MONDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 2005
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Knight's Tech 'hungry'
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BY KEELS ROBINETT
krobinett@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
Texas Tech coach Bob Knight argued with an official during the first half of last year's game at Allen Fieldhouse. The Jayhawks take their undefeated conference record to Lubbock, Texas, to take on the Red Raiders on their home turf tonight at 8 p.m.
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Kansas will face a tough conference opponent when it takes the floor against Texas Tech at 8 tonight in Lubbock, Texas.
Texas Tech (15-6, 7-3 Big 12) will be motivated heading into the Big Monday match-up, coming off an 81-68 defeat at Iowa State.
"They'll be mad," Kansas coach Bill Self said. "They got beat in Hilton Coliseum and I'm sure coach Knight will have them fired up and ready. I'm sure it will be a great atmosphere."
Legendary Texas Tech coach Bob Knight has never defeated Kansas while a coach in Lubbock, Texas. Kansas is 15-1 all-time against Texas Tech.
Before its defeat at Iowa State, Texas Tech was playing its best basketball of the season. The team scored at least 83 points in four straight conference victories, and the 13-point defeat in Ames, Iowa, appears to be the exception, rather than the norm.
If the Jayhawks are to extend their all-time record against the Red Raiders to 16-1, they will need to defend the old-school motion offense that Knight's team runs.
"They're going to be hungry coming off their loss," senior forward Wayne Simien said. "We know they'll be well-coached, and being a road game, we know they'll play us pretty tough down there."
"It's the easiest to prepare for and the hardest to play." Self said. "You can't really say these are their plays, and this is what they do. They execute in the half-court offense as good as anybody."
Senior guard Aaron Miles agreed, and said Kansas would need to play good defense all night if it wanted to win.
"The easiest people to guard are players that stand." Miles said. "Texas Tech does a lot of movement, and their players are never standing in one spot."
Senior guard Ronald Ross leads the way for Texas Tech, as he averages 17.1 points per game. In some ways he is Texas Tech's equivalent of Christian Moody. Though Ross now plays with a scholarship, he was not offered one as a freshman.
Sophomore guard Jarius Jackson, who averages 15.2 points per game, follows Ross. Jackson won Big 12 Player of the Week honors last week after averaging 28.5 points in two games against Oklahoma and Colorado.
The Monroe, La., native recorded back-to-back career highs. First he scored 25 points against the Buffalooes. Then he posted a 32-point performance at Oklahoma, which helped end the Sooners' 14-game home winning streak.
— Edited by Azita Tafreshi
Second half lifts Tar Heels
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BY JIM O'CONNELL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HARTFORD, Conn. — Rashad McCants and Raymond Felton had big second halves yesterday to help No. 2 North Carolina bounce back from a tough defeat with a 77-70 victory against No. 19 Connecticut.
McCants had 11 of his 15 points in the second half for North Carolina, while Felton had 14 of his 16 points and seven of his 10 assists in the final 20 minutes.
The performances by the junior stars enabled the Tar Heels (20-3) to leave the court at the Hartford Civic Center with
smiles on their faces instead of the stunned looks they wore following the last-play breakdown in a 71-70 defeat at No. 7 Duke on Wednesday night.
Connecticut led 34-31 after a first half that was played at the pace the Huskies were looking for. The second half was more to the liking of the Tar Heels, who lead the nation in scoring at 91.2 points per game.
McCants started the game by missing seven of his first nine shots, but the three-pointer capped a run where he made four of six shots from the field and scored nine points in as many minutes.
He came up with an offensive rebound on the missed front end of a 1-and-1 by Marvin Williams and fed it back to him for a basket. Then he made a pass to Williams on the wing and the freshman hit a jumper as the shot clock expired that made it 73-63 with 1:48 left.
Felton hit a three-pointer with 12:10 left to break the game's final tie and give North Carolina a 51-48 lead. That started a 16-6 run that was capped with McCants' only 5 of the game that made it 64-54 with 7:54 to go.
When Connecticut closed within 67-63 on a driving basket by Williams, McCants was the kev to the Tar Heels' 8-0 run
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