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Missy Minear/KANSAN Senior center Landen Lucas dunks the ball in the second half against Kentucky on Jan. 28. Lucas had 13 points and five rebounds in Kansas’ 79-73 victory in Rupp Arena.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Earlier this season, the Kansas Jayhawks defied the odds with a win over No. 1 Duke at Madison Square Garden.

Saturday night,

hampered by depth issues and against a fellow topfive team in the nation, the Jayhawks did the same thing. No. 2 Kansas triumphed at Rupp Arena, defeating No. 4 Kentucky 79-73.

Senior guard Frank Mason III finished with

21 points in the statement win. Kentucky also had a difficult time containing freshman guard Josh Jackson, who impressed on a national stage with 20 points.

“Of course I know it means a lot to the fans of both schools and certainly

there’s a lot of tradition on the line,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “But I thought our experience ... Frank and Devonte’ and Josh plays much older than his years, and Svi and Landen [Lucas] — I thought those guys played with pretty good poise down the

stretch.”

Kansas shot into a 10-point lead in the final five minutes. The team defended that lead, which stood anywhere from 10 to four points, until the end of the game.

The team erased any worry of foul trouble, but

senior center Landen Lucas took to the bench with 2:24 remaining. For almost all game, and especially during the second half, Kansas remained smart and careful on defense.

Standout Kentucky SEE KENTUCKY PAGE 11

Anti-campus carry bill gains support CHANDLER BOESE @Chandler_Boese

TOPEKA — A bill that would stop concealed carry of weapons on state college campuses saw large support during a hearing in the Kansas Senate on Thursday.

A state Senate committee had a hearing Thursday on a bill that would give universities, colleges and public hospitals and clinics a permanent exemption from a 2013 law that allowed gun owners to carry concealed weapons into more public buildings. The law granted the universities, colleges and hospitals a four-year exemption, which will expire this July 1.

The Federal and State Affairs Committee’s hearing comes only four days after a 19-yearold Kansas State University student was transported to a hospital with a self-inflicted gunshot wound from a weapon kept in a dorm room, against university rules.

While supporters of the rollback bill are leaning heavily on this recent incident, their push to keep concealed weapons off campus has been building for months.

“There are a lot of concerns about safety,” said Andrew Bennett, a Kan-

Sarah Wright/KANSAN Protestors at Kansas City International Airport aim to spread messages of acceptance and love in response to President Donald Trump’s new executive order on immigration.

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sas State math professor and its Faculty Senate president. “I think the fact that we had the accident on campus brings home, when you have guns, accidents tend to follow.”

Several people from the University of Kansas, including professor Ron Barrett-Gonzalez, graduate student Megan Jones and Student Body President Stephonn Alcorn, testified during the hearing in defense of the bill.

The Kansas law requires universities, colleges and hospitals to allow

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adults 21 or older to carry concealed weapons into their buildings if they don’t have adequate security measures, such as metal detectors or guards. Those measures could be expensive for university to install.

The University has not yet finalized which, if any, of its buildings will receive adequate security measures. The school’s new weapons policy, approved by the Board of ReSEE CAMPUS CARRY PAGE2

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Many students were among the hundreds of voices chanting “No hate; no fear; refugees are welcome here” on Sunday at the Kansas City International (MCI) airport in Kansas City, Missouri protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration ban.

“You shouldn’t be banning people when everyone is welcome here. It’s a nation of immigrants,” Cierra TwoBulls, a graduate student

from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, said.

Individuals gathered outside of Terminal C, which is the entrance for international arrivals at the airport.

They were protesting against the executive order signed on Friday afternoon by Trump banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries for 90 days and the suspension of all refugee admission for 120 days. The Muslim-majority countries are Iran, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, SEE PROTEST PAGE 2

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KUMC may gain new dental school NOLAN BREY @NolanBrey

Gov. Sam Brownback announced a plan to begin developing a school of dentistry in his State of the State address earlier this month, a move that higher education professionals say is sorely needed.

Kansas, one of 14 states without a dental school, remains reliant on neighboring states for dental education.

Since 1964, Kansas has been able to send at least 21 students a year to dental school at the University of Missouri-Kansas City with in-state tuition. In exchange, Missouri architecture students receive in-state tuition when studying at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University.

