Kansas sets pace against Cyclones

Monday, February 26, 2007

There would be no need for overtime this time.

Just a month ago, Kansas and Iowa State were tied at the end of regulation in Ames. Yet on Saturday, Kansas cruised to a 26-point halftime lead, and held Iowa State to 15 points at intermission.

So what was the difference between the two games?

“We were playing their style of basketball, which is uptempoed,” Iowa State guard Dodie Dunson said. “And we should’ve been playing ours.”

Cyclone basketball certainly isn’t shooting a miserable 18 percent in the first half. It also isn’t watching your top two scorers — Wesley Johnson and Mike Taylor — shoot a combined 5-for-22 from the field and score just 13 points between them. On the season, both average at least 12 per game.

No, Iowa State looked nothing like the team that took Kansas to overtime last month thanks to hot three-point shooting and four players in double-figures.

It was so bad for the Cyclones on Saturday that Dunson, a reserve guard, was the team’s leading scorer with just eight points on three field goals.

“It was a mismatch today,” Iowa State coach Greg McDermott said. “Physically, mentally, from a hustle standpoint. We were defeated in every aspect of the game possible.”

The scary thing for McDermott was he thought it could have been worse than the 37-point stomping his team received.

“They’ve got virtually every piece of the puzzle,” McDermott said, “and their starting point guard didn’t play today. I felt he was the glue that held them together, because he did so many things that didn’t show up on the stat sheet. They were very effective and unselfish without him today.”

It wasn’t as if Kansas controlled the game from the start, though. Iowa State trailed by just two at the first media time-out with 14 minutes left in the first half. Then, the Jayhawks were able to get out in transition and run, which pretty much spelled the end of any chance Iowa State had of pulling off the upset.

“They just outplayed us,” Taylor said. “They did force the tempo in transition which gave us problems. They just attacked the glass. They were just tougher than us.”

Kansan senior sportswriter Ryan Schneider can be contacted at rschneider@kansan.com

— Edited by Carissa Pedigo

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