AUSTIN, Texas – Kansas is treating the best conference in college basketball like a playpen at the local KinderCare. The Big 12 is No. 1 in the RPI rankings, has the best winning percentage of any league, has dominated in games against other power conference opponents. Winning in this league is supposed to be hard, and for the other 11, it certainly is. The Jayhawks have strolled through this ordeal with nary a scratch.
Sherron Collins wasn’t great Monday, but he’s a big reason Kansas is owning the Big 12.
“That’s the thing that kind of cracks me up,” coach Bill Self said. “Deservedly so, people can say we haven’t played great. But if you’re sitting there with five road wins in a hard, hard league, then you probably haven’t played poorly. And that’s where we’re at right now.”
OK, so maybe the Jayhawks have been bruised a bit, if only their feelings. They’ve played nine Big 12 games and won them all, but some haven’t been as graceful as an Astaire/Rogers dance picture. And they’ve heard about it.
It’s not impossible they could encounter some criticism after dominating Texas, 80-68, Monday night at the Erwin Center. There was a little to complain about, if you were so inclined, starting with the combined 5-of-23 shooting delivered by stars Sherron Collins and Cole Aldrich.
It didn’t matter, though. This has become a resourceful team. Power forward Marcus Morris is developing into a legitimately dominant player; Self and Collins both called him one of the best in the country. Guard Brady Morningstar provides a quiet bundle of indispensable contributions.
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