THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"It's almost like playing with Blake."
— junior guard Elijah Johnson on how passing to junior center Jeff Withey is similar to passing to Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin
Junior center Jeff Withey has 53 blocked shots in the conference season, which is twice as many as any other player in the Big 12.
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Q: Senior guard Tyshawn Taylor has 114 all-time starts at Kansas, tied for 10th in school history. Who is he tied with?
THE MORNING BREW March will be a challenge for Kansas
A:Darnell Valentine (1978-81)
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
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Kansas wasn't supposed to be battling for a No.1 seed on February 17. You know the story by now: Four of last season's top five scorer's departed as well as five of the six leaders in minutes per game. Tyshawn Taylor was the only jayhawk returning with legitimate experience and the team had more pre-season question marks than any Kansas team in recent memory.
Fast forward nearly four months and those questions have been answered in positive tones for Kansas fans. Junior forward Thomas Robinson went from potentially great to the leader for the National Player of the Year award. Tyshawn Taylor has been playing like an All-American in conference games and an eighth consecutive Big 12 regular season championship is well within Kansas' grasps.
If the team does capture another conference title, that No. 1 seed would be a strong possibility, giving Kansas one of
the (potentially) easiest roads to New Orleans and the Final Four. However, there's a steep hurdle the Jayhawks would have to clear if an early April trip to the Big Easy is in store: exhaustion.
Coach Bill Self has four players-Tyshawn Taylor, Thomas Robinson, Elijah Johnson and Travis Releford-playing at least 30 minutes per game. On the surface, the rotation consists of seven or eight players, but Self insists it's actually only six. Senior guard Conner Teahan is the only non-starter playing 11
minutes or more per game and he's the only bench player to even be remotely trusted in a late-game situation.
"If those six are playing really good, I guess it's positive," Self said Thursday. "If we get in bad foul trouble it may be negative. I don't know."
The lukewarm response tells you all you really need to know. Coaching is as much psychology as it is X's and O's and no team wants to hear their coach isn't confident in its ability to overcome tired legs in March.
But Self certainly didn't strike down the notion that a limited bench could be a problem next month. Tyshawn Taylor even told Self before Monday's game at Kansas State that he's "worn out."
If history is any indication, Self's team won't be able to stay fresh in next month's NCAA tournament. In the last 10 seasons, only seven Final Four teams have had four or more players average 30 or more points, a whopping 17 percent.
No championship team has met that criteria in that time span, either.
It won't be a choke job, as many will call it that.
The truth is, Self and his Jayhawks have no business being discussed as one of the nation's best teams. But here they are, in line for another No. 1 seed and the team's only legitimate bench player is a former walk-on who leads one of the worst benches Self has ever had.
Enjoy the rest of the regular season and the potentially eighth consecutive Big 12 championship. But don't be surprised when March is another heartbreaker.
Edited by Amanda Gage
This week in athletics
Friday
Softball Middle Tennessee State 9 a.m. Charlotte, N.C.
Charlotte
11 a.m.
Charlotte, N.C.
Baseball
Middle Tennessee State
3 p.m.
Tennreesboro, Tenn.
Saturday
Women's basketball
Missouri
1 p.m.
Lawrence
Sunday
Men's basketball
Texas Tech
7 p.m.
Lawrence
Softball
Stony Brook
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Charlotte, N.C.
Tennis
Arkansas-Little Rock
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There are no athletic events today.
Women's basketball
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7 p.m.
Lubbock, Texas
Wednesday
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College Station, Texas
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Big 12 Championships
All Day
Columbia, Mo.
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All Day
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