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Episode Date: November 18, 2019

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What's up everyone and welcome into Locked On Jayhawks. I am Sean Kellerman, Learfield IMG College broadcaster and University of Kansas insider. This is Locked On Jayhawks, your daily podcast on the Kansas Jayhawks, giving you insight, numbers, and a chance to hear from all the voices within Kansas athletics. Well, we had what turned into essentially two blowouts this week, right? Kansas football made it a little better at the end, scoring two fourth-quarter touchdowns, but that game was well in hand of Oklahoma State throughout as the Pokes won it 31-13 on Saturday in Stillwater.

And, of course, the blowout was in our favor on Friday night when KU disposed of the Monmouth Hawks 112-57. Throughout this show, we're going to hear from KU players. We're going to talk about the football game and what went wrong. And of course, we'll recap our Friday 5, perhaps our best week yet in the Friday 5 recap action that went on in the Big 12 and Jayhawks in the NBA as well as it was certainly another exciting weekend on that front for a lot of our guys who are playing at the next level. We're going to talk in detail and get into some of the numbers of this game. First, I kind of want to talk about the ending.

I know that Kansas Nation, Jayhawk Nation, was kind of mixed in their feelings about this. I personally was not very happy when Monmouth guard Georgeas stole the ball at the end of the game. His team is down by 55 points. It's 110-55. Tristan Inaruna of KU is just dribbling the ball out because KU wants to show sportsmanship, and they don't feel they need to go score. Why? Because there's 10 seconds left, and Kansas is up 110-55.

This game was 19-2. You know, it's not like this game was ever really in question. KU is trying to show some sportsmanship and dribble out the clock. They don't need to try to get to 112 when they're at 110, but apparently George Pappas wasn't having it. I totally get the side where people say, you know, we'll play to the buzzer and, you know, Coach Self is going to have his thoughts on that that we'll get to in a little bit. But my thinking was, really, is this necessary? You know, he steals the ball, he dunks it, and then

he gets in Tristan and Aruna's face and obviously picks up the technical foul for exchanging some words. And you could kind of read his lips, which we can't say on air, but when he got teed up, he didn't necessarily care about that. So Kansas, of course, sent Michael Jankovic to the line. He sunk both of his free throws, and the game ended on kind of a weird sour note, 112-57 in favor of the Jayhawks. We'll take a look at some of the final numbers, but in talking about that first play, one of the classiest coaches in the country, I'm now convinced after hearing him talk on a couple different outlets on Friday, is King Rice of Monmouth. Here's King Rice opening, talking to the media after the game about that play. First, I just want to start off, and I'm a super, super, super competitive guy.

And we lost our cool a little bit here tonight at the end of the game. We're down by 100 points, and we get a dunk, and then we bark at the kid. That is uncalled for. That is not what our program represents. That is not what our program stands for. You get beat by a better team, you shake their hand and you walk off the court and you take in the experience. Truly a class act and a guy who was legitimately honored to be playing in Allen Fieldhouse,

coaching in Allen Fieldhouse, is King Rice, Monmouth's head coach. That was him talking about George Papa's last play where he decided to steal the ball in a 55-point game and run down the court and dunk it. I guess he'll get to tell his kids someday that he dunked in Allen Fieldhouse, so there's that. But kind of a tough ending. Here's King Rice talking about what George Papa's had to say to him after that play. Obviously, he lost his mind on that last play. He feels all bad now, but you just don't do that.

You have to keep your cool. We knew this could be a tough night for us, okay, but we represent a lot, a lot of proud people from Monmouth, and you just don't do that. But he's young, you know, he'll bounce back from it. It will be a learning experience for him and all of us you know you just you win the right way and when you lose as badly as we do you still lose the right way and everybody treated us so great since we've been in this state so and since we've been in this arena

you've been great to us so our kids lost our mind for a few minutes. I'm so sorry that we did that. We won't do that again. We'll learn from it and be better because of it. And we know there have been situations at Kansas where guys have scored at the end of the game and it wasn't maybe necessary. And we probably loved that. And I was probably cheering for those. So maybe I'm a hypocrite. I don't know. But in this case, I just don't get it. What are you doing? What are you trying to prove right here? If you're trying to say I'm playing to the whistle, then all right, that's fine.

