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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2008
9A
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Sophomore guard Brady Morningstar and freshman center Markieff Morris battle Washburn's Logan Stutz for a rebound during Tuesday's game. Morningstar finished the game with 15 points and three assists.
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game.
When the layhawk offense began to look stagnant in the second half, Collins put together a memorable two-minute stretch. He
hit a jumper from the freethrow line after fooling a Washburn defender with a pump fake, broke away for a layup after a steal and used a crossover to add two more points.
men.
If Reed
"I thought our returning guys primarily Tyrel, Brady and Sherron- all had good nights. They all played well."
Freshman forward Marcus Morris fouled out despite playing only seven minutes. Marcus and his twin brother, Markieff, were only
BILL SELF
Men's basketball coach
"He's going to shoot the ball more than that in a real game," Self said.
brought the jumper cables, Collins took the wheel. And he did it all by attempting only 12 shots from the field.
3-for-9 from the field combined. Taylor struggled to stay in front of his man on the defensive end. Even Thomas
The combination of Collins, Reed and sophomore guard Brady Morningstar, who finished with 15 points and three assists, made up for a slew of blunders by the fresh-
— whom Self praised after he scored 10 points and grabbed six rebounds
committed
an embarrassing turnover when he tried to pass to Collins in the second half.
But Self's decision to give the veterans most of the minutes seemed to pay off.
"I thought our returning guys — primarily Tyrel, Brady and Sherron — all had good nights," Self said. "They all played well."
The trio helped hide Kansas struggles in the second half. The
Ichabods never led again after Reed's fourth three-pointer, and Kansas went into halftime with a 57-35 lead.
Self told his team to ignore the scoreboard in the second half and play with the same intensity. They didn't.
"They look up there and we're still up 25, so they didn't play the game, they played the score," Self said. "Good teams don't do that."
The Ichabods outcored the Jayhawks 44-41 in the second half. Morningstar and Reed said the team needed to learn to hold onto the intensity for an entire game — not just the first 20 minutes.
Perhaps Reed needs to save a few of his three-pointers for late in the game next Tuesday when Kansas finishes off its exhibition schedule against Emporia State. It certainly jumped the Kansas offense against Washburn.
"They kept falling tonight," Reed said. "I was fortunate that the guys got me the ball."
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printed banners of last year's administration.
Self glad-handed the refs and waved to the crowd, all with a smile bright enough to win over the 18 to 35 crowd.
Old faces and new ones accu mulated on the court to whip Washburn with offensive precision rarely seen in preseason
basketball. The Jayhawks shot 61 percent from the field and 47 percent from beyond the arc. The latter earned them key electoral votes from downtown.
Sure, lapses occurred. But overall it was a rousing victory for Kansas.
Assured a victory, masses of Jayhawks headed for the exits
with 11:29 remaining. My guess is they were headed home to catch the tail end of the blabber and witness the announcement of America's next leader.
But I ask you, what's more American than the crimson, white and blue?
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Freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor tries to drive to the basket during Tuesday's game. Taylor scored 7 points and dished out one assist for the game but also turned the ball over five times.
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Newcomers struggle in first game
BY B.J. RAINS
rains@kansan.com
Coach Bill Self promiseeu it would take time. He warned Jayhawk fans that it was impossible to replace five NBA draft picks overnight and that the seven newcomers to this year's squad would suffer some growing pains early in the season.
Self may not be a fortune teller, but he sure looked the part during Tuesday's 98-79 exhibition victory against Washburn. The six newcomers who played struggled to find any kind of rhythm and looked out of sync for most of the game.
"Other than Quintrell, the freshmen weren't factors at all tonight." Self said. "They've played better than that."
Freshman forward Quintrell Thomas had 10 points and six rebounds, easily the best stat line of the newcomers. He was the lowest-rated prospect of all the freshmen, but he seemed the most comfortable in his 16 minutes of action.
"I was nervous all day because I thought I was going to come out and, like, airball a layup or something." Thomas said. "It was fun because you normally see all of the videos and stuff, and it just felt good to actually be out
there."
"I realized that I'm not in as a good of shape as I need to be," Thomas said. "I was in there for like 30 seconds and that first wind killed me."
Fans hoping to figure out which Morris twin was which on Tuesday didn't get any help when they both entered the game just three minutes in. Only fitting, the two brothers who do nearly everything together made their Jawhack debuts at the same time. "I was a little nervous," said Markieff Morris, freshman center. "I had to get the nervousness out of me so I took a couple of shots."
Neither of the twins' performances will get their numbers hung in the Allen Fieldhouse rafters just yet. Markieff had five points and three turnovers and Marcus, freshman forward, had two points and fouled out after seven minutes of action.
Though Thomas had waited for this day, it took him less than 30 seconds to realize that the speed of the college game was much different from that of high school.
Combined, the six Jayhawk newcomers scored 33 points and had 12 turnovers.
minutes and fouled out? You only played two more minutes than you had fouls." Markieff said. "We fouled way too much. Against good teams, we're going to need to be on the floor a lot. We need to work on that in practice."
Junior guard Tyrone Appleton, who returned to practice Thursday after missing three weeks with a sore hip, played six minutes but had six points. The only newcomer not to play was Mario Little, the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year, who will miss a couple of weeks with a stress fracture in his left leg.
Freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor had seven points but committed a team-high five turnovers. And fellow freshman guard Travis Releford had three points and three rebounds in 14 minutes of work.
"This was a great experience for our first game," Markieff said. "Now that we got used to the college level, we can just stop fouling and keep playing hard."
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