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5 years 4 months ago #19698 by CorpusJayhawk
KU started off well enough until Justin Miller pulled off the suit and revealed a giant "S" on his jersey. KU was up by 7 in the first 4-1/2 minutes. Over the next 6 minutes, Louisiana outscored the Jayhawks 24-5. And that in Allen Fieldhouse. To quote Vizzini from The Princess Bride, "Inconceivable!!" But KU finally woke up and started to play something that resembled defense. In the last 9 minutes of the first half they outscored Louisiana 24-9 to take a three point lead. Bill Self got a technical for basically frustration. I love Self's honesty. He knew it was better to vent to the refs and risk a technical rather than beating the crap out of his players who were playing like crap. Also, David McCormack played very well for those last 9 minutes. This kid is going to be very good before he leaves Kansas. We opened the 2nd half on a 7-1 run to stretch the lead to 9 points and proceeded to trade baskets for the next 5 minutes. Then we had another little lull where Louisiana took it from a 9 point lead to a single point with 8:40 left in the game. Then KU did what coach had asked them to do. They closed the game well. I think Louisiana ran out of gas a bit since they really played mostly 6 players. Plus, Udoka was just punishing their bigs in the paint. Louisiana got two fouls on Udoka early in the 1st half forcing him to sit for 10 minutes. But Udoka got the last laugh. While you could say we should have won by more (and you would be right) this kind of game is to be expected when you have freshmen playing 30% of the minutes and new transfers playing 25%. We will get better.


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