However, while Kansas sends 21 students to UMKC, nearly 500 architecture students from Missouri study in Kansas, according to Dr. Daniel Thomas, a periodontist and a Regent on the Board of Regents.

The addition of a dental school at the University would mark a great change for the University and for Kansas.

“There is a significant dental shortage in Kansas, especially in the rural and other underserved parts of

FROM CAMPUS CARRY PAGE 1 gents in December, gives no details beyond restating the law’s provisions that weapons may be allowed in any building without adequate security measures.

The law, with the fouryear exemption for universities and hospitals, passed with large, bipartisan majorities in 2013, and some of the legislators who backed it see no reason to modify or repeal it.

Sen. Ty Masterson (R-Andover), who sup-

the state,” said Natalie Lutz, communications director for the University Medical Center. “A new dental school dedicated to the needs of the State of Kansas would help meet these needs.”

Today, of Kansas’ 105 counties, 95 are dentally underserved, Thomas said.

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There is a significant dental shortage in Kansas, especially in the rural and other underserved parts of the state.”

Tanner Hassell/KANSAN While discussions of a dental school at KU Medical Center have been ongoing since 2011, the idea has gained traction this year. Members of the Kansas Board of Regents are scheduled to discuss the idea at their monthly meeting in September.

Thomas said that if the legislature were to authorize the creation of a dental school at the University, it would not be this year because architectural drawings and other preparations are needed first.

However, talks of new dental programs have been going on since 2004. Because of the lack of dental students practicing in Kansas, a taskforce was formed to increase the number of dentists practicing in Kansas and an Advanced Education in General Dentistry program was formed at

Wichita State University, Thomas said.

Yet, the program has only 30 total graduates, and only six stayed in Kansas.

As a result, in 2011, the Board of Regents established an 11-member task force, chaired by Thomas, which sought to increase the number of students sent to dental schools and to establish a dental school in Kansas.

Originally, the school was to be added to Wichita State University, but it was later changed to the University of Kansas Medical Center to save cost and utilize the medicine-related curriculum already in place, Thomas said.

Additionally, the task force looked into buying

seats for students at other universities in addition to UMKC, but no such action ever took place.

A possible location for the dental school at the Medical Center is the Dykes Library, which could be connected to the new Health Education Building that is set to be completed in June.

A dental school would help to alleviate many of the healthcare problems that currently plague the state.

For example, Thomas said that in 2011, it was reported that 57,000 Kansans live in “dental deserts,” which are areas over 30 miles away from the nearest dentist. In that same year, over 17,000 dental-related emergency room visits were recorded, Thomas said.

ported the 2013 law, said the Kansas State accident shows that a university’s ban on concealed guns “does not stop weapons from being on campus.”

Other supporters of the bill said students, faculty and staff should have the option of defending themselves with guns while on campus. They have a powerful ally in Gov. Sam Brownback, who signed the 2013 measure and other gun-rights bills and said he remains a strong supporter of gun ownership rights protected by the Second

Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

In a brief interview Wednesday, Brownback acknowledged the concerns on campuses but added, “It’s a constitutional right.”

Voters last year ousted two dozen of Brownback’s conservative GOP allies from the Legislature, giving Democrats and moderate Republicans more power.

Some rural legislators who’ve backed gun-rights measures in the past have even started to backpedal because university faculty and students have been

so vocal. House Majority Leader Don Hineman (R-Dighton) voted for the 2013 law and isn’t yet saying whether he’d support a rollback.

“There are two sides to the debate, absolutely, and I’m sympathetic to both points of view,” Hineman said.

Natalie Lutz University Medical Center communications director

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FROM PROTEST PAGE 1 Libya, Yemen and Sudan.

The order also indefinitely bars any person fleeing from war-torn Syria to the United States. Ninety-two students from the seven affected countries attend the University, according to data from International Student Services.

“The countries that Trump banned in his order show no evidence of terrorist action in the United States.

It seems backwards and the argument feels invalid,” said Stanci Soderstrom from Lee Summit, Missouri, who attended the protest with her 14-year-old daughter Keely Soderstrom.