But obviously that's not where George Pappas was going with this or else he wouldn't have gotten an interim in his face. Like Coach King Rice said, they're getting dominated. They need to lose with class, and that at least is how I felt that was going to be. I don't know where the extra emotion came for in a game that wasn't really emotion-filled. I mean, it was a blowout from the first tip, so who knows? But while King Rice was very apologetic, Bill Self talked to reporters, and he said he didn't have a problem with the play. That didn't bother me at all.

You know, King apologized about, you know, that's okay. I mean, I'm actually glad it happened because we've been on Tristan the whole time about being casual, and that's a prime example of what happens when you're casual. I told the team afterwards he may be on ESPN twice for two dunks, one on him and one he got. But no, that didn't register. That didn't even register as a bad play in my book. So no big deal. That's Coach Self talking about that last dunk by George Pappas where he was able to get himself in the scorebook, write him down for a dunk in a 112-57 loss for Monmouth against the Jayhawks.

So we'll kind of put a pin on that for a while and focus on the games. Some impressive numbers for Kansas. Isaiah Moss, we'll hear from him next segment. He had a big-time game, 21 points in just 15 minutes. He hit five threes. Other double-figure scores for the Jayhawks, David McCormick and Devon Dotson were next in scoring at 17 minutes apiece, 12, 17 points apiece, rather, 12 points apiece for Yudoka Azubuki and Silvio De Sosa. Christian Brown had 11 points, and Tristan Inaruna had 7 points in just 14 minutes. It was one of those games where KU, they were a big favorite,

26-and-a-half-point favorite. The hope was that the Jayhawks were going to be able to get a lot of different guys out there and play a lot of minutes with different guys. And that was certainly the case as, you know, we saw Chris Tehan with about six minutes to go in this game. EJ Elliott got some run. The aforementioned Jankovic was in as well. Michael actually ended up with five points. He had a three and then hit those two technical free throws as well for the freshman Michael Jankovich. So an up and down dominant performance for this Kansas basketball team. That's what we wanted and that's what we want to see in general from this team. This is a team that's highly regarded. You should go out in teams that

you should blow out. It's nice to see when that happens. There's not going to be very many on the schedule. The game tomorrow against East Tennessee State is not going to be one where there's going to be the expectation of a blowout. But this was a game against kind of a middling MAAC team. And, you know, you're at Allen Fieldhouse. Go out, play hard, and, you know, punch them in the throat early and make sure you end it. And I thought Kansas played hard for the full 40 minutes.

We'll hear more, as I said, from Isaiah Moss. We'll hear from David McCormick as well after the break. And, of course, we'll recap other action in the Big 12 and our Friday Five as well. This is the Locked On Podcast Network, the local experts on the biggest stories. well hopefully you've stuck with me with the friday five this year got off to kind of a rough start but becoming more respectable each week my best week yet was this saturday i opted for five college football games three wins one, one loss, one push.

That push would have been a win if I would have just waited until the line moved. It was LSU against Mississippi, and LSU won that game in a high-scoring affair, 58-37. As I said, the line was moved to 21.5. I got it at 21, though, so that is the push for the week. In that game, Joe Burrow, 489 passing yards, five touchdowns, and two interceptions. Burrow continuing to make a case for Heisman. LSU is 10-0 this season, ranked number one in the country. All right, the loss this week, another SEC game. Auburn at home was hosting Georgia, and the Tigers were three-point underdogs. Georgia wins 21-14.

