Nowhere near perfect, Kansas basketball still emerges with Big 12 road win at Colorado

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What Kansas basketball accomplished in Monday’s 71-64 win at Colorado didn’t come without its imperfections.

The Jayhawks (19-9, 10-7 in Big 12) were not the rebounding team they should have been, and allowed 18 offensive rebounds while grabbing just five of their own. Add on to that the reality the Jayhawks had just one second-chance point, while the Buffaloes (11-17, 2-15 in Big 12) collected 16.

The Jayhawks also didn’t take anywhere near as an advantage of getting to the free-throw line as they should have, despite taking 18 more attempts than the Buffaloes over the course of the game. The Jayhawks shot 16-for-28 (57.1%) from the free-throw line, while the Buffaloes shot 7-for-10 (70%).

But this was still a Big 12 Conference road win for a Kansas team that had lost its last four opportunities to win a road game in league play. It’s a win, in general, for a team that just dropped out of the top 25 ahead of this game because of how it’s struggled for consistency in recent weeks. And so much of it has to do with the reality that veteran center Hunter Dickinson collected a 32-point and 13-rebound double-double, with both of those totals being more than any other player on either team put together during the matchup.

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“That was a great win,” Kansas coach Bill Self said on the Varsity Network postgame show. “Guys have been laboring and trying hard and not having much to show for it — especially away from home. And we did a lot of good things offensively early, and defensively, and it’s unbelievable to dominate the game like we did and go into the halftime up five. We made a bad play at the end of the first half, terrible defensive play, (Dajuan Harris Jr.) had the ball in his hands, he throws it to the other team to give them the last shot, and then we didn’t rebound the ball all night. If it weren’t for (Dickinson), we would have just gotten annihilated on the glass and…

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Author : The Topeka Capital-Journal

Publish date : 2025-02-25 07:34:00

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