The No. 4 Houston Cougars’ top-ranked defense could not stop the bleeding agaisnt the No. 8 Kansas Jayhawks Saturday afternoon, suffering its biggest loss of the season on the road, 78-63. Kansas shot 68.9% form the floor for the game compared to Houston’s 36.2%.
Kansas diced up Houston’s defense early, hitting nine of its first 10 shots, with seven of those buckets coming off of assists. After a dunk put Kansas up 23-11, head coach Kelvin Sampson was forced to call timeout. Houston went brutally cold for a stretch, hitting just one of 12 shots in seven-minute stretch.