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The Jayhawks are now 22-5 on the season with an 11-1 record in the Big 12. KU will face Oklahoma on Monday night for a shot at first place.
KU has a 166-71 lead in the all-time series with Nebraska. KU has won 39 straight games at home. KU has won at least 22 games in a season for the past 20 years.
LINCOLN, Neb. -
Behind 17 points from junior Sherron Collins, the Kansas men's basketball team overcame a halftime deficit to defeat Nebraska, 68-62, in front of a crowd of 11,407 fans at the Devaney Center Wednesday night.
KU picked up its 12th straight win against Nebraska as it improved to 16-4 on the season and 5-0 in Big 12 play. Nebraska lost its third game in a row as it dropped to 12-7 overall and 2-4 in the league.
Sophomore Brady Morningstar was the only other Jayhawk in double figures as he added 11 points in the victory. Fellow sophomore Cole Aldrich finished just shy of a double-double with eight points and eight rebounds, all in the second half.
Tyrel Reed hit just two shots all night but his points couldn't have been timelier. The sophomore guard sank a three-point attempt with 6:37 left in the game to give Kansas a 51-50 edge over the Cornhuskers, KU's second lead of the game. After a Nebraska turnover the next time down the court, Reed repeated with another basket from beyond the arc. KU held Nebraska to just one point over the next four and a half minutes, while the Jayhawks continued to expand its lead.
As the seconds ticked away it looked as though KU would escape with a comfortable win, but Nebraska hit back-to-back three-pointers with just over a minute left to come within one point at 63-62.
However, Sherron Collins went 4-for-4 from the free throw line in the final 30 seconds of the game to seal the KU victory.
The Jayhawks shot over 50 percent from the field for the fifth straight game as they made 56.4 percent of their shots at NU.
Trailing 34-29 at half, Kansas regained the momentum in the start of the second period as Nebraska hit just one of its first 12 shots to open the second half allowing the Jayhawks to catch up. KU sank 4-of-9 from the field to knot the score at 40-40 following Markieff Morris' basket and 1-for-2 effort at the free throw line.
Nebraska opened the game on a 6-0 run and the Jayhawks trailed for the rest of the half. KU was down by as much as 13 in the first 20 minutes, Down 34-25 with a minute left to play, Markieff Morris sank both of his free throw attempts. The Jayhawks then grabbed a defensive rebound on the opposite end of the court for the last possession of the half. With time expiring, Tyshawn Taylor faked a shot at the top of the key and sent a pass down low to Travis Releford who laid the ball in at the buzzer. Kansas trailed 34-29 at halftime, just the third time this season the Jayhawks were behind heading into the break.
Nebraska took advantage of 13 Kansas turnovers as it scored 15 of its first 34 points off KU miscues. Despite a season-high 21 turnovers by the Jayhawks, KU managed to outrebound the Cornhuskers 38-22 in the contest, its third largest rebound margin this season.
Kansas returns home to host Colorado on Saturday, Jan. 31 at 3 p.m. on ESPNU.
I am back from the panhandle of Nebraska. It was quite the trip! Thank goodness it was short. I had my fill of travel earlier this year and late last year, and I was glad that this trip not only went smoothly, it ended early too. I got some cool pictures of the Nebraska area around Scottsbluff, and some even better ones of Denver and the Rocky Mountains (thanks, Ryan!)
While I was in 'Husker territory, I had my first ever Runza! It wasn't half bad, though a steady diet of them would keep me in the bathroom or allow me to make enough noise to found my own brass section for some needy orchestra. Whoo!
There was another place, best described as an 'upscale hole-in-the-wall' called the Emporium that I would highly recommend if you ever find yourself in the panhandle of Nebraska on the way to either Denver or Cheyenne, WY. This food rocked! And it's well-priced too! I had what they called 'Amber Chicken', a prosciutto-wrapped solidly-peppered chicken breast with a rice-and-mushroom side and steamed vegetables. We also had this smoked salmon appetizer with whipped wasabi, mmmm, it was good. And they serve Goose Island beer! From the outside, it looks like some older couple's house that's been heavily landscaped, but inside, it's a converted house, old wood floors and walls, nice ambiance, really a classy place in the middle of nowhere. This was dinner on Thursday night.