Although there are no individuals detained at MCI, protesters still found the airport backdrop to be a beneficial place to use their voices.

“Uniting here like this is a really good way to feel better individually and to show others, especially immigrants and refugees, that Kansas City is safe,” Madeline Elliott, from St Louis, Missouri, said.

Ayla Yousef, a student from Overland Park, attended the protest as an opportu-

Sarah Wright/KANSAN Protesters begin a march around the Terminal C to draw attention to their message of frustration.

nity to be involved in history.

“We don’t want this to be the next chapter in our history books and we look back and regret everything we’ve done as a nation,” Yousef said.

Trump’s executive order included a preference of re-admission to the United States for immigrants who practice the Christian faith.

Emily Taylor, a protester from Overland Park, believes this is contradicting.

“I want to take a Christian stance on this. To show that

even as a Christian, I recognize that this is something that’s wrong. People being banned from a country goes against human principle and kindness,” Taylor said.

The MCI protest is similar to those held across the country, including at JFK Airport in New York City and DFW Airport in Dallas.

The Facebook group where the protest plans originated showed a total of 881 individuals attended the event, though about several hundred people were at MCI

at the height of the protest.

Also in attendance was Kansas City Mayor Sly James who spoke to protesters using a megaphone toward the end of the protest.

“We’re not afraid of people coming in. We’re not afraid of immigrants. We’re not afraid of the poor. We’re not afraid of Muslims. We’re not afraid of women. We’re not afraid of anybody because Kansas City is where it’s at and the people here are the best in the country,” James said.

Additionally, while there are over 1,400 licensed dentists in the state, Thomas said this number is deceptive.

According to Thomas, over half of Kansas’ dentists are over 50 and many license holders are retired, work part-time or practice across state lines. Furthermore, nationally, 46 percent of current dental students are females, who will, on average, spend less time practicing than their male counterparts throughout their lives, Thomas said.

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Faculty fears for research funding under Trump

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s the country ushers in a new presidential administration, some of the University’s faculty and administrators are worried that research funding — already trending down — will continue to be cut.

Jim Tracy, vice chancellor of research at the University, said research funding was down by 2 percent in the last fiscal year. The University receives its funding from state and federal sources.

A continued decrease in funding could lead to less advanced equipment in the classroom, less experienced professors and could hurt the marketability of degrees.

Tracy said that in the last fiscal year, a total of about $198 million was generated for research and about 75 percent of total research funding came from the state and federal governments. If state funding for research decreases, the University will have less funding to provide cutting-edge equipment for faculty to compete for federal grants and funding, affecting the total amount of funding for the future.

“I believe that students get a better education at research universities because faculty are bringing in the newest information and the newest ways of thinking into the classroom,” Tracy said.

“In my experience, the

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If our scholarly programs slip in international ranking, we may fall off that … list. That does not bode well for the marketability for the degrees of our students.”

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best researchers are often the best teachers that you have.”

Ron Barrett-Gonzalez, president of the Kansas Conference of the American Association of University Professors, said cuts could also impact the University’s ability to have over 6,000 graduate research assistant positions. That, he said, would lead to less experienced professors in the classroom and less

information from new research. Barrett-Gonzalez also said it would toll on the international reputation of the University.

As research funds continue to deplete, faculty will not be able to publish their best work through scholarly programs. If that were to continue, BarrettGonzalez speculates that the University could lose its membership within the Association of American

Universities, of which the University is the only member in the state of Kansas.

“If our scholarly programs slip in international ranking, we may fall off that … list,” he said. “That does not bode well for the marketability for the degrees of our students.”

Barrett-Gonzalez said he is worried that research funding is already at

risk because the state is borrowing funds from the Kansas Department of Transportation fund.

“If we, as the state, are having to borrow just to pay our bills, it does not bode well for research dollars,” Barrett-Gonzalez said.

Barrett-Gonzalez and Tracy said they are worried about how the new presidential administration will handle higher education.

President

“We don’t know what the new administration in Washington has planned for higher education,” Tracy said.

The appointment of Betsy Devos as Secretary of Education is highly controversial amongst administrators, Tracy said.

Some don’t believe that she has enough experience in higher education to hold the office.

