No. 19 MBB Falls to No. 2 Kansas, 66-60

“You get a great win, you have to move on from it, you have a big loss or something, you’ve got to move on”.

Kansas (23-4, 2nd) is fresh off defeating instate rival Kansas State on Saturday and now has their sights set on the Big 12 championship with only four games left on the regular season schedule. Before that, the Bears and Jayhawks kept trading jabs in a game that featured 8 ties and 17 lead changes. Baylor is one of the best teams that not enough people are talking about, led by Taurean Prince and Rico Gathers.

Baylor looks to make a statement on Tuesday night as it attempts to get a third straight Big 12 win over a ranked opponent. Last time out, Kansas avoided the upset from in-state rival Kansas State with a 72-63 win.

“Obviously it’s a big game if we want to stay in the conference title race”, Drew said. “The good thing is even when the offense isn’t coming, the one thing we can do is create extra possessions and play well defensively”. “I don’t think we executed as well as we’d like”.

“Our composure”, Selden said. Ellis, Selden and Mason became the first trio of teammates to each reach 1,000 career points for Kansas since 2004-05 when Mason hit the mark on Saturday.2. The putback was part of a telling stretch in crunch time when the Jayhawks collected six consecutive rebounds despite being beaten on the glass 33-28 for the game. “So it’s really just playing how we play, not trying to do anything more”. Tuesday’s game between Kansas and Baylor is the 30th meeting between the two programs. Then he was the best player on the floor. Motley hit 12-of-13 shots and scored 24 points in the win.

It was Gathers’ first three-point attempt in 135 games and 836 field goal attempts.

The Jayhawks (24-4, 12-3) had three consecutive scores after offensive rebounds in their late go-ahead stretch.

Lucas’ night followed a similar pattern. Wainright is 8-of-12 on 3-pointers in the last 5 games – more 3-pointers made than his first two seasons combined (5). The Bears dared him to shoot and when he did, he mostly missed, once with an air-ball. Baylor comes in hot after a 100-91 overtime win over then-No. “But there’s going to be games like this for us the rest of the year, especially this time of the year when every game matters”. Lucas and Selden topped their nights with whipped cream, but it took them a while.

“I was proud of how we competed and played for about 36 minutes, and then I wish we could do that last 4 minutes over again”, Bears coach Scott Drew said. They really struggled the first half.

With 1.9 seconds remaining, Baylor’s Ishmail Wainright fired an overhand pass the length of the court. Perry Ellis added 17 points and six rebounds and Devonte Graham finished with 15 as the Jayhawks shot 53.7 percent from the field and converted 11 of 19 3-pointers.

“It was tough”, Lucas said. “I think we did that toward the end of the game”. This will be a close one, but the backcourt of Kansas proves to be the difference.