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THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
KANSAS 46-4692
Kansas 92
IOWA STATE 43-38 81
KANSAS STAT LEADERS
Wiggins
Tharpe
Embiid
KANSAS
PLAYER PTS FG-FGA REBS A TO'S
Perry Ellis 20 8-12 6 0 2
Andrew Wiggins 29 10-16 7 0 4
Joel Embilid 14 5-9 11 1 2
Frank Mason 3 1-5 1 1 2
Wayne Selden Jr. 11 4-8 1 5 3
Naadir Tharpe 12 3-7 6 12 0
Jamari Traylor 0 0-1 6 1 0
Brannen Greene 3 1-4 0 0 0
Other Players 0 0-8 0 0 1
TOTAL 92 32-62 38 20 13
IOWA STATE
PLAYER PTS FG-FGA REBS A TO'S
Melvin Ejim 18 7-13 8 3 3
George Niang 24 10-17 4 5 5
Dustin Hogue 7 2-5 6 2 2
DeAndre Kane 22 8-14 2 3 1
Naz Long 0 0-3 0 0 1
Daniel Edozie 0 0-0 0 0 0
Monte Morris 4 1-4 3 1 0
Matt Thomas 6 2-6 1 1 1
Other Players 0 0-0 0 0 0
TOTAL 81 30-62 28 17 13
GAME TO REMEMBER
Andrew Wiggins, forward
The star of the game was hands-down Andrew Wiggins. He broke another season-high points total with 29 and scoring 12 of those points in the first half. Wiggins was 4-6 from three and showed his aggression by getting to the foul line six times, knocking down five of the six. Wiggins also came up with a huge fast break dunk at the deal.
end of the game to seal the dea
Wiggins
GAME TO FORGET
Frank Mason, guard
Even though Frank Mason knocked down a big three in the second half, those three points were his only points of the game. He was 1-3 from three and 1-4 in total from the field. Also, Mason forced three turnovers in 11 minutes.
Mason
UNSUNG HERO
Perry Ellis, forward
People might not agree because Ellis was held to three points in the second half, but Ellis scored 17 points and five rebounds in the first half. He is a main reason Kansas had control of the lead going into the second half. Ellis played 33 minutes and had a good defensive game against Iowa State's Dustin Hogue.
Ellis
BASKETBALL
Kansas continues winning streak against Iowa State
As Kansas has done in every half against Iowa State this year, the Jayhawks charged out to a sizable lead. Leading 30-14 with 10 minutes remaining in the first half, Kansas began to miss shots as Iowa State cut the lead to one before taking a
BRIAN HILLIX
sports@kansan.com
Many teams, especially young ones, deflate after seeing a significant early lead vanish.
from freshmen Wayne Selden and Andrew Wiggins. With a 13-point lead, Kansas again saw Iowa State chip away as the Cyclones began to find success scoring near the basket.
Look no further than the back-to-back defending NBA Champions. On Wednesday, the Miami Heat held an 18-point lead in the first quarter against the Oklahoma City Thunder only to see it disappear four minutes before halftime. The veteran-led Heat would go on to lose by 17 at home.
When sophomore Georges Niang's 3-pointer cut the
The Jayhawks didn't let that happen.
"We fought when they went on runs. Coach talks about it all the time, you have to have great composure"
No. 6 Kansas (16-4, 7-0) fought off several furious rallies as the Jayhawks defeated No. 16 Iowa State (15-4, 3-4) 92-81 at Allen Fieldhouse. Every time Iowa State threatened to take the lead, Kansas' young squad wouldn't back down.
PERRY ELLIS Sophomore forward
"We fought when they went on runs," sophomore Perry Ellis said. "Coach talks about it all the time, you have to have great composure."
46-43 lead into halftime. The Cyclones hit four consecutive 3-pointers during a two-minute stretch to pull within seven and eventually one with a minute to go in the half
"We played as well as we could play early," Kansas coach Bill Self said. "We knew they'd make a game out of it."
After an Iowa State 3-pointer to open the second half, Kansas went on an 11-0 run to regain a double-digit advantage aided by 3-pointers
Jayhawk lead to one, Selden found freshman Joel Embiid, who slipped away from his defender for a dunk to ignite the Allen Fieldhouse crowd. With the help of a critical flagrant foul on Iowa State, Kansas extended its lead to nine behind six consecutive points from Wiggins.
It was a big play, it (the lead) goes from three to seven in the last three minutes," Iowa State coach Fred Hoiburg said about the flagrant foul.
Iowa State showed why its offense leads the Big 12 in scoring as the Cyclones shot 48 percent from the field and made 10 3-pointers, four of which came during the team's first half surge that cut the Kansas lead to as much as one before halftime. Self said a 10-minute stretch by the Cyclones in the first period was the best play by any opponent he has seen all year.
None of this is new to the Jayhawks, who led Oklahoma State at home by 19 at halftime before the lead dwindled to one. Kansas' first meeting with Iowa State in Ames saw the Jayhawks open up a 15-4 lead only to see Iowa State tie it right before halftime. Both, of course, ended in Kansas wins.
In a sport where scoring runs are commonplace, these jayhawks don't get fazed. They fight back.
"If they play like that, they're still in the league race." Self said.
— Edited by Katie Gilbaugh
Freshman guard Brannen Greene shoots a three-pointer. He made the shot is 1-3 from behind the arc
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