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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013
Kansas 47 | 36----83 Kansas State 29 | 33----62
KANSAS 83.
JAYHAWK STAT LEADERS
Points
McLemore 30
Rebounds
Assists
KANSAS
Withey 10
Tharpe 8
Player Pts FG-FGA Rebs A TO's
Kevin Young 13 6-9 9 2 1
Jeff Withey 17 5-10 10 0 0
Travis Releford 10 4-8 4 2 1
Elijah Johnson 5 1-6 2 3 4
Ben McLemore 30 9-13 7 0 3
Naadir Tharpe 7 3-9 2 8 1
Jamari Traylor 1 0-3 3 1 0
Perry Ellis 0 0-0 1 0 1
Totals 83 28-58 39 16 13
OPPONENT
Player Pts FG-FGA Rebs A T0's
Jordan Henriquez 2 1-4 5 1 3
Rodney McGruder 20 7-14 6 4 4
Shane Southwell 9 2-8 2 2 0
Will Spradling 10 2-6 0 2 1
Angel Rodriguez 17 6-12 2 6 3
Martavious Irving 2 1-2 1 0 2
Nino Williams 2 1-1 0 0 0
Thomas Gipson 0 0-2 3 1 1
Totals 62 20-50 20 16 14
Ben McLemore: Guard
GAME TO REMEMBER
When Ben McLemore looks back to his 20th birthday, he'll be thinking about as dominant a game as he's had against the Jayhawks' biggest rival. McLemore shot 9-13 from the field, scored 30 points, grabbed seven boards and notched three steals. Not a bad birthday party.
GAME TO FORGET
McLemore
Elijah Johnson. Guard
Elijah Johnson's decision making was much better Monday night, but his stat line won't reflect it. The senior point guard went 1-6 from the field for five points and four turnovers. Luckily, a win washes away most of the criticism.
Johnson
QUOTE OF THE GAME
"I guess when you are old, you can tell your kids about it, but by the time your kids are old enough, somebody has probably already beaten it."
Kansas coach Bill Self on Jeff Withey setting Kansas' Career Blocks Record
KEY STATS
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Kansas' second-chance points
19
20
58.6
Kansas' average time of possession
Kan萨saf first hail stocking percentage KAn萨saf first hail stocking percentage
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BASKETBALL
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Freshman guard Rio Adams moves around his opponent to get to the basket during yesterday's game against Kansas State in Allen Fieldhouse
MEN'S BASKETBALL
McLemore dominates with 30 points
GEOFFREY CALVERT
rcalvert@kansan.com
As it turns out, all Kansas needed to regain its mojo was the same elixir they've used for the past 20 years: Kansas State.
The Jayhawks defeated their instate rival for the 46th time in the last 49 meetings with an 83-62 victory Monday night in Allen Fieldhouse, restoring order in Lawrence after a tumultuous three-game losing streak.
"Last week was a bad week for us," senior center Jeff Withey said. "We can't let that ever happen again. True fans are going to back us up no matter what. They showed us tonight. The Fieldhouse was packed, and they got us going."
The Allen Fieldhouse crowd made sure any thoughts of another poor performance by the Jayhawks were dumbbounded, giving the old barn its best pregame buzz of the season. Instead of moping about the three-game losing streak, the Fieldhouse Faithful came in angry, bearing signs and spewing venom at the Wildcats normally reserved for the team on the other side of the state border.
"The Fieldhouse, there's nothing like it, that's for sure," Withey said. "We needed that."
Freshman guard Ben McLemore led Kansas with 30 points, shooting 9-13 from the field and hitting six of his 10 three-point attempts. He hit his final 3-pointer with 46 seconds left, capping one of his best shooting performances after missing nine of his last 10 threes in Kansas' previous two losses.
"I feel like my teammates definitely got
"It's the best half of basketball he's played since he's been here."
BILL SELF Men's basketball coach
of guys play well, but certainly he's one of our key performers<sup>+</sup>, especially there in the first half<sup>+</sup>
me in the zone", McLemore said. "Especially Naadir finding me on the wing, just creating offensively, just getting me open."
Indeed, sophomore point guard Naadir Tharpe had possibly his best game in conference play, scoring seven points and dishing out eight assists while committing only one turnover.
Because it was more than just a one-man show, the romp resembled Kansas' early season victories, when it was common to see the Jayhawks score at least 40 points before
"It's the best half of basketball he's played since he's been here," coach Bill Self said. "We had a lot
the halftime buzzer and hold leads of that many points at some point during those blowouts.
ety of dunks, reverse layups and tip-ins. He finished with 13 points on 6-9 shooting and grabbed nine rebounds.
"Coach was just basically nagging me about getting in the lane and finding people," Tharpe said. "Kevin was available a lot of times, so that was basically someone who I was finding a lot as well as Ben."
Young and Withey formed a one-two punch down low that the Wildcats had no answer for. With-
ey scored 17 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and swatted five Wildcat shots. His first block of the game against Thomas Gipson was Withey's 259th of his career, moving him past Greg Ostertag into first place on Kansas' career blocks list.
The victory moved Kansas to 20-4 overall and 8-3 in the Big 12. The Jayhawks are tied with Kansas State for first place in the Big 12, but Kansas owns the tiebaker by virtue of its two victories over the Wildcats. As the final minutes ticked off of the Jayhawks' 11th victory in the past 12 games against Kansas State, the Fieldhouse was filled with chants of "This is our state."
"I think that when we play well this is what our team is," Self said. "We acted like we were having a lot of fun out there and a lot of enthusiasm."
— Edited by Madison Schultz
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Senior center Jeff Withey and freshman guard Ben McLemore celebrate during the second half of the match against Kansas State Feb. 11, 2013 at Allen Fieldhouse.
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