Some areas are less likely to be affected than others.

The National Institute of Health’s funding, which contributes to a large part of funding for medical research, is not expected to decrease.

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Yet the vast majority of Muslims are not terrorists. Their faith does not lead them to violence. Those traveling to the U.S do so for a number of reasons, including to escape violence and acts of terror in their home countries.

Furthermore, Trump’s travel ban threatens freedom of religion throughout the country. Discrimination and persecution of people for their religious beliefs have been opposed in this country since its founding. Banning people from Muslim-majority nations exemplifies such discrimination.

Defending freedom of religion in this country should not be a partisan issue. Even some Republicans are criticizing Trump’s travel ban, including Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), who believes

this travel ban could help ISIS recruit and push anti-American views. Everyone in the U.S. has a right to practice their faith and the U.S. must not exclude those who hold ideals that deviate from

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Everyone in the U.S. has a right to practice their faith, and the U.S. must not exclude those who hold ideals that deviate.”

the Christian majority from entering the country.

The aforementioned ruling is a small victory toward eliminating the executive order altogether. However,

many people remain unable to travel into the U.S. Trump and his administration almost certainly will not back off of the ban until a permanent ruling is reached on its constitutionality.

Protesting Trump can help raise awareness to his actions that have dangerous implications, as the Women’s Marches and the airport protests have now shown.

We need to continue to stand up in opposition to the travel ban if we hope to protect people from all over the world and allow them into our diverse nation, as well as to ensure our own freedom of religion.

Ryan Liston is a Sophomore from Lawrence studying Journalism and Political Science.

Kassebaum: Today’s GOP needs moderation

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Trump’s travel ban pertains to anyone who is a citizen of, or was born in, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. Some of the people traveling to the United States were detained at airports across the country on Saturday before a federal judge ruled to allow them into the country. The ruling, however, pertains only to individuals who had landed or were in transit when Trump signed the executive order for the travel ban. The travel ban is still in effect.

Trump rationalizes the ban under the guise of national security. He stated on the campaign trail that the ban on Muslim-majority countries is intended to protect the U.S. from terrorists trying to enter the country.

NELLIE KASSEBAUM @nelliekudk

I’ll be honest — 2017 Republicans make me upset.

I’m not talking about Kansas RINOs (Republicans in name only): I mean the Republicans who won in November.

After major Republican victories were seen in the House, Senate and the presidency, these wins were widely broadcast as a huge revival for Republicans.

I disagree.

With the eventual disappearance of the moderate

Republican, who generally identify as a Democrat on social issues and Republican on fiscal and governmental issues, these recent Republican victories were far-andwide for right-wing Republicans, who in no way promote the values of the Republican party my family was or is a part of.

The Republican cornerstone ideal of limited government was admittedly nice until the onset of globalization and concerns about our environment became obvious. The concept of reduced government spending was also laudable until military spending completely dominated government spending.

This idea of civil republicanism is beyond endangered. It certainly can’t be found on today’s Republican agenda. The Republican party of today has started to cling to and promote the weakest,

most disturbing part of its platform: social issues.

As passionately as a Republican voter will tell you they voted straight ticket for those cornerstone reasons, they are simultaneously supporting social issues that have become not only intolerant, but dangerous.

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They are ... supporting social issues that have become not only intolerant, but dangerous.”

The social platform of the right-wing Republican Party victors has long promoted its fervent belief in the Second Amendment, opposition of gay marriage, and anti-immigration policies.

The power that resulted from

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these recent victories was not granted to moderate Republicans, but rather their rebranded party that seems to violate the very foundations of the Republican Party.

Even Ronald Reagan, commonly thought of as a Republican hero, sought to provide amnesty to three million illegal immigrants and imagined an America with open borders of Mexico and Canada.

Trump and other newly elected Republicans are taking power, and those who voted a straight-Republican ticket are still searching for their representatives to take a stand for fiscal conservation and limited government, none of which Trump ran on, nor do other Republican victors seem to support.

Not only were Republican voters misled by thinking their party representatives would uphold the ideals of

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the Republican party, they also supported these dangerous social policies simply because an “R” was placed by a candidate’s name. The apparent lack of research done by today’s Republican voters is not only disturbing but an honest insult to our voting system.

