Nuts & Bolts Preview: Kansas @ Texas Tech
by Owen on Mar 3, 2009 7:00 PM CST
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No. 9 Kansas (24-5, 13-1 Big 12) closes out its regular-season with games at Texas Tech (12-17, 2-12 Big 12) on Wednesday and Texas Saturday. The Jayhawks sit at 13-1 in the Big 12 race and a win in either game will give KU its fifth-straight, ninth Big 12 and NCAA Division I all-time high 52nd conference regular-season title. Kansas takes a five-game winning streak to Lubbock after its 90-65 win against Border Showdown foe Missouri on Sunday. Kansas moved up to No. 9 in both the Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today Coaches’ polls released March 2. It marks the first time KU has been ranked in the top 10 since the final polls of the 2007-08 season. Texas Tech is looking to snap a six-game losing streak on Wednesday after its 78-63 loss to Oklahoma Saturday.
Denver's Thoughts...
No way, no how should this trip to the lone star state result in anything but locking up a 5th consecutive Big 12 title. No way...now how...so why am I nervous? Not sure maybe it's the memory of Darryl Dora knocking in a desperation three and the knockout punch in 2005. Maybe it's the fact that we absolutely humiliated the Red Raiders last year and Robert Montgomery and Pat Knight might be sitting in a bunker right now plotting their revenge. I hope neither is true and I do think we come out with a win fairly easily but in the back of my mind...I'm nervous.
Score Prediction: Kansas 81 Texas Tech 66
Team Stat Averages
| PPG | FG% | FT% | 3P% | RPG | ORPG | DRPG | APG | TPG | SPG | BPG | FPG | ||
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KU | 77.8 | 48.7 | 72.5 | 39.0 | 41.8 | 12.0 | 27.1 | 16.5 | 14.9 | 7.0 | 4.5 | 19.4 |
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TTU | 77.8 | 45.4 | 71.8 | 37.1 | 39.3 | 10.6 | 25.3 | 15.7 | 14.7 | 5.7 | 3.1 | 21.7 |
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KU Opponents | 64.8 | 38.2 | 70.3 | 32.6 | 34.0 | 11.2 | 20.0 | 12.7 | 13.9 | 7.2 | 3.0 | 20.3 |
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TTU Opponents | 79.3 | 44.3 | 70.2 | 35.6 | 41.6 | 12.4 | 25.8 | 13.4 | 13.9 | 8.1 | 3.0 | 20.2 |
Full preview and further breakdown after the jump...
| Rank and Records | KU | TTU | |
|---|---|---|---|
| RPI | #7 | #135 | |
| Strength of Schedule | #14 | #23 | |
| Overall | 24-5 | 12-17 | |
| Conference | 13-1 | 2-12 | |
| Home | 17-1 | 11-6 | |
| Away | 6-3 | 0-10 | |
| Top 25 | 3-2 | 0-6 | |
| RPI Top 50 | 8-4 | 0-10 |
Kansas has been guaranteed a bye in the 2009 Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship to be played at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City. The Jayhawks can finish no lower than the No. 3 seed in the event. KU has won the event each of the last three seasons and six times since the inception of the league in 1996-97.
Kansas is three points from being undefeated in Big 12 play and is 6-1 on the road in conference action this season. The Jayhawks have won five straight and 13 of their last 14 games with the lone loss at Missouri, 62-60, on Feb. 9. The Jayhawks are averaging 77.8 points per game and giving up 64.8 for a +13.0 scoring margin. KU leads the Big 12 in field goal percentage defense at 38.2 percent, rebound defense at 31.2 and rebound margin at +7.9. In conference play, KU leads the conference in scoring margin (+12.6), field goal percentage (50.5), field goal percentage defense (37.9), three-point field goal percentage (42.3), three-point field goal percentage defense (30.9), rebounding (38.4), rebounding defense (28.9) and rebound margin (+9.5).
