University of Missouri
Kansas State
Men's Basketball Edges Kansas St., 70-66
2/7/2001 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Feb. 7, 2001
By R.B. FALLSTROM
AP Sports Writer
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Brian Grawer scored a season-best 22 points and hit the game-winning 3-pointer with 15.4 seconds left as Missouri, in its first game without injured Kareem Rush, beat Kansas State 70-66 Wednesday night.
Grawer, who is averaging 7.2 points, helped fill the void left when Rush suffered a season-ending thumb injury in a loss at Oklahoma State on Monday. Grawer was 6-for-12 from 3-point range and played all 40 minutes.
Besides Rush and his Big 12-leading 21.9-point average, Missouri also overcame a poor game from No. 2 scorer Clarence Gilbert, who played despite having the flu and scored only two points. But Gilbert's points were big: a pair of free throws for the game's final points with 4.3 seconds to play, after Quentin Buchanan shot an air ball from the baseline for Kansas State's last chance.
Freshman Wesley Stokes added a career-best 19 points, including four 3-pointers, for Missouri (15-7, 6-3 Big 12). Freshman Rickey Paulding, who replaced Rush in the Missouri lineup, had 10 points in his first career start.
Matt Siebrandt scored 11 of his 20 points in the final 5:30 for Kansas State (8-12, 2-7), which has lost seven of eight. Siebrandt also had 20 points in Kansas State's 80-59 victory over Missouri at Manhattan, Kan., on Jan. 16.
Larry Reid added 12 points for Kansas State and Quentin Buchanan and Travis Reynolds had 10 apiece.
Siebrandt scored seven straight points for a 62-54 lead with 4:08 to play and he had Kansas State's four points the rest of the way.
Grawer's previous season best was 14 points against Kansas Jan. 29. Stokes, who was 5-for-8 from 3-point range, topped his previous high of 11 at Indiana Dec. 18.
Siebrandt had seven points and Reid and Reynolds each had two baskets in a 13-0 run that gave Kansas State a 51-45 lead with 9:54 to go. After two free throws by Grawer, Siebrandt scored seven points in a row to give Kansas State its largest lead at 62-54 with 4:08 to play.
All of Missouri's points during an 18-6 first-half run came on 3-pointers and put the Tigers ahead 27-12 with 8:50 to go. Stokes was 3-for-3 from long range during the run and Rickey Paulding ha d two 3-pointers.
Missouri began the game 7-for-9 from 3-point range, then missed its last six attempts of the half as Kansas State narrowed the gap to 34-25 at the break.
