
conference, but a diver has to do 11 dif
ferent dives,” Hocking said. “One
major mistake, and you slip from first
to sixth”
“It won’t be simple, but Erik’s a
player.”
