Columbia, Mo. ? Missouri's House of Horrors hexed Kansas once again on Monday night."This is sort of difficult. I've not gotten a win here yet. Every time you come here it's a war and it was like that again tonight. It came down to the last play again and we didn't get it done," KU junior ...
Kansas City, Mo. ? Paul Pierce scored a career-high tying 30 points, and Kansas ran its record to 32-1 entering the NCAA tournament.Thirty-three down and a half dozen to go."If a team plays us on our best day, they can't beat us," Kansas junior Raef LaFrentz said. "Hopefully, we'll have six ...
Columbia, Mo. ? Kansas may yet win the Big Eight's final basketball championship.Not with a perfect record, however.Missouri, the last team to storm through the Big Eight unbeaten, handed KU its first league loss, 77-73, on Saturday at Hearnes Center."I was never thinking about going ...
Columbia, Mo. ? Missouri was playing its first home game in three weeks, and the Tigers had the momentum of an eight-game win streak."It's funny," long-time Missouri coach Norm Stewart said. "We felt that's to our advantage."It wasn't. Kansas led from start to finish, forging a lead of as many ...
Most of the country's college coaches and talent evaluators misread Melvin Booker his senior year at Moss Point, Miss., High School."Out of high school he was not highly recruited. But he's passed up just about every guard in college basketball now," Kansas coach Roy Williams said Sunday, after ...
Missouri had a week to prepare for its Big Eight basketball showdown with Kansas. The Jayhawks, who returned from snowy Boulder, Colo., on Saturday night, had a day to review for rival Mizzou.Just wondering...did the the Big Eight schedule-makers have a hand in the Tigers' 79-67 win over the ...
Columbia, Mo. ? Using a well-worn baseball analogy, the Big Eight basketball race, "ain't over 'til it's over."That's not good grammar, but it could serve as Kansas' motto the rest of the conference season."They were a little bit in the driver's seat before the game. They're really in the ...
Columbia, Mo. ? Winning in overtime ... at Missouri ... to start the Big Eight basketball season ..."It doesn't get any better than this," Kansas guard Rex Walters said after the Jayhawks' 92-80 extra-session win over Missouri on Monday night at Hearnes Center.Walters drained a rainbow ...
