Feb 15, 2025; Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, USA; Kansas Jayhawks head coach Invoice Self calls a play in opposition to the Utah Utes through the first half on the Jon M. Huntsman Heart. Necessary Credit score: Christopher Creveling-Imagn Photographs No. 23 Kansas is in jeopardy of seeing its 80-week streak of being ranked within the Related Press ballot come to an finish after back-to-back street losses to Utah and BYU.
The Jayhawks will get an opportunity to proper the ship Saturday afternoon in opposition to Oklahoma State in Lawrence, Kan.
Kansas (17-9, 8-7 Huge 12) alternated losses and wins in its earlier seven video games getting into the Utah sport final Saturday. However with an opportunity to finish that development with a victory over the Utes, the Jayhawks adopted that with a decisive 91-57 setback at BYU on Tuesday.
The state of affairs is getting tough for Kansas coach Invoice Self. And that was evident in his post-game press convention after the loss in Provo, Utah.
“We have to regroup, get away from one another,” he mentioned. “A number of occasions groups have to have one thing occur to tug everyone collectively that’s ‘us in opposition to the surface.’ We’ll have a possibility to try this for certain.
“A number of groups undergo that. We simply have not been by means of that a lot in any respect in a very long time. All we’ve is one another, and we’ll need to be sturdy for one another and be good teammates and good leaders. We have to look within the mirror — all of us — and say, ‘What can we do to vary the momentum?'”
These are uncharted waters for Kansas underneath Self. The mixed 20 losses the final two years are essentially the most in any two-year interval in Self’s 22 seasons on the helm. And there are nonetheless 5 video games remaining within the common season, together with internet hosting No. 9 Texas Tech and No. 19 Arizona sandwiched round a visit to No. 5 Houston.
“I assumed BYU may beat anyone tonight,” Self mentioned. “They have been nice. After which we did not do something to make them lower than nice. A number of occasions with groups there must be one thing (to) occur to tug everyone collectively that’s us in opposition to the surface. And we’ll have a possibility to try this for certain. We have not been by means of it a lot in any respect in a very long time.”
The Jayhawks have to get issues circled in opposition to Self’s alma mater on Friday.
Oklahoma State (13-13, 5-10) has misplaced seven straight video games to Kansas and has not received in Lawrence since 2018. The Cowboys are coming off a 104-95 victory over UCF on Wednesday night time in Stillwater, Okla.
Bryce Thompson had a career-high 25 factors for Oklahoma State, which posted its largest level complete of the season.
A number of the credit score for the excessive variety of factors goes to forcing UCF turnovers. The Cowboys outscored the Knights 20-0 within the first half in factors off turnovers. The Cowboys had 82 possessions within the sport, a excessive quantity even for the tempo coach Steve Lutz prefers.
“(That is) quite a lot of possessions,” Lutz mentioned after the sport. “I’ve a tough time pondering we will handle 82 possessions night-in and night-out, particularly if we’re going to play protection the best way I would love our program to play protection.”
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