KU gets big win over Texas in comeback victory...

Watching the game today, Texas looked like the dream team the first half, partly due to more than 80% 3 point shooting, and partly due to KU not defending well at all. Texas pretty much controlled the tempo and the game the first half, except for a few brief runs by the Jayhawks which hardly put a dent in the deficit. The one bright spot of the first half was Julian Wright, who looked like the only Jayhawk that wanted to play to win.

The second half, however, was different. I have to speculate that Bill Self laid into the Jayhawks and gave them the energy to play the second half with intensity. The team was a totally new body as they started the second half by outscoring Texas 22-7 and taking the lead, for the first time since 4-2. Brandon Rush started playing stellar defense on Kevin Durant, who was unstoppable the entire first half, and for once, the Longhorns looked clueless, as Kansas played great defense and outhustled Texas for pretty much the entire second half. All in all, if the Jayhawks can continue to play this way for the rest of this season, I can't really see too many teams capable of playing with them; i.e. THE JAYHAWKS WIN THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!!! The scoring totals on the Jayhawks side once again were very similar; 21 from Mario Chalmers, 17 from Russell Robinson and Julian Wright(who also ripped down 13 rebounds and blocked Texas' last chance to tie the game), and 15 from Brandon Rush. The one negative thing this game was that, for the second straight game, Sherron Collins scored exactly 0 points. Still, the good far outnumbered the bad in this classic game. Oh, and the Jayhawks won the Big 12 regular season championship outright, taking home a very nice piece of hardware and a no. 1 seed in the Big 12 tournament. Nothing but reason to believe in our Hawks today.