Kansas Runs Away From Oklahoma In The Second Half
by Owen on Jan 7, 2012 3:04 PM CST
in Kansas Jayhawk Basketball 2011-12
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PrintThough the first 20 minutes of Saturday's game the Oklahoma Sooners looked perfectly capable of playing with Kansas and pulling the upset. In fact, Oklahoma led this game by a point at the intermission but whatever Bill Self did at halftime seemed to work.
In the second half Kansas stepped onto the court in Norman and took control of the game with an early 23-3 run led by junior Travis Releford. Releford led the Jayhawks by scoring a new career high for the second consecutive game. At the same time a hot shooting Oklahoma squad cooled quite a bit in the second half and much of that can be attributed to a increase in defensive intensity by Kansas.
It amounts to a solid road win in conference for Kansas and it's always important to avoid the letdown after playing one of you major rivals early in the week. In some ways Kansas improved on what they did earlier this week against Kansas State. The Jayhawks did a better job of taking care of the basketball and you could probably argue that the Kansas second half defense was as good or better as the Jayhawk effort against the Wildcats.
Kansas wins this one by a final score of 72 to 61. As mentioned before, the Jayhawks were led by Travis Releford who turned in a 28 point performance. Thomas Robinson just missed a double double with 18 points and 9 rebounds. Another positive is the combined 11 assists to just 5 turnovers for Tyshawn Taylor and Elijah Johnson.
With Missouri losing big to Kansas State, the Jayhawks and the Baylor Bears take the early edge in the conference race after one week of play. Next up, Kansas heads to Lubbock to take on Texas Tech on Wednesday. The Red Raiders sit 0-2 after losing to Baylor, although Billy Gillespie did give Scott Drew and the Bears more of a game than many expected so Kansas will need to be ready.
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Very impressive second half...
Oklahoma isn’t a good team at all, but putting a team away on the road isn’t easy and we made it look that way today.
by hiphopopotamus on Jan 7, 2012 3:57 PM CST via mobile reply actions 1 recs
Missouri found that out
in Manhattan today. Ouch.
Mizzoo also found out what it was like to play a team with a pulse.
The cat fight probably raised their SOS by 50%; 300 to 150?
MU is going to have to play a lot more games against real opponents to get their SOS rank to 150
I don’t know if a single team from their non-conference schedule will make the tournament.
I still think they have a shot at being a top half of the league team
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#5 at the very best I'm assuming.
KU, KSU, Baylor, and Mizzou are all quite a bit better.
Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
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indeed
think it’s between them and Texas and Iowa State for the 5 spot.
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Gotta take the road wins when you can get them.
Great game by Releford, too.
Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
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by Warden11 on Jan 7, 2012 4:15 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
Gotta get road Ws when you can
Travis is really making a difference. Kept them in the game for first 20 minutes so we could enjoy that second half.
ISU is putting a nice little beat down on A&M in College Station today.
63-41 with 5 minutes to go.
A&M might be the disappointment of the year
Them or UCLA
I seem to remember saying A&M would suck repeatedly
it’s almost like I know what I’m talking about!
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by fetch9 on Jan 7, 2012 5:01 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
haha fair
that was a pretty universal opinion though. I’ll be interested to see how things went. I’m guessing I missed on a lot of the teams (Vandy, Arizona) where I ranked them high even though they weren’t top 10 material only because there was no one else who could go there.
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Ehehe well I think you were just tentative on them
Good call on A&M, a lot of people were all over them for some unknown reason.
Clarification request
So I meandered over to ESPN to read the story about the KSU-Mizzou game, and ended up reading some of the comments (big mistake that I don’t usually make), and a Mizzou fan claimed that the actual “Conference Champion” was the winner of the tournament and that, while there was a “Regular Season Conference Record” winner, the actual champion was the winner of the tournament.
Now, everyone else seems to accept that we’ve won the conference 7 times (sharing 2 or 3 of those), but if you google “Big XII Men’s Basketball Conference Champion,” the first link goes to the Conference basketball homepage but the second goes to the Phillips 66 Big XII Men’s Basketball Championship, which is the tournament website.
And if you go to wikipedia, the “List of Big XII Conference Champions” lists both regular season and tournament champions.
My question here is this: is the regular season championship the “Conference Championship” or is the tournament the true “Conference Championship”?
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IMO, the regular season winner is the true conference champ.
It is the much more difficult and impressive accomplishment. Particularly with the full home and home schedule this year. The regular season champ will be truely battle tested in the Big 12 this year, Reminds me of the old Big 8 days.
i always thought
the best record during the conference season was the conference champ. and the team who won the conference tournament was the tourney champ. but that’s just me
I'm tell ya like the bath tub told the toilet stool, " I get as much ass as you but I don't have to take all that shit!"
-Dolemite
that's what I thought, too
I always thought that there was the “Conference Champion” and the “Conference Tournament Champion”.
The poster formerly known as DCJayhawk0208
It is regular season. They are just trying to claim a conference title because they have never won one. Conference hands put a trophy for both. Regular season one says ‘Big 12 champion’ tourney one says tournament champion.
Im sure this is a premature strike because they lost confidence in their ability to win the league today. Soon they will be off to the SEC with nothing to show for their time in the Big 12 : )
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by Owen on Jan 7, 2012 9:29 PM CST via mobile up reply actions 2 recs
You'd think they were headed to the ACC
There was this same talk last Spring, trying to claim what they hadn’t earned. It was pointed out at the time that the ACC uses the regular season for seeding, but the tourney for determining the champion. We aren’t in the ACC though, and the conf champion is definitely the team(s) with the best record.
teach me to wander into the ESPN comment sections
They’re as bad as the Star’s.
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Exactly right on all counts, Owen
In fact, the Tournament serves only two purposes — (1) to determine the conference Automatic Qualifier for the NCAA Tournament and (2) to get more $$$$$ into the conference piggybank. It has absolutely nothing to do with determining who the B12 Conference Champion, that is the reward for season performance. Every major and most mid-major conference tournaments are a second chance after the regular season (in the so-called “lesser” leagues, usually the only chance) for a team that did not win the regular season to still get a chance to play in the Dance.
With today’s bad road loss, I would not be at all surprised to see mOO drop out of the top 10. They have yet to prove they can win on the road in conference, which was their big weakness last year. Until they do, it’s hard to argue they are a top 10 team.
Oh, btw, — and I only nitpick spelling on names, because I think they are important (like who is this Weiss guy? Do they mean Weis? One is his name, the other is not.) — Billy G’s last name is spelled “Gillispie”, not “Gillespie”.
"So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."
You found an idiot
on the ESPN forum. Everyone knows it’s the regular season that’s the champion in the Big 8/12. Always has been always will be. The tournament championship is nice to have too, but many coaches don’t care about the tournament as it is generally pretty meaningless.
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solid work
I'm tell ya like the bath tub told the toilet stool, " I get as much ass as you but I don't have to take all that shit!"
-Dolemite
I think this team is starting to really come together
Whether it’s due to the tough non-con, the players-only meeting, or just HCBS’ magic sinking in, who knows? But I like it.
R.I.P. DOM
by KennyGregoryRockThaCradle on Jan 8, 2012 12:43 AM CST reply actions
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