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This is the first official game in Pool D for the Jayhawks in South Korea

Kansas vs Turkey

World University Games (WUG) Competition

Dongkang Gymnasium, Gwangju, South Korea

10 pm Central

video: ESPNU

From KC STAR: All games are slated to be broadcast either live or on tape delay on ESPNU. If a game is televised on tape delay, viewers should still be able to watch it live via Internet stream through ESPN3.

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Kansas’ Pool D schedule (All times Central):

▪ Friday, July 3: USA vs. Turkey at Dongkang Gymnasium, 10 p.m. Central (noon July 4 in South Korea)

▪ Sunday, July 5: Brazil vs. USA at Dongkang Gymnasium, 6:30 a.m. Central (8:30 p.m. July 5 in South Korea)

▪ Tuesday, July 7: Chile vs. USA at Muan Indoor Gymnasium, 12:30 a.m. Central (2:30 p.m. July 7 in South Korea)

▪ Tuesday, July 7: USA vs. Serbia at Dongkang Gymnasium, 10 p.m. Central (noon July 8 in South Korea)

▪ Wednesday, July 8: USA vs. Switzerland at Dongkang Gymnasium, 8 p.m. Central (10 a.m. July 9 in South Korea)

▪ July 10-13: Three games TBA in medal and bracket play at Dongkang Gymnasium

The WUG Team Pools

▪ Pool A: Korea, Estonia, Germany, China, Angola, Mozambique

▪ Pool B: Russia, Canada, Mexico, Mongolia, Sweden, Montenegro

▪ Pool C: Australia, Lithuania, Finland, Japan, France, Chinese Taipei

▪ Pool D: USA (Kansas), Turkey, Brazil, Chile, Serbia and Switzerland

@scaredmichael I'm scared!

Billy Self

Game is on right now!

Turkish team average age is 24 years..

and ESPNU has the B team announcers on this game...

Rock Chalk!

Go Perry!

According to the announcers, Perry is from Wichita Texas. :-(

This is good for us.

Ugh. No ESPNU. :(

Turkey has been shooting 3s -- 18- 7 lead. Self has to take a time out to stop the bleeding.

Like to see us finish inside a little stronger.

Guess that isn't a travel in FIBA rules?

@Bwag same ole!

Clawing back

Defense is picking up a bit, but we've got to execute better.

Mask 50-50 on FT's.

Moore not so impressive.

@bskeet Yeah, that last sequence not so much.

Good lord, traylor is in rare form

They do call travel in Int'l play.

Whats the score? Im on the road from TX to KS.

Turkey leads 21-16. Second Quarter.

@Statmachine down 5

Down 2

Bragg looking good on D

Seldon finished strong that time. That's great

Tied up at 23

Vick &Mickelson combine for tie. ONly to go down 3

How are we not guarding him.

Who knew these Turks could shoot . Dow n 3

@DanR Euro ball.

@Bwag said:

Seldon finished strong that time. That's great

I hope that's something we'll see more of this year.

@brooksmd And then he hit a 3 from the corner.

Turks are big fakers too. Selden hit the guy in the shoulder and he rubbed his head

I blame soccer

Selden looks like he may have his hops back. Nice fade away by PE.

Ellis with 11 and a nice spin off the defense just outside the lane.

Soccer injury for Turkey..

Ellis hurt him.... his pride, that is.

@bskeet Does that mean extended time?

@DanR You are exactly right. I noticed that too on the replay.

@bskeet Ice it!

Moore shooting a little too much I think.

Looked like the ref was going to give Seldon a yellow card there.

Turkey up 36-32 at the half.

We won the second quarter 20-15.

Down 32-36 at half

This interview idea across languages is not such a great idea.

@bskeet Is there anyone here that can record the game and post it on youtube? I am not able to watch any of the games cuz I dont have espnu

Heading to the beer fridge during halftime of a july 3rd basketball game. What a great world.

@Lulufulu come on over!

@Crimsonorblue22 Wish I could, Im in Vermont. :(

@Lulufulu Dan r has a beer fridge!

@Crimsonorblue22 Ok just a sec, I'll get in my bullet train and be right over LOL

Ok.. going to get a PBR too!

@bskeet Think I finished my PBR's but I have lots of Yuengling Black and Tan in the fridge.

@DanR Makers over ice.

Those are some tight rims! ball bounces around a lot..

Tied

Good block out by Moore.

@bskeet Dang it! No Espnu, no Jayhawk radio. this sucks, someone hook a brutha up with a recording of the game later!

Traylor is chaos. Should not start.

Traylor couldn't keep him out...think that was one of HEM's complaints.

@bskeet bollocks!

All IPAs on my side of the fridge . Hefeweizens on my wife's side. Harmony, I think.

