Kansas vs. Central Arkansas Statistical Rearview

by Owen Kemp on Nov 20, 2009 7:50 AM CST in Basketball Comment 7 comments

In other news, the Kansas Jayhawk basketball team took to the court Thursday night for a "game" against the Central Arkansas Bears. Good game all around for the Jayhawks perhaps heeding the wake up call issued by the Tigers of Memphis on Tuesday night. Granted this isn't exactly the litmus test for success but it was a game and Kansas handled business the way the number one team should. Now, on to the rearview.

NCAA Basketball Stats

A big run early in this one left little doubt to the final result. Hell, a glance at the scoreboard before the game and seeing the words "Central Arkansas" as the opponent left little doubt. I'm with KG on this one, why did we schedule this game?

NCAA Basketball Stats

Kansas overwhelmingly wins the field goal percentage battle in this one and did a nice job of taking care of the baseketball. Struggled in the rebounding department which definitely comes as a surprise. UCA finished with 19 offensive boards. That's a problem if we are playing a better team. Something to work on in practice Coach.

Stat	Game
Stat
Points	44	94
FG Att	55	58
FG Made	14	33
FG Pct	25.5	56.9
FT Att	19	24
FT Made	15	17
FT Pct	78.9	70.8
3pt FG Att	14	19
3pt FG Made	1	11
3pt FG Pct	7.1	57.9
Rebounds	38	36
Off Rebs	19	10
Def Rebs	19	26
Team Rebs	3	2
Assists	8	19
Steals	2	11
Blocks	1	8
Turnovers	19	7
Fouls	22	21

From a team standpoint a much better job taking care of the ball than against Memphis and once again a solid defensive performance by the Jayhawks. Stat of the day has to be the difference in field goal percentages. 56% for the Jayhawks with 57% from the three. 25% for the Bears and only 7% from three. Hard to imagine a scenario where you lose with that variance. Might also explain why the Bears had so many offensive boards, they missed a lot of damn shots.

NCAA Basketball Stats

Even in the exhibition games last year we didn't see a chart with this many colors. The Kansas bench got a little deeper last night too as CJ Henry finally stepped onto the court. Not a bad little game in his limited minutes. Seriously 11 deep? 11 guys that played minutes at a point in the game where it's not considered a courtesy to let the player on the court. Granted I expect less Connor Teahan as time goes but still pretty nice to see the depth. What's even better is the balance in contribution related to that depth. Now we just need to do it against a real opponent and I'll be on the Bensa 40-0 bandwagon.

	S	MIN	PTS	FGM	FGA	FG%	FTM	FTA	FT%	3PM	3PA	3P%	OR	DR	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF
J. Rehmel	*	32	11	3	12	25	4	4	100	1	7	14	0	2	2	2	1	0	2	1
M. Rueter	*	28	2	1	7	14	0	1	0	0	3	0	2	4	6	0	0	0	1	3
I. Qahwash	*	27	5	1	5	20	3	4	75	0	1	0	2	2	4	2	1	0	4	2
C. Dos Santos	*	26	4	1	7	14	2	2	100	0	0	0	3	2	5	2	0	0	2	5
M. Pouncy	*	24	8	3	11	27	2	2	100	0	2	0	3	2	5	0	0	0	2	3
T. Sheppard		20	6	2	5	40	2	4	50	0	0	0	5	1	6	0	0	0	4	3
D. Clayborn		15	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	1
C. Henson		12	8	3	4	75	2	2	100	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	2
R. Daniels		6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1
C. Williams		6	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	0	0	0	1	0
R. Crawford		2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
T. Smith		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Q. Sanders		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	S	MIN	PTS	FGM	FGA	FG%	FTM	FTA	FT%	3PM	3PA	3P%	OR	DR	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF
S. Collins	*	25	12	4	7	57	2	2	100	2	4	50	0	1	1	3	3	0	1	0
C. Aldrich	*	24	7	3	7	42	1	2	50	0	0	0	0	5	5	1	0	3	2	2
X. Henry	*	23	12	4	8	50	2	2	100	2	3	66	1	2	3	3	0	0	1	2
M. Morris	*	20	12	4	5	80	4	5	80	0	1	0	1	3	4	2	3	1	1	2
T. Taylor	*	19	4	1	6	16	2	4	50	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	1	0	0	2
T. Robinson		18	8	2	6	33	4	5	80	0	0	0	3	8	11	1	1	3	0	3
T. Reed		18	12	4	5	80	0	0	0	4	5	80	0	2	2	3	1	0	0	0
E. Johnson		14	7	3	4	75	0	1	0	1	2	50	0	2	2	3	2	0	1	4
M. Morris		14	8	4	4	100	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	4	1	0	1	0	3
C. Teahan		10	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
C. Henry		9	8	3	4	75	0	0	0	2	3	66	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
J. Juenemann		3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
C. Buford		3	4	1	1	100	2	3	66	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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From watching last night, the rebounding problems looked like they came because

everyone down low wanted to swat the shots into the cheap seats. When everybody jumps as the shot goes up, nobody is left to box out and get the board.

I used to work with an old man that told me. Son, every workplace has a dumbass, if you don't have one where you work, then I'm afraid you're it.

by Warden11 on Nov 20, 2009 8:50 AM CST reply actions

I'm just guessing here

but, to answer the “why did we schedule this game” question, I think it comes down to a couple of things.

1. They can’t all be NCAA contenders. It would be great to get all the top teams from mid-major conferences, but they don’t all have the ability to do so.

2. This was as close to the NCAA tournament UCA was every going to get this year. During their 5-year transition to D-I, they haven’t been able to do any postseason play. The only way to recruit and get any kind of decent players there is to try to get them games in a couple arenas like this.

3. If you’re gonna schedule a game with 1 day’s rest after playing a major program like Memphis, it may as well be a fluff opponent you don’t have to prepare for.

4. This game (I think) was part of the Hall of Fame Classic deal (the 4 for 1 kind of tournament) which allows us to play more games.

I understand that this kind of opponent doesn’t really do much to help us, but it gives our guys some confidence, gets the end of our bench some playing time, and gives the 16,300 fans lots to cheer about. I’m okay with it.

Operation 40-0 is a go. Proceed to target.

by Bensa on Nov 20, 2009 10:12 AM CST reply actions