THURSDAY, JANUARY 26. 2012
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Kansas 30 | 32 — 62 Texas Tech 23 | 20 — 43
KANSAS 62, T
JAYHAWK STAT LEADERS
Points
Davis 34
Rebounds
Sutherland
Sutherland 7
Assists
Goodrich
Goodrich 9
KANSAS
Player Pts FG-FGA Rebs A TO's
Aishah Sutherland 10 5-11 7 1 2
Carolyn Davis 34 17-24 6 0 1
Angel Goodrich 6 2-7 5 9 2
Monica Engleman 8 3-11 7 5 3
Natalie Knight 2 1-3 4 3 0
Chelsea Gardner 2 1-4 1 0 1
CeCe Harper 0 0-0 2 1 0
Tania Jackson 0 0-1 1 0 1
Totals 62 29-61 36 19 12
TEXAS TECH
Player Pts FG-FGA Rebs A TO's
Shauntaal Nobles 4 1-5 6 0 1
Kelsi Baker 6 3-10 5 0 2
Christine Hyde 9 4-12 6 1 2
Casey Morris 0 0-7 3 2 2
Monique Smalls 7 3-8 4 0 4
Chynna Brown 11 5-13 7 0 2
Jordan Barncastle 4 2-4 2 0 0
Amber Battle 0 0-0 0 0 1
Totals 43 19-64 42 3 15
Carolyn Davis, junior forward
GAME TO REMEMBER
Efficiency continues to be the buzz word around Carolyn Davis and that continued on Wednesday when she scored the Big 12 season high with 24 points. Davis finished 17 of 24 from the field including making her final seven shots of the game. The surprising part about tonight was that she only shot one free throw attempt. Even though Davis was impressive she was still four points off her career-high 38 points.
Davis
GAME TO FORGET
Natalie Knight, freshman guard
Battling a cold for most of the week, the steady freshman guard tried to give her best effort against Texas Tech. However, it was one of her more underhelping performances of the year, drawing three fouls throughout the game and ending with only two points, three assists and four rebounds.
SHOT CHART: CAROLYN DAVIS, JUNIOR FORWARD
Knight
QUOTE OF THE GAME
"We have a great team this year and we are ready to beat any ranked team that comes to us."
— Senior forward Alsah Sutherland on what it means to beat two ranked teams this season.
Sutherland
Since conference season began, the women's basketball team has not had a convincing win inside Allen Fieldhouse.
KEY STATS
RYAN MCCARTHY
Carolyn Davis scored a season-high 34 points, the most by a Big 12 player this season.
That all changed on Wednesday night when Kansas dismantled No. 21 Texas Tech 62-43 to give the team its second conference home victory.
34
29.7
"I thought we got off to good start finally at home," coach Bonnie Henrickson said. "We talked about how we played with a great sense of urgency on the road and built leads and were able to withstand some leads on the road and hadn't done that at home."
Kansas brings down Texas Tech
Texas Tech's Red Raiders coach Kristy Curry also pointed out that defending the home court is the most important factor in the Big 12.
Kansas held Texas Tech to poor shooting from the field. They have held all 19 opponents to under 50 percent.
rmccarthy@kansan.com
Carolyn Davis scored 20 of her 34 points in the first half.
WOMEN'S BASK
Aishah Sutherland had a career-high six blocks
"The bottom line is that Kansas played great tonight," Curry said. They defended their home court like you have to do in this league.
After dropping two of their last three games at home to Kansas State and Texas A&M, the Jayhawks felt
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of success they had with the Red Raiders was thanks in large part to junior forward Carolyn Davis with 34 points on 17 of 24 shooting.
"We are more mature," Henrickson said. "We are, I think, playing more of a sense of urgency and responsibility."
The major factor for Kansas to
like they needed to make a statement to move their season in a positive direction.
of Davis' baskets. But Goodrich can't take all the credit for setting up Davis. Junior guard Monica Engleman also plays a crucial role.
"Monty sets the screen, and the way she set it sometimes runs their players into each other. So Carolyn's wide open." Goodrich said.
"We are more mature. We are, I think, playing more of a sense of urgency and responsibility."
BONNIE HENRICKSON Coach
"I was just after the ball today," Sutherland said. "I looked at being on help side and take the opportunity to block someone's shot and to tell them not to come to the rim anymore."
In fact, the entire jayawk de fense had a solid effort holding the Red Raiders to 29.7 percent from the field.
What else made it easier for Davis was the absence of Texas Tech's senior forward Kiera Mallard who missed the game for undisclosed medical reasons.
Of all the aspects of the stat sheet Sutherland was extremely pleased about her blocks.
Jayhawks. She had 10 points, seven rebounds and a career high six blocks.
in the after going 10 of 17 in the first half, she made all seven of her baskets in the second half.
"I think it's a credit to my teammates for passing me the ball, and Angel getting it to me while I'm open helped me get easy baskets," Davis said.
"It was kind of a load off your shoulders," Davis said, "She's a scoring machine and it would have been tough to guard her, and offensively tries to do a lot so that was a blessing in disguise I guess."
Another impressive performance on the night was senior forward Aishah Sutherland who was doing a little bit of everything for the
Junior guard Angel Goodrich,
who finished the game with nine
assists, was on the back end of many
In fact after
Henrickson said her team did a good job with on ball defense, but struggled some of the time with transition.
ence for Davis' post play
Not having her in the game made
"We're not gonna re-invent the wheel for Baylor, but we've got to move some people around and move some pieces," Henrickson said.
The Jayhawks won't have a long time to celebrate this win as they go on to face No.1 ranked Baylor in Waco, Tex., on Saturday.
Edited by Amanda Gage
TRAVIS YOUNG/KANSAN
Junior forward Carolyn Davis gets possession of the opening tipoff against Texas Tech sophomore forward Shauntal Nobles. Davis scored 34 points. Kanas won against Texas Tech 62-43 and are now 16-3.
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