@DanR Citizen Cider is da bom

39-38 KU

Turks must be getting tired. Can't keep up so resorting to grabbing. Run'em in the ground boys.

Up 39-38

WTF Moore

Seldon from North Korea

Hows Mason holding up?

@Statmachine Good so far, but he may be feelin it tomorrow.

Offense looks good when they run it . Selden 3 and were up42 38

@Statmachine said:

Hows Mason holding up?

Went down hard a while back. Looked like he hurt his wrist a little but still going. Just pulled up from deep and hit front of rim.

Looking better in the 2nd half.. Remains to be seen if the Turks can adjust.

Loaner from Florida hits one

@Lulufulu Turks just playing physical and he's getting jostled alot. But not backin down.

Finally made it to ks and my mom has no espnu! Wtf im so pissed!

@Lulufulu he's fine, might be worn out! These announcers are better than mushy and frannie!

Swallowing whistles now

@DanR one of you guys has to be able to sync the game feed into the chat here some how

@Statmachine come to hutch

Coach from Turkey was talking to officials at the last break... Crap officiating now.

@bskeet Coach from Turkey knows he cant beat Self without underhanded tactics.

What the heck was that whistle with some of the other contact have seen?

@Bwag Ball didn't lie, missed both

Turk coach is a nice lookin guy

@Crimsonorblue22 my sister and brother in law lives there. He is a cop lol. Let me know if you ever need a get out of jail free card.

@DanR 👬

@Bwag theres gotta be a way to post the game on youtube

@Statmachine speeding tickets?

Now we see why Self picked up these guys! Moore and Deboise contributing

@Lulufulu I'm recording, but not sure how to get it from my DVR to YouTube???

One of those noooooo yessss shits by Moore. Up 50 42

@bskeet plus they love playing for KU! I like that!

Shots

@Lulufulu said:

Damm

@DanR lol, freudian slip

@Statmachine Need to find a sports bar for early Sunday morn. 6:30 I think.

Whats the score?

52-45

@Statmachine my cousin lives in maize

Beautiful oops to Selden.

End of third up 54-47 wig the alley pop to selden

@Crimsonorblue22 your cousin lives in corn?

54-47 end of 3rd

Moore and Selden connect for an alley-oop slam.. Hawks lead by 7 at the end of the 3rd

@Crimsonorblue22 thats where i am atm

iPhone letting me down with auto correct

@DanR When he tossed that ball in I thought who the hell is gonna go up and get that. Selden's hops is back.

10 point swing in the 3rd not bad. Let's see if we can close it out now, run these old men into the ground.

@Bwag who else besides Turkey can give us a run for a medal?

The Turks own their fouls I'll give them that

wow, is the audio 1 sec or so ahead of video. I swear he called that collision before I saw it.

@Lulufulu Anouncers are saying Turkey and Croatia along with us are the top 3 but only 2 move on to medal rounds.

Selden is big man on campus up. 10

Moore makes Mason look big out there.

Lot of traveling going on

@DanR is it bein called?

Nope

8 point game US/KU up

@Lulufulu not many fouls called either

Burned twice with the short clock. Not bad

@Crimsonorblue22 lettin them play?

@DanR ALOT of traveling. Apparently not such a big deal to pick up pivot foot before dribbling.

can't tell how this will go.. Our defense is going to be key to the outcome

@DanR There have been a couple calls for traveling but only inside.

That was unbelievable bad luck. WTH has happened to Traylor's confidence under the basket?

@DanR he needs to box out!!

@bskeet what was

Mason made a bad decision on the break to pass to Jamari

@DanR You're probably right.. But how does he miss that? Four on 1 on a fast break and we didn't score

5:26 remaining 59-51 good guys

@bskeet Traylor reminds me of Tyshawn. Sometimes he is real good and sometimes he is really really bad.

@Bwag But Turkey at line and made 2

Up 6 with 5.5 left

Turkey in zone, we struggle some, miss 2 3 attempts and they make a layup...lead down to 4

@DanR wonder why the games arent higher scoring with a faster shot clock...maybe its a small sample size tho

Wish we had graham

now a 4 point game.. Moore down and out with a cramp

TV kinda likes 4 morose Turkish dudes...not sure what's up there.

Bragg and Lucas working inside.

Bragg with lazy defense then fouls on the three pointer.. UGGGH

Bragg looks promising going for boards

@bskeet there's no fouling on 3 pointers!

Hands up all the time

Anybody know if Jesse went to Korea or is CapJourn too cheap?

Whose this Turkie guy shooting all the 3's?

Up 4

Landon lucas

Tenuous 4pt lead.. 63-57.

63-57

Vick needs more beef if he's gonna challenge big guys.

@brooksmd wonder how the guys who cant play in the WUGs will integrate later this summer

I wonder if Lucas can talk trash in turkish

How is that a foul on Lucas...forearm to chest by turkey, backing him in.

