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Jayhawks Beat Longhorns, 80-68; All But Clinch Sixth Straight Big 12 Title

by KCsince88 on Feb 8, 2010 10:58 PM CST in Basketball Comment 38 comments

More photos » Harry Cabluck - AP

Kansas center Cole Aldrich rejects a shot attempt by Texas center Clint Champman during the first half of Monday's game in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)

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Being definitvely the best is fun, isn't it? And, to do so with such regularity is even better.

It's tough to win if you can't get a good shot, let alont score. All throughout his tenure as head coach at Kansas, Bill Self's M.O. has been defense. His teams have reached a 55 game streak of holding opponents under 50 percent shooting, been in the top ten in defensive efficiency five of the last six year (shoutout to KU Grad 08) and on and on. To this point this year, the Jayhawks have played good, but not great defense for much of the season. Well, on Monday night, they took that next step and played "Bill Self defense." Your opponent must shoot poorly to go scoreless for eleven minutes, yes, but it also takes a great deal of tremendous defense. Texas isn't a particularly good shooting team, nor are they organized enough in their offensive sets to withstand the kind of defense displayed Monday night.

Also, enough cannot be said of the job coach Self did to get his boys ready for a monumental road game just 48 hours after playing at home. Those Saturday-Monday turnarounds are the absolute worst. Especially when the second leg is on the road. Luckily, we get to do it all over again this coming week - Iowa State on Saturday, at Texas A&M on Monday.

Player of the Game - Xavier Henry - 15 points, 5 rebound, 3 assists, 0 turnovers. Nobody has been tougher on Xavier than myself during his recent extended slump, shall we call it? More on him after the jump, though.

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Kansas vs. Texas 2nd Half Thread

by Denverjhawk on Feb 8, 2010 9:16 PM CST Comment 511 comments

In the mix for six? Very solid half, but 20 more minutes of basketball to go. Win and it's looking REALLY good.

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Kansas vs. Texas Big Monday Open Game Thread

by Denverjhawk on Feb 8, 2010 7:00 PM CST in Basketball Comment 593 comments

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Big Monday in the Big Twelve. Hopefully the early game doesn't go too far past the 7pm tip for this one. Open thread up an hour early for this one as Kansas takes on yet another top 15 opponent on the road. Another tough test, should be a fun night...might even require an overflow thread. If you're new around here don't hesitate to jump in and if you haven't registered yet, what are you waiting for? Register here.

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I know we're getting ready for a basketball game tonight but I wanted to post a highlight video of Bubba Starling. Starling as you'll recall was one of the big names in for junior day this past weekend and you'll see why folks are excited. Hats off to Jayhawkslant for the tape and making it a freebie for all Jayhawk fans to enjoy.

OGT in about an hour.

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Kansas Travels to Austin for a Big Monday with Texas

by Denverjhawk on Feb 8, 2010 1:00 PM CST in Basketball Comment 26 comments

To kick things off how about a few quick notes on this so called "rivalry" between Kansas and Texas. We can debate this all night long but I think it's safe to say the Kansans view Texas more as their biggest obstacle and not as their biggest rival. Regardless of how you view it tonight's game is certainly a huge one in terms of a potential sixth consecutive conference title. Losing certainly doesn't do tremendous damage to the Jayhawks chances, but winning would have to get pretty close to securing it.

Kansas and Texas rank 1-2 in Big 12 wins since the league started in 1996-97. Kansas is 180-36 (83.3 percent), while Texas is 150-66 (69.4 percent).
Kansas has won or tied for a league-best nine Big 12 regular season championships, including each of the last five. Texas is next with three.
Kansas and Texas have played in the Big 12 Championship title game three of the last four years, with all three going to KU.
Since the start of the Big 12, Kansas (2002, 2003, 2008), Texas (2003), Oklahoma (2002) and Oklahoma State (2004) have advanced to the Final Four.
Each of the last five KU-UT match-ups have been decided by 10 points or less with three of those by four points or less.

