Kansas Wins Back To Back Big 12 Tournament Championships

If the phrase "put your money where your mouth is" exists in the dictionary somewhere, the pictures of Marcus and Markieff Morris likely accompany it. After trash talking the Longhorns a bit last night, the Twins backed it up, combining for 31 points and 15 rebounds as Kansas won the Big 12 title for the second year in a row, and in the process avenging one of its two losses on the year.

The game had many of the same mechanics of their regular season meeting: a KU run to start the game and a sizable lead at halftime, followed by a UT run to push it back to single digits midway through the second half. Fortunately (for a number of reasons) the Jayhawks were not up until 6 AM the night/morning before and were able to pull away.

Tyshawn Taylor had his best game of the season, and given the circumstances I don't think it's a stretch to say it was the best game of his career. He had 20 points, and accumulated them efficiently, going 5-8 from two and 2-2 from three. He also had 5 assists next to only 2 turnovers.

A special shoutout should go out to Brady Morningstar. He had a very good offensive game, with 12 points, but although Jordan Hamilton had 19 for Texas, he did it on 8-20 shooting. Great job by Brady.

And great job by the Jayhawks, back to back tournament champs. Now let's go win some other tournament that I hear starts next weekend.