Men: Manlove takes
time off for classwork
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Rosemond appears to have won
his battle with sophomore Mike
McShane at point guard and is ex
pected to start Friday.
“Yasir has probably played
with a little more confidence,”
Kent said. “But starting isn’t the
most important thing to me, it's
who is more productive with the
minutes they get."
Kent said both should see am
ple playing time, especially in the
next few games.
BYU, which is now 0-2 includ
ing a 73-59 season-opening loss at
San Diego State on Nov. 15, re
turns just one starter, forward
Justin Weidauer. The senior led
the team in rebounds last season
with 8.3 per game and was second
in scoring, with 8.3 points per
game.
Steve Cleveland is in his first
year as the BYU head coach.
Oregon took care of some final
bureaucratic business earlier in
the week by selecting Madden,
Smith and Jamar Curry as team
captains.
Kent said that while determin
ing captains was entirely up to the
team, which voted for all three
unanimously, he was happy with
the selection of the three players
he himself would have chosen,
including sophomore Smith.
"Leadership can come from a
freshman if they’re ready to go,”
Kent said. “A.D.’s a guy that has
played a year and has sat and
watched for a year. I think he’s
very smart in terms of under
standing the game, and also he’s
straightforward and tells it like it
is, and I think the guys respect
that.”
One player who will not be
making the trip to Provo, Utah, is
redshirt freshman Tyron
Manlove, who on Monday re
quested time away from basket
ball to concentrate on his school
work.
“He's someone who is strug
gling academically right now, but
he’s not ineligible by any means,”
Kent said. “In a couple of his
classes he is not performing to the
level that we feel he is capable of.
I certainly expect him to come
back, but when is up to him.”
Kent said the decision for
Manlove to sit out was precipitat
ed by the player and his parents
and supported by the team. He
will not practice with the team
during his absence.
Women: Runge concerned
season debut is on the road
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The game begins a grueling
nonconference schedule for the
Ducks. They play six of the nine
games on the road, highlighted by
a Dec. 5 date at No. 16 Western
Kentucky. They are slated to play
at Portland, last season’s West
Coast Conference champion and a
team that has won 23 straight
home games, and will host No. 24
Kansas.
“We’re really excited to get go
ing for real," Oregon head coach
Jody Runge said. “I’m really excit
ed to see how we do with the ad
versity of playing on the road and
how our young kids handle the
life of playing on the road for the
first time.
“I think that’s going to be really
instrumental in what we can ac
complish this season."
Runge was referring to the 10
players who are either freshmen,
sophomores or new to the team
this season.
Idaho is 0-1 this season follow
ing a 73-71 loss to Lewis-Clark
State on Tuesday.
Alii Nieman, a first-team All
Big West selection as a freshman
last season and the Vandals’ top
returning scorer (18.3 points per
game), will not be in the lineup
tonight.
Nieman, a 6-foot-2 forward
who paced the Vandals with 17
points on Tuesday, is the starting
outside hitter on the Idaho volley
ball team and will be playing with
the team in the Big West Tourna
ment in Long Beach, Calif., this
weekend.
The Vandals will be thin down
low. In addition to Nieman’s ab
sence, 6-foot-2 center Laura
Bloom will be out with a case of
mononucleosis, and 6-foot-7 Lara
Chaney is sitting out the season as
a medical redshirt.
That leaves 6-foot-2 junior Jen
nifer Stone to battle 6-foot-5 Jen
ny Mowe in the post.
“Offensively, it’s going to be big
Jenny Mowe inside,” Hughes
said. “I think we’ll be looking to
her a lot because slie’s very big
and can score inside. Then, when
the defense knows that, she's go
ing to kick it back out to us guards
and we’ll shoot it.”
Mowe is the only true center on
the Ducks’ roster this season and
is looking forward to the opportu
nity to feast on the small Vandal
players.
“Our post play is going to try to
be dominating,” she said. “I’m
very excited to get going and get
the season underway.”
Runge is a bit concerned about
die fact that her team will be away
from McArthur Court for the sea
son debut.
“It’s always nerve-racking
when you play on the road be
cause you have to do things so
well,” she said. “You may not
shoot the ball particularly well on
the road, so you better be able to
defend, not foul, and execute
things both offensively and defen
sively. I think if we do that we’ll
be fine.”
Idaho was 14-14 overall last
season and 8-6 in the Big West,
good enough for second place in
the Eastern Division. The Van
dals were picked to finish second
to Nevada in the 1997 Big West
media poll.
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