No. 5 Kansas wins Maui Invitational

With UNLV looking to speed up the tempo this season, we’ll be choosing the Rebels’ best transition play from each contest for quick postgame dissection. “We didn’t have a great sixth half, but other than that, we played five pretty good halves of basketball”.

Perry Ellis scored 24 points on 9-of-12 shooting and No. 5 Kansas blitzed UCLA, 92-73, to earn a spot in the Maui Invitational championship game.

The Runnin’ Rebels (5-1) bounced back from their opening loss to UCLA with wins over Chaminade and the Hoosiers (4-2), who leave Hawaii with just one win. “We really do, or we’ve got to fix the lineup”. “We spread a lot like we did a couple of weeks ago against Michigan State”, Selden said, referring to Kansas’ only loss this season. “I think it’s going to be one of those things that the immediate impact it will have will be limited, compared to what the long-term impact [will be] once we get into conference play and into February”.

IN trailed by 15 points in the first half and turned on some solid defense to get back in the game. “I feel very confident about this team”, McCaw said. “But, you know, shots that we are pretty accustomed to making, we didn’t make today”.

Guard Frank Mason III made one of two free throws and the Commodores were off on a 3, sealing the outcome.

“That’s what we expected coming in”, sophomore forward Jeff Roberson said. “And I just tried to make him make tough plays and shoot tough shots”. But, it was guard Wayne Selden Jr that led the way with 18 points, 5 rebounds, 7 assists, 1 steal, and 1 block. The Commodores built a 16-6 lead as the Jayhawks struggled to score over 7-footers Damian Jones and Luke Kornet.

The school announced the 6-foot-7 Yakwe was cleared on Wednesday, during the Johnnies’ seventh-place game against Chaminade in the Maui Invitational.

“It was definitely a key to the game plan, ” Kansas’ Devonte Graham said of the first-half defense.

Indiana: Bryant had 15 points at halftime, two off his career high for a game. They had 11 of each against Kansas. Kansas and UCLA have met four times in the NCAA Tournament including the 1971 NCAA semifinals, a UCLA 68-60 win in Houston, the 1974 NCAA consolation game, a UCLA 78-61 win in Greensboro, North Carolina, the 1990 East Regional in Atlanta, a UCLA win 71-70, and the 2007 West Regional final in San Jose, a UCLA 68-55 win.

Selden dropped his best performance as a college player in the Championship game of the Maui Invitational, to help lead his team to the title.

The Jayhawks were cruising thanks to Selden as they went on another run; this time it was 6-0 to open up a seven-point lead.

Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings, whose team hit 41.2 percent of its shots to KU’s 45.5 (Vandy hit six of 27 threes; KU eight of 16), said Selden’s play came as no shock.