The Bulldogs were actually up in this one 21-0 before Auburn scored 14 unanswered in the fourth quarter and had a chance to come back completely. That did not happen, however, and Auburn ends up falling 21-17. Jake Fromm for the Bulldogs throws three touchdowns despite throwing for just 110 yards. DeAndre Swift ran for over 106 yards for the Bulldogs. So there's a win and a push, or a push and a loss, rather,

and three wins sticking in the SEC. I liked Alabama big at Mississippi State, and despite the injury to Tua Tagovailoa that'll end his season, Alabama does easily cover 38-7 in Starkville over the now 4-6 Mississippi State Bulldogs. Tide win it big. Tua Tagovailoa, before he suffered that dislocated hip, was 14-18, 256 yards and two touchdowns. They cover the minus 18, does Alabama. To the Big 12 we went.

Texas was plus 7 in Ames. I like that. On the back of Sam Ellinger, who had a good game, he was 22 of 40, 273 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions. Iowa State got a game-winning field goal from Conor O'Salley as time expired to win it 23-21, but Texas covers the plus 7. UT is now 6-4 on the year, as are the Cyclones. Jayhawks will be in Ames next week. That kick is at 11 a.m. And then how about this? The blockbuster of the week.

I liked Baylor plus 10 against Oklahoma, and that was looking like an easy win. Still ended up not really having to sweat it out as the Bears were up 28-3 in this game, but then blew it. Baylor loses 34-31. They cover the plus 10 to give me the win in the Friday 5, but in the second half, the Bears' offense completely shut down. Oklahoma outscores them 24-0 in the second half. Jalen Hurts, 30-42, 297 yards, four touchdowns and a pick. He also carried the ball 27 times for 114 yards. Did the Heisman hopeful Hurts, and OU wins it in a huge comeback, 34-31. Sooners now without question the Big 12's best chance at a college football playoff member.

And that improves my Friday five record on the season 10 wins 14 losses and two pushes hope to keep the good times rolling on Friday be sure of course to stay tuned for that gonna mix in some college basketball this weekend as well all right let's take a look at the big 12 action that took place this past weekend. We'll start on the gridiron. Of course, we know our Jayhawks fell to Oklahoma State 31-13. TCU had a big lead early. They defeated Texas Tech 33-31, holding on for that victory. I mentioned the Oklahoma and the Iowa State wins, and how about K-State? Two weeks removed, or three weeks rather, removed from their big win against Oklahoma. Two weeks removed from their win in Lawrence. K-State loses at home

to a West Virginia team that was just 1-6 in the Big 12. West Virginia 24, K-State 20 in Manhattan. Perhaps that, the upset of the week, certainly in the conference, but one of the bigger upsets in the nation as K-State now. You know know you're not thinking about big 12 title anymore you're not thinking about a bcs bowl anymore you're just thinking about getting to the best bowl possible that is a crushing loss to a team they were favored to beat by 14 points all right we move to the basketball side of things to kind of recap what happened. Kansas basketball, of course, won on Friday night against Monmouth in that landslide blowout, 112-57. A couple other games in action. Baylor basketball defeated Texas State, 72-63. That game was tied at halftime. For the Bears,

Jared Butler led the way with 15 points. He did turn it over three times in 30 minutes, and Baylor not really finding their groove yet in terms of, well, certainly in terms of covering the spread, but it seems like they're a little bit off, a little bit shaky so far in the early stages of this year, a team that was in the preseason top 20. All right, Texas survives over Prairie View, a team from the SWAC. The Longhorns win it 70-56. Courtney Ramey has had a good year, but did not have his best game. He went scoreless, 0-6 from the field. Matt Coleman led the way with 17 points. He had four assists in this one. Andrew Jones, one of the best stories in college basketball. He is back from his leukemia treatment, and he had 15 points in this game, getting up 15 shots.

