THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2008
SPORTS
9B
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The Jahayhaws play with too little energy for the full 40 minutes of the game against Iowa State. It proved to be a problem for the team on Saturday.
senior forward Taylor Mcntosh said. "We forced them into tough twos, and then I'd come over to help at the end of the shot clock, and they called a foul.
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"We had a couple plays like that where we had it, but it's just the last
two or three seconds."
The most important play of the game came with 4:13 left and Kansas trailing 41-36, the closest
shot that - (lets) them make that shot but (doesn't) let them make it and let the crowd get excited about it," coach Bonnie Henrickson said. "We needed the discipline for 30 seconds, not 29, and there was a couple of times we had it for 29 but that last
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it'd been since one minute into the second half.
Sophomore guard Danielle McCray just hit a jump shot, forcing Iowa State to use a time-out, and the Jayhawks played suffocating defense out of the break. That is until Cyclone guard Alison Lacey hit a fadeaway jumper with one tick left on the shot clock.
The Hilton Coliseum crowd – lulled to sleep by Kansas' 6-0 run – erupted, and Lacey went to the free-throw line to push the lead back to eight thanks to a McIntosh foul on the play.
Kansas (15-13, 4-11) never recovered from that play.
"We lost focus and fouled on a
Kansas' inepitheta away from Allen Fieldhouse has remained constant since Big 12 play began in January with one central contributing factor, failure to protect the ball.
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The Jayhawks' tendency to beat themselves probably decided the outcome of the game only three minutes into the second half against the Cyclones. Two Kansas turnovers allowed Iowa State to jump to a 29-18 lead by virtue of a 9-0 run.
Inability to hold ball costs game
With the loss, Kansas finished winless on the road during Big 12 Conference play and is effectively eliminated from NCAA Tournament consideration. After winning 11 of 13 games during a difficult non-conference schedule, the team's inability to win on the road derailed what looked to be a breakthrough season.
While disappointing, the flat beginning to the second period was hardly surprising. Kansas has been outscored on the road in the second half in every game but one.
Women finish Big 12 play with no victories on the road
held scoreless.
Kansas' miserable road form caught up to it once again Saturday afternoon against Iowa State. Down two at the half, the Jayhawks shot 29 percent after the break to fall 51-42 and drop to 4-11 in the Big 12.
"I would have taken a sabbatical," she said jokingly.
second got us."
"Taylor went 6-for-8, and we needed to get it to her 18 times," Henrickson said. "She had to get more touches on a night when Krysten really struggled."
"Right now, we are a team that doesn't go to the NCAA Tournament because we can't play six minutes out of the locker room." Henrickson said.
BY ANDREW WIEBE awiebe@kansan.com
Asked if she had envisioned her team losing all eight conference road contests before Big 12 play began, coach Bonnie Henrickson said she may have just stayed at home.
The first half was a defensive grind with each team shooting a paltry 30 percent. Iowa State (18-10, 7-8) led by two at
Through 15 conference games, the Hawks are averaging more than
three more turnovers per game than their opponents. Kansas is last in the Big 12 in turnovers per game at 20.1 and also boasts the worst assist to turnover ratio.
"What locker we left (our game) in at halftime, I don't know," Hendrickson said. "That's where we lose the basketball game is the first three or four minutes."
On the road, Henrickson's team is even worse. Kansas recorded two games with at least 25 turnovers, 27 at Colorado and 25 at Oklahoma, and failed to register a game of less than 17 giveaways.
from Allen Fieldhouse.
It's not an undiagnosed problem. Henrickson and her staff have constantly preached the importance of limiting wasted possessions, but the Jayhawks have yet to find a way to accomplish that. The team's three primary ball handlers, junior guard Ivana Catic and sophomore guards Danielle McCray and Sade Morris, simply haven't been able to offset the cost of turnovers with assists away
There were several bad Kansas stats after the game, (0-for-8 on three-pointers, three assists to 17 turnovers) but the most disappointing one came from missed opportunities. The Jayhawks pulled down 17 offensive rebounds and could only convert that into nine second-chance points.
McCray was sidelined with foul trouble for much of the first half, but until the 9:40 mark in the second half, she still had as many fouls, two, as points.
At home the three combine to average 7.6 assists and 9.7 turnovers. Although turnovers only rise to 9.8 away from Lawrence, the trio's assist totals plummet to 4.2.
Henrickson credits that to the Cyclones diamond-and-one defense, a junk formation that ensured McCray wouldn't get an open look. McCray finished with a season low-tying six points, only the third time all year she's been held to single digit scoring.
The Cyclones used a 15-3 run during the first nine minutes of the second half to push the score to 35-21. Lacey, guard Kelsey Bolte and forward Jocelyn Anderson had all 15 of those points, and the trio combined to score 30 of the Cyclones' 31
Despite her team's struggles, Henrickson said she had no doubt that Kansas had the players to succeed. She said that her team just hadn't yet shown the growth needed to succeed night in and night out in the Big 12.
"You've got to have some toughness, some character, and players have got to step up and make plays," Henrickson said. "We just haven't done that consistently."
However, Iowa State's attention to McCray did open things up down low where McNitroth had her second best game of the year with 15 points, 16 rebounds, three steals and a block. Kansas would have benefited greatly from an inside duo, but freshman center Krysten Boogaard still hasn't snapped out of her funk and was
second-half points.
halftime, then - like all of Kansas' recent opponents - it went on a big run to start the second half.
—Edited by Daniel Reyes
"Great effort; that's Taylor McIntosh flying around," Henrickson said of the rebounds. "I've been fussing at her, and fussing and fussing that's what we need, and she does that, but we don't have enough other kids step up."
Kansas plays its final regular season game of the year at home Wednesday night against No. 21 Kansas State.
— Edited by Jessica Sain-Baird
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