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No. 1 Kansas 75, Michigan 64: Jayhawks Survive Wolverines’ Second-Half Surge
Lawrence, KS (Sports Network) – Marcus Morris scored a career-high 23 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, leading top-ranked Kansas to a 75-64 victory over Michigan at Allen Fieldhouse.
Sherron Collins added 19 points and Xavier Henry chipped in 15 for Kansas (10-0), which extended the nation’s longest home-court winning streak to 48 games and beat Michigan for the first time in six all-time meetings. The teams hadn’t met since the 1992 Rainbow Classic in Hawaii.
DeShawn Sims scored 19 points and Manny Harris contributed 16 for the Wolverines (5-5), who lost for the fifth time in their last seven games. Michigan fell to 1-21 all-time against top-ranked teams. The lone victory came against Duke on December 13, 1997.
The game was tight early, but a Morris dunk seven minutes into the contest put the Jayhawks in front for good and sparked an 8-0 run. Morris added a layup during the spurt, which Thomas Robinson finished with a dunk for an 18-11 edge with just over 11 minutes left in the opening half.
A three-pointer by Henry about three minutes later gave Kansas its first double-digit lead at 27-16 and ignited a 14-2 burst. An acrobatic, driving layup by Tyshawn Taylor, his only points of the game, pushed the advantage to 38-18 with 4:47 to play before the break.
The Wolverines, though, made a charge and pulled to within 42-31 at the intermission.
Michigan never seriously challenged in the second half, as the Kansas lead hovered between 11 and 15 points.
A layup by Zack Novak pulled the Wolverines within 66-55 with 3 1/2 minutes remaining, but Collins answered with a jumper. After a free throw by Sims for the Wolverines, Morris drilled a three-pointer to extend the Kansas lead to 71-56 with just over two minutes left.
Kansas is 10-0 for the third time under head coach Bill Self. The 2004-05 team started 14-0 and the 2007-08 squad won its first 20 games…Cole Aldrich had 11 rebounds, three blocks and five points for Kansas…The Jayhawks shot 52.1 percent from the field, while Michigan connected on just 35.8 percent of its shots and made only 5-of-28 from three-point range…The only teams now unbeaten against Kansas, with multiple games played, are Bradley (2-0) and UTEP (3-0).
- Via Sports Network.
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