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Alabama Crimson Tide |
The
school's sports teams, wearing crimson and royal blue, are called the Jayhawks. They participate in the NCAA's Division I (I-A for football)
and in the Big 12 Conference. KU has won nine NCAA National
Championships. Two in men's basketball, three in men's indoor track and
field, three in men's outdoor track and field, and one in men's cross
country.
KU football dates from 1890, and has played in the Orange Bowl twice:
1948 and 1968. They are currently coached by Mark Mangino, who was hired
in 2002. The team plays at Memorial Stadium, the oldest NCAA football
stadium west of the Mississippi River. The men's basketball team, currently coached by Bill Self, is a perennial national contender whose last national championship was in 1988. The team plays at Allen Fieldhouse, one of the oldest current basketball facilities in the NCAA. Kansas has counted among its coaches Dr. James Naismith (the inventor of basketball), Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Phog Allen (sometimes dubbed "Father of basketball coaching"), Roy Willams of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and former New York Knicks coach Larry Brown. Lew Perkins, previously at Connecticut, replaced Al Bohl as the university's athletic director in 2003. Under Perkins's administration, the department's budget has increased from $27.2 million in 2003 (10th in the conference) to $40.8 million (projected) in 2005 thanks in large part to money raised from a new priority seating policy at Allen Fieldhouse, a new $26.67 million eight-year contract with Adidas replacing an existing contract with Nike, and a new $40.2 million seven-year contract with ESPN Regional Television.
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