Who wears short shorts?

Not Darrell Arthur, at least, unless he has to. Kansas wore the retro uniforms on Saturday, and a reporter asked Arthur if he would have wanted make the uniforms extra retro by wearing short shorts.

“Sure, if that’s all we had,” Arthur said.

The future

Tyrel Reed, who has played one minute since Jan. 26, got eight minutes of playing time on Saturday. He scored six points on two three-pointers. Cole Aldrich also made the most of his time. He scored six points and had four rebounds and three blocks in 14 minutes.

Blast from the past

Aaron Miles wasn’t at Allen Fieldhouse to celebrate the 110 year reunion, but Saturday marked the anniversary of a special day for him. On Feb. 16, 2003, Miles came very close to a triple-double, finishing with 14 points, nine assists and nine steals against Iowa State. No one has ever recorded a triple-double in KU history.

Highs

Halftime Reunion

Bill Self said that the best part of the 110 year reunion was that Jayhawk greats like Bud Stallworth, Dave Robisch, Darnell Valentine and Wayne Simien stood shoulder to shoulder with walk-ons like T.J. Whatley, Scott Novosel and Chris Zerbe. Self said fans understood the contributions of every player.

Block Party

The Jayhawks finished with eight blocked shots, but the most impressive block of the day was called a foul. Darrell Arthur almost took out a computer on press row with a vicious swat in the second half. Freshman Cole Aldrich led Kansas with three blocks, and Sasha Kaun — who had one block — tied Paul Mokeski for 10th on the all-time blocks list with 136 career blocks.

The Future

With 8:51 to play in the second half, freshman guard Tyrel Reed entered the game. Reed, who hadn’t played since picking up one minute of court time against Missouri on Feb. 4, shared the court with freshman Cole Aldrich and sophomores Darrell Arthur and Sherron Collins. The Burlington native finished with six points on two three-pointers. Self said that Kansas needed a fifth guard to contribute, and Reed — whose been dealing with nagging ankle injuries — might see more minutes.

Lows

Barack Chalk Jayhawk

One fan displayed a sign that endorsed Senator Barack Obama. The high/low has no problem with Obama, but let’s try to keep partisan politics outside of Allen Fieldhouse. The sign wasn’t even the best Rock Chalk pun of the day. That award goes to the people behind Chipotle’s “Rock Guac Jayhawk” advertising slogan.

Richard Roby

Every day, it’s becoming clearer and clearer that Roby should have declared for the NBA draft after his freshman or sophomore season. After his pedestrian two-point performance on Saturday, Roby’s NBA dreams might be on life support.

Prime Plays

First Half

15:10 ­

Brandon Rush throws an alley-oop to Darrell Arthur, who throws it down with a reverse slam. This game didn’t have much running, but Kansas still had its fair share of dunks.

8:57

Levi Knutson makes a three-pointer to pull Colorado within five at 21-16. The Buffaloes stayed close for a little while.

6:16

Sasha Kaun ends a nearly four-minute field goal drought for the Jayhawks with a basket in the paint. This dry spell shows that Kansas played ugly on Saturday, too.

0:00

Halftime. More than 200 former players, coaches and managers get honored on the court. Saturday wasn’t about the Colorado game. It was about the past 110 years of KU basketball.

Second Half

18:2

Finally another highlight. Russell Robinson finds Darnell Jackson for an alley-oop. Kansas leads 34-20.

16:26

Robinson takes a charge from Colorado’s Dwight Thorne II. Defense like this made the game easy for the Jayhawks.

12:40

Prettiest play of the game. Arthur gets another alley-oop, this time from Sherron Collins. He has to stretch his arms out really far to catch this one.

2:22

Tyrel Reed finally gets some serious playing time and makes good use of it. He takes a charge and hits a three-pointer.

TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS

## Player Name FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN

00 Arthur, Darrell 4-9 0-0 0-0 3 3 6 2 8 2 0 0 0 21

32 Jackson, Darnell 5-7 0-0 2-4 1 1 2 2 12 1 0 0 0 23

03 Robinson, Russell 1-2 1-2 1-2 2 3 5 0 4 5 1 0 1 26

15 Chalmers, Mario 3-5 3-5 4-4 0 3 3 3 13 5 2 2 2 30

25 Rush, Brandon 3-9 1-5 0-0 2 5 7 1 7 5 3 2 1 27

02 Teahan, Conner 0-1 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3

04 Collins, Sherron 2-6 1-3 0-0 1 4 5 1 5 3 3 0 1 23

05 Stewart, Rodrick 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3

10 Case, Jeremy 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

11 Bechard, Brennan 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

14 Reed, Tyrel 2-3 2-3 0-0 0 1 1 3 6 0 0 0 0 8

22 Buford, Chase 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

24 Kaun, Sasha 3-6 0-0 2-3 0 1 1 0 8 0 1 1 2 14

40 Witherspoon, Brad 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

45 Aldrich, Cole 2-5 0-0 2-2 0 4 4 1 6 0 0 3 0 14

54 Kleinmann, Matt 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3

TEAM 3 1 4

Totals 25-54 8-19 11-15 12 26 38 13 69 22 12 8 7 200