Former Jayhawk Tyshawn Taylor fills up the stat sheet in TBT loss with the Stillwater Stars

By Matt Tait     Jul 6, 2020
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Despite being decked out in black and orange instead of crimson and blue, former Kansas point guard Tyshawn Taylor filled up the stat sheet in the Stillwater Stars’ opening-round loss at The Basketball Tournament on Saturday.

Taylor, [who teamed with fellow former Jayhawk Naadir Tharpe to join the Oklahoma State alums,][1] finished with 16 points, seven rebounds and six assists in the Stars’ 87-71 loss to Team Brotherly Love.

Taylor, who played with a headband donning the letters “BLM” in honor of the Black Lives Matter movement, started and led the team by playing 34.9 minutes in the game that was played with the target-score Elam Ending approach in the fourth quarter.

The Stillwater Stars actually led by eight after the end of the first quarter but trailed by three at halftime and lost touch at the end of the third.

Tharpe, in a reserve role, tallied six points on a couple of deep 3-point makes and former OSU star Le’Bryan Nash led the Stars with 30 points.

Here’s a quick peek at a few of the highlights from the Stars’ loss, which eliminated them from the tournament.

Had the team found a way to win, they would have advanced another round without playing because the Eberlein Drive team that was supposed to face the winner of the Stars-Brotherly Love game had to withdraw after one of its players tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend.

https://twitter.com/okstateTBT/status/1279525114435035137

[1]: http://www2.kusports.com/weblogs/tale-tait/2020/jul/2/former-jayhawks-tyshawn-taylor-naadir-th/

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Written By Matt Tait

A native of Colorado, Matt moved to Lawrence in 1988 and has been in town ever since. He graduated from Lawrence High in 1996 and the University of Kansas in 2000 with a degree in Journalism. After covering KU sports for the University Daily Kansan and Rivals.com, Matt joined the World Company (and later Ogden Publications) in 2001 and has held several positions with the paper and KUsports.com in the past 20+ years. He became the Journal-World Sports Editor in 2018. Throughout his career, Matt has won several local and national awards from both the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Kansas Press Association. In 2021, he was named the Kansas Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. Matt lives in Lawrence with his wife, Allison, and two daughters, Kate and Molly. When he's not covering KU sports, he likes to spend his time playing basketball and golf, listening to and writing music and traveling the world with friends and family.