This Republican party is far from what it once was, and the danger of its new social platform cannot be overstated. Political parties aside, we must remain vigilant in attempt to block this dangerous social agenda, from defunding Planned Parenthood to striking down President Trump’s travel ban.

Nellie Kassebaum is a sophomore from Burdick studying English and public policy.

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he University is the most frequently Instagrammed place in the state of Kansas, according to a USA Today article published last month. The University ranks above Kansas State University, Children’s Mercy Park and the Kansas Speedway as the state’s most geotagged location.

The best photos of campus can gain traction through the use of #exploreKU on Instagram or Twitter. Users can use the hashtag with photos related to being a Jayhawk. Photos of students’ forays into Downtown Lawrence or their study abroad experiences are included.

The Office of Public Affairs has been tracking #exploreKU since 2013. The University’s social media

Photo contributed by Dhanushka Weerasekara This picture, taken near Anschutz Library by graduate student Dhanushka Weerasekara, has been featured on

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team selects three standout photos every week and reaches out to the photographers to ask for an interview and permission to use their work. Its official social media accounts then repost the photos with quotes from the photographer, including an explanation of where they were when they snapped it.

“We’ve had posts that do us great favor — that do the University great favor — but we also have people talk about things that they’re really passionate about,” Katie McCurry, senior digital strategist for the Office of Public Affairs, said.

McCurry said that #exploreKU is her favorite University social media campaign because it relies solely on the perspective of students, staff or anyone else who sees something unique in the University.

Because the content is user-generated, the photos capture the authentic "Jayhawk experience," she said.

McCurry said she also likes that amateur photographers produce most of the content using their cell phones.

Senior Brook Nasseri, who has been featured using #exploreKU, regularly updates her Instagram profile with pictures taken on her iPhone, including those of the University.

Landscapes are her favorite thing to photograph, and she said the beauty of campus provides her with plenty of opportunities — even if she's not using a fancy camera.

"I also just kind of like the challenge of using the thing I have in my pocket to try to capture something in an interesting way," Nasseri said.

Photo contributed by Coulton Thomas Aerial photo of campus by junior Coulton Thomas that has been featured on University social media.

Other photographers who use the hashtag take a more professional approach.

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I also just kind of like the challenge of using the thing I have in my pocket to try to capture something in an interesting way Brook Nasseri senior

Graduate student and avid photographer Dhanushka Weerasekara uses a digital camera to take pictures of tiny details on campus that catch his eye, like his picture from last month of a stalk of wheat, illuminated by a sunbeam, which was featured with #exploreKU. He said it’s small things that make campus beautiful to him.

A photo taken with an

iPhone of a Lawrence sunset, taken by junior Erin Woods, was also featured on #exloreKU last November.

Woods, who joined Instagram her sophomore year of high school, said she likes taking photos of campus because the way she sees her surroundings is always changing.

“Even looking at it every single day, it’s going to change,” Woods said.

“Coming up the hill every day, it’s never going to look the same way twice.”

106 users responded to a Kansan Twitter poll asking them to choose their favorite location for taking an Instagram photo of campus.

58 percent selected Allen Fieldhouse, the Campanile and Potter Lake each received 18 percent of the vote, and six percent selected Fraser Hall.

In lecture, professor examines how the Army ushers in social change in America HANNAH COLEMAN @hecoleman33

On Wednesday night, history professor Beth Bailey gave a lecture at the Kansas Union arguing that the history and culture of institutions — in this case, the U.S. Army — can restrict or create opportunities for social change. The lecture was titled “The U.S. Army and ‘The Problem of Race.’”

Bailey presented an overview of what she’s researching in her current project. The yet-to-benamed book will discuss how the U.S. Army, as an institution, brought about social change, especially during the Vietnam War and the years following, when racial conflict was prominent.

Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little was in attendance for the lecture.

Bailey is a scholar of current U.S. history, specifically the history of the U.S. military as well as gender and sexuality.

Even before her interest in military history was piqued, Bailey initially worked on studying the history of gender and sexuality, which was the basis for her book, “Sex in the Heartland,” a history of what she refers to as the sexual revolution in Lawrence.

