Impressive teamwork all night long for No. 5 Kansas. He shared Most Valuable Player honors for the tournament with Mason, who sparked Kansas’ high-scoring attack with a week of hard-charging drives and deft playmaking.
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“Just defense”, Ellis said of the first-half blowout. You’ve got Bill who has won National Championships.
Selden then revealed the plan. “It will be in my room for a month, and go across the hall to his room for another month. But it’s always good to see guys shoot like that”.
“It was a great win for us”, Self said. “We had no chance to win unless Frank plays. But the second half, the ball seemed to be moving a little freer and big guys finished it in tight and obviously some guys made some timely shots”. I think that’s a handsome way to play.
“I saw the Wayne that was in South Korea”, Mason said. “He kept us in the game by making, I think, three 3s that were guarded and basically kept us within striking distance”. When the night was over, he had finished with 16 points, seven assists and five rebounds. He’s averaging 14.0 points and shooting 53.3 percent, including 8 of 15 from beyond the arc, but totaled just eight points while missing 10 of 14 field-goal attempts in two meetings with ranked teams last season. While Vandy was able to turn on the jets late to overcome an opponent like Stony Brook, they couldn’t do the same against a top five program like the Jayhawks. “And, again, they’re fast and quick and shoot the ball awfully well”.
A year ago, after Michigan State’s loss to Texas Southern, commentators openly asked if the Spartans were NIT-bound.
“I thought that we played a lot better in the first half than we did in the second”. This time, it was an 11-2 run which put Kansas up 39-16 with 7:20 left in the first. That didn’t change in the first half.Vanderbilt was getting things done through its duo of 7-footers Damian Jones and Luke Kornet. “And they just came out made shots and we never really made the shots to counter it”.
Lucas added 12 rebounds in the game, which (with his 13 points) gave him a double-double.
That was taken care of Wednesday when freshman Federico Mussini scored a season-high 24 points and junior forward Christian Jones had career highs of 17 points and 11 rebounds to help St. John’s beat Chaminade 100-93 in the seventh-place game. Wade Baldwin added 17 points and two steals. The Jayhawks shot 64.4% from the field for the game.
For the second time in 5 years, Kansas finds itself in the Maui finals.
St. John’s center Yankuba Sima (35) pulls down a rebound as Chaminade guard Kevin Hu (23) looks on in the first half during an NCAA college basketball game in the Maui Invitational Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015, in Lahaina, Hawaii. The other two starters in the backcourt, Aaron Holiday and Isaac Hamilton, for example, average identical figures of 3 assists per game to 3.3 turnovers. They had 11 of each against Kansas. Raef LaFrentz was the MVP when Kansas won the title in 1996….
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Marquette 78, Arizona State 73: Henry Ellenson scored 14 of his 18 points after halftime leading the Golden Eagles (3-2) to an overtime victory over the Sun Devils (3-2) in the championship game of the Legends Classic in NY.
