CHAMPIONSHIPS BY THE DOZEN
STARTING FIVE
MARKIEFF MORRIS Junior Center
Markieff's last season as a Jayhawk was a productive one in which he averaged 13.6 points per game He also contributed 8.3 rebounds per game.
MARCUS MORRIS
Junior forward Before both Marcus and his brother took off for the NBA draft, he won the Big 12 Player of the Year award in this season. Marcus's outstanding junior season had him averaging 17.6 points per game.
TYREL REED
Reed is one of the mos experienced players in Kansas basketball history, having played in a total of 132 games in his Kansas career. In his senior season, Reed averaged 9.7 points per game.
Senior guard
Taylor led the team in assists and averaged 9.2 points per game in this season. However, he was suspended indefinitely from the team in Feb. 2010 for reasons that were never announced.
TYSHAWN TAYLOR junior guard
Jeff Jacobsen/KU Athletics
BRADY MORNINGSTAR Senior guard
The Lawrence native was an important piece to the Jayhawks in his senior year. Averaging 27.3 minutes per game, Morningsta recorded 7.1 points per game.
AT A GLANCE
Kansas again lost in an upset in the NCAA tournament, this time to Shaka Smart's VCU team that made a run to the Final Four. The Joyhawks, however, did make it all the way to the Elite Eight in this season.
BY THE NUMBERS
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13,14 Markieff Morris was picked 13th overall in the 2011 NBA Draft. His brother, Marcus, was chosen 14th overall.
10- Kansas was named a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament for the tenth time in school history going into this year's NCAA tournament.
KANSAN.COM
KU wins Big 12 title over Texas
originally published in 2011
TIM DWYER
Tyshawn Taylor smiled and shyly leaned away from the microphone, staring down the table at his coach with something in between hope and cockiness in his eyes.
Taylor had just said that he hoped his 20-point, five-assist, four-rebound performance was good enough to prove "that I could start for the rest of the time."
Coach Bill Self smirked, obviously pleased with his mercurial point guard's outstanding performance on the day, but unwilling to be effusive in his praise with Tavlor in the room.
"Still had those two turnovers," Self said.
Self was, of course,
joking, but it was that
kind of day for the Jay-
hawks, where two turn-
overs on an otherwise
In looking at the box score, there's little the Jayhawks didn't do well. They outrebounded the fifth-best re bounding team in the country. They shot 57 percent from the floor and 41 percent from three-point range. They dominated the battle inside, scoring 38 points in the paint to Texas' 18.
perfect stat line were worth even a sarcastic mention.
When we play like that,it's going to be hard to stop us."
Marcus Morris Junior forward, 2011
"When we play like that, it's going to be hard to stop us," said Marcus Morris, who was named
the tournament's most outstanding player after the game.
Basically, if there were flaws, they were miniscule and very difficult to find. The Jayhawks got their dream rematch with Texas, the only team they had played and not beaten, and they made the most of it.
"It just happened the perfect way for us to get them in the Big 12 Championship and for all the marbles," Morris said.
The Morris twins, who struggled in the first meeting with Texas, flourished with defensive stalwart Tristan Thompson relegated to the bench with foul trouble. Thompson played just 11 minutes and his backups were unable to hold the twins. Marcus finished with 17 points and six rebounds on 6-of-9 shooting, while Markieff had 14 and nine rebounds on 6-of-9 shooting.
"That was the best defense that we played in a while," Self said. "We played the scouting report very well."
the Jayhawks were offensively, they may have been better defensively.
And as efficient as
The Longhorns scored 73 points, nowhere near the fewest Kansas has allowed this season, but the high score was more a product of the frenetic pace than of any particular efficiency from the Longhorns' offense. Jordan Hamilton — who was a member of the all-tournament team alongside the Morris twins, Colorado's Alec Burks and Texas' Thompson — led the Longhorns with 21 points, but it took him 21 shots to get there.
"I thought we guarded in a high-possession game," Self said. "Especially the first half. And I think that set the tone for a lot of things."
- Kansas broke the school record for home-court wins when it recorded its 63rd win at Allen Fieldhouse against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. The streak ended at 69 and was the longest home winning streak in NCAA basketball.
NEWS:
The Arab Spring movement removes Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak from the office. Later in the year parliamentary elections began in Egypt.
Kate Middleton marries Prince William
The Green Bay Packers defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-25 in the Superbowl
Muammar El-Quaddafi is killed
Connecticut Huskies defeated Butler Bulldogs 53-41 in the NCAA tournament
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