{"id":53479,"date":"2016-12-04T10:58:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T16:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=53479"},"modified":"2016-12-04T10:58:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T16:58:18","slug":"jayhawks-bring-down-the-haase-defeat-stanford-89-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2016\/12\/04\/jayhawks-bring-down-the-haase-defeat-stanford-89-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Jayhawks bring down the Haase; defeat Stanford 89-74"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kansas Jayhawks defeated the Stanford Cardinal, 89-74, in Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday. The Jayhawks led for most of the game against a team that knocked them out of the 2014 NCAA tournament. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Senior guard Frank Mason, one of only two current players including senior forward Landen Lucas to play in the 2014 loss to Stanford, rebounded from a low scoring effort against Long Beach State by rattling off a team-high 20 points. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Jayhawks led by a double-digit margin for the final 16 minutes of the game, but the Cardinal put pressure on Bill Self\u2019s squad early. <\/span><\/p>\n

Stanford led 17-11 following an 8-0 run, ignited by a jumper from junior forward Reid Travis with 16:18 to go in the first half. The Jayhawks responded with a 32-18 run to close out the half with a 43-35 advantage. <\/span><\/p>\n

Stanford was unable to slow down KU\u2019s long-distance shooting, as junior Devonte’ Graham\u2019s five first half threes helped give the Jayhawks a commanding lead. The Jayhawks finished 12-of-22 from behind the arc. <\/span><\/p>\n

Graham did not score in the second half, but finished with 15 points, two rebounds and four assists. <\/span><\/p>\n

Junior guard Svi Mykhailiuk added 13 points and shot 3-of-5 from three. Freshman guard Josh Jackson added 13 points along with three rebounds and four assists. Sophomore guard Lagerald Vick scored eight points and made 2-of-3 from three.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reid Travis had himself a game<\/b><\/p>\n

Travis would prove to be hard to handle for the Jayhawk bigs. He scored 29 points on 5-of-14 shooting, with 19 of his points coming off 24 free-throw attempts. Travis\u2019 aggressiveness around the basket helped him grab nine boards and put the KU big man trio of Azubuike, Lucas and Bragg in early foul trouble. Oh, speaking of…<\/span><\/p>\n

Big men, big problems<\/b><\/p>\n

Despite making his third start of the season, Udoka Azubuike played only 11 minutes after getting into early foul trouble, adding four boards and four points on 2-of-2 shooting.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bragg ended with a decent stat line of 7 points and 6 rebounds, but it\u2019s obvious he could really produce with more than 16 minutes. He\u2019ll have to avoid foul trouble and effort issues that cause Bill Self to yank him out so often.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lucas has had an injured oblique muscle, but he hasn\u2019t played great so far this season. His eight points and five rebounds were a solid performance, considering he wasn\u2019t at 100 percent. Fouls remain a problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s still early in the season, but this unit is still trailing behind the rest of the squad.<\/span><\/p>\n

Couldn\u2019t give Haase a pass<\/b><\/p>\n

First-year Stanford head coach Jerod Haase finally comes out on the wrong end of KU\u2019s dominance in Allen Fieldhouse. Haase was a Kansas guard from 1995-97 and served as director of basketball operations under Roy Williams from 1999-03. He never lost a single home game as a player in the Phog.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Player of the game<\/b><\/p>\n

Mason filled the stat sheet again, adding five assists and four rebounds to his efficient scoring day (20 points on just 10 shots). <\/span><\/p>\n

Play of the game<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many people will walk away from this game remembering Graham\u2019s floating alley-oop to Josh Jackson, but Mason on the fastbreak finishing the reverse layup through contact stands out. Jackson’s play was eye-popping athleticism, but Mason’s was the type of grit that could help on the path to a 13th consecutive Big 12 championship.<\/p>\n

Stat of the game<\/b><\/p>\n

12 three-pointers\u2026 from a Bill Self team. This four guard lineup puts an even bigger focus on long distance shooting, and the Jayhawks seem to love this new freedom on the perimeter. 54 percent from deep will definitely keep the coach happy with the long ball. <\/span><\/p>\n

Next game<\/b><\/p>\n

The Jayhawks will play the University of Missouri-Kansas City Kangaroos at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 6 at Allen Fieldhouse.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Kansas Jayhawks defeated the Stanford Cardinal, 89-74, in Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday. The Jayhawks led for most of the game against a team that knocked them out of the 2014 NCAA tournament. \u00a0 Senior guard Frank Mason, one of only two current players including senior forward Landen Lucas to play in the 2014 loss to Stanford, rebounded from a low scoring effort against Long Beach State by rattling off a team-high 20 points. The Jayhawks led by a double-digit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15691,"featured_media":53485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3262,610],"tags":[4179,6115,316,6462,4647,4180,1451,6461,6402,325,5807,4733,86,3985,2510,6114,5808],"class_list":["post-53479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-sports-articles","tag-allen","tag-azubuike","tag-bill-self","tag-carlton-bragg","tag-devonte-graham","tag-fieldhouse","tag-frank-mason","tag-jerod-haase","tag-josh-jackson","tag-ku-basketball","tag-lagerald","tag-landen","tag-lawrence","tag-lucas","tag-svi","tag-udoka","tag-vick"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_0047.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53479","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\/15691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}