Friday afternoon, I had a pulled pork sandwich at another little place that reminded me of my grandparents' place in Wisconsin for some reason. Or maybe it was the effect that Scottsbluff was having on my memories.
In Denver, to catch my flight, I ate at the Macaroni Grill just outside of Aurora. Had some bowtie pasta, spicy red sauce, parmesan-encrusted chicken, mushrooms, roasted garlic (which I'm still paying for) and artichokes. Yum! But filling. OOH man, was it filling. Eating a bunch of those garlic pieces, I was afraid I was going to sweat garlic for a day or so. We'll see! But the brass section got some extra instruments and performed all night long. Thank goodness it was a private performance.
Good Goddess Above! My brain is fried! I bailed on exersising again this evening and my moms immeditally got after me for that. Your going to loose your momentem...blah blah blah.........your starting to loose that water weight...blah blah blah. I kept my kewl and politly informed her that my school work at this time takes priority over any walking or eliptical machine. Then my mother who hasn't been in any form of school (I don't count continuing credits to keep her RN License) for 50 some years, said it shouldn't be that hard to do your work during the day. Mind you my mother didn't go to college college. She went to a 4 year Catholic Nursing school and only took core courses for nursing!
It took me literally all day minus 20 minutes in the morning to take the kids to school and three and half hours this evening (we had a school function to go to for the kids) to complete all but my final essay for this week. I read the main chapter for this week and after looking at next weeks assignment, I don't have to read the other two chapters she went over in our notes this week till NEXT WEEK. I took all my notes, I read everyone's postings, I posted my main posting today and responded over 4 times to other people's main posting (we only have to do 2 for the maxium to recieve a grade), I hunted down two completely different News Editorials to do my assignment. One on the US's No Child Left Behind Law and one from Jeruslum on Ramadan. I wrote, typed, and then posted both articles and my take of appeals and submitted them to the prof. I read 4 different classmates essays and picked one to make suggestions on. I posted my suggestions and printed off next week's assignments and new topic for the next paper. I also wrote down about two dozen ideas to "improve" my final draft of the Self Discriptive Essay, the Prof likes my paper but says I am not descriptive enough. I am going to work in the fact I am actually a very private person til I obtain a comfort level with others:D
I finally got all this done at 10 pm tonight! During the day and all my homework, I managed to get two loads of laundry done, discuss and be interviewed for my girl Teri for one of her papers and gave her some presidential historic information on Jimmy Carter for another paper and consented in talking to my brother for 45 minutes. In the afternoon, the kids and I did our Dollar General run (that is my new wally world:P), killd some time at the Buffalo pasture reading the Historical marker and took a few pictures of the buffalo, then we went up to the school for Family Science night! The kids really enjoyed themselves and now we have to show Randy how to implode soda cans, pull plant DNA, and explode two 2 liters of soda using menthos and life savers! The program was run by one of the NE Medical Center Genetisist out of Lincoln and I think a Highschool Biology teacher out of Omaha! I was a big kid and managed to snag a lil vile of strawberry dna that the kids (all school kids present) helped to pull tonight! I gave it to a lil girl who didn't get any though. Oh and we have to show Randy how to ease a no shell hard boiled egg into a beaker flask with out breaking it and then show him how to get it out!
I don't think I could handle two or three classes this semester for my first semester back. Not with everything I do around this house for everyone including people who don't live in my house! I am doing good if I do say so myself. And tomorrow my "date" with my girl Bree is actually going off with out a hitch! My moms is taking the kids to school for me so I can meet Bree in the morning. We will do her small errands and then Casino HERE WE COME! Randy set me a 100 buck limit and Arjan set Bree a 50 buck limit not counting lunch or any stops we make. Those killjoys know that Bree and I can sit at the casino all day if allowed! As long as we are out of the casino by 2 pm to pick up our respected kids all is good! I won't even complain about having to drive to the city tomorrow night for TKD and then kill two hours before my Leadership class AFTER our actual TKD class!
If you live in Nebraska, only pay the amount for what is posted as you're driving up. Don't let the attendant give you any shit- don't pay at the pump or you're screwed. Pay cash and bitch them out, then complain to the Attorney General that he didn't do enough the first time around.
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