It was Senior Night at Lawrence tonight as they played against Texas Tech. We couldn't believe that Texas Tech beat that other tough Texas team as their coach Pat Knight said, "Nobody from my team came to play." That was so true as the final score was 109-51! 109!KU still high from beating KSU, apparently did come out to play. Nearly every KU player scored with the exception of bench player Chase Buford. The "wow" players were Jeremy Case who shot 3 3 pointers; Cole Aldrich had his first double-double with a score of 11 points, the future is in good hands with him; Russell Robinson was great as always scoring 15 points; Sherron Collins with 13; Mario Chalmers with 11; Darnell Jackson and Sasha Kaun both had 10 points; Brandon Rush scored 7 points; Darrell Arthur and Rodrick Stewart had 6 points a piece; and coming off the bench in the second half scoring 3 points was Connor Teahan; Brad Witherspoon, had 2 free throws; Tyrel Reed, Matt Kleinmann and Brenan Bechard all had 2 points. Witherspoon is a senior but is not returning to the team as will be student teaching next year.
One play was like "huh?" But KU pulled it off. When it looked like Mario missed the basket there was Darrell Arthur picking up the rebound and scoring it. ESPN will HAVE to have that play on the replay reel (this happened just before the end of the first half).
KU won by 54 points! WOW!! The bench players did an excellent job finishing. No one from either team were in foul trouble. I liked it when Bill brought in the players for the final time. I can't wait to see video of the extra stuff.
This was also Senior Night for KU. It was great to see the players families sit together and cheer together. The kids gave their speeches. I enjoyed listening to Sasha Kaun's accent (he sounds like a relative of mine), Darnell Jackson's speech had me wiping my eyes, and Russell Robinson was pretty great too. It would be nice to see video of this and Coach Self's reaction to all this. After all, these were his recruited seniors (with the exception of Jeremy Case). Case was recruited by RoyW, but he never played under him.
The next challenge for the Hawks will be on Saturday afternoon when they play Texas A and M, Mark Turgeon's team. This could be an interesting game to watch. (Hopefully I will be back from CHS to savor it!) . ROCK CHALK JAYHAWKS!
KU won by 54 points! WOW!! The bench players did an excellent job finishing. No one from either team were in foul trouble. I liked it when Bill brought in the players for the final time. I can't wait to see video of the extra stuff.
This was also Senior Night for KU. It was great to see the players families sit together and cheer together. The kids gave their speeches. I enjoyed listening to Sasha Kaun's accent (he sounds like a relative of mine), Darnell Jackson's speech had me wiping my eyes, and Russell Robinson was pretty great too. It would be nice to see video of this and Coach Self's reaction to all this. After all, these were his recruited seniors (with the exception of Jeremy Case). Case was recruited by RoyW, but he never played under him.
The next challenge for the Hawks will be on Saturday afternoon when they play Texas A and M, Mark Turgeon's team. This could be an interesting game to watch. (Hopefully I will be back from CHS to savor it!) . ROCK CHALK JAYHAWKS!
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Wow, did you see that last play of the first half??
Yep, that's the highlight one. The players were laughing about that one!! I think they were shocked too! :)
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