I only watched 3 minutes of this game, and I'm glad I missed it.

I just looked at the box score and it feeds right into a thought I've had for quite some time.... it's about Tre.

Tre has been our most consistent player all year and I am very glad we have him, because he usually finds his way to putting up good stats with lots of points and some needed rebounds.

I'm thinking Tre is a guy who always takes advantage of the opportunity to prosper on average defenders. But when the competition toughens up, his production dies.

He scored 2 against ISU, and 4 against UA. And I noticed this same trend in other tough battles.

We really can't afford almost no production from any position. This is worse than Juan.

Concerning DP... it was hard to imagine him doing well in this game. Hostile environment and energetic defense. Coming off the flu. Knocking the rust off his game. And he still isn't integrated into the offense. Until he starts averaging at least 4 apg, I won't be convinced he is integrated. He should be creating even more than that! I've heard all the excuses why he doesn't produce assists and I'm not buying any of them.

His assist line might not be as important to NBA scouts as his points line, but I guarantee you it is important.

At this point in the season, he really can't miss more games if we hope on really capitalizing on using him towards anything near the potential. But since our depth is limited, we can still use him no matter what, but we just can't hope to get a real bump.

I wasn't really expecting we would leave the Hilton with a W, but I was hoping more for a loss similar to what UH just had. To see such a fall off like that doesn't really give me March optimism. But I predicted we would lose a few more then have another team meeting like we did earlier.

We've seen so much recent growth... hope that keeps going because we need more development to be truly competitive in March. I've forgotten completely about competing for the B12 crown.

Certainly didn't age like wine. At least the outcome benefitted KU temporary

Houston will blow out Iowa St tomm. Book it

Didn’t age well

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Very interested to see Iowa St's response after their Super-Bowl Saturday. My prediction is bold but that's why it's that. Iowa St winning would help KU, I just don't see it as a likely outcome.

I'm not necessarily predicting an ISU win, I just don't see this game being a blowout either way because of each team's style of play.

Brutal Loss.

Arizona lost Koa Peat to an undisclosed leg injury that they haven't announced the outcome to as well.

Very interested to see Iowa St's response after their Super-Bowl Saturday. My prediction is bold but that's why it's that. Iowa St winning would help KU, I just don't see it as a likely outcome.

We had five less treys and 12 less points off turnovers. Equals 27 points to the bad.

Any of the B12 leaders that still have BYU on their schedule will have an advantage. Not nearly the test that it was prior to Saturday.

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Iowa St just had their super bowl and Houston is a better team. Standing by my prediction

Both teams are insanely physical and strong defensively this will be a race to 60. It won't be a blow out either way.

This one really was defined by the tenacious Iowa State defensive effort. Not an easy place to win, and i don't think we have for awhile. But, i wasn't expecting to be blown out like that. gotta keep the NCAA tourney stats people happy, and that didn't.

FGs

KU 19-51 / 37%

ISU 27-62 / 44%

TURNOVERS

KU 13

ISU 6

3 PT SHOTS

KU 6-18

ISU 11-30

INDIVIDUAL STATS

Darryn Peterson: 24 minutes played / 10 pts / 3 TOs and doodly squat elsewhere really. A total dud. Fingers crossed he can recover from his ailments quickly. Hard for KU to win with those stats, although you could argue we've won with him scoring zero on the bench! ha. his defense was and has been pretty bad as well lately.

Tre White: 2 points / 4 rebounds / 1 assist / 1 turnover. Tre is in the midst of a statistically awful run. sounds like he has a tooth issue? I hope that explains things, but maybe not if we go back a few games or so.

Flory Bidunga: 11 points / 13 rebounds / 5-13 FGs / 1 block. 11 and 13 is nice, but that FG% is about half his usual. He sure was dribbling around a lot. not a good sign!

BENCH SCORING

10 points: Once again low output from the bench. But that's actually pretty good for this team. Maybe even more than doubling a usual game. Recents have been 4, 2, etc. How they heck can ya win like that?? crazy.

Iowa St just had their super bowl and Houston is a better team. Standing by my prediction

Houston will blow out Iowa St tomm. Book it

That game is at Hilton, UH won't blow out ISU.