Texas Tech is 12-17 overall and 2-12 in Big 12 play. The Red Raiders won their first five games of the season, yet have gone 7-17 since and are looking to snap a six-game losing streak. Tech is 11-6 at home and its two league wins have come at the United Spirit Arena. Texas Tech is scoring 77.8 points per game and giving up 79.3. Tech makes 7.1 three pointers per contest. Sophomore guard John Roberson is one of four Red Raiders averaging double figures with a team-high 14.3 points
per game. He leads the Big 12 with 6.5 assists per game and his 65 three pointers are second most on the team behind senior guard Alan Voskuil’s 78. Voskuil is scoring 13.8 points per game and has a team best 36 steals. He is second on the squad with 4.1 rebounds per contest.
Meet the Opposing Coach
Texas Tech head coach Pat Knight literally got thrown into the fire when his legendary father, Bob, resigned Feb. 4, 2008. Pat Knight’s first collegiate head coaching position has him at 16-24. Knight is in his eighth season at Texas Tech with the first six-plus seasons as an assistant to Bob Knight, the winningest coach in NCAA Division I men’s basketball. After his four year collegiate playing career
at Indiana (1991-95), Knight joined the staff of the NBA’s Phoenix Suns where he served as an administrative assistant and scout. In 1997, he was an assistant coach for the CBA’s Connecticut Pride. In 1998, Knight was named to his first head coaching position as the leader of the Wisconsin Blast of the International Basketball Association. After serving as an assistant at Indiana for two years and one season as an assistant coach at Akron, Knight followed his father to Texas Tech in 2001-02 to be an assistant coach. He was named head coach designate prior to the 2005-06 season.
This series dates back to 1959 and Kansas leads 17-3. Texas Tech has won two of the last four meetings against Kansas with both victories in Lubbock. Kansas leads 6-3 against Tech in games played in Lubbock and the series is tied at 2-2 in games played in the United Spirit Arena. Texas Tech has won the last two meetings in the facility – 80-79 in double overtime in 2005 and 69-64 in 2007. Since the Big 12 started, KU leads 10-3 with a 9-3 mark in the regular season and a 1-0 record in the
Big 12 Championship. On Kansas’ Senior Day last season, KU’s 109-51 win was the widest margin of victory (58 points) in a Big 12 regular-season game in the 13-year history of the conference. Then- KU freshman Cole Aldrich had a double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds in the game. Sherron Collins scored 13 for the game.
Improve Kansas to 25-5 on the season and be KU's fourth-straight season with at least 25 wins dating back to 2005-06…
Make KU 14-1 in Big 12 play, its best conference 15-game record since the 2001-02 team went 16-0…
Give Kansas at least a share of its fifth straight, ninth Big 12 and 52nd overall conference regular-season title…
Be Kansas’ sixth-straight win…
Mark the sixth time in Big 12 history Kansas has won 14 conference games with the five others winning the league outright…
Make the all-time series with Texas Tech 18-3, including 7-3 in games played in Lubbock, 3-2 in United Spirit Arena and 11-3 in the Big 12 era…
Improve Bill Self to 167-37 while at KU, 374-142 overall and 5-5 against Texas Tech, 4-2 while at KU…
Make Kansas 1,968-790 all-time.
A Trip Down Memory Lane
A look at favorite players and figures from the opponents past...
Andre Emmett
Tony Battie....
Bobby Knight
...not a whole lot else since I've been paying attention to these guys any help would be greatly appreciated.
Upcoming Schedule
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With both of us
shooting 77.8% FG for the year, this could be a crazy game…….that is a misprint right?
by I need more Esteban on Mar 3, 2009 7:14 PM CST reply actions
sorry about that....
I don’t know why my charts keep shifting like that…obviously shift all headings to the right 1 spot and it will be correct.
Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.
Anyone around watching the
OK St. & K-State game? K-State loses and they are done for, barring a magical run in the Big 12 tourney. OK. St. loses and they reallly hurt their chances but wouldn’t totally be done because they still have OU in the final game of the year….a win would be verrry big for them, though.
Right now, 39-36 with a minute to go in the 1st half, both teams playing like it’s the tourney.
