{"id":79920,"date":"2024-02-05T17:17:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T23:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=79920"},"modified":"2024-02-22T22:04:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T04:04:46","slug":"jackson-has-career-night-vs-byu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2024\/02\/05\/jackson-has-career-night-vs-byu\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Has Career Night vs BYU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Adeniran | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mayo299\">@mayo299<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senior center Taiyanna Jackson had a career night, as she finished with 25 points, 21 rebounds, and five blocks in a 67-53 victory over BYU Wednesday night. Jackson\u2019s 21 rebounds tied a career-high, with eleven being offensive rebounds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the first quarter, Kansas did a great job at rebounding and creating ball movement, BYU struggled to get shots up due to Kansas playing great defense. Freshman guard S\u2019mya Nichols had 6 points to start the game and senior Taiyanna Jackson had 6 rebounds 3 of which were offensive rebounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the second quarter, Kansas continued to rebound the ball really well and were getting Jackson a lot more involved in the offense. The first half ended with the Jayhawks leading 26-21.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second half started with both teams turning the ball over. Kansas started making a lot of buckets in the third quarter to extend their lead to 11 to end the third quarter. BYU started making 3\u2019s in the fourth quarter to shrink the Kansas lead to as low as five. Even with that, Kansas was able to pull away to reach the final margin of 67-53.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the game, Kansas head coach Brandon Schnieder spoke on the strategy in using Jackson\u2019s strengths during the game. \u201cWe were planning on using her length as a factor for the game,\u201d said Schnieder.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kansas women&#8217;s basketball team will play again this Saturday against TCU in Fort Worth, Texas. Tip-off is set for 6pm on ESPN +<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Adeniran | @mayo299 &nbsp; Senior center Taiyanna Jackson had a career night, as she finished with 25 points, 21 rebounds, and five blocks in a 67-53 victory over BYU Wednesday night. Jackson\u2019s 21 rebounds tied a career-high, with eleven being offensive rebounds.\u00a0 &nbsp; In the first quarter, Kansas did a great job at rebounding and creating ball movement, BYU struggled to get shots up due to Kansas playing great defense. Freshman guard S\u2019mya Nichols had 6 points to start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":79921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3262,610],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-sports-articles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MG_0514.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79920","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79940,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79920\/revisions\/79940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}