“I have been struggling shooting the ball. I’ve got to be strong enough mentally to fight through it,” says Boschee, Kansas University’s 6-foot-1 junior shooting guard from Valley City, N.D.

Boschee hit one of six threes in KU’s 94-82 victory over Texas Tech on Saturday night at United Spirit Arena.

For the year, Boschee has made 15 of 58 threes for 25.9 percent. He’s made eight of his last 43 threes over the last nine games for 18.6 percent.

“I’m happy with the way I’m playing. Some of my two point shots are going in,” said Boschee, who made all three of his two-point tries at Tech and for the year has hit 26 of 49 twos for 53 percent while averaging 9.7 points a game.

“Tonight, (Marcus) Shropshire and No. 23 (Mikey Marshall) did a good job of finding me in transition and defending.”

Boschee isn’t shooting well but he’s fared better in other areas for the 12-1 Jayhawks, who are idle until Saturday’s noon battle at Oklahoma.

Boschee he had six assists against zero turnovers against Tech has 54 assists against 18 turnovers.

His 4.2 to 1.4 assist to turnover ratio is best in the Big 12 Conference.

Oklahoma’s Hollis Price is second with 5.8 assists to 2.2 turnovers per game. KU’s Kirk Hinrich is fourth at 6.8 assists to 3.0 turnovers.

What’s more, Boschee won KU’s defensive player of the game award five times in the Jayhawks’ first 12 games.

“Jeff Boschee didn’t make shots but you like to see six assists, no turnovers. That’s an impressive line,” KU coach Roy Williams said.

“Jeff is not shooting well. There was a dead ball whistle last Saturday night (in KU’s 77-43 win over SW Missouri State), Jeff shot the ball left handed and it went in. I said, ‘Why don’t you shoot all of ’em left-handed,”’ Williams kidded.

“He is struggling. On days when we’ve done running and shooting (at practice) he’s shot well. I’m hoping it’s just a slump. He’s done a great job on the defensive end of the floor. He has better defensive grades this year than ever in his career.”

Boschee is struggling from three-point land, while Hinrich and Luke Axtell sizzle. Hinrich has hit 21 of 36 threes for a league leading 58.3 percent mark. Axtell has made eight of 12 threes the last three games, ever since he returned from his sprained ankle injury.

“If Jeff, Luke and Kirk are open it’s a shot everybody on our team wants them to take,” Williams said. “All I ask is they have their feet set and a good grip on the basketball. If they do that, I’ll be pleased.”

Texas Tech’s brand new United Spirit Arena is equipped with a state-of-the art scoreboard which shows replays.

Kansas, it seems, is years away from having instant replay capability in tradition-rich, 45-year-old Allen Fieldhouse.

“We have been looking into that,” Kansas athletics director Bob Frederick said. “Originally we thought we’d try to get a new scoreboard with a video board in the center of the scoreboard.

“As soon as we started seriously talking about it we discovered the structure up there will support 12,000 pounds and that’s all. We have a 10,000 pound scoreboard up there right now. To put a video board up there is about 25,000 pounds.

“So the first thing we have to do is commission an engineering study to see what structure up there would support. We’ll see where we’ll go from there. We’re going to look at what it’d be like having video boards on the ends. We’re probably a year or two from that with so much to figure before that.”