@Lulufulu Diallo, Graham, Greene etc

@Bwag Missed both

@DanR Dude can talk trash in Japanese and make them go HUH?

@Lulufulu I think they'll be okay.

Mason time

@brooksmd I do too, pretty good group

@brooksmd how much clock left

Take care of the ball guys!!! No more turnovers.

@Lulufulu 2:20

@bskeet As we turn it over again.

So much for everyone getting minutes.

Up 4 with 2 something left. They've missed 4 or so FT's and we don't seem to be getting any calls.

Shot clock violation when hurried shot underneath doesn't catch iron

1;32

No calls going our way.. What happened to that lenient clock for us?

50 SEC UP 8

Nice screen

1 minute same score, Mason scores up 6

Mason makes a great move.. Traylor with a great block but they call the foul. BOO

@Bwag are they running more pick and pop/pick and roll sets Or are they running " Bad Ball" ?

Is it 6 or 8?

Actually up 8

I think it's a 6 pt game.. 65-57 is on the board though

Way to finish! Hope they don't kill us

4 sec up 8

@Lulufulu Pick and Pop, quick clock forces shots.

WIN

Hawks win the opener! 66-57 Giant victory over the giants from Turkey

@Bwag YES! WTG KU! RCJH!

Some different kind of fans than we usually have!

@Crimsonorblue22 any KU fans in the crowd?

@Lulufulu yes, more than I thought there would be. I guess they would be KU, not just USA fans.

@Lulufulu Looked to be quite a few.

@brooksmd Guess it shouldnt be a surprize. KU fans are the best.

@Lulufulu AFH Korea

Alright folks.. time for me to apply the rub to some slabs of ribs and brisket for tomorrow.. Ciao!

@brooksmd see that lady w/red and blue hair? That's me!!😉

@brooksmd HA! did they do the Rock Chalk chant?

@bskeet its nearly 1 am here. Im hittin the hay

@bskeet and you are where? You and @DanR need to get together and have all of us over!

The benefits of Pacific Time zone :-)

66-57;
39% v 35% FG%;
25% v 31% 3FG% 5/20 v 9/29;
54% v 57% FT 7/13 v 12/21;
37 v 36 RB 10/27 v9/27;
17 v 15 steals;
9 v 9 Assists;
16 v 20 TO;
16 v 9 points off TO

@Lulufulu I didn't hear one. But not wearing hearing aids and sound down to not disturb sleepers. Don't think they had the place mic'd very well for crowd noise anyway.

ESPN's report on the game:

Jayhawks open strong in South Korea

Kansas forced 20 turnovers to beat Turkey 66-57 in the opener at the World University Games. Bill Self's squad is representing the United States at the event. Wayne Selden Jr. led the Jayhawks with 19 points.

I'm in lawrence... central time (Yuk). Beer fridge is always full though, so if anyone is up for the next game, come on over. It's at 6:30 am, right? 5:30 somewhere.

@DanR Does that include breakfast with the beer or is beer the breakfast?

@Crimsonorblue22

"I guess they would be KU, not just USA fans."

Amazing how many KU fans were there. There were also some USA fans. Easy to tell them apart... KU fans wearing Jayhawk gear and the USA fans draping American flags and what not.

We could have a game on Mars and I bet there would be at least 1000 Jayhawk fans make the long journey.

Hey... sounds amazing... interplanetary basketball game? And Kansas first again? Maybe we could sprinkle some of Naismith's remains on other planets.... Make a claim on more Jayhawk turf!

@Lulufulu Yes, the chant started up with about 1:30 left to play :) There were about 75 to 100 fans in KU gear at the game who I'm guessing live and work in Korea like me. There was a group of about 15 fans including KU mega donor, Dana Anderson, that looked like they traveled all the way from the US to attend.

Interesting to note that the U.S. Ambassador to Korea (along with a security detail of about 30 people) chose to spend the 4th of July attending the KU v Turkey game. Usually they spend the 4th hosting functions at the ambassador's residence. Pretty cool that he met with the team afterwards.

Wayne Selden stood out big time. Really confident in warm ups and in the game. The alley oop play was a real crowd pleaser. Showing some leadership too. He got after Bragg for turning the ball over when he should have inbounded the ball to Mason. I predict he will be a lottery pick after this season.

Just watched the replay of the game. If you go to Watch ESPN APP and scroll all the way to the right, there is a tab for WUG and click on it and you'll see our game.

@RoKChalk Way to represent! They interviewed the Ambassador at halftime and he tweeted after the game our score. Glad to see him healing and there for us.

@RockChalkinTexas NICE! I just saw the link, thanks for telling us! Im gonna watch it now b4 it disappears