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1. Darryn Peterson? ‘Yeah, you a bad mother f****r’

Christian Anderson didn’t play, while Darryn Peterson played a season-high 35 minutes. And Kansas needed every one of them in a 64-61 win at Texas Tech on Monday night.

The No. 11 Jayhawks trailed by 10 points with 9:57 remaining, but held No. 13 Texas Tech to just three made field goals the rest of the game and closed on an 8-0 run, highlighted by two Peterson 3-pointers in the final 90 seconds. He was 1-of-5 from deep until then.

“He wasn’t himself tonight obviously,” coach Bill Self said postgame. “But gosh dang, with the game on the line, those last two plays he made, that’s stuff you talk about for years to come. That first three he made over [JT] Toppin and the second one off the ball screen, it wasn’t like he had been aggressive at all the whole game — and then when the games on the line he takes over.”

Teammate Flory Bidunga was more direct.

“Coach walked up to Darryn and said, ‘Hey man, go make a play,'” Bidunga said. “And he hits those two crucial threes. It’s crazy. I was really happy and we came out to the locker room and I said, ‘Yeah, you a bad mother f****r.'”

It was the sixth-straight win for Kansas (17-5, 7-2 in Big 12), and following Saturday’s victory over BYU, marked the first time it won consecutive games against AP Top 15 opponents since Dec. 2020.

Peterson finished with a game-high 19 points on 14 shots, while Melvin Council (16 points on 13 shots) and Bidunga (14 points, nine boards, two blocks) provided additional scoring punch.

Also crucial? In a relatively physical game, Bidunga’s defense down low on Texas Tech big man JT Toppin was quite effective. The Tech big man, who entered the game as the Big 12’s third-leading scorer (22.4 ppg) was held to 10 points on 5-of-18 from the field. LeJuan Watts led the Raiders (16-6, 6-3) in scoring with 19 points on 22 shots.

Tech certainly missed Anderson, the sophomore guard who averages more than 20 points a game. Coach Grant McCasland said he’d expected Anderson to play, but the undisclosed ailment prevented that. Not having Anderson to run the offense and facilitate their usual pick-and-rolls with he and Toppin was certainly a factor.

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There was a point on Monday night when it looked like No. 14 North Carolina would beat Syracuse by 50 points.

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