Thursday, March 11, 2010
Kansas City, Mo. — With 2,000 wins comes custom made shirts, pins, flags and all other sorts of memorabilia.
Even though sophomore guard Tyshawn Taylor is part of the Kansas team to accomplish this feat, he may not get to keep his goodies.
“My mother’s probably going to take it from me,” Taylor said. “I’m going to wear this shirt out of here now and she’ll take it right off me as soon as I get out there.”
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Kansas Basketball vs. Texas Tech
Photos from the Jayhawk's 80-68 victory against Texas Tech Thursday night at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo.
Kansas won its 2,000th game in an 80-68 victory against Texas Tech in their first game of the Big 12 tournament.
Only Kentucky and North Carolina can claim to have 2,000 victories in their program, but Sherron Collins has other goals for the immediate future. It’s his last season as a Jayhawk and he wants to play in every game he can.
“Right now, we have a lot of games ahead of us so we won’t too much focus on it,” Collins said.
And Texas Tech made it very difficult in the beginning.
Halfway through the first half, Texas Tech grabbed its first lead, 15-14. Then Collins either scored or assisted on 11 straight points. He finished with a game-high 19 points with six assists.
The Red Raiders stayed in the game thanks to an abundance of miscues by the Jayhawks. The main problem was they couldn’t finish when they got to the rim, contributing to a less than efficient 35.7 percent shooting.
Coach Bill Self said if they miss easy shots like that in the next round, they will be heading home early.
“We had numbers and ended up shooting the ball and coming away empty,” Self said. “So yeah, we can improve on a lot of things.”
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Jayhawks win 2000th game
Kansas head basketball coach Bill Self gives an opening statement, followed by questions from the media for Sherron Collins, Cole Aldrich and Self.
It got even worse for Kansas when Collins left the game with three fouls with around four minutes to go in the first half. Texas Tech tied the game shortly after and Kansas went into halftime up 34-32.
In the second half, the Jayhawks came out firing, starting four-for-five from the floor in the first two minutes. The Kansas lead ballooned to ten in almost an instant with a 10-2 run.
“That’s what we needed,” Collins said. “The crowd got into it and we fed off that.”
Marcus Morris and Collins both had to play most of the final stretch with four fouls. But the Jayhawks kept the game under control until John Roberson made it a two-point game with just under six to play.
Kansas responded with a couple threes by Collins and Henry. Then with 50 seconds to go, when everybody knew the game was over, the Rock Chalk chant started.
The Jayhawks accomplished a monumental feat, but their heads are stuck on finishing this tournament.
“Moving forward,” Marcus Morris said, “we’re going to dwell on it for maybe 20 minutes and try to get 2,002 wins before we leave.”
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