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#9 Kansas
Tigers Fall To Jayhawks
2/10/2007 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Feb. 10, 2007
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Julian Wright set a career high with 33 points to go with 12 rebounds, and No. 9 Kansas held Missouri without a basket for more than nine minutes of the first half in a 92-74 victory Saturday.
Brandon Rush added 21 points on 8-for-10 shooting and Sherron Collins had 14 for Kansas (21-4, 8-2 Big 12), which won for the first time in three tries at Mizzou Arena. The Jayhawks have won three straight road games and 15 of 17 overall.
The border rivalry and Kansas' three-point victory over Missouri last month at home produced the third sellout of the season along with an electric atmosphere, at least in the early going. Team mascot Truman the Tiger was lowered in a harness from the rafters, a pregame staple at the old Hearnes Center, for the first time at the new building.
Then, during an early break, tight end Martin Rucker hoisted the ceremonial drum awarded to the winner of the annual Missouri-Kansas football game to raucous cheers.
The trappings helped for a little while. Then Kansas neutralized the crowd with a 24-2 run that transformed a 16-8 deficit into a 32-18 lead with 5:25 to go. The lead was in double digits the rest of the way as the Jayhawks won for the 12th time in the last 15 meetings.
Stefhon Hannah had 19 points and Kalen Grimes 16 for Missouri (14-9, 3-7), which is 1-4 at home in the Big 12 after going 11-0 in non-conference play. But Hannah, the Tigers' point guard, also committed five turnovers in the first half.
The game came on the one-year anniversary of the forced resignation of Missouri coach Quin Snyder.
Wright, averaging 11 points per games this season, averaged five in three previous career games against Missouri. He had nine points in the big run and 15 in the first half en route to easily topping his previous best of 23 points against Rhode Island on Dec. 30, going 14-for-21 from the field.
Missouri missed 15 straight shots in the first half after starting 6-for-10 and taking an eight-point lead on Hannah's 3-pointer with 14:12 left. It was a long, long wait for the next basket, a putback by Grimes with 5:05 to go.
Kansas built the lead to 17 points with the help of a technical on Missouri coach Mike Anderson, presumably for griping about a disparity in fouls. The Jayhawks were 9-for-11 at the line in the half, Missouri 5-for-7.
Fans unhappy with Missouri getting whistled for eight of the first nine fouls rained debris on the officials as they left the floor at halftime with Kansas leading 47-33.
