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SPORTS / MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
featuring Willie Brown
Colorado 34 40-74 Kansas 48 46-94
Brown was Speaker of the California State Assembly for an unprecedented 15 years. He was Mayor of San Francisco from 1996-2004.
Points
Xavier Henry 24
Jayhawk Stat Leaders
Colorado
Rebounds
Cole Aldrich 10
Assists
Sherron Collins 7
<table border="1"><tr><td>Player</td><td>FG-FGA</td><td>3FG-3FGA</td><td>Rebs</td><td>A</td><td>Pts</td></tr><tr><td>Marcus Relphorde</td><td>7-14</td><td>2-4</td><td>4</td><td>3</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td>Austin Dufault</td><td>3-9</td><td>1-3</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td>Nate Tomlinson</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>1</td><td>4</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Alec Burks</td><td>7-16</td><td>0-1</td><td>7</td><td>1</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td>Cory Higgins</td><td>3-7</td><td>1-2</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td>Dwight Thorne II</td><td>1-2</td><td>0-1</td><td>5</td><td>2</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Shane Harris-Tunks</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Levi Knutson</td><td>2-3</td><td>2-2</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Casey Crawford</td><td>2-5</td><td>2-3</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td>TEAM</td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>25-56</td><td>8-16</td><td>25</td><td>12</td><td>74</td></tr></table>
Kansas
| Player | FG-FGA | 3FG-3FGA | Rebs | A | Pts |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Marcus Morris | 2-3 | 0-0 | 5 | 2 | 5 |
| Cole Aldrich | 6-8 | 0-0 | 10 | 2 | 17 |
| Xavier Henry | 9-16 | 4-7 | 6 | 1 | 24 |
| Sherron Collins | 4-11 | 3-7 | 1 | 7 | 13 |
| Tyshawn Taylor | 6-7 | 1-1 | 3 | 6 | 17 |
| Brady Morningstar | 0-1 | 0-1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Elijah Johnson | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Jeff Withey | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Tyrel Reed | 1-4 | 1-3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Markieff Morris | 5-9 | 0-1 | 7 | 2 | 11 |
| Conner Teahan | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Thomas Robinson | 1-3 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Jordan Juenemann | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | | | 2 | | |
| Totals | 35-64 | 9-20 | 40 | 22 | 94 |
Totals 35-64 9-20 40 22 94
Xavier Henry continues his scoring turnaround
BY COREY THIBODEAUX
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The three starting guards for the Jayhawks were all jokes and smiles after Saturday's 94-74 victory against Colorado.
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And freshman Xavier Henry is back to his early season high-scoring ways.
Senior Sherron Collins is tied for the winningest player in Kansas basketball history. Sophomore Tyshawn Taylor had 17 points and six assists in a solid return to the starting lineup.
Taylor got a jab in too.
"I'll answer it for him," Collins said. "Yes."
"He would have had 30 if he made some more threes," Taylor said.
There were a lot of good things that happened on offense for the Jayhawks. They made 54.7 percent of their shot attempts, had five players score in double figures and their 94 points were the most in the past 18 games.
"I think that's as good as we've been as far as having multiple guys on," Kansas coach Bill Self said.
This game was nothing like it was in Boulder, Colo. two and a half weeks ago. The Jayhawks led by as much as 27 Saturday and the Buffaloones never got within 10 in the second half.
Henry had the vote of confidence from his teammates to be the focal point of the offense. Early in the game, Collins gave up a couple of wide-open threes to get Henry the ball, who made four of his seven three-point attempts.
"When somebody gets going, we're not going to shy away from them, we're going to feed them," said Collins, who finished with 13 points. "I know I can get open shots all the time, but he was hot so I tried to give him an open shot."
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"I work on all ways of scoring," Henry said. "It's nothing that
comes foreign to me. When you have an open shot, you take it. If somebody's crowding you, go ahead and take it to the rim."
Since the game at Texas on Feb. 8, Henry has
"But in the last four games he's been as good a player as we've had on our team."
magically flipped on his game. But Henry is performing well in areas other than shooting.
BILL SELF Kansas coach
So what changed with Henry that caused this sudden turnaround in scoring? Self was befuddled to what the answer was. But with the way his freshman phenom is playing now, he doesn't care.
Henry's six rebounds led the layhawks after the first half and he came away with a lot of floor burns from diving for loose balls. For those who normally watch Henry, it looked like this surge of energy was new, but Henry insists it was there all along.
"I've had my energy," Henry said. "It's just been shadowed by me not making shots I guess."
"I don't know if it was because he was a freshman or maybe he was just playing poorly at that particular time," Selt said. "But in the last four games he's been as good a player as we've had on our team."
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Henry said his streak was simply a product of his shots falling in. After Saturday's game, he confessed that there was in fact a difference between focusing on what you are told and just playing basketball.
"When you're a player, you want to please the coach and do everything right," Henry said. "I had that in my head and I'm just trying to play more than I think."
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