Tuesday, January 16, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 3
Kansas' Kirk Hinrich drives the ball down court against Oklahoma's Daryan Selvy. Hinrick had 13 points, six assists, and one steal in Saturday's victory in Norman, Okla. Photo by Thad Allender/KANSAN
Collison quiets crowd
By Chris Wristen
sports@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
By Chris Wristen
NORMAN, Okla. — The Kansas men's basketball team already proved it could win pretty this season, but Saturday the Jayhawks did the dirty work in beating No. 22 Oklahoma. 69-61.
No. 5 Kansas was in a defensive tussle from the game's opening tip. After two Eric Chenowith tree throws and a Kenny Gregory dunk stretched the early lead to 9-3, the Sooners pressured Kansas into a nearly seven-minute scoring drought and charged ahead 12-9 on a Hollis Price three-pointer.
"It was really a battle out there — a war," said Kansas coach Roy Williams. "It's no secret that both teams are filled with very competitive ballplayers who displayed a great deal of toughness in today's game."
So tough, in fact, that Oklahoma leading scorer Aaron McGhee, averaging 16.4 points per game, did not score.
After weathering its scoring slump, Kansas responded with sharp shooting and staunch defense of its own. The Jayhawks held Oklahoma to seven points during a 10-minute stretch while building a 31-19 lead. Junior guard Jeff Boschee hit three 3-pointers and Gregory, a senior forward, scored five points during the run. Boschee added a fourth 3-pointer in the second half and led Kansas
with 16 points.
Oklahoma guard Kelly Newton hit two late threes, including a 35-foot at the buzzer, that cut the Javahawks' halftime lead to 33-25.
Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops 'halftime announcement that he would remain at the school created a buzz among the 11,183 fans that carried onto the basketball court in the second half. Nolan Johnson and Daryan Selvy found their marks and Johnson's 12-foot jumper rattled in and tied the game at 40-10.
That's when Nick Collison took over and proved to be the crowd-queter. *
On the Jayhawks' next two possessions, they looked inside to the sophomore forward. His hook shot and layup gave Kansas a 44-10 lead, and the 'Hawks never looked back.
Sophomore point guard Kirk Hinrich scored six of Kansas' next seven points and helped put the game away. He was one of four Jayhawks to score in double-digits; not bad for a game where both teams played tough defense.
"You think about the last two games we've played against Oklahoma, and they've scored 50 points," Williams said. "For 40 minutes we competed as hard as we have all year. Defensively we haven't been that good this year, but you compete real hard and that makes up for those things."
— Edited by Ananda Hay
Oklahoma upbeat despite loss
By Zac Hunter
sports@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
NORMAN, Okla. — You would never know it by Oklahoma coach Kelvin Sampson's postgame comments, but the Sooners had just lost their second conference game of the season.
He said he was pleased with how his team played against Kansas for the first 10 minutes of the game and the first 10 minutes of the second half during which the Sooners completely shut down the Jayhawks' inside game.
Oklahoma dropped to 1-2 in the Big 12 Conference after a 69-61 loss to Kansas on Saturday. But despite that losing conference record, Sampson was optimistic.
"I can't tell you how pleased I was defensively and rebounding," he said.
Kansas had a huge size advantage in the paint, with the Sooners' two tallest players standing at 6-foot-9. But it was almost as if those two didn't even show up to play. Kansas held junior forwards Ronnie Griffin and Aaron McGhee, who combine for more than 20 points per game, to just three points.
"We tried to focus our defense on him," said Kansas coach Roy Williams, referring to McGhee. "The youngster probably just didn't have a good day, but we hope our defense had something to do with that."
McGhee is Oklahoma's leading scorer at more than 16 points per game, and although he didn't score, he did manage to corral eight rebounds.
"You don't ever fault a kid's effort," Sampson said. "They are trying to score. None of them are trying not to score or trying to get their shot blocked."
While the Sooner players weren't burning out bulbs on the Lloyd Noble Center scoreboard, they were getting the job done on the boards. Oklahoma overcame a huge size disadvantage and bettered Kansas in rebounding for almost the entire game before finally losing the edge during the final minutes, as Kansas outrebounded Oklahoma .
"We don't have a great rebounder, but we've got a lot of guys that are good rebounders," Sampson said.
Not one player had more than 10 rebounds, but the Sooners managed to hold their own against a Kansas team that seems to have an endless supply of players that are 6-foot-9 or taller.
"You don't look at who had the most rebounds to tell who was the best rebounding team," Sampson said.
Edited by Amanda Hay
Drew Gooden receives congratulations from the Oldhamah bench as he passes by Coach Kelvin Sampson and sooner players. Photo by Thad Allendor/KANSAN
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