KU 66, OU 52

Yes, especially road wins in OK, where KU has trouble. Agree with your summary - the biggest surprise for me was Moss's shooting. Of course, OU played no defense, so that helped. Also, Reaves couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, so not much defense was required by KU. But, without Dotson, a gutty win.
TT got a road win at KSU, but no such luck for TCU at WVU (81-49). Two games in Feb I'm not looking forward to - at WVU and at Baylor.

Tea sippers, huh?

Had to look it up, HE!

Something I like to look at for offensive efficiency is points per shot attempt. Anything worse than a point per shot attempt is not very good. It is pretty basic but gives you an idea of how effective that person was as a scorer. Somethings of note for that game is all of the people with less than a point per shot attempt had 5 or fewer shot attempts. The highest was Big Dave with 4 points on 5 attempts. All of the folks with double digit attempts were over the point per attempt threshold. In other words the folks that were taking the shots were the ones we wanted to take the shots more often than not.

Great game!

Yes, GREAT.

It wasn't "great" because we played particularly well (we didn't), or that our offense was clicking (it wasn't), or that OU is a great opponent (they aren't).

What made this "great" in my opinion comes down to 2 things:
1.) Road win. ANY road win in the conference raises the minimum bar to at least "good". Playing 39 minutes and 59 seconds of awful ball against a weak opponent but leaving with a W will at least elicit a "well at least we got the win" response (aka "good outcome").
2.) Figuring out how to play without our leading scorer and floor general. I'm sure I wasn't alone tuning last night with a sense of dread. We've struggled at OU, they're not an awful team, and outside of Dotson, Doke and Garrett, we've been inconsistent at best. With 1/3 of that combo and almost half that trio's scoring (they're combining for 40.2 ppg and Dotson averages 18 ppg) unable to play, it's something to worry about. Nevertheless they pulled it off.

I think HE's analysis at the top of this post is pretty much spot on for individuals, so I've got nothing to add there. OU's 27% 3 point shooting certainly was a big factor as well.

Nevertheless, Garrett played very well, Moss STAYED hot and a lot of guys stepped up. I lost track of Dok's dunk count, but it seemed that we may also have been gifted with some poor interior defending on the part of OU.

Just win, baby. Get on the bus and burn rubber back to Lawrence. 3 final thoughts:

1.) I'm officially on board with Braun. He's demonstrated enough consistency to prove that he's not a fluke. I'm sold.
2.) Let's hope that Moss can be more consistent with his output. Still not sure he's a great defender, but I'll forgive him if he can keep hitting (likewise a prayer for consistency for guys like Agbaji and McCormack).
3.) Who knew OU had Larry Bird's lab-grown clone playing for them? Sure, they can call him "Brady Manek", but the folks in French Lick, Indiana know the truth.