Patrick McCaw scored 20 points and Nevada Las Vegas hung on through the frantic final seconds for a 72-69 victory over No. 13 IN on Wednesday IN the fifth-place game of the Maui Jim Maui Invitational at Lahaina, Hawaii.
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Tony Parker had 18 points and 15 rebounds for Bruins (3-3), who also got 18 points from Isaac Hamilton. The Rebels played two close games against quality opponents, and they didn’t execute very well in end-of-game scenarios in either contest. “He didn’t let us down”.
“I saw the Wayne that was in South Korea”, Mason said.
After heading into halftime down by four (30-26), Kansas got off to a quick start in the second half.
“We knew we were going to be in a battle, and what we’ve got to learn in this young season is we had it happen here and we had it happen in the Wake game, and we did a pretty decent job with it yesterday, but momentum is always up for grabs, all right?” KU averaged 23 three-point attempts per game at the tournament. Seldon was the Co-Most Valuable Player of the tournament along with teammate Frank Mason III.
“It feels good going 2-1 here in a tournament like this”, Thomas said.
With seven seconds left, Yogi Ferrell couldn’t inbound the ball and there was a five-second call. He said he needs his players to realize you look better when you make the simple plays. “We told the guys, ‘Great win, way to fight, way to grind it out”. “We made too many mental mistakes, okay, that ended up looking physically wrong because of the way we passed the ball because we weren’t as aware as we needed to be”.
“Just defense”, Ellis said of the first-half blowout. “He kept us within striking distance”, Self added. “Three games in three days, playing 40 minutes (vs. Vandy) he’s obviously a very well-conditioned athlete”.
The Jayhawks, in fact, haven’t played Vanderbilt since December 1997, when the two teams met at the Rainbow Classic in Honolulu.
Get this: the Kansas teams with the four highest three-point shooting seasons in school history (271 in 2010-11 and 2007-08, 262 in 2009-10 and 231 in 2006-07) all were coached by Self. He is standing out there catching and shooting.
A trip once seen as an opportunity for IN to make a national statement had turned into a holiday nightmare by dinner time Wednesday. “It hurt me, it really did, because I wanted him home”. “There are several different options on that play, and it just came to me”. We used to be a team that scores off the catch.
IU never pulled within fewer than two points for the rest of the game.
An ill-advised foul by UNLV resulted in a four-point play for Indiana’s Collin Hartman with 1:45 left, reducing the Rebel lead to four. UNLV’s Jerome Seagears made both ends of a one-and-one with 13 seconds left to make it 72-67.
“This is a great tournament to learn about that in”, Crean said.
“We’re six games in”.
“I could tell”, Rice said after beating a ranked team for the ninth time in his tenure. Mickelson missed his only shot, and had a rebound and a turnover in 4 minutes. We defended them well. “They can play at a really high-level pace”.
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The Jayhawks will return to the friendly confines of Allen Fieldhouse after an 18-day hiatus when they welcome in the Loyola (Md.) Greyhounds on Tuesday, Dec. 1.