Without any family serving in the armed forces or having any military train-

ing, Bailey had to start from scratch when she switched to studying military history.

What particularly interested Bailey about the U.S. Army was its ability to bring about social change, especially during the 1960s, a time where society struggled with major racial crises. In her book, she argues that, in order to understand changes that include race, gender and sexuality, the U.S. military has to be factored in.

“The story that we generally get and the critically important piece of it is that people fight for social change,” Bailey said. “Social change then has to be put into law, or it has to be written into curriculum, or it has to be implemented through institutions ... it has to be concrete.”

Concerning the U.S. Army, Bailey said that such a large institution that touched many young men’s lives was hit with a conflict of racial tension. “[The U.S. Army] thinks [the racial conflict] is important because it’s going to disrupt combat readiness, so how did they try to deal with it?,” Bailey asked.

“And what difference does it make?"

She spoke on the hair policy in the U.S. Army, and how they tried to control the hairstyles men were allowed to have, an important factor in the 60s for black men who were promoting

Caitlynn Salazar/KANSAN University history professor Beth Bailey speaks to a member of the auidence after her lecture.

black pride, she said.

Bailey said she believes that looking at these concepts is valuable when looking in a modern sense as well.

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The United States military has a lot to offer as an object of historical analysis, which can lead to a better understanding of the American society at large.”

Marjorie Galelli graduate student

“I think what’s important about looking at this is, say, when we try to understand social change, when

we try to look at something that is critically important to American society, we need to think about how institutions function,” Bailey said.

Graduate student Marjorie Galelli, in attendance for the event, came to Kansas specifically for Bailey’s expertise on the U.S. Military.

Galelli said she also shares the same belief: that the military is a large factor in understanding the shaping of social change. For Galelli, Bailey was a crucial part of her understanding the concepts of the U.S. Military and the historiography comes with it.

“The United States Military has a lot to offer as an object of historical analysis, which can lead to a better understanding of the Amer-

ican society at large,” Galelli said.

Wednesday night was also Bailey's first inaugural distinguished professor lecture. Bailey is one of 12 professors in the Foundation Distinguished Professors, a group put together by the University to ensure that it continues to make significant discoveries.

Moving forward, Bailey will continue to work on her book project, sifting through pages of research, and teaching, which she said she believes is “as good a job as anyone can imagine.”

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Kansas ends losing streak with win over Texas Tech JARED ANDERSON @JAnderson_383

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an. 28, 2017 is a day that Kansas coach Brandon Schneider will remember forever.

After losing 27-straight regular season conference games, Kansas accomplished a feat it hadn’t done since March 2, 2015: they won.

Fueled by a collective team effort, Kansas defeated Texas Tech 66-60, ending its lengthy conference win drought.

Everything seemed to go right for Kansas, as the Jayhawks scored on their first two possessions and didn’t look back.

The Jayhawks marched onto the hardwood sporting their all-red jerseys in support of “Go Red For Women,” a day that strives to raise awareness of heart disease in women.

Kansas’ new look and strides toward improvement were on full display.

Redshirt-junior guard Jessica Washington led the way for Kansas behind her 24-point, four-rebound and two-assist showing. Sophomore guard Kylee Kopa-

tich — a key piece whose shooting has struggled this season — also stepped up in a time of deep importance, posting 14 points and four rebounds.

While Washington and Kopatich propelled the team to triumph, creating more scoring opportunities was a sizable contributor to the win as well, just as Schneider predicted after the loss to Oklahoma State.

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I thought our execution, in terms of our defensive plan, was really good.”

Brandon Schneider Kansas Coach

“I thought our execution, in terms of our defensive plan, was really good, for the most part, all night,” Schneider said.

The Jayhawks valued their possessions on the afternoon, giving up the ball just seven times, while scoring eight points off of the Red Raiders’ 14 turnovers.

Senior forward Caelynn Manning-Allen played a noteworthy role in manu-

Missy Minear/KANSAN Kansas coach Brandon Schneider calls a play against Texas on Jan. 4. On Jan. 28, Kansas beat Texas Tech 66-60.

facturing some of Kansas’ offensive possessions, as she notched 10 points and eight rebounds.

