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/ SPORTS / TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2011 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
Pay heed, all who enter
PHOTOS BY HOWARD TING
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THIBODEAUX (CONTINUED FROM 10A)
Bowers saw what his teammates were doing. Their best players letting their arch rival walk all over them so they could have a chance for a comeback, but it was to no avail.
"We ended up fouling out anyway," Bowers said.
"I was just hoping they were going to pull it together without me," Ratliffe said.
tage of the tentative play.
That's when the Jayhawks took the Tigers apart. The soft defense of Mizzou struggling to remain on the floor resulted in a 103-86 victory for Kansas after they led by four at halftime.
And this wasn't in garbage time. It was a 12-point game
Edited by Dave Boyd
So that's how this rivalry game was won. The refs didn't make any dastardly calls, so this one was on Mizzou. It was a tad anticlimacial after the way the first half started,
"It was just one of those nights," he said.
"The second half, our deal was throw it inside," coach Bill Self said. "We really got them in trouble that way."
Monday night's game didn't come as advertised and Bowers knew his team had itself to blame.
But Missouri, which played great despite the fouls, stayed winless on the road in Big 12 play and Kansas looked like the best team in the country.
The Jayhawks just did what they do best and pummeled the Tigers with their superior size. The combined effort of Marcus Morris, Markieff Morris and Thomas Robinson led to a 16-for-20 from the field performance.
with Bowers exploding for 12 points and Ratlife at nine. This was supposed to be one of those great finishes where the now-relevant Tigers took the Jayhawks to the brink in their own building.
with 6:44 left to go when the first Tiger, Ratlife, fouled out. Bowers was next at 5:21. Pressey at 1:46.
— "Coach told me at halftime to play like an All-American," he said — without his teammates slowing down. To see Mario Little shoot whenever he touched the ball — not literally, he did have one assist — on his way to 17 points in 16 minutes. To see the jayhawks shrug off Missouri's vaunted "40 Minutes of Hell" style like it was no more than a rough morning in a preseason boot camp. It was impressive.
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"When you have guys that come off the bench and do what these guys did tonight, that makes us one of the deepest teams in the country," Marcus Morris said.
But still, Marcus wasn't happy. Of course Marcus wasn't happy. The Jayhawks gave up 86 points in their own building.
"They hung 86 points," he said. "That's horrible for us."
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— Edited by Danielle Packer and Tali David
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