Also, it’s almost halftime but they previewed talking about our Hawks at halftime.
by I need more Esteban on Mar 3, 2009 7:17 PM CST reply actions
damn
guess I can’t re-create a 2nd OGT of the day
by I need more Esteban on Mar 3, 2009 7:26 PM CST up reply actions
It's tough to have two in 1 day.
I think K-State is cooked already unless they make the Big 12 Championship game.
I just got back from your mom's basement.
Now that they lost (or at least, it's looking that way)
they probably have to win it.
But, if they would have won tonight, and beat Colorado on Saturday, I think only a single W in OKC would have been enough.
But now, with this loss, they should be all-but-cooked.
I think this is closer than expected
Kansas faces a little bit of an emotional letdown but still wins comfortably in the end.
That's what we do at Kansas, we WIN.
by Ghost of Mark Randall on Mar 3, 2009 9:01 PM CST reply actions
A Trip Down Memory Lane
A look at favorite players and figures from the opponents past…
Andre Emmett
Tony Battie….
Bobby Knight
No Darryl Dora?
I made an ass of myself
Did not read the part where you had mentioned him above. Maybe I didn’t take the Texas Tech pregame post seriously enough and now I am paying for it. I hope our ’Hawks learn something from me.
by GingerBalls-OBK on Mar 3, 2009 9:51 PM CST up reply actions
I am reminded of two more though...
Jarius Jackson and Darvin Ham
Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.
Jarrius Jackson was the bomb.
Damn, was he good.
Martin Zeno was the guy who beat us last time, right? Dude was pretty solid, too.
Zeno was a good one...not sure when the beat us last though...
the Darryl Dora thing is the only one that sticks in my mind
Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.
Yeah.
I think Dora is the guy who hit the late three to actually put them ahead, but Zeno was the guy who led them for the first 39 minutes or whatever.
(does 2 minutes of research…)
Nope, I was mostly wrong. Yeah, Zeno scored 14, but Jackson had 15 and Dora came through with his career game, scoring 19 including the clutch three. — Link
Yikes, looking at that box score, no one played well for us. And we shot 4 FT’s to their 20. That’ll do you in, more times than not.
that game pissed me of as much as the Okie State game...
last year…those were just frustrating losses
Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.
Great info packed Hawk Talk food by Denverjhawk
Love those stats…..just jump’n in to rap about my hawks!!!!
by 3 ball corner pocket on Mar 4, 2009 10:58 AM CST reply actions
Any thoughts about the Tiggers tonite?
would love to clinch outright of course.
by 3 ball corner pocket on Mar 4, 2009 11:01 AM CST up reply actions
honestly...
I’m a little more interested in that game than our own tonight…and that doesn’t happen often.
Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.
Agreed.
And I’m definitely for Missouri.
I want the outright title wrapped up tonight!
Plus, as everyone knows, I’m like Missouri’s official supporter around here.
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:D :D :D
"I log on to RCT after school, and I see the 228 comments on this thread. I actually immediately panicked, because knowing KC, I figured some other fan from another school (most likely Mizzou) came over and said something stupid. Then, KC freaked out at him, and said something stupid (no offense, KC, but this really wouldn’t be that extraordinary for you to pull off) and then there was mass hysteria. I would have to ban people, and warn people, and it’d be mass chaos." - SlowDance
I say OU wins by
6…but honestly I could almost…keyword ALMOST cheer for the tigers tonight
Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.
not a snowball's chance in hell
I’d ever cheer for the tiggers. I don’t know what it is, wait… yes I do. My car was keyed/ almost destroyed at a football game in Columbia about 6 years ago. That’s a good start.
I just got back from your mom's basement.
what did you do?
roll in with a Giant Jayhawk sticker on your car?
Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.
Jayhawk license plate on the front.
That’s it. I went in to the game and came out and saw it.
I just got back from your mom's basement.
I've got a feeling..........
Missouri will win with a last second shot!….am I way out there?
by 3 ball corner pocket on Mar 4, 2009 11:05 AM CST reply actions
nope not at all...
they are I believe still undefeated at home and I would hope this one will be a sellout like ours was.
Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.
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