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WEDNESDAY JANUARY 25, 2012
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Key: # Kansas player X Defender — Player movement
1. Elijah Johnson lobs a pass over the Aggies' defense to Conner Teahan in the corner. Teahan is open because forward Thomas Robinson is setting a screen just in front of the high-percentage shooter. The Aggies sense a shot coming from Teahan, which draws Robinson's defender to move toward Teahan.
Pass
2. Teahan fires a quick three in the corner.Both Aggie defenders rapidly jump toward Teahan, freeing up Thomas Robinson. Teahan misses the shot, but Robinson and Jeff Withey are in advantageous positions to get a rebound because of the added attention to Teahan.
Screen
.. Shot
3. Teahan's shot takes an odd bounce off the rim. Withey makes a play on the ball, tipping it in Robinson's direction. Robinson beats every other player to the ball, and in the same motion of picking it up, he makes a lay-up while getting fouled by the out-of-place Aggie defenders.
—Graphic by Hannah Wise
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Robinson's double-digit stats distinct
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Book junior forward Thomas Robinson for a double-double in just about any game. For a Kansas team littered with inconsistencies, it's about as sure a bet you can make. He's reached the feat in 14 of his 20 games this season.
In Monday night's 64-54 victory against Texas A&M, he got another, finishing with 18 points and 10 rebounds. But unlike routs against Baylor, Oklahoma and Texas Tech, this time, it wasn't easy.
In the first half, despite grabbing five rebounds, he struggled to assert himself as a scorer. He missed five of his six shot attempts: two midrange jump shots and three layups which Self called "bunnies," that were two to four feet away from the basket.
"We probably came away with less than what I would hope, considering where he caught the ball," Self said. "He caught the ball in tight pretty good."
Aggies senior forward David Louebau defended Robinson one-on-one for much of the first half, using varying tactics to hassle and disrupt. He slapped at the ball once Robinson caught it, slid his hips into lanes that Robinson usually pursues and did all he could to force Robinson out of the paint, making him less of a rebounder and more of a jump shooter.
Even when Robinson u quick and powerful first step to pass Loubeau, he missed shots that he usually makes.
Even when Robinson used his
"You get the ball where you want to and sometimes it just doesn't go in," self said.
When Robinson started to convert some of those "bun nies" and get to the paint more frequently.
paint more frequently. Loubeau and his teammates did all they could to deny him the ball.
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WHAT IS A DOUBLE-DOUBLE?
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A double-double is when a player records double-digit statistics in one game in two of the following categories: points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks.
that makes our offense a little different," Taylor said. "It's an inside-out offense." Robinson used a secret weapon to counter the Aggie's strategy. "The defense wasn't trying to let me touch it," Robinson said. "So I had to knock my
free throws down."
He did just that, sinking all 10 of his shots from the free
throw line. His calm, smooth success as a free-throw shooter saved Kansas on a night when junior guard Elijah Johnson and senior guard Conner Teahan missed 10 of 13 three-point shots.
It's not a strategy that Self strives for, though the free throws might have hailed Kansas out.
"I if I had to pick one of the two to make, I'd take the bunnies," Self said. "They count for two."
— Edited by Gabrielle Schock
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Sixth man shines for top-ranked UK
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ATHENS, Ga. — Darius Miller came off the bench to score 19 points and Kentucky cruised in its first game since returning to No. 1 in the rankings, beating Georgia 57-44 on Tuesday night.
Miller, who had started eight of the previous nine games for the Wildcats (20-1, 6-0 Southeastern Conference), returned to the sixthman role he played earlier in the season. It didn't really matter. The senior made 7 of 8 shots, including all four from 3-point range.
Kentucky used spurts of 10-0 and 10-1 to build a 38-26 halftime lead. The Bulldogs (10-10, 1-5) never threatened in the second half, even though the Wildcats cooled off considerably. They went more than 5 minutes without scoring and made just 7 of 23 shots over the final 20 minutes.
Kentucky, which had been No.1 in The Associated Press rankings for two weeks early in the season returned to the top spot after Syracuse lost last weekend.
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For one half at least, the Wildcats lived up to the billing against a rebuilding Georgia team that has lost five of its last six, but did start out with some inspired play before its first home sellout of the season.
Led by Nemanja Djurisic's 10 points, Georgia kept it close for much of the opening half. The Bulldogs withstood that 10-0 run by Kentucky and trailed only 23-22 with less than 6 minutes to go in the period.
Suddenly, the Wildcats turned it on. Kyle Wiltjer knocked down a 3-pointer, then passed to Michael Kidd-Gilchrist for a dunk. Dustin Ware provided for the home team with a 3-pointer, but that jumper with 5:01 remaining was Georgia's final field goal of the half.
Kentucky scored 10 of the last 11 points in the half, with Miller scoring seven straight on a 3-pointer and two jumpers from inside the arc.
In the second half, neither team played with much intensity and the crowd amused itself with dueling chants.
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