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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2013
KANSAS 74,TCU 48
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Kansas 38 | 36 - 74 TCU 9 | 39 - 48
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Player Pts FG-FGA Rebs A T0s
Kevin Young 6 3-4 8 1 1
Jeff Withey 18 7-12 6 1 2
Travis Releford 12 4-5 2 1 2
Elijah Johnson 7 2-5 3 4 1
Ben McLemore 14 4-10 3 3 0
Justin Wesley 0 0-0 2 0 1
Niko Roberts 0 0-0 0 0 0
Naadir Tharper 2 0-4 3 4 2
Totals 74 26-53 32 14 11
TCU
Player Pts FG-FGA Rebs A T0s
Garlon Green 3 1-5 0 0 1
Connell Crossland 3 1-5 4 0 1
Kyan Anderson 11 4-12 2 2 3
Nate Butler Lind 2 0-2 0 1 2
Adrick McKinney 2 0-1 5 2 3
Thomas Montiqel 0 0-0 1 0 0
Devonta Abron 18 7-11 9 0 1
Chris Zurcher 2 1-1 0 3 0
Totals 48 17-47 21 8 13
ASHLEIGH LEE/KANSAN
GAME TO REMEMBER
Jeff Withey, Senior Center
Withey helped Kansas establish a post presence early, something it couldn't establish in its first matchup against TCU. He had two dunks in the game's first two minutes and finished with 18 points on 7-12 shooting. He added six rebounds and three blocks.
GAME TO FORGET
Naadir Tharpe, sophmore guard
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The sophomore never got into the flow of the game, missing all four of his field goal attempts and scoring only two points. He had four assists against two turnovers, but he didn't provide anything for Kansas coming off the bench.
Senior forward Kevin Young tries to get to the basket but gets found by TCU senior forward Adrick McKinney during the game against Texas Christian University on Saturday in Allen Fieldhouse, where the Jayhawks defeated the Horned Frogs 74-48.
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QUOTE OF THE GAME
ASHLEIGH LEE/KANSAN
"Obviously they were upset. I don't know over what."
— TCU coach Trent Johnson,
sarcastically on Kansas' performance
The Jayhawks hit 18 of their 19 throw attempts. Only Andrew White III missed a shot.
The lowest point total by a KU opponent after a half since Cornell's second half against the Jahyhaws in 1996.
KEY STATS
Gamas scored its 13th point in the 5:37 into the first half after only putting up 13 in the first half at TCU.
Kansas coach Bill Self laughs as his team makes a silly foul during the final minutes of the game against Texas Christian University on Saturday. The Jayhawks held the Horned Frogs to nine points in the first half, the fewest scored by a team in the Big 12 in 15 years.
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TCU toppled in historic victory
GEOFFREY CALVERT
They didn't go more than seven minutes before scoring their first point like they did the first time they played TCU.
gcalvert@kansan.com
There was no repeat performance for the Kansas Jayhawks this time. No logic-defying scoring droughts or clueless offensive possessions.
And after senior guard Travis Releford scored that layup, the game might as well have been over.
They went nine seconds.
None of TCU's starters scored in the first half. The Horned Frogs shot 4-23, committed 10 turnovers and recorded only one assist.
That wasn't the case this time. TCU scored the fewest points in a single half a Big 12 team has allowed in a half in 15 years. It's also the fewest points Kansas has allowed in a half since holding Cornell to nine points in the second half on Jan. 2, 1996.
"Tonight we played as a team," freshman guard Ben McLemore said. "Down there we just seemed like we were just moving fast and we didn't have that pace, that Kansas pace that we usually play. We just had that momentum today."
"That's as focused and best we've been as far as both ends with consistency in a long time," Kansas coach Bill Self said. "That was the best we've executed and moved the ball and also the most active we've been defensively."
The Horned Frogs took their turn to struggle offensively, not getting on the scoreboard for the first 5.07 of the game. And they closed the first half poorly, too, going the final 8.37 without a point. Kansas took a 38-9 lead into the locker room en route to a 74-48 victory.
The Jayhawks had four dunks in the first six minutes of the game, while freshman forward Perry Ellis drained a long jumper at the top of the key on his way to 12 points off the bench. Senior forward Kevin Young had six rebounds in the first seven minutes, three of which were offensive rebounds that led to points.
When Kansas traveled to Fort Worth on Feb. 6, the Jayhawks scored a measly 13 points in the first half. But the Horned Frogs managed only 22 points in the first half, so Kansas had the opportunity to claw back into the game and keep TCU on its heels for most of the second half.
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"If you look around, you see guys interacting with not just the guys of their generation," former Kansas guard Bud Stallworth said. "I know guys from the 50s up to the 2000s."
It was the kind of performance the Kansas program is known for. It's fitting that the Jayhawks used this game to celebrate their 115th year of basketball. Nearly 200 players from eras dating back to Phog Allen's time as Kansas' coach came back to Lawrence for the weekend.
And Kansas' offense made sure that nothing TCU did in the second half would let it back in the game.
"Every game we want to score easy buckets inside and get that going because that leads to easy shots on the perimeter," senior center Jeff Withey said. "Our guards helped us out, and we knew that they weren't going to really run in transition too much unless they had numbers, like three on one. We knew that we could crash the boards and we had everybody going in and trying to rebound."
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The half went so poorly for TCU that after a timeout in the first half, the Horned Frogs committed a 5-second violation on the inbound pass.
"After the game, coach Toundsend told me that was one of the best dunks I had this year." McLemore said.
Air McLemore took off from Allen Fieldhouse late in the first half, driving the baseline and degrading the rim with a vicious one-handed tomahawk slam.
And then there was McLemore.
ASHLEIGH LEE/KANSAN Senior forward Kevin Young dunks the ball during the game against Texas Christian University on Saturday in Allen Fieldhouse. Young recorded six points, eight rebounds and one assist in the game.