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Newell: KU basketball overwhelmed by No. 25 Texas in 81-69 road loss ↗
AUSTIN, Texas — It’s starting to become a pattern.
Kansas’ potent offense has a Kryptonite, and it looks an awful lot like a team blessed with skilled shot-blockers and rim-protectors.
Previously, KU was beaten up inside by Villanova in a loss, then San Diego State in a home defeat.
Dodd: Texas trounces No 6. Kansas ↗
AUSTIN — Nearly an hour after Kansas’ first conference loss, Bill Self chomped down on a piece of beef jerky and moved up a ramp inside the Erwin Center.
The jerky was a gift from Texas coach Rick Barnes, some consolation prize after No. 25 Texas had finished a convincing and thorough 81-69 victory over Self’s sixth-ranked Jayhawks.
Bedore: Unbeaten no more: Texas hands Kansas first Big 12 loss ↗
Austin, Texas — Those who like drama during the course of the conference season have to be happy Texas’ basketball team crushed Kansas University, 81-69, on Saturday in Erwin Center.
The (16-5, 7-1) Jayhawks — who had raced to a 7-0 start and were threatening to leave nine schools in their wake while storming toward a 10th consecutive crown — now hold just a one-game lead on the (17-4, 6-2) Longhorns and two-game margin on Oklahoma heading into Tuesday’s game at Baylor.
Keegan: Demarcus Holland, Longhorns stymie Andrew Wiggins ↗
Austin, Texas — The most misleading number on the box score of Saturday’s 81-69 Texas victory against Kansas University revealed the point total for Longhorns guard Demarcus Holland, a 6-foot-2 sophomore.
He scored four points. More telling numbers as to his value: He had 11 rebounds, three assists and two steals. The man he guarded, KU’s leading scorer, Andrew Wiggins, scored seven points on 2-for-12 shooting.
Bedore: Jayhawks ‘didn’t compete’ in loss at Texas ↗
Austin, Texas — Wayne Selden did his best to offer an explanation for Kansas University’s double-digit loss to Texas on Saturday afternoon in Erwin Center.
“It’s a mindset. We came out real flat. We came out dull. We didn’t play Kansas basketball. We weren’t focused,” the freshman guard said after scoring a team-high 21 points off 8-of-16 shooting in an 81-69 loss that dropped KU to 7-1 in Big 12 play, compared to UT’s 6-2 mark.
Keegan: Longhorns now in hunt for Big 12 title ↗
Austin, Texas — A young, hungry, cohesive Texas basketball team stormed out of the enormous Big 12 shadow cast by Kansas and there went the Longhorns’ anonymity.
By whipping the Jayhawks, 81-69, Saturday in the aging Erwin Center, the ’Horns tore the veil off of their secret: They’re a very good basketball team, a bona fide contender for the Big 12 title.
Post-game Press Conference with Self ↗
Post-game Press Conference with Rick Barnes ↗
Also see our Daily Threads, February 2, and the News Digest for Yesterday, February 1, as well as Daily Threads for Yesterday, February 1
