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• Roos look to turn the page

  10/28/2009 11:07 PM

  Nothing in Matt Brown’s basketball background prepared him for last season. His UMKC Kangaroos suffered their worst season since becoming a Division I program more than two decades earlier. A 7-24 overall record and a last-place 3-15 mark in Summit League play isn’t what anybody had in mind for the program in Brown’s second season.

• 'Roos' first practice at CBE

  10/15/2009 11:20 PM

  UMKC’s basketball teams will enter the hall of fame. No, really. The Kangaroos’ men’s and women’s teams will have their first practices tonight at the College Basketball Experience, home of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame next to the Sprint Center.