The men's basketball team took care of UALR last night, 75-35. AK looked great: 6-7 from the field, 13 points, 9 boards, and 2 steals. He is strong on the boards and has developed good moves to get to the basket, but still thinks "Joe is a great guy and... is the best player in the Big 12". It is not all smiles though. Billy made a point of how "the players notice" the crowd size, which was 5,544.

Is 5,544 really a small crowd for this point in the season? Lets look at the size of some of the other crowds last night:

• #14 Syracuse 19,235
• NC State 13,135
  
• Nebraska 9,661
  
• Notre Dame 8,178
  
• #23 Georgetown 6,942
• Baylor 4,289
• Missouri 1,234

So it was not the worst crowd, but for the 8th ranked team in nation you would expect more.

Billy likes our schedule because "every single game has gotten harder". It is about to get REAL hard with Pacific, @ LSU, and @ UCLA due up. We will soon know "how good the Aggies are".

Here are some good photos of the game.

Mark Dodge was named AT&T Big 12 Conference Defensive Player of the Week. The architect of the recently shredded #1 running defence in the nation is now the head coach at Iowa State. And we are still going to the Holiday Bowl.

Senior Christi Hahn was named to the All-Big 12 volleyball team.