Kansas edges Oklahoma in scintillating triple-overtime thriller

Unlike previous year, there isn’t one or two dominant teams in college basketball this season. Ratings are down, fan attendance is down, but games like this keep you strapped to your seat, with beer and chips all over the floor.

Khadeem Lattin went to the line at the other end with two seconds left, but the 52-percent foul shooter clanked the front end of a one-and-one off the iron to force overtime.

“That’s as good of a regular-season game as I’ve been a part of”, Kansas coach Bill Self said in the locker room. However, we got a definitive decision after three overtimes with Kansas coming out on top, 109-106. No. 1 and No. 2 have met 40 times previously in college basketball.

In a scintillating game worthy of the pregame hype, top-ranked Kansas edged second-ranked Oklahoma 109-106 in triple overtime.

Hield was so good that he churned through three different defenders, getting Selden and Graham into foul trouble and forcing Mason onto him for the balance of the game. In a 55-minute game, five-star freshmen Cheick Diallo and Carlton Bragg combined to play eight minutes.

The Jayhawks have thrived with their experienced team led by a dual-point guard backcourt of Frank Mason III and Devonte Graham.

Perry Ellis led the Jayhawks to a dramatic triple-overtime win against the Sooners.

Monday night’s Kansas – Oklahoma game did and then some.

Oklahoma guard Buddy Hield celebrates a basket during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Kansas in Lawrence, Kan., Monday, Jan. 4, 2016.

After a loss to Jacksonville two weeks later, the Gators dropped out of the top 10 and a Kruger-coached team didn’t make it back into the top 10 until this season’s Sooners opened at No. 8 in The Associated Press poll. We finally hunkered down and got some stops in the second half. That figure also ties the all-time record for the most points scored against the Jayhawks by an individual player. Wayne Selden would end up missing a wide-open three as time expired to send the game into a second overtime tied at 86.

For the first time in Big 12 history, the Conference can boast two No. 1 teams, as both Kansas and Oklahoma are ranked No. 1 in the top 25 polls.

Charles Johnson led the Golden Lions with 13 points. Those who finished seasons with those marks were freshmen, Kansas State’s Michael Beasley in 2007-08 and Texas’ Kevin Durant in 2006-07…. The 6-foot-3-inch senior guard from the Bahamas leads all major-conference players with 26.3 points per game. “Obviously, I would much prefer the satisfaction of winning the game but we’ll learn a lot”.

OU has not beaten Kansas in Lawrence since 1993.

The two teams traded buckets to start the second extra period to be knotted up at 92-92 with under three minutes left in the game.

IOWA 69, RUTGERS 65 (at Iowa City, Iowa) – The Scarlet Knights went cold in the final five minutes and it cost them in falling to the Hawkeyes.

And so the Big 12 title still runs through Kansas. Both teams led by double digits, and both leads were quickly erased.

BLACKSBURG, Va. – Zach LeDay scored 18 of his 22 points in the second half and blocked London Perrantes’ attempt to tie the score in the final seconds and Virginia Tech stunned No. 4 Virginia 70-68.