Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Hoops Fix

Duke recruiting notes here.......Now, you know your program is on top of the world when you can attract all the top recruits and your head coach is talking about who he is going to redshirt and saying things like this:

“I don’t know who it will be, “ Self said, “but we have about eight perimeter players and we’ll probably only play five or six.”
Welcome to Kansas recruits!!!...... Here's more on recruiting, inlcuding blurbs on Kovotney Barber, who has an offer from GT (from the 2005 class). This one could come down to another battle with UK.

Kansas makes the news in suspensions also. First Jeff Hawkins is suspended indefinitely for unnamed issues. Story here. Also Keith Langford was publicly reprimanded for his comments about the refs after fouling out of the GT game in the tourney last season:
The NCAA gave Keith Langford a public reprimand Monday for making inappropriate comments about the officiating in Kansas' overtime loss to Georgia Tech in the Elite Eight last spring.

Langford was upset when referee Jim Burr called him for his fifth foul with 3 minutes, 44 seconds remaining in overtime.

“I think it was a horrible call,” Langford said. “It's very unfortunate that the referee 80 feet from the play called the foul rather than the ref that was right there on top of things. Big games down the stretch … I always thought you let the players decide. If that referee is reffing one of our games again next year … I'll be sure to let him know how I feel.”

Langford has sent Burr a letter of apology.
Here's more on that story.

On the recruiting front, notice that Kevin Rogers is no longer going to visit Kansas this weekend with CJ Miles. He will reschedule.