Kansas’ seven scholarship players certainly displayed different ways to score — and win games — against mid-major opponents, this past week.
The third-ranked Jayhawks (5-0), who cashed a school-record 19 three-pointers in Tuesday night’s 43-point rout of Texas Southern, returned to a more conventional inside-out attack in drubbing Oakland of the Horizon League 102-59 on Friday night at Allen Fieldhouse.
Center Udoka Azubuike scored nine points the first four minutes. Then, after being relegated to the bench all but two minutes the rest of the half because of foul trouble, he saw reserve big man Mitch Lightfoot explode for a career-high 11 points (Lightfoot finished with 11 and a career-best eight rebounds) the remainder of the half as the Jayhawks built a huge 29-point lead at 55-26.