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KANSAS 73,UCLA 61
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE
MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2009
MC
Kansas 35 | 38 — 73
UCLA 28 | 33 — 61
Jayhawk Stat Leaders
Points
Markieff Morris
19
Rebounds
Assists
Cole Aldrich 12
Sherron Collins 4
Kansas
Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGA Rebs A Pts
Marcus Morris 2-7 0-1 9 1 4
Cole Aldrich 1-6 0-0 12 1 7
Xavier Henry 6-15 4-7 5 1 16
Sherron Collins 4-7 0-2 2 4 14
Tyshawn Taylor 4-9 0-3 3 1 8
Thomas Robinson 0-1 0-0 0 0 0
Tyrel Reed 2-4 1-3 0 1 5
Elijah Johnson 0-1 0-1 0 0 0
Markieff Morris 8-11 0-1 6 1 19
Totals 28-63 5-17 37 12 73
UCLA
Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGA Rebs A Pts
James Keefe 0-2 0-0 1 0 0
Nikola Dragovic 5-13 3-8 7 1 14
Reeves Nelson 4-10 0-0 9 0 9
Malcolm Lee 4-10 1-3 4 3 12
Michael Roll 6-13 2-6 0 1 16
Jerime Anderson 0-4 0-0 4 5 3
Brendan Lane 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
J'mison Morgan 2-3 0-0 2 0 4
Tyler Honeycutt 1-6 0-0 6 1 3
Totals 22-61 6-17 33 11 61
Schedule
*all games in bold are at home
Date Opponent Result/Time
Nov. 3 FORT HAYS STATE (Exhibition) W, 107-68
Nov. 10 PITTSBURG STATE (Exhibition) W, 103-45
Nov. 13 HOFSTRA W, 101-65
Nov. 17 Memphis, St. Louis, Mo. W, 57-55
Nov. 19 CENTRAL ARKANSAS W, 94-44
Nov. 25 OAKLAND W, 89-59
Nov. 27 TENNESSEE TECH W, 112-75
Dec. 2 ALCORN STATE W, 98-31
Dec. 6 UCLA, Los Angeles, Calif. W, 73-61
Dec. 9 RADFORD 7 p.m.
Dec. 12 La Salle, Kansas City, Mo. (Sprint Center) 1 p.m.
Dec. 19 MICHIGAN 11 a.m.
Dec. 22 CALIFORNIA 8 p.m.
Dec. 29 BELMONT 8 p.m.
Jan. 2 Temple, Philadelphia, Pa. 4:30 p.m.
Jan. 6 CORNELL 7 p.m.
Jan. 10 Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. 12:30 p.m. or 3:30 p.m.
Jan. 13 Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. 8 p.m.
Jan. 16 TEXAS TECH 12:45 p.m.
Jan. 20 BAYLOR 8 p.m.
Jan. 23 Iowa State, Ames, Iowa 1 p.m.
Jan. 25 MISSOURI 8 p.m.
Jan. 30 Kansas State, Manhattan 6 p.m.
Feb. 3 Colorado, Boulder, Colo. 8 p.m.
Feb. 6 NEBRASKA 5 p.m.
Feb. 8 Texas, Austin, Texas 8 p.m.
Feb. 13 IOWA STATE 7 p.m.
Feb. 15 Texas A&M, College Station, Texas 8 p.m.
Feb. 20 COLORADO 3 p.m.
Feb. 22 OKLAHOMA 8 p.m.
Feb. 27 Oklahoma State, Stillwater, Okla. 3 p.m.
March 3 KANSAS STATE 7 p.m.
March 6 Missouri, Columbia, Mo. 1 p.m.
MEN'S BASKETE
Freshman guard Xavier Henry lays in the ball after adjusting to his left hand for a basket. Henry shot 5-9 from the field with 16 points in Kansas' 73-61 victory against UCLA.
Team depth makes up for mist
Weston White/KANSAN
Junior center Cole Aldrich stretches to block a shot from UCLA freshman forward Reeves Nelson Sunday afternoon at Pauley Pavilion. Aldrich blocked three shots and finished with seven points and twelve rebounds in Kansas' 73-61 victory.
Seven different players have in scoring through seven gar
BY TIM DWYER
tdwyer@kansan.com
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - It certainly wasn't pretty.
The layhawks turned the ball over too many times and they failed to get their preseason All-American center Cole Aldrich involved with any regularity against UCLA Sunday.
But Kansas proved once again this season that depth could overcome sloppiness as it forced 20 UCLA turnovers and found post scoring from the unlikeli-
est of sources.
MarkiekMorris,
who had scored in double figures only twice in his career,
came up huge when Aldrich faltered and finished with a career-high 19
Morris was the seventh lajyawk in the first seven games to finish at least tied as the lajyawks' top scorer. Depth was a large part of the lajyawks' preseason No. 1 ranking, but having seven different leading scorers has surprised even Kansas coach Bill Self, who expected more scoring to come from All-Americans Sherron Collins and Aldrich.
"We just feel like anywhere we go we can get points from."
MARKIEFF MORRIS Sophomore forward
"I really thought that Sherron and Cole would probably be scoring more points right now, but it's just not playing out that way." Self said. "When we've been poor offensively, which we were not good offensively tonight, we've
points off the bench.
"They were doubling Cole the whole game, so we had to get another post presence," Morris said. "Coach said, when I get it to just try and score it, so that's what I did."
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