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How Azubuike could ease his coach’s mind — and help KU avoid a ‘formula for disaster’

Kansas center Udoka Azubuike is seven feet tall with good athleticism. He’s 70 pounds heavier and four inches taller than anyone else in Kansas’ current rotation.

So how, exactly, is he only the team’s fourth-best defensive rebounder?

KU coach Bill Self has a theory.

“You can talk technique, you can talk a lot of things,” Self said. “The bottom line, the guys that go after the ball get the majority of the rebounds.”

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