The Ducks out-scored Kansas 32-28 in the paint, out-rebounded the favorite 36-32 and limited the Jayhawks to 35-percent shooting. The game turned when: Oregon big man Bell proved too long, quick and athletic for the Jayhawks to score in the paint with ease or win the battle of the glass.īell scored 11 points, but made a much larger impact on defense, snagging 13 rebounds, swatting away eight Kansas shots and altering many other drives and shots in the paint with his wingspan and hops.Here’s a quick look back at some of the action: 1 seed couldn’t get any closer than six points before the Jayhawks’ season ended in the Elite Eight for the second season in a row, and fifth time in Bill Self’s 14 seasons as head coach. The trio and their cohorts kept attacking Kansas on both ends of the floor, in the second half and the region’s No. Their chances of winning a regional final for the first time in five seasons only worsened early in the second half, when Ducks big man Jordan Bell, stretch forward Dillon Brooks and guard Tyler Dorsey kept bringing the type of intensity that put coach Dana Altman’s bunch in such a choice position to begin with. The Jayhawks, whose record when trailing by double digits this season dropped to 7-3, trailed by 11 at intermission. 3 seed in front of an angry, hostile, pro-Kansas crowd. The Pac-12 champion Oregon Ducks scored with ease for stretches, led by as many as 18 points in the second half and ended KU’s season one game away from the Final Four, with a 74-60 victory by the No.

Masters of the comeback during the regular season, the top-seeded Kansas Jayhawks couldn’t dig themselves out of their first massive hole of the NCAA Tournament Saturday night at Sprint Center.

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