THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2008
KANSAS 100, BAYLOR 90
5B
Foul trouble doesn't slow down Arthur
BY RUSTIN DODD
dodd@kansan.com
Kansas had a post-player with three fouls in the first half against Baylor Saturday. Surprisingly, it wasn't sophomore forward Darrell Arthur.
"He felt a lot like me probably"
Arthur said.
Junior forward Darnell Jackson - not Arthur - picked up his third foul in the first half with Kansas leading 27-23.
The sophomore forward would know. He's seemingly spent the last three weeks in perpetual foul trouble.
With Jackson playing limited minutes, the foul-prone Arthur avoided the referee's whistle in the first half, and led the Jayhawks with 23 points on 8-of-14 shooting. The key statistic for Arthur: he played 33 minutes, the most he's played since playing 34 minutes against Arizona Nov. 25.
"If I stay out of foul trouble I think I can play consistently. I just got to stop getting early fouls," Arthur said.
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It was a game suited for guards, fast paced with possessions aplenty. Two of the Big.12's best backcourts were battling each other shot for shot.
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"Those guards on that team can play," Arthur said of Baylor's quintet
of guards.
With the focus on the guards, Arthur's play reminded people not to forget about Kansas' frontcourt. The Dallas native was nearly perfect in the second half scoring 16 points on 5-of-6 shooting and 6-of-7 from the free-throw line.
He was a game, and then couple shots he kind of got into a little rhythm offensively." Self said.
A r th u r sparked Kansas to 54 total points in the paint. He also grabbed 10 rebounds.
"He was sped up to start the game, and then after he made a
"We could get anything we wanted to"
Arthur said, who came into Saturday leading Kansas with 13.3 points per game. "A lot of shots were falling."
Arthur was matched up against former South Oak Cliff High School teammate Kevin Rogers, and against a school that he almost chose to go to.
chose to attend Kansas over Baylor, the "what if" questions are still brought up.
"We always played together," Arthur said of Rogers. "We've been playing together for about three or four years and it just felt weird playing against him. But it was fun."
Nearly two years after Arthur
"I don't even really think about that," Arthur said.
"If I stay out of foul trouble I think I can play consistently. I just got to stop getting early fouls."
Self doesn't either.
"In recruiting people make a big deal of 'Well he came down to this or that.' That to me is irrelevant," Self said. "Guys don't go around talking
DARRELL ARTHUR Sophomore forward
about, 'Oh well,
what if we had
him."
It was Arthur's ability to avoid fouls and pile up minutes - not his choice of schools - that made the difference Saturday. Arthur hasn't been able to stay out of foul
trouble and his playing time has suffered. He played only 20.3 minutes per game in Kansas' last four games including a season-low 14 minutes against Missouri Monday. The 6-foot-9, sophomore didn't pick up his first foul until the opening minutes of the second half.
"Sometimes you go out there and play with too much energy, and bad things happen," Arthur said.
—Edited by Sasha Roe
Jessie Fetterling/KANSAN
Brandon Rush, junior guard, fights for the ball Saturday night at Allen Fieldhouse. Rush scored nine points in the 31 minutes of the game that he played against Baylor.
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Sophomore forward Darrrell Arthur battles Baylor forward Mark Sheppard for a rebound. Arthur led Kansas with 23 points and 10 rebounds. He also recorded three blocks, made two steals and stayed out of foul trouble.
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PRIME plays
FIRST HALF
12:14- Mario Chalmers fires a pass from beyond the three-point line to Darrell Arthur, who throws down the alley-oop. It pulls Kansas within one and gets the crowd into the game.
9:59 This Curtis Jerrells kid was pretty good. He makes a threepointer here to give Baylor a 20-13 lead, the largest deficit Kansas had faced at home all season.
2:03 Too bad Robinson wasn't as good on defense as he was on offense. Jerrells burns him again for a layup to give Baylor a 33-31 lead.
6. 38. Russell Robinson makes both of his free throws to put the Jayhawks on top 25-23. He made seven on nine from the foul line for the night.
SECOND HALF
17:36 Chalmers gets a pass from Brandon Rush and dunks in transition. Chalmers' hops seem to increase with each game.
15:36- Who would've known Kansas would go the rest of the way without even attempting a three-pointer? Robinson missed one here, and of course, the Jayhawks didn't make a three-pointer the entire game.
13:13- LaceDarius Dunn hits a three-pointer and gets fouled by Rush. His completion of the four-point play ties the game at 50.
8:12. KU fans had to love this sight. Sherron Collins dribbles through traffic to find Rush for a fast-break layup. Collins changed the game with his speed on Saturday night.
Mark Dent
Kansas 100 Baylor 90
BAYLOR
Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGA Rebs Pts
Kevin Rogers 3-7 0-0 5 6
Josh Lomers 1-3 0-0 3 2
Curtis Jerrells 11-21 4-8 5 30
Henry Dugat 6-13 1-3 5 15
Aaron Bruce 2-7 1-5 2 7
Mamadou Diene 1-2 0-0 10 3
Richard Hurd 0-0 0-0 0 0
LaceDarius Dunn 7-14 5-10 4 23
Mark Shepherd 0-1 0-0 0 0
Tweety Carter 1-4 1-3 1 4
KANSAS
Player FG-FGA 3FG-3GAA Rebs Pts
Darrell Arthur 8-14 0-1 10 23
Darnell Jackson 3-6 0-0 4 10
Russell Robinson 4-8 0-2 3 22
Mario Chalmers 4-5 0-0 5 10
Brandon Rush 4-12 0-4 7 9
Sherron Collins 6-10 0-2 2 17
Rodrick Stewart 0-0 0-0 1 1
Jeremy Case 0-0 0-0 0 0
Sasha Kaun 2-7 0-0 2 6
Cole Aldrich 1-1 0-0 2 2
the HIGH low
Highs Baylor's guards
Tweety Carter's Hair
Junior Curtis Jerrells scored 30 points and Baylor's four other guards combined for 79 points. The left-handed Jerrells was superb throughout, doing his best Acie Law IV impersonation. Freshman LaceDarius Dunn added 23 points.
Carter's parents got it right. The Baylor sophomore just looks like a "Tweety." Carter's braids made him look like a young Don Cheadle playing the role of Ice Tray in the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air television show.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius
Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius was in Allen Fieldhouse for the Baylor game. The rumor that Sebelius could be Barack Obama's running mate in the November presidential election could be pure speculation, but with Sebelius' presence in the fieldhouse, she'd probably have the vote of Jayhawk basketball fans.
Lows
Aaron Bruce
What happened to Bruce? The Baylor senior guard was the Big 12 Freshman of the Year three years ago. Now, Bruce just seems uncomfortable playing with the rest of the Baylor team. Brandon Rush held Bruce to seven points on 2-of-7 shooting.
Kansas' three-point shooting
Kansas three-point shooting
It may be nipicking – after all, the Jayhawks scored 100 points – but Kansas still laid a bagel from three-point range, shooting 0-of-9.
Bavlor's frontcourt
The Bears' guards dazzled, but their frontcourt was a dud. Kevin Rogers, Josh Lomers and Mamadou Diene scored 11 points combined.
Rustin Dodd.