Malik Newman concedes he was as focused as he’s ever been on a basketball court during the closing moments of Kansas’ narrow 70-67 victory over Baylor on Saturday night at Allen Fieldhouse.
“You don’t realize it until it’s over,” Newman, KU’s 6-foot-3 sophomore combo guard from Jackson, Miss., said of inner emotion he had during a 4-minute stretch in which he scored 12 of the Jayhawks’ final 14 points — points necessary to erase a six-point deficit during the final 2:51.
“It’s the will to win, not trying to let your teammates down, the person to your right and to your left.