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KU women snap out of funk, knock off ISU 53-50
Behind 20 points and 12 rebounds from 6-foot-5 freshman Krysten Boogaard, the Kansas University women’s basketball team registered its second Big 12 win of the season, downing Iowa State 53-50 Saturday night in Allen Fieldhouse.
KU wakes up in second half, slams Colorado 72-59, now half-game up in Big 12 race
Boulder, Colo. - It took a little more than a half of the next game to do it, but Kansas University shook the rust following Wednesday’s 84-75 loss to Kansas State by taking care of business on the road in a 72-59 triumph over Colorado. Darnell Jackson led the Jayhawks with 18 points (10-of-10 from the line), while Brandon Rush - invisible in the second half Wednesday night - scored eight of his 15 points in the second half. Sasha Kaun had 12 for KU, while Sherron Collins - who left in the first half with a knee injury and had four turnovers to his credit - finished with nine points in a solid second half run. Mario Chalmers scored eight, including a huge back door dunk late to send CU fans packing.
Ex-Jayhawk Pugh all for KU
Despite CU doctorate, former forward not divided
Dr. T.J. Pugh, who played college basketball at Kansas University and went on to graduate from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, will have no mixed loyalties today. “I will not be sitting behind the KU bench wearing a Colorado sweatshirt,” said Pugh, who played for the Jayhawks from 1995 to ‘99. He, his wife, Amy, and 2-year-old son, Charlie, will be sporting Jayhawk apparel.
KU hauls in $1.26 million from game at Arrowhead
The Kansas University Athletic Department reaped a windfall from the Kansas-Missouri game played Nov. 24 at Arrowhead Stadium. According to numbers released by the athletic department late Friday afternoon, ticket sales for the game totaled $3.13 million.
CU senior aching for win over Jayhawks
Colorado’s Coors Events Center was considered a home-away-from-home for Kansas University’s basketball team during the 12-year Ricardo Patton era. Year after year, 3,000 to 5,000 loud crimson-and-blue-clad KU supporters crammed into the 11,064-seat arena to the dismay of Patton and his Buffaloes, who managed just one victory over KU in first-year Northern Illinois coach Patton’s many years in Boulder.
Bad luck, flu hit Kohn, KU women
Kansas University women’s basketball guard Kelly Kohn had one of her best practices in weeks Monday. Finally, the lingering ankle injury seemed to be behind her. Then she caught the flu Tuesday.
Missouri’s Horton arrested
Tigers guard faces assault charges
Missouri guard Jason Horton was arrested Friday on assault charges connected to a weekend brawl that left his teammate with a broken jaw.