Kansas Basketball: Jayhawks Edge Sooners in an All-Time Thriller

The Sooner guard has taken his game to a new level this season. “Obviously, you’d like to win a game like that but give Kansas credit”. He missed the free throw and the game headed for overtime. Self was a young assistant at Oklahoma State at the time, and the Jayhawks would go on to lose to the Sooners in that other 1-2 matchup a few weeks later. That figure also ties the all-time record for the most points scored against the Jayhawks by an individual player.

Spangler isn’t a guy I would define as a “Land Warrior”, but his game isn’t built on explosiveness or athleticism. Self said he thought it trumped the six-overtime game between Syracuse and CT in the 2009 Big East tournament because of the shot-making involved, and compared it to the Jayhawks’ angst-filled overtime defeat of Missouri four years ago in the final edition of the “Border War”. Perrantes hit six 3-pointers in the second half and led Virginia with 22 points.

Perry Ellis had a huge night as he posted a double-double of 27 points and 13 rebounds.

From that point, it was back and forth through the end of regulation and into triple overtime.

KU basketball has proved that they are the best team in college basketball at this point in the season, beating the number two team in the AP Poll rankings and the number one team in the Coach’s Poll in the Oklahoma Sooners. The Sooners scored 77 points in regulation and shot 48.5 percent on 3-pointers (16 of 33), but nothing came easy. On the ensuing OU possession, Lucas was fouled while seeking a defensive rebound and with KU in the bonus, he made both of his free throw attempts to put KU up by two, 94-92. We wanted to pick up the win but couldn’t.

Kansas guard Frank Mason III (0) is defended by Oklahoma guard Dinjiyl Walker (2) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Lawrence, Kan., Monday, Jan. 4, 2016.

In the end, the Sooners simply ran out of gas.

A game for the ages. This game changed as the game went on.

In the coaches poll, the Sooners were #1, with Kansas #2.

When people shuffle into work Tuesday morning they’re going to ask each other – did you see that Oklahoma-Kansas game last night? Nine of the 10 squads in the Big 12 have been ranked in the top 25 at some point since January 1, 2014, including eight last season alone.

The rematch of this instant classic will take place February 13 in Norman.

Being that the NFL regular season, NBA regular season, and college football bowl season have all been in full swing recently, it’s understandable if non-hardcore fans haven’t been paying full attention to the college basketball thus far this year. With his hands on his knees late in the game, it was apprent the 40 minutes he played against Iowa State on Saturday and the extra periods Monday night added up on the exhausted senior guard. That outcome was better, a 117-100 win. Hield finished with a final stat-line of 46 points, 8-of-15 shooting from the three-point line, eight rebounds and seven assists.

Buddy Hield led all scorers with 46 points while going 13/23 from the floor, including 8/15 from three and 12/14 from the free throw line.

Jordan Woodard came up one point shy of his career high by scoring 27 points, and Ryan Spangler had a career-high 18 rebounds and 14 points.

In an age when most successful, top tier programs rely on underclassmen and future National Basketball Association prospects to do the heavy lifting, neither Oklahoma and Kansas do. Lattin, a 52% free throw shooter, missed the front end of the 1-and-1 and we went to overtime.