The eighth-ranked Jayhawks arrive in the Lone Star State on Saturday afternoon seeking its eighth consecutive win, but first must get by Texas. who has won five in a row. [ad-4468020]<\/p>\n
Date\/Time: 4 p.m. EST, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014<\/strong> ATS Matchup Insight<\/a> | CappersPicks Insider Preview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Big 12 leaders Kansas (16-4) celebrated its 207th consecutive sellout at Allen Fieldhouse with a hard fought 92-81 win over No. 18 Iowa State on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Freshman Andrew Wiggins scored a season-high 29 points while Naadir Tharpe recorded his first double-double with 12 points and matched a career high with 12 assists for Kansas who remains unbeaten in conference play.<\/p>\n The Jayhawks shot 51.6 percent from the field, and won the battle of the boards 38-28, while going 18-for-21 from the free throw line.<\/p>\n However, the defense was a little inconsistent, and allowed the Cyclones to finish 30-for-62 and 10-for-26 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Longhorns (16-4) are sitting at third best in the conference after beating No. 23 Baylor 74-60 the last time out. The Longhorns also did a good defensively on the perimeter, limiting the Bears, who entered the game leading Big 12 in 3-point shooting at 40.1 percent, to just 3-of-17 from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n Texas also dominated the paint, getting consecutive inside shots from Holmes, Ridley and Taylor who also outrebounded their opponents (43-40) for just the third time this season.<\/p>\n Kansas \u2014 Kansas leads the series all time with 18 wins and six losses to the Longhorns who last beat the Jayhawks in a 74-63 shocker at Allen Fieldhouse on Jan. 22, 2011.<\/p>\n Since then KU has won the past five including both meetings last season, which included a 73-47 blowout on Feb, 2, 2013 at home.<\/p>\n The Jayhawks are better in every category on paper, but will need to take better care of the ball after committing 14 turnover against Iowa State.<\/p>\n In the meantime, Texas capitalized on 13 Baylor turnovers, so Bill Self’s team cannot afford to give up free points if they want to walk away with a win here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kansas vs Texas CBB Hoops Handicapping The eighth-ranked Jayhawks arrive in the Lone Star State on Saturday afternoon seeking its eighth consecutive win, but first must get by Texas. who has won five in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":978,"featured_media":65534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1415],"tags":[3718,20116,4104,3716,20312,20298,3182,1447,3815],"class_list":["post-72152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-jayhawks","tag-jayhawks-vs-longhorns","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-kansas-jayhawks-vs-texas-longhorns","tag-kansas-vs-texas","tag-longhorns","tag-texas","tag-texas-longhorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72163,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72152\/revisions\/72163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Venue: Erwin Center, Austin, Texas<\/strong>
\n Broadcast: ESPN<\/strong>
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\nFreshman Isaiah Taylor had a career-high 27 points, going 10-of-18 from the floor with three assists and three steals. Jonathan Holmes added 14 points and eight rebounds and Cameron Ridley had eight points and a career-high 14 rebounds for Texas who held the Bears to just 32 percent shooting on the night.<\/p>\nFree Pick<\/h3>\n