No. 13 Kansas holds off Iowa State 83-77 Kansas responded to arguably its worst loss of the year with a much-needed win in a hostile environment -- one that kept the Jayhawks within reach of Big 12-leading Texas Tech. Performances like the one they put forth on Tuesday night are a big reason why the Jayhawks win the Big 12 every year. Udoka Azubuike scored 19 points, Malik Newman had 17 and 13th-ranked Kansas bounced back from a brutal loss at Baylor by beating Iowa State 83-77. read more http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=400989168
Evans, No. 7 Texas Tech top 23rd-ranked OU, Young, 86-78 Keenan Evans and the rolling Texas Tech Red Raiders had their defensive focus on Oklahoma freshman scoring sensation Trae Young. So did the hostile home crowd, for a slightly different reason. Evans scored 26 points and No. 7 Texas Tech beat the 23rd-ranked Sooners 88-78 on Tuesday night in Young's first college game in the city where the Division I scoring leader was born. read more http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=400989225
Baylor beats No. 7 Texas Tech, which loses top scorer Evans Terry Maston is emerging as a go-to guy for the surging Baylor Bears. No. 7 Texas Tech hopes it didn't just lose top scorer Keenan Evans for any length of time. Maston scored 24 points to lead the Bears to a 59-57 victory over the Red Raiders, whose seven-game winning streak ended Saturday night after the Big 12 leaders lost Evans to what coach Chris Beard said was a toe injury in the first half. The school initially reported it as a foot injury. read more http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=400989146
Azubuike leads No. 13 Kansas past No. 20 West Virginia 77-69 Bob Huggins didn't mince words in his postgame press conference after West Virginia lost to Kansas. "They shot 29 free throws," Huggins said. "We shot two. You don't think that had anything to do with it?" Huggins' rising frustration finally boiled over with eight seconds left, when he was given a double-technical and was ejected for jawing at a ref. It was a moot argument by that point though, as Udoka Azubuikescored 21 points and Devonte' Graham added 15 to help No. 13 Kansas beat No. 20 West Virginia 77-69 on Saturday night. read more http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=400989189
Osetkowski scores 21 as Texas tops No. 23 Oklahoma 77-66 Texas was getting desperate, and the Longhorns finally got the win they needed. Dylan Osetkowski scored 21 points, Texas slowed national scoring leader Trae Young, and the Longhorns beat No. 23 Oklahoma 77-66 on Saturday to extend the Sooners' losing streak to five games. read more http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=400989226
Graham leads No. 8 Kansas to 104-74 rout of Oklahoma Two of the Big 12's most powerful offenses collided when No. 8 Kansas hosted Oklahoma. Only one lived up to the hype, though. Devonte Graham had 23 points and seven assists, Malik Newmanadded 20 points and No. 8 Kansas beat Oklahoma 104-74 on Monday night in its first true blowout of the Big 12 season. read more http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=400989190
No. 21 West Virginia 71-60 win ends Baylor's 5-game streak Daxter Miles Jr. stepped up with a kind of play West Virginia coach Bob Huggins has become accustomed to seeing, and it was needed after the No. 21 Mountaineers saw their 28-point get trimmed to 12. Miles made a 3-pointer while being fouled with just under 7 minutes left, then added the free throw. That started a quick 9-1 spurt to regain the momentum, and they went on to a 71-60 win Tuesday night to end Baylor's five-game winning streak that had been the longest in the Big 12 Conference. read more http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=400989147
Smith's 21 help Oklahoma State upset No. 6 Texas Tech 79-71 Oklahoma State rewarded fans who braved the snow and ice with a memorable experience. Kendall Smith scored 21 points to help the Cowboys stun No. 6 Texas Tech 79-71 on Wednesday night. Many students who were part of the crowd of 7,092 rushed the court after the game, though it was tame by Oklahoma State's standards. read more http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=400989238
Carter makes history as No. 21 WVU beats Iowa State 85-70 Jevon Carter needed one assist to make history. It turned out to be just one of his milestones on Saturday. Carter scored 24 points as No. 21 West Virginia pulled away for an 85-70 victory over Iowa State. read more http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=400989171
Carter, Miles help No. 20 WVU beat No. 12 Texas Tech 84-74 Backcourt mates Jevon Carter and Daxter Miles Jr. put on a show in their final home game. Carter scored 21 points, Miles added 18, and No. 20 West Virginia rode a hot start to an 84-74 victory over No. 12 Texas Tech on Monday night. read more http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=400989274
Seniors propel No. 6 Kansas to 80-70 win over Texas Kansas' seniors led the charge on senior night. Svi Mykhailiuk scored 17 points, Devonte Graham had 10 points and 11 assists and No. 6 Kansas beat Texas 80-70 to secure the outright Big 12 title read more http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=400989192
