Kansas University freshman forward Darrell Arthur has been amazed at the recent play of Darnell Jackson, who had 11 rebounds, four points and two blocks versus Colorado.
"He's been blocking shots lately. He had a couple of nice blocks (against CU)," Arthur said. "The one off the backboard he grabbed with two hands : that was nice. He's been pretty intense on defense, grabbing boards, taking charges. That's what we need, guys who play with intensity and give us energy."
¢ Quitters?: Neill Woelk of the Boulder Daily Camera was not pleased to hear outgoing CU coach Ricardo Patton say his players have quit on him.
"There's a shocker. The coach announces before the season that he's quitting, then expresses surprise and dismay when his players do the same to him," Woelk wrote in his Thursday column. "Never saw that one coming in the old scouting report, Ricardo?"
Woelk said CU's next hoops coach should emulate former CU football coach Bill McCartney, who turned around the program. Woelk indicated when McCartney took over, he decided Nebraska was the Buffs' main rival and CU's program should aspire to be better than NU's. McCartney went on to win a national championship.
"Colorado's next basketball coach - whoever he might be - should land on campus and vow to drown out 'Rock Chalk (chant at Coors Events Center),'" Woelk wrote. "Of course he'd be laughed at. No man in his right mind would set his sights on unseating the tradition-rich Jayhawks - just like no man in his right mind would have dared set his sights on Nebraska football. (Yes, I laughed at 'Mac.' For years. Until, oh, about 1989).
"But just for the heck of it, I'd love to hear the next coach - Jeff Bzdelik, Mike Dunlap, Alvin Gentry or a name none of us have heard yet - step up on the day he is hired and say, 'Colorado will compete with Kansas. When Kansas comes to Boulder, the Coors Events Center will be all black and gold.'''
¢ Gooden eyed: The New York Daily News reports the Knicks would like to acquire ex-Jayhawk Drew Gooden of the Cleveland Cavaliers. The paper says New York might trade Channing Frye and others for Gooden.
¢ Upcoming: KU next will meet Nebraska at 3 p.m. Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse. The Huskers (15-9, 4-6) have won three of their past four games since a 76-56 loss to KU in Lincoln.
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