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FRANK MASON III junior guard Mason set career highs in points and rebounds per game. He was also named to the Big 12 Defensive Team while also picking up Second Team Big 12 honors.
DEVONTE' GRAHAM
DEVONTE GRAHAM sophomore guard In his first season as a starter, Graham lead the team in steals and finished with 11.3 points per game. Graham was also named to the the Big 12 Defensive Team and won the Big 12 Tournament MVP.
WAYNE SELDEN JR.
junior forward Selden's breakout year finally arrived and was rewarded with Second Team Big 12 honors. Selden finished second on the team with 13.8 points per game and finished third in steals.
PERRY ELLIS
senior forward In his final year in Lawrence, Ellis received First Team Big 12 honors while leading the team in points and finishing second in rebounding.
LANDEN LUCAS junior forward
After some rotation at the center position Lucas finally stuck and finished with career highs in points, rebounds assists, steals and blocks.
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Kansas began the year at No.4 in the AP poll after winning the World University Games in South Korea After losing a close game to No.13 ranked Michigan State in the Champions Classic, the Jayhawks would go on to win their next 13 straight games and the Big 12 tournament to finish the regular season with a 30-4 record Kansas would lose to eventual champions Villanova in the Elite Eight 64-59;
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8 - Perry Ellis finished his career as the eighth highest scoring Jayhawk of all time.
BY THE NUMBERS
Jan, 5, 2016
KANSAS 109 OKLAHOMA 106
KU outlasts Sooners in triple OT
SHANE JACKSON
originally published in 2016
Kansas had the ball with a chance to win it at the end of the regulation. Then again in overtime. Then again in double overtime.
Finally in triple overtime the Jayhawks were on the defensive end in the waning seconds of the game, this time leading by one.
Oklahoma's star senior guard Buddy Hield was inbounding the ball with 11 seconds to go. Junior guard Frank Mason elected to face-guard him, as opposed to filling a passing lane. Mason was draped all over Hield and began leaping up and down. As Hield fired off the pass, Mason ripped the ball away, taking it the opposite way.
"Right before the play the ref told me to not get close to the line," Mason said. "But after he handed the ball in, there is nothing he can do, so I took a step closer and just went all out denying."
"It was an epic game," Self said "The only game I have been a part of in this building that rivals it is that Missouri game."
Mason would be fouled and sank both of his free throws, to give No.1 Kansas the 109-106 win over No.2 Oklahoma.
He added: "We beat a team that could win the National Championship tonight."
But there was a time that the prospect of a finished game, let alone a Jayhawks victory seemed bleak.
With seven seconds left in the first overtime, senior forward Perry Ellis rushed a midrange jumper that barely grazed the bottom of the backboard. Fortunately for Kansas, it tipped off an Oklahoma player and Kansas maintained possession with two seconds remaining.
"I'm just disappointed that we couldn't quite feel that satisfaction," Oklahoma head coach Lon Kruger said. "You don't win in here very often so I would've liked that for them."
At the end of the regulation, Kansas had the ball with 20 seconds and the score knotted up at 77. Mason wound down the game clock before attacking the lane, tossing up an off balanced floater.
From there, Kansas ran a play from underneath that gave junior guard Wayne Selden Jr. an open look from the right wing, but his shot clanked off the front rim.
Mason's shot smacked hard off the back rim, and junior forward Landen Lucas was called for an over the back foul, attempting to go for the rebound. As a result, sophomore forward Khadeem Lattin went to the line with two seconds left.
He'd miss the free throw, which was the front end of a one-and-one. The game headed into overtime.
Monday's triple overtime thriller more than lived up to the hype of highly touted No. 1 vs. No. 2 meeting. It was the first such matchup in Allen Fieldhouse since 1990. Kansas had lost all four previous meetings of the top two teams in college basketball.
"I got this," He yelled, with a chance to snap Kansas' 31-game win streak in Allen Fieldhouse on the line.
Hield certainly did his part in attempt to hand the Jayhawks a fifth loss. The senior guard scored 46 points, tied for the highest scoring output by a visiting player in Allen Fieldhouse. Hield was 13-of-23 from the floor, including 8-of-15 from long range.
"Wayne had an uncontested wide open look to win it," Self said. "Considering both teams were exhausted
"I just hate losing. No matter how good I do, I believe I could have done better," Hield said. "I hate the fact that we came up with a loss, and this is my last time playing in this building. It sucks going 0-4 here."
In the second overtime two of the top three-point shooting teams in the nation traded some shots from distance. But as the clock began ticking down, once again Kansas had the ball in the waning moments.
46-point outburst, he is well on his way to becoming just the third player in the history of the Big 12 to average more than 25 points a game. The other two were Kevin Durant of Texas and Michael Beasley of Kansas State.
This time with the score tied at 94, Mason drove to the cup and threw up an off balanced layup that was unsuccessful, allowing for a third overtime. It was the first time in the Self-era that Kansas was a part of a triple overtime game.
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and neither team ran one play to try and score, all they did was put players in position to make plays. I thought it was a pretty good game."
Ellis, the other Wichita native, also had a strong game. The Kansas forward totaled 27 points on 11-of-28 shooting in 53 minutes. It was the 17th 20-point game of his career and fourth this season.
Both Ellis and Mason logged 53 minutes. The latter wasn't near as effective on the offensive end. However, he spent the majority of the second half chasing Hield around. He guarded the reigning conference player of the year in all three overtimes with four fouls.
The 6-foot-4 Wichita native, came in averaging 24.7 points per game, but after a
Now both teams must turn their attention ahead after the physically draining game. This was just the second conference game of an 18-game double round robin. Kansas will play at Texas Tech, while Oklahoma will host Kansas State on Saturday.
"January 4th is too early to be having games like this," Self said. "It was a great way to showcase a great league and certainly everyone is going to be talking Big 12 now."
If Monday night's game was any indication, the rematch on February 13 in Norman will be must watch television.
Then potentially again in the Big 12 tournament.
And potentially deep in the NCAA tournament.
3-No.1 ranked Kansas and No. 2 ranked Oklahoma went to triple overtime in their first meeting of the season. Kansas would win 109:106.
12 - Kansas won its 12th straight Big 12 title, one shy of the record for consecutive conference titles.
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