{"id":43569,"date":"2016-03-19T22:54:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T03:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=43569"},"modified":"2016-03-24T15:31:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T20:31:56","slug":"kansas-outlasts-uconn-to-reach-sweet-sixteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2016\/03\/19\/kansas-outlasts-uconn-to-reach-sweet-sixteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas outlasts UConn to reach Sweet Sixteen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Des Moines, IA \u2014\u00a0After Kansas\u2019 win over Connecticut Saturday<\/span><\/span> night, Kansas coach Bill Self handed young Connecticut coach Kevin Ollie the first NCAA tournament loss of his career.<\/p>\n

Though Self is the more successful and experienced coach, his Kansas team has lost plenty in the tournament. With the 73-61 win at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa, the Jayhawks advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2013. In Louisville, Kentucky, the Jayhawks will have the winner of the game between Maryland and Hawaii to be played\u00a0Sunday\u00a0<\/span><\/span>evening.<\/p>\n

While Kansas was in control for most of the game, there was stretch of play that had KU players and fans on edge; at the beginning of the second half, Connecticut cut the 20-point halftime lead to single digits.\u00a0\u201cThe second half, we didn\u2019t do very many of the same things that we accomplished in the first half,\u201d Self said. \u201cWe became very passive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kansas forward Wayne Selden said the team learned to be aggressive and grab hold of their chance to move on. Selden was the leading scorer for the Jayhawks with 22 points.\u00a0\u201cBeing aggressive and making it happen,\u201d was what\u00a0was going through Selden’s\u00a0mind as Kansas faced adversity. \u201cWe have good guards and they penetrated and we penetrated off of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, there was a lot of motivation from last year, that feeling that we had, and we just wanted to continue and play the way we are and have fun,\u201d said Ellis.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As Kansas was challenged by Connecticut late, Selden capped the wake-up call with a huge boost of energy off of a one-handed alley-oop dunk. The dunk gave Kansas a 12-point lead with just under four minutes to go.<\/p>\n

Senior forward Perry Ellis noted that\u00a0Kansas’s exist\u00a0at this stage in the tournament last season was\u00a0enough incentive\u00a0to come out on top; the senior\u00a0scored 21 points and grabbed\u00a0eight rebounds.\u00a0\u201cYou know, there was a lot of motivation from last year, that feeling that we had, and we just wanted to continue and play the way we are and have fun,\u201d said Ellis.<\/p>\n

KJHK Sports will bring you live broadcasts\u00a0from Louisville with the first matchup\u00a0against the winner of Maryland vs. Hawaii and a regional final pending a win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Des Moines, IA \u2014\u00a0After Kansas\u2019 win over Connecticut Saturday night, Kansas coach Bill Self handed young Connecticut coach Kevin Ollie the first NCAA tournament loss of his career. Though Self is the more successful and experienced coach, his Kansas team has lost plenty in the tournament. With the 73-61 win at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa, the Jayhawks advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2013. In Louisville, Kentucky, the Jayhawks will have the winner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6423,"featured_media":43515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3262,610],"tags":[3666,127,3665,4049,4678,4679,1103,109,87,123,4332,264,706,2878,1283,3570,4503,4664,4680],"class_list":["post-43569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-sports-articles","tag-3666","tag-basketball","tag-big","tag-chalk","tag-defeat","tag-des-moines","tag-huskies","tag-jayhawks","tag-kansas","tag-ku","tag-mens","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-recap","tag-rock","tag-rolstad","tag-skylar","tag-uconn","tag-wells-fargo-arena"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_3169.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}