Evans, No. 12 Texas Tech top TCU 79-75 to stop 4-game skid Keenan Evans was looking at yet another low-scoring game since the foot injury that helped derail Texas Tech's hopes of ending Kansas' long Big 12 regular-season championship streak. One half against TCU made it all feel better. Evans scored all 23 of his points after halftime and the 12th-ranked Red Raiders stopped a four-game losing streak with a 79-75 win over the Horned Frogs in a Big 12 regular-season finale on Saturday. read more http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=400989255
Desperate Texas gets big 87-79 win over No. 20 West Virginia Their season fading and their big man still on the bench with a sprained toe, the Texas Longhorns were in desperate need of a big win to bolster their NCAA Tournament hopes. They got it Saturday with an 87-79 overtime win over No. 20 West Virginia, spurred by guards Matt Coleman and Kerwin Roach II and a barrage of 3-pointers. read more http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=400989265
Newman's career day lifts Kansas over Cowboys in Big 12s Kansas had just been battered by Oklahoma State for the second time this season, a humiliating loss in Stillwater that sent the Jayhawks into the Big 12 Tournament rubbing their bruised egos. Then the Cowboys raced out to a 10-point lead in their quarterfinal matchup. Rather than fold, though, the ninth-ranked Jayhawks showed the kind of toughness they've been missing much of this season. Malik Newman scored a career-high 30 points, their backup big men made up for the absence of injured center Udoka Azubuike, and coach Bill Self's squad pulled away in the second half for an 82-68 victory over the Cowboys on Thursday. read more http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=401020057
Evans leads Texas Tech to 73-69 win over Texas in Big 12s It was after Texas Tech lost to Texas in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament, ending the Red Raiders' season, that Chris Beard defied his team to avoid a similar fate the next year. They've certainly risen to the challenge. Keenan Evans scored 25 points, including a pretty fadeaway jumper in the closing minutes, and the No. 14 Red Raiders held off hot-shooting Jacob Young and the Longhorns for a 73-69 victory on Thursday night that ushered them into the semifinal round for the first time since 2005. read more http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=401020058
No. 18 West Virginia tops No. 14 Texas Tech 66-63 at Big 12s West Virginia has made a habit of reaching the Big 12 Tournament title game lately. Now, the Mountaineers will try to end the habit of losing it. Daxter Miles Jr. scored 22 points and Jevon Carter added 17, and the tournament's No. 3 seed advanced to its third straight championship game Friday night when Texas Tech's Niem Stevenson missed a half-court heave at the buzzer to give West Virginia a 66-63 victory over the No. 14 Red Raiders. read more http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=401020061
No. 9 Kansas eases by K-State, 83-67, in Big 12 semifinal Kansas absorbed the biggest blows that short-handed Kansas State could land, played without its star big man for the second straight game and won its Big 12 Tournament semifinal comfortably. You'd think that would be enough to make coach Bill Self happy. "I thought they played better than us," he insisted after an 83-67 victory Friday night, "but I thought a lot of it was self-inflected. We couldn't guard them and offensively we weren't very smart. read more http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=401020060
Kansas tops West Virginia 81-70 to win Big 12 tourney title Devonte Graham ripped off the shooting sleeve he was wearing and tossed it into the crowd, then took the two-time Big 12 defensive player of the year baseline for a pullup jumper. Talk about unflappable. Unstoppable, too. The league's player of the year finished with 18 points and 13 assists, most of them during the decisive second half, and Graham led ninth-ranked Kansas to an 81-70 victory over Jevon Carter and No. 18 West Virginia in the Big 12 Tournament championship game Saturday night. read more http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=401020062
Top-seeded Kansas comes alive, beats Penn 76-60 in NCAAs Devonte Graham kept driving to the rim, using his deft crossover and blinding first step to get past Penn's defenders, only to watch every shot he put up bounce out. He turned to teammate Malik Newman and said, "Man, I'm just not finishing." Newman's reply: "Keep being aggressive." Graham evidently listened. The Big 12 player of the year finally started to get his shots to go, igniting sluggish Kansas midway through the first half and finishing with 29 points, lifting the top-seeded Jayhawks to a tough, grind-it-out 76-60 victory over the Quakers in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. read more http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=401025823
Evans, Texas Tech surge late, top Stephen F Austin 70-60 Keenan Evans split through defenders, made a layup and then paused briefly to give a quick pose to the camera under the basket. After Texas Tech lost in the NCAA Tournament two years ago and didn't even make the field last season, the All-Big 12 senior guard has earned some time in the spotlight before finishing his college career. He'll get at least one more game. The third-seeded Red Raiders avoided another first-round exit when Evans scored 19 of his 23 points after halftime and they surged late to top Stephen F. Austin 70-60 on Thursday night. read more http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=401025833