For the seventeenth consecutive recreation courting again to the 2006-07 season, the Kansas State Wildcats dropped a recreation at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence as they misplaced to the Kansas Jayhawks, 90-78, on Tuesday night time.
The Wildcats completed the season collection with a 1-1 document towards the Jayhawks, as Kansas is now tied with the Wildcats for second place within the Massive 12 together with TCU. TCU at the moment holds the tiebreaker over each groups as they gained the head-to-head matchups towards the 2 golf equipment earlier within the season.
The most important perpetrator behind the Wildcats defeat was a poor capturing night time as they shot a season-low 34% from the sphere. Guard Markquis Nowell and ahead Keyontae Johnson each had strong evenings offensively, with Nowell scoring a game-high 23 factors and Johnson scoring 22 factors.
The sport turned within the late levels of the primary half because the Jayhawks went on a 13-3 run to take a double-digit lead into the locker room. Though the Wildcats had been capable of trim the deficit to single digits at varied factors throughout the night time, it simply wasn’t sufficient.
“Within the first half, Kansas was actually locked in,” head coach Jerome Tang stated. “They made all of the hustle performs they usually did a extremely good job at getting their crowd concerned within the recreation.”
Jalen Wilson was the chief of the Jayhawks assault offensively on Tuesday night time, dropping a team-high 20 factors for the Jayhawks. The main scorer within the Massive 12 has averaged 29 factors per recreation within the two matchups towards the Wildcats this season.
“Kansas performs at a extremely quick tempo offensively,” Nowell stated. “In addition they play rather well at house they usually began out early by getting turnovers and scoring in transition. By doing that, they obtained their crowd concerned early.”
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One other main difficulty for the Wildcats on Tuesday was foul hassle. 5 gamers had no less than three fouls and three gamers had 4. With out key contributors on the ground in vital conditions, the Wildcats needed to depend on their bench gamers.
A kind of bench gamers, ahead David N’Guessan stepped up and dropped a season excessive 10 factors and picked up six rebounds in 20 minutes of motion. Nevertheless, different bench contributors resembling guard Cam Carter and ahead Ismael Massoud struggled on the night time, dropping three and two factors, respectively.
Even with the loss, Tang stays optimistic of the group’s probabilities as they enter the stretch drive of the season.
“I be ok with the place our group is at the moment,” Tang stated. “I don’t assume we’ve performed our greatest basketball but, however I feel we will hold getting higher and I’m actually fired about that.”
The Wildcats now sit at 18-4 on the season and can host No. 10 Texas at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday at Bramlage Coliseum. The Longhorns are coming off a victory over Baylor on Monday and can be trying to avenge their defeat to the Wildcats in Austin earlier this month.
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