Friday, March 12, 2010
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.
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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.
Reader poll
Which Kansas basketball victory will you remember most fondly in 10 years?
- The 2007 shootout with Texas and Kevin Durant in Allen Fieldhouse 2% 3 votes
- The 2008 blowout of Texas Tech (109-51) in Allen Fieldhouse 0% 1 vote
- The 2008 Final Four victory against Roy Williams and the North Carolina Tarheels 16% 17 votes
- The 2008 National Championship game and overtime vs. Memphis 75% 77 votes
- The 2010 overtime victory against Kansas State in the "Octagon of Doom" 3% 4 votes
102 total votes.
“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.”
Kansas won its 2,000th game in an 80-68 victory against Texas Tech in their first game of the Big 12 tournament.
Kansas joins Kentucky and North Carolina as the only programs with 2,000 victories, but senior guard 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.
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 that the Jayhawks couldn’t finish when they got to the rim, contributing to an inefficient 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.”
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 4-for-5 from the floor in the first two minutes. The Kansas lead ballooned to 10 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 Texas Tech’s 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.”
— Edited by Cory Bunting
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