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Saturday, August 14, 2004
There's no place like home for KU cagers
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAWRENCE (AP) -- The Kansas Jayhawks basketball schedule released Friday features matchups against two Final Four teams and begins with 10 straight home games.
Georgia Tech, which beat Kansas in overtime in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament last season, comes to Lawrence on Jan. 1. The Jayhawks then meet Big 12 rival Oklahoma State at home on Feb. 27.
But it's the early home schedule that has coach Bill Self unhappy. The Jayhawks' first away game is a televised contest at Kentucky on Jan. 9, the longest Kansas has gone without a road game since the 1954-55 season.
''I don't like that,'' said Self, entering his second season at Kansas. ''I don't think it's great. In a perfect world we'd have a road game in November or December.''
The regular season begins at home against Vermont on Nov. 19.
Kansas will play host to Kansas State on March 2, a day after the 50th anniversary of day the two teams met in the first game played at Allen Fieldhouse. The regular season winds up on March 6 at Missouri, ending at Columbia for the fourth year in a row. The Big 12 tournament, in Kansas City, is March 10-13.
Overall, Self considers the schedule a good one.
''Everybody who has seen our schedule has said, 'Wow,''' he said. ''Based on how the teams finished last year, there are very few teams in America, if any, that will play a harder schedule.''
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