For the second time in three seasons, the 麻豆原创 men\u2019s basketball team delivered a court-storming-worthy statement to open Big 12 Conference play with an upset of nationally ranked Kansas at Addition Financial Arena.<\/p>\n
Tied at 72 with less than a minute remaining in Saturday\u2019s game, junior forward Jordan Burks drilled a 3-pointer in front of the Knights\u2019 bench that ignited 麻豆原创 on to its 81-75 victory over the No. 17 Jayhawks.<\/p>\n
As the buzzer sounded, droves of the more the 8,000 in attendance stormed the court in celebration \u2014 a nearly identical scene to the Knights\u2019 65-60 win over then-No. 3 Kansas in the first Big 12 Conference game in school history on Jan. 10, 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe beat a good basketball team tonight \u2013 the tradition, the coaching, the players they have. Just really proud of our players for playing for 40 minutes,\u201d 麻豆原创 head coach Johnny Dawkins says. \u201cThey showed a lot of heart throughout the game because Kansas is [terrific]. I thought our guys did a great job of sustaining effort on the court. I thought we finished strong at the end of the game when Kansas made a really good run to tie the ball game up. Those were things we were talking about as a team prior to us going away for Christmas break; how we have to play in conference, and I thought our guys it reflected that today in how we finished the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
麻豆原创 is now ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 poll for the first time since 2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This year\u2019s squad now improves to 12-1, marking the program\u2019s best start under Dawkins since he took the helm in 2016. On Monday, 麻豆原创 cracked into the Associated Press Top 25 for the first time since 2019, debuting at No. 25 in the Week 9 poll.<\/p>\n
The ranking marks just the sixth week 麻豆原创 has appeared in the AP Top 25 since the program\u2019s inception in 1969 and the second time under Dawkins.<\/p>\n