Kansas visits No. 25 Baylor on Tuesday night.
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In a game that featured way too many first-half whistles, KU and K-State slugged it out for the first 16 minutes and then Kansas stepped on the gas to build a 17-point lead early in the second half (52-35). He got 12 stitches and the serious deal was when Wayne [Selden Jr.] scratched him in the eye.
The Kansas State Wildcats and the Kansas Jayhawks face off on Saturday in Big 12 college basketball action. The Jayhawks’ leading scorer spent the next 6 minutes getting treatment for it in the locker room. Kansas State (15-12, 4-10) was led by guard Barry Brown and forward Stephen Hurt with 13 points each. “But schematically, I’m not sure that we’ll do a lot of things different other than the fact to tell our guys to try a little harder and be a little bit more focused”.
“They’re so unselfish and they play together”, Kansas State coach Bruce Weber said.
This win combined with Oklahoma’s win over West Virginia gave Kansas a two-game lead in the Big 12 with four games left to play.
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Kansas went into halftime with a 39-29 lead after a rough-and-tumble first half that featured a combined 18 fouls in the first 11 minutes of regulation. “We’ll go back and have an eye doctor look at it. If it’s a scratch, he’ll be OK, but we just don’t know”.
Kansas State’s difficulty scoring can be painful to watch at times and the Wildcats had scored only 16 points in 16:53 before Johnson and Hurt brought the Wildcats to life. “I think we’ve caught them the last couple of years when they’ve been really good”. Justin Edwards recorded a team-high 17 points in the win.
This was an extremely physical game, with both Landen Lucas and Jamari Traylor fouling out and Frank Mason finishing with 4 fouls, but Kansas still shot 50% from 2 and 33.3% from 3. Mason reached the 1,000-point mark for his career…. The over, meanwhile, is 6-2 in the last eight meetings between these two teams when Kansas State has hosted. Kansas State has not won three straight over Kansas at home since 1981-83.
The Jayhawks prevented the Wildcats from accomplishing that February 3, winning 77-59 while shooting 55.1 percent.
Kansas State: Johnson and Edwards scored 11 points apiece….
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As for Brannen Greene, whose late dunk in KU’s home victory over K-State fueled quite a controversy, he was held to just one shot, two fouls, two turnovers and one rebound in five minutes.