Andrew Jones, good to see him back and healthy playing for the Horns. There was a Sunday night basketball game as well. Oklahoma State held on to defeat Yale 64-57. And for the Pokes, Lindy Waters led the way with 19 points. Your N.A. had 12 points and 7 boards. All right, looking ahead to tonight's action, three games going on in the Big 12 for men's hoops. Oklahoma will host William and Mary and West Virginia will host Northern Colorado. Both of those games are taking place

at 6 p.m. tonight and TCU battles Air Force. That game at 8 o'clock in Fort Worth. That's your Friday 5 and Big 12 recap. We'll transition now back to the action that took place at Allen Fieldhouse on Friday. Kansas defeating Monmouth 112-57. Kind of talked in the first segment about that end of game play where George Pappas stole the ball from Tristan and Aruna and dunked it before getting teed up for saying a little bit too much at the end of that play and kind of heard reaction from King Rice and Bill Self. Now we're going to focus, get away from that a little bit,

focus on the game, some of the top performers. And for Kansas, arguably that top performer was newcomer Isaiah Moss. In just 15 minutes, Isaiah Moss had 21 points on five of six shooting and he got off to a really hot start. He was asked about his hot start after the game, and that's important to him. Seeing the ball going early, definitely good for my confidence. My teammates got me the ball, so yeah. Isaiah actually hit each of his first four threes in this game, and as I said, in just 15 minutes, 21 points. It's kind of crazy looking at some of

these numbers. Yudoka Azubuki had 12 points in 23 minutes. DeSosa had 11 points in 23 minutes. Devon Dotson had 17. He played just 27. That's a good sight to see when you're up by enough, you can take some of those guys off the court. So very efficient numbers. Perhaps no one was more efficient than David McCormick, who in just 16 minutes had 17 points and 11 rebounds, the first player in Division I this year to go 15-10 in 15 minutes or less. David McCormick. Of course, he's going to credit his teammate Isaiah Moss. Here's David after the game talking about how Isaiah hitting helps this offense so much.

It makes everything so much easier. I mean, when he shoots, people have to close out to him, and when they close out, spreads the floor. It gives us the pain and more space to work and do what we do. Certainly that was the case on Friday as KU got out to a huge lead. Moss' first three actually put Kansas up 19-2, and as we know, the Jayhawks never looked back. We'll hear more from KU players, and we'll hear from Bill Self

more on his thoughts on the game tomorrow's show, and of course we'll preview East Tennessee State, get Coach's thoughts on one of the top mid-majors in the country, or at least thought to be, in East Tennessee State. That's on tomorrow's show. Coming up after the break, we'll recap Jayhawks in the NBA, another huge game for Devontae Grant, perhaps his best game yet. I'll tell you all about that.

That took place this weekend. And then we'll talk Kansas football, a really unfortunate day on Saturday. They could not get anything going. The defense played all right, but KU fell to Oklahoma State and Stillwater. We'll talk about that as well after the break. This is Locked On Jayhawks, a product of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Wrapping up here this edition of Locked On Jayhawks, I am Sean Kellerman.

Remember to shoot me a follow on Twitter, at SeanKellerman, at LO underscore Jayhawks as well. Heard from Bill Self and King Rice regarding the last second dunk from Monmus George Papas and the blowout Jayhawk win on Friday night. And talked a little bit about Big 12 action in our Friday 5 last segment. Heard from Isaiah Moss and David McCormick. Of course, we're going to have a lot more Kansas basketball coverage tomorrow on the show as the Jayhawks battle a very good East Tennessee State team, a team that was picked first in the conference that UNC Greensboro was picked second, the SoCon.

So that'll be a battle because Greensboro, they had some guys and Coach Self saying they'll be an NCAA tournament team. So East Tennessee State likely is going to be in that conversation as well. And, you know, they're going to be those 11, 12, 13 seeds that are going to be a problem for a lot of teams in the tournament. We're going to talk Kansas football first, give you a little update on Jayhawks and the NBA. A lot of action this weekend. It was highlighted by Devontae Graham. We'll talk about that. But first Friday's games, Devontae, 38 minutes. He had 18 points, 10 boards, and 5 assists in 38 minutes for the Hornets, his hometown team, as they defeated Svea, Mikhailuk, Markeith Morris, and the Pistons 109-106.

