Kansas Jayhawks @ Houston Cougars

22-9, 10-8 Big 12

Final

	1	2	T
Kansas KU	21	25	46
Houston HOU	40	36	76

Houston CougarsHoustonHOU

28-3, 15-3 Big 12

Kansas Jayhawks

starters
KJ Adams Jr.K.J. Adams Jr.#24
Johnny FurphyJ. Furphy#10
Hunter DickinsonH. Dickinson#1
Dajuan Harris Jr.D. Harris Jr.#3
Kevin McCullar Jr.K. McCullar Jr. #15
bench
Dillon WilhiteD. Wilhite#22
Parker BraunP. Braun#23
Patrick CassidyP. Cassidy#14
Wilder EversW. Evers#12
Jamari McDowellJ. McDowell#11
Elmarko JacksonE. Jackson#13
Michael JankovichM. Jankovich#20
Nicolas TimberlakeN. Timberlake#25
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
28	9	2-4	0-0	5-8	5	0	1	2	1	1	4	1
28	9	2-9	2-7	3-4	5	4	3	1	1	0	5	1
23	11	5-10	1-1	0-2	6	2	2	0	1	3	3	2
27	3	1-2	0-1	1-2	1	1	3	1	0	0	1	1
15	0	0-4	0-3	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
6	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
10	2	1-2	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	2	1-2	0-1	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
17	2	0-5	0-3	2-2	2	0	1	1	0	0	2	2
14	4	2-3	0-1	0-0	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	2
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	4	1-4	0-3	2-2	5	1	2	1	0	0	5	2
	46	15-45	3-21	13-20	31	9	18	6	3	7	24	14
		33%	14%	65%

Houston Cougars

starters
Ja'Vier FrancisJ. Francis#5
J'Wan RobertsJ. Roberts#13
LJ CryerL.J. Cryer#4
Jamal SheadJ. Shead#1
bench
Cedric LathC. Lath#2
Emanuel SharpE. Sharp#21
Mylik WilsonM. Wilson#8
Damian DunnD. Dunn#11
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
10	8	4-4	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	5
32	10	4-11	0-0	2-2	8	2	2	1	2	2	6	3
27	11	4-13	3-9	0-0	3	4	2	1	1	2	1	1
37	13	5-12	1-2	2-3	6	8	2	1	0	2	4	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
18	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	1	1	1	0	3
32	9	3-7	3-7	0-0	5	2	1	1	0	1	4	3
20	6	3-4	0-1	0-0	6	1	0	1	0	2	4	1
18	12	3-9	3-7	3-4	6	0	1	2	0	0	6	0
	76	28-64	11-29	9-11	38	17	10	11	4	13	25	17
		44%	38%	82%

Ryan Elvin drains the dagger 3-pointer for Houston

0:20

Hunter Dickinson exits the game with shoulder injury in 2nd half

0:48

Houston pads its lead on back-to-back buckets

0:43

Game Information

Houston, TX

Referee:Bret Smith

Referee:Jeb Hartness

Referee:Kipp Kissinger

NCAA Division I

Big 12 Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Arizona	16-2	-	36-3
Houston	14-4	2	30-7
Iowa State	12-6	4	29-8
Kansas	12-6	4	24-11
Texas Tech	12-6	4	23-11
TCU	11-7	5	23-12
BYU	9-9	7	23-12
UCF	9-9	7	21-12
West Virginia	9-9	7	21-14
Cincinnati	9-9	7	18-15
Colorado	7-11	9	17-16
Arizona State	7-11	9	17-16
Oklahoma State	6-12	10	20-15
Baylor	6-12	10	17-17
Kansas State	3-15	13	12-20
Utah	2-16	14	10-22

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