	PPG	FG%	FT%	3P%	RPG	ORPG	DRPG	APG	TPG	SPG	BPG	FPG
KU	83.7	49.3	68.8	41.0	41.5	13.4	28.1	18.0	13.1	8.7	6.4	18.6
TEX	84.1	48.0	61.0	34.3	43.8	15.2	28.6	15.7	14.0	8.3	5.9	19.9
KU Opponents	62.7	36.6	67.8	32.6	33.9	13.0	20.9	12.7	14.9	6.2	3.4	20.6
TEX Opponents	67.7	38.8	65.6	30.7	36.5	13.1	23.4	11.0	16.6	7.1	3.6	21.3

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Dylan Admire Talks Kansas Junior Day

by Denverjhawk on Feb 8, 2010 6:00 AM CST Comment 63 comments

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This past weekend the Kansas Jayhawk football staff hosted their first of what appears to be two junior day's geared toward giving football prospects the opportunity to get to know a little bit more about Kansas and the football program. The staff hosted players from Illinois, Missouri and all across Kansas who were in Lawrence taking in the campus, visiting the facilities, seeing what the program has to offer and of course watching the Jayhawks get a win over the Huskers in basketball.

One such visitor that is drawing a lot of attention early on in the recruiting process is offensive line prospect Dylan Admire out of Blue Valley West in Overland Park Kansas. Admire spent Friday in Nebraska where he received an offer from the Huskers and then made his way to Lawrence on Saturday. Admire has really seen his stock soar following a strong showing at this years army underclassman combine and while it's still early in the process, it's pretty clear that he's one of the top targets in the Kansas City area for Coach Turner Gill.

Following his trip Dylan gave Rock Chalk Talk a few minutes of his time before settling in to watch the Superbowl. The Jayhawks will be looking for several offensive lineman with this year's class and Admire will certainly be one we'll be watching here at Rock Chalk Talk.

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Going to take some convincing for me to consider them a rival.

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First Thoughts: Texas Longhorns

by KCsince88 on Feb 7, 2010 2:00 PM CST in Basketball Comment 21 comments

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Oklahoma guard Cade Davis was able to help beat Texas with his eyes closed.

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First off, let's start with a lesson I learned Saturday. Never attempt to think ahead and get ahead in any kind of work. I had nearly a full post previewing Monday's game written out, but done so under the impression that Texas would be beating Oklahoma that afternoon. So, I had to scrap it all and start over. Let this be a lesson to you, too.

What can you say when your conference competition keeps laying down and giving you a bigger and bigger lead all the time? It's frustrating in the fact that you want to beat the best of the rest to be the best. You want to prove you deserve being called "champions." You want everyone to see you flex your muscles and show that swag. That was the original plan. All season long, February 8th was the day. The Kansas Jayhawks would make a quick turn around and go on the road to take on the preseason number two Texas Longhorns. It was to be for all the marbles in the Big 12.

Well, in a sudden turn of events, the 2009-10 Texas basketball team has gone all 2009 Kansas football team on us and basically given away any hope of a regular season title. Yes, it is great to know that just at the halfway point of conference play we are miles ahead of everyone else. But, still, where's the fun in that? Now, will the Jayhawks go another eight games that are partially meaningless and just all a part of the motions? (sans the trip to Columbia, because that is bigger than even the National Championship game - at least to one side.) With next to nothing on the line anymore, will the team keep their intensity up and continue to improve en route to the NCAA tournament? Or, will they instead relax and fall into complacency? Whatever happens, you can blame Texas. I know I will. Just couldn't beat Oklahoma, could you?

The way that I see it, (and the way I began to see it as non-conference play was winding down - before this recent struggle ever happened) is that Texas can score in bunches, but they fail to play good, tough defense and allow far inferior teams (North Carolina - which that win doesn't look nearly so great now - Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa State, Texas Tech and Oklahoma) score 80-plus points against them, whether they won or not. Sure, they won all of those games, but let's face it - when you're playing a team that can run right alongside you and play defense and hold you to the 65-70 point range, you're going to struggle if you don't play better defense. You can bring in all of the glamorous high school recruits from around the country that you want, but as a coach, you have to a) teach them to play team defense, and b) play as a cohesive unit offensively, not just to "get theirs" and shoot when they want.

A team with that much talent just shouldn't be struggling the way they are.

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