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. “They pressured us but still packed it in, and we really didn’t move the ball”.
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Kansas: The Jayhawks won this tournament in 1996, led by forward Raef LaFrentz….
The Jayhawks were up 59-33 at halftime and by at least 20 points for all but the closing seconds.
“He’s missed a lot of valuable time”, Self said to reporters. They never truly threatened in the final five minutes as KU cruised to their second-ever Maui Invitational Championship. Vanderbilt is a one-time Maui champion (1986).
They own a victory over a Vanderbilt team that entered 5-0 and was picked to finish second in the Southeastern Conference, behind No. 1 Kentucky. “He kept us in the game by making, I think, three threes that were guarded and basically kept us within striking distance”.
It was Kornet pacing the Commodores early, helping them open up a 10-point lead midway through the first half.
Selden led all scorers with 25 points and chipped in seven rebounds.
“Wayne was absolutely fabulous in the first half when we had nothing going on”‘ said Coach Self.
Tuesday’s game was about Kansas connections.
Selden is averaging 15.0 points while sinking 13 of 23 from 3-point range, while Mason is scoring 13.8 with 6.5 assists per game.
Aaron Holiday made eight of the closing free throws and Welsh added two for the Bruins (2-1), who play No. 5 Kansas, a 123-72 victor over Chaminade, in the semifinals on Tuesday. Melo Trimble and Rasheed Sulaimon scored 17 apiece and Robert Carter Jr. added 15 for the Terrapins, who had five players score in double figures. Crean was also critical of his team trying to make home run plays instead of going for the simple, common sense plays. This is Wake Forest’s first appearance at the Maui Invitational but Manning played here with Kansas the year they went on to win the national championship…. But that number would also be the highest three-point attempt rate of the Self era, and for the moment, it appears to be a winning formula.
Alford said he would reevaluate UCLA’s “big-big” lineup that starts Thomas Welsh with Tony Parker.
The loss drops UCLA to 3-2 on the new season.
But they put on an offensive clinic in the opening half against a Chaminade defense that came into the afternoon giving up 101 points per game. UCLA is now 3-3 overall and was 1-2 in the Maui Jim Maui Invitational for a 4th place result. IN could not, however, get over the hump to take a lead at any point in the game.
“We’re disappointed in how we played the second half, particularly defensively”, Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings said. Mussini today led all players on the floor with 24 points and six assists.
With the win UNLV improved to 5-1 on the season and IN fell to 4-2. The Red Storm made 10-of-19 3-pointers (52.6 percent) in the contest and dished out 21 assists. In the final, neither team led by more than 12, and even those double-digit advantages didn’t last long.
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Mussini, a freshman guard, has logged six straight double-digit scoring games to begin his college career and is averaging a team-high 17.3 points.