Svea, no stats at all, really. He had no points, boards, or assists in 12 minutes of playing. Markeith played 18 minutes at 8 points and 7 boards in that game. Joel Embiid and the 76ers fell in overtime in Oklahoma City to the Thunder, 127-119. Embiid had 31 points, 12 boards, and 2 assists. And Ben McLemore playing a lot more for the Rockets. He helped his team to a 111-102 win over the Pacers.

Ben, in 33 minutes, had 21 points and 3 rebounds. Andrew Wiggins had two games this weekend but did not play in either because of death in the family. It was his grandmother who passed away. Certainly keeping Andrew in our thoughts and prayers as his family deals with that loss. And Timberwolves went 0-2 without Andrew Wiggins. They actually lost by 21 and by 20 in the two games without Wiggs, so I'm sure they're hoping he is back soon.

Saturday's games, Devontae Graham again, 29 points. He hit nine threes in 36 minutes, and that included the game winner. When the Knicks were up on the Hornets by two points, Graham hit the three at the top of the key and gave his team the victory. D-Take continuing to show out. He's one of the stories, not just here for Jayhawk Nation as we kind of look at the landscape of the NBA this season, but one of the stories in the NBA is how Devontae Graham has really come up and shined. And you just love it for him. This is a guy who spent a lot of time in the G League last year. A lot of people didn't think he would make it.

Hopefully this is just the tip of the iceberg for Devontae and that he has a very long and successful NBA career. In that game, by the way, which the Hornets won, Marcus Morris went 14-6 in 30 minutes for the losing Knicks team. Ben McLemore played as well on Saturday. 37 minutes for Ben, another 20-point effort. 20 points and four boards for Ben. Just one Jayhawk in action yesterday in the Sunday's games.

Joel Embiid, 23 minutes, had 14 points, four boards, and two assists. And in terms of tonight's games, Devontae's back in action at 6.30 as the Hornets travel to Toronto. Marcus Morris and the Knicks host Cleveland at 6 o'clock. Ben McLemore and the Rockets are at home against Portland. That game is at 7. And Phoenix, they've got a couple of Jayhawks on that team. They host Boston at 8 o'clock. Minnesota does play tonight, but Andrew Wiggins is doubtful, not because of the family emergency. They're saying this time it's because of an illness. The T-Wolves are at Utah at eight o'clock tonight, but again, Wiggins unlikely to play. That's your NBA Jayhawks recap

for the day. And now let's talk Kansas football and going to keep it kind of brief because there was not much to say regarding the Jayhawks on the gridiron on Saturday. They were down 24 to nothing to an Oklahoma State team that we knew was going to ride Chuba Hubbard, and they did just that. Chuba, in that first half alone, had 100 yards on just 17 carries and those two touchdowns. And Oklahoma State, like I said, led 24-0 at the break. Oklahoma State would get the first score in the second half as well. Their quarterback,

Spencer Sanders, left this game. Both starting quarterbacks left this game for one reason or another. Spencer Sanders, his day ended in the third quarter when he was pulled for Drew Brown, apparent injury to Sanders, but Brown came in and led Oklahoma State to score. It was another hook up with Dylan Stoner, this time from 43 yards out down the far sideline. Stoner, another massive day for him. Five catches, 150 yards, and two touchdowns. Of course, this Oklahoma State team was playing without their star wideout, Tylan Wallace, who tore his ACL a couple weeks back, and he and C.D. Lamb are at the top of the, not only top of the ranks for the Big 12 in terms of best wide receivers,

but NFL talk as well for Wallace and Lamb. Unfortunately for Tylan and the Pokes, he is out for the year with that torn ACL, so hopefully he has a speedy recovery. Drew Brown remained quarterback for Oklahoma State the rest of the day, and KU's defense did a pretty good job. That was it, 31-0. That was all the scoring Oklahoma State would do. Kansas would come back. Now, interesting, the Jayhawks had nothing at halftime, and they really

