Oklahoma State University Athletics
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Kansas
Cowboys fall in Lawrence
January 12, 2007 | Cowboy Basketball
Darnell Jackson and Sherron Collins added 10 points each for Kansas (14-2, 1-0 Big 12), which won its eighth straight and snapped the Cowboys' four-game winning streak.
Oklahoma State (15-2, 1-1) lost its 32nd straight road game against a top 10 team. The Cowboys have not won in a top 10 opponent's home gym since a 52-50 overtime victory against the Jayhawks - ranked No. 2 at the time - on Jan. 2, 1958.
The Cowboys shot 32 percent (17-for-53) and committed 20 turnovers, while Kansas had 17 steals, tied for the Jayhawks' second most in a conference game. Kansas scored 23 points off turnovers, outscored the Cowboys 18-0 on fast breaks and 48-18 in the paint.
Kansas led by as many as 22 points in the first half, but JamesOn Curry's 4-point play on a foul by Collins got Oklahoma State within 53-40 with 15 minutes to go. The Jayhawks responded with a 16-5 run over the next 5:47, padding their lead to 69-45, and added a 12-0 run - capped by Darrell Arthur's thundering dunk - to make it 81-48 with just over 4 minutes left.
Curry and Kenny Cooper led the Cowboys with 12 points each and Terrel Harris added 10.
Mario Boggan, who came in as the Big 12's second-leading scorer at 21.9 points per game, was held to a season-low eight points on 4-for-16 shooting.
Curry had been fifth in the conference with an 18.9-point average.
Oklahoma State coach Sean Sutton earned a technical foul in the first half for arguing that Arthur's block of Boggan's shot should have been a foul. Rush, who was 9-for-10 from the line, hit one of the resulting free throws and dunked on the ensuing possession for a 23-8 lead.
After committing turnovers on its first two possessions, Kansas opened the game on a 7-for-8 tear, and Oklahoma State had 11 of its 13 first-half turnovers in the first 10 minutes.
Rush scored five points in an 11-0 run that put the Jayhawks up 25-8 with 12:38 left in the half, and he added four more points in an 8-0 run that made it 33-11 with 8 minutes to go before the break.
Adarius Bowman, who plays wide receiver for the Cowboys' football team, made his first college basketball appearance. He played 5 minutes, grabbing three rebounds and shooting 0-for-2 from the field.
The Jayhawks honored former Cowboys coach Eddie Sutton, a native of Bucklin, Kan., in a halftime ceremony.
