2006
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2006
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KU88-ISU75
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 5b
Saturday's game
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Megan True/KANSAN
The Jayhawks defeated the Cyclones 88-75.
Record
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"I just wanted to play within the system today and do what coach was telling me," Chalmers said. "I was able to get a lot of open looks off of Russell's penetration, and I was hitting them."
Chalmer's said after the game that he was starting to feel more comfortable every time Kansas takes the court.
It was more than just his shots falling that made Chalmers a factor during Saturday's second half. Besides Chalmers' 16 second half points, he also had a steal that led to a Robinson layup that helped stretch the lead to nine points.
On the next offensive possession, Chalmers sank another three-point, and on the next possession, he assisted Brandon Rush on a layup that put Kansas' lead back to double digits for the last time. He is playing very confident basketball, right now." Robin-
Kansan Big 12 Power Rankings
"Mario is playing very confident basketball right now." Robinson said. "He's mixing it up and doing a little bit of everything."
While the second half was nearly perfect for Chalmers, the first half was close to the opposite. Chalmers was yanked early in the game by Kansas coach Bill Self.
"Here I am, I'm not happy with him at all and he gets 23 on 12 shots and has one turnover," Self said. "I thought he got off to a rough start. Mario is one of those guys that sometimes drive coaches nuts. Not in a bad way, but he drives them nuts because he is a smooth player. Sometimes smooth players don't look like they're quite going as hard as what you want them to go. I am learning more and more about him."
When Chalmers went back in, he continued his struggles, shooting only 2-7 from the field. It was enough to make Self think Chalmers didn't have that good of a game, until he looked at the post-game box score.
Edited by Lindsey Gold
1. Texas
4. Colorado
2. Kansas
5. Texas A&M
3. Oklahoma
7. Nebraska
6. Iowa State
8. Texas Tech
9. Oklahoma State
10. Kansas State
11. Baylor
12. Missouri
Editor's Note: The Kansan Big 12 Power Rankings are voted on by Ryan Colaiani and Daniel Berk, Kansas men's basketball writers, as well as Eric Sorrentino, sports editor, and Erick R. Schmidt, associate sports editor.
There was change, however, in the coaching ranks of the Big 12 this week. Oklahoma State was coached by an interim coach after Eddie Sutton was injured in a car accident. Kansas State's Jim Wooldridge was sidelined after neck surgery earlier in the week. Missouri was coached by Melvin Watkins after Quin Snyder resigned as head coach. Missouri was the lone team involved in the coaching carousel to win its game this weekend.
There was no change in the top four of this week's rankings. The top four teams won all of their games, and last week's line up was unanimously re-voted in the same order.
For the second week in a row, the winner of the pillow fight of the week was voted as the No. 12 team in the conference. Last week, it was Baylor beating Kansas State and then being voted into last place by virtue of its conference record. This week, Missouri beat Kansas State in Columbia, Mo., but it wasn't enough to make the voters forget the Tigers' six straight losses before the victory.
Texas A&M and Iowa State tied for the fifth spot, and so a tie-breaker was used. Both teams received two fifth-place votes and two sixth-place votes. The position, then, was decided by a combination of the fact that Iowa State lost to Texas A&M earlier this season, while Texas A&M is on a two-game winning streak. Iowa State lost to Kansas in Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday.
Megan True/KANSAN
iowa State's Curtis Stinson vents his anger at one of the referees after a double technical call against teammate Shawn Taggart and CJ Giles during the second half of the game.
KANSAS 88, IOWA ST. 75
IOWA ST. (14-9, 4-6 Big 12 Conference)
FG PTS REB A
Taggart, Shawn 2-3 4 0 0
Clark, Rahshon 2-7 4 8 0
Hubalek, Jiri 6-11 14 3 0
Stinson, Curtis 9-20 19 5 8
Blairock, Will 8-19 21 3 6
Neat, John 2-4 6 3 0
Carr, Tasheed 0-0 1 0 0
Gray, Jessan 1-3 2 2 0
Macsden, Ross 2-3 4 4 0
Totals 32-70 75 33 14
KANSAS (17-6, 8-2 Big 12 Conference)
FG PTS REB A
Wright, Julian 5-9 13 9 4
Kaun, Sasha 1-4 2 4 0
Robbinson, Russell 1-4 9 6 7
Chalmers, Mario 6-12 23 5 4
Rush, Brandon 7-15 16 9 3
Hawkins, Jeff 2-4 6 0 0
Case, Jeremy 0-1 0 0 0
Jackson, Darnell 5-6 10 5 1
Giles, CJ 1-1 9 4 0
Moody, Christian 0-0 0 1 0
Totals 28-56 88 43 19
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