were not getting production offensively at all. It had been about six quarters, because you go back to the K-State game, and there was nothing there pretty much the entirety with Carter Stanley as quarterback. And then the first two quarters against Oklahoma State, there was a goose egg as well. KU turned to Manny Miles to try to get some sort of a spark. And there really was not much there, a majority of the third quarter for Manny Miles either. But maybe a rejuvenated and more motivated Carter Stanley as he came back and ended up throwing two touchdowns on KU's last two drives, so hopefully some momentum for this offense heading into Ames next week. First touchdown went to Stephon Robinson, his team leading seventh on the year. Robinson led KU receivers

with six catches for 68 yards in that score, and then in garbage time, Stanley found Kwon Hampton, Hampton's first touchdown of the season. Kwon Hampton, T'Kolbe Williams, Evan Fares all got some run late in this one with this one well in hand. So really the score, it's not that big of a blowout, but this game was never in doubt. Oklahoma State controlled it. And there's a lot of storylines. Again, Puka Williams can't get loose, just not enough push from the offensive line. Puka had 12 carries for 26 yards is all he got. He had one catch as well, so just 13 touches for KU's top player. Carter Stanley, when all was said and done, he did get those two touchdowns. He was 22 of 37, 226 yards, two touchdowns and a pick. Manny Miles also threw an interception. He was four of eight for 25 yards

in those few drives that he got. Thomas McVitie entered the game as a wide receiver on one trick play, and he threw an interception on that play, making a bad read as well. So all three KU quarterbacks had interceptions in this game, and that was really the difference. Both these teams entered with subpar turnover margins entering play. Oklahoma State, inexplicably, was minus 4. You'd think that would be closer to a three and six record than a six and three record, but they got three of those turnovers back against KU. So OSU now minus one on the year. KU entered minus five in terms of turnovers, and now they sit at minus eight as that turnover margin really was the big difference because you look at some of

the other numbers. First downs, 24-18 in favor of Oklahoma State. KU is actually better on third downs, 6-17 to Oklahoma State, 4-12. Three turnovers are the one that really jumps out at you, but you got to give credit to the Kansas defense. Of those three turnovers, Oklahoma State scored just three points off turnovers. OSU's kicker Matt Amendola, one of the top kickers in the league, missed three field goals, and KU's defense behind guys like Jay Dineen, who had a career-high two and a half TFLs, and Kyle Mayberry, who had two TFLs, they really kept KU somewhat in this game in the first half. The frustrating part was turning it over to the offense, and how annoying has that been as KU

fans? We've had games where it's been the offense contributing, but not so much the defense. And now this one, you know, that's where it's so tough when you've got miles to go, as they say. Just putting a full game together, all three phases, and we've had our issues in all three phases thus far. And KU falls to 3-7 with the loss, and 1-6 in Big 12 play.

And it does not get easier the final two games of the year. Mention the Ames outing next week against Iowa State, a team who had that emotional win I brought up earlier. They defeated Texas by 2 at home. Iowa State is now bowl eligible at 6-4, and they're going to look to improve their potential bowl location with any win. And then the last game is against the now one-loss Baylor Bears, who certainly are going to need to win the last two games to remain in the conversation and perhaps have a shot

at the Big 12 title game and maybe even a rematch against Oklahoma. So it's not going to be easy for Kansas, but we're going to break down this game a little bit more later in the week. We're going to hear from Les Miles and some KU players as well. And then we're going to put this one behind us and focus on Iowa State as KU, though likely has no chance at a bowl, had to take a miracle at five and seven. You'd need a lot of things to go in your favor. The team's going to continue to fight for the coaches and the players, the seniors on this team with two games left. So we'll certainly talk Kansas football a little bit more during the week. Hope you've enjoyed the show. We talked about

the KU basketball win on Friday against Monmouth. We recapped the Friday 5 and the Big 12 slate as well and those big-time performances by some of our Jayhawks playing in the NBA. Mentioned we'll have less miles in KU football sound as the week goes on, but tomorrow will be a lot of basketball talk as game day tomorrow, East Tennessee State in the field house, 7 o'clock tip against our Jayhawks. And after that one, it's all about Maui, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of Thanksgiving week, KU in the Maui Invitational, the opener against Chaminade on Monday at 8 o'clock.

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