Thursday, March 4, 2010
Lincoln, Neb. — The stat sheet from No. 3 Nebraska’s 77-52 trashing of Kansas reveals a litany of ways Kansas lost the game.
There’s the fact that no Kansas player scored more than 10 points while Nebraska had four players score in double figures.
There’s also the 24 points the Cornhuskers scored on free throws, on 21 more free throws attempts than the Jayhawks.
“We just didn’t come ready to play,” senior guard Sade Morris said. “There’s no other way to put it.”
No matter how the stats are broken down, they’ll continually reveal a Jayhawks team that was simply outmatched in just about every way. Even the hope of avenging a close loss at home to the Cornhuskers earlier in the season was not enough to motivate the Jayhawks to victory.
“I thought, compared to the game down in Lawrence, we did a better job of taking them out of the things they wanted to do,” Nebraska junior guard Dominique Kelly said.
The pitfalls the Jayhawks encountered in Lincoln Wednesday night aren’t new by any means as many of the same struggles have typified the Jayhawks’ last three road games, all of which they have lost by 17 points or more.
“We’re just not doing a good job of staying together, and that’s something we’ve been trying to work on,” Morris said. “You could see it in the way we played. We tried to stay together, but we just kind of fell apart.”
Unfortunately for Kansas, the disparities between the scores of its current three game road-losing streak is just the first in a long list of similarities between the games.
For example, the Jayhawks have failed to surpass their season shooting percentage of 45.5 percent from the field. Although Kansas did come close to that last night, shooting 44.2 percent from the field, which actually beat Nebraska’s 39.7 shooting percentage, it was not enough to overcome the Cornhuskers supreme free throw shooting.
“How do you manufacture points? You manufacture them at the free throw line,” coach Bonnie Henrickson said. “You go in transition, you get the offensive board, and you drive it. They do those three things really, really well.”
The Jayhawks have averaged 18.3 turnovers per game.
“It’s just not us taking of the ball. It’s not us making the right decisions,” Morris said. “We did that to ourselves.”
To top it off Kansas’ two leading scorers since the injury to Danielle McCray, in freshmen Monica Engelman and Carolyn Davis, have struggled to produce. Against Nebraska, the duo managed only nine points, all scored by Engelman.
“We’ve got to keep fighting the frustration,” Morris said. “We just need to keep fighting and fighting and know that we need to stick together.”
— Edited by Jesse Rangel
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