Although looking at the first-half shooting statistics might suggest it, the Allen Fieldhouse staff did not raise the goals to 11 feet or coat the basketballs in honey for Saturday night’s game against Oklahoma.

The Jayhawks shot just over 19 percent from the field for the first half on six-of-31 shooting, their worst field goal percentage in a half this season, all on their own.

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Kansas Women's Basketball vs. Oklahoma

A photo gallery of the women's basketball game against Oklahoma Saturday night.

And it didn’t get too much better in the second half. Kansas finished the game shooting a little better than 26 percent from the field, its worst of the season.

“We missed a lot of shots we are capable of making,” coach Bonnie Henrickson said.

Henrickson recognized that Oklahoma is a big and athletic team, but also realized that it wasn’t just missing bad shots that amounted to their poor shooting percentage. She said she thinks her team missed a lot of easy shots too.

Henrickson referenced freshman Aishah Sutherland’s shooting problems as an example of the rest of the team’s.

“She’s a taker, not a maker,” Henrickson said, referring to her belief that Sutherland is shooting just to shoot instead of focusing on scoring.

Henrickson said she also thought the lack of offensive rebounding hurt the Jayhawks in the first half. They pulled down just five of their 26 misses in the first half.

“We couldn’t make a first shot, and no one’s going to chase down the second or third,” Henrickson said.

Junior foreward Danielle McCray said she thought the shooting problems may have been a result of Oklahoma’s insistence on playing a faster game, especially early. She said she thought they weren’t setting their feet off of screens and needed to calm down.

And after hitting just one shot on seven attempts in the first half, it appeared McCray was able to settle down a bit. She came out of the locker room at halftime to bury a three-pointer on the way to a 15 point half.

Whether it was the Jayhawks rushing their shots due to the Sooners pushing the tempo or just poor shooting, it was a flat-out off night for Kansas, epitomized by the last play of the game.

After McCray found an open shooter, sophomore Nicolette Smith, on the left wing, Smith’s rushed jumper glanced off the front of the rim. McCray snagged the long rebound, tried to spin on her defender, and put up a shot that hit the side of the backboard a few moments before the final buzzer sounded.

“We need to shoot more layups I guess,” Henrickson said.

— — Edited by Sam Speer