“I thought [Manning-Allen] played really well,” Schneider said. “She got six offensive rebounds and I remember not too long ago at TCU, she didn’t get any,

and I let her know that. It’s nice to see her activity level and watch her keep some balls alive too.”

Texas Tech, a team that has led the Big 12 in threepoint field goal percentage and defending the three this season, found itself struggling at the perimeter. The

FROM KENTUCKY PAGE 11 guards De’Aaron Fox and Malik Monk could be contained, but it was a number of threes from Kentucky forward Derek Willis that kept Kentucky within striking distance.

Willis finished with 18 points and 5-of-6 from three-point range.

Fox and Monk finished with 10 and 18 points, respectively. At ESPN’s College GameDay’s showing in Rupp Arena the morning of the game, pundits debated whether Monk could score over 25.

Kansas’ confidence seemed to wax and wane with every possession of the second half. At one point, Jackson threw up a hesitant three-point attempt that missed.

Kansas renewed its lease on the win on another, when Mason caught an alert pass from junior guard Svi Mykhailiuk and

Red Raiders shot 3-of-17 from beyond the arc, generating an 18 percent threepoint field goal percentage, compared to the Jayhawks’ 28 percent.

“I thought we really moved the ball well against the zone,” Schneider said.

“We played through the

zone, instead of just around it, and created some good looks.”

Kansas will look to build off its momentum this Wednesday at Oklahoma.

Tip-off is at 10:30 a.m.

reverted to a zone defense and limited the damage.

Kansas fired back to within five by halftime.

by the suspension of sophomore forward Carlton Bragg Jr., in the first half by throwing freshman forward Mitch Lightfoot and junior forward Dwight Coleby into the game for early minutes. Coleby stayed in the game to relieve Lucas for a total of 10 minutes.

“I think our guys are really excited—not that we played really great,” Self said. “I think we were really excited because we didn’t play great and fought through and ended up winning the game.”

Due to a loss earlier in the week to No. 18 West Virginia, Kansas is likely to fall in the rankings.

However, the win over Kentucky will be a boost.

Things won’t get any easier for the Jayhawks as they move forward into a difficult home tilt against No. 5 Baylor at Allen Fieldhouse on Wednesday, Feb. 1.

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I thought this could get ugly really fast, I thought it was already ugly. I don’t think they shot the ball unbelievably well by any stretch early.”

Bill Self Kansas coach

Missy Minear/KANSAN Junior guard Devonte’ Graham smiles in the final seconds of Kansas’ 79-73 victory over Kentucky in Rupp Arena on Jan. 28.

hit a wide open three.

The Jayhawks’ threepoint shooting came alive in the second half. The Kansas backcourt found a way to move the ball freely and it paid off with a 58.8 percent shooting mark in the second half.

Kansas only shot 26

percent from three on the night, but its overall mark was hampered by poor shooting in the first half. Kansas didn’t make a single three in the first half before catching fire in the second.

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Kansas’ guards outshine Kentucky’s at Rupp Arena BRIAN MINI

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EXINGTON, Ky. — Usually when two unheralded recruits go up against the best point guard and second-best shooting guard in their recruiting class, the latter comes out on top.

That is, unless you count No. 2 Kansas’ win over No. 4 Kentucky.

Backcourt comparisons dominated discussion surrounding Saturday night’s Kansas game against Kentucky when Jayhawk guards senior Frank Mason III and junior Devonte’ Graham were slated to go up against Kentucky’s star freshmen guards Malik Monk and De’Aaron Fox. Prior to Saturday’s matchup, ESPN College GameDay flashed a comparison of the two backcourts. The Kentucky crowd went wild when the screen showed Fox and Monk’s point per game average, 38.1, almost five points higher than the duo of Mason and Graham.

ESPN analyst Jay Bilas even commented that Kentucky’s Fox and Monk might just be the greatest Kentucky backcourt of all time.

By the end of the game, the narrative had flipped and Kentucky’s stars found themselves on the losing end of a scoring battle with Kansas’ backcourt leaders.

When coach Bill Self was asked about the experience of his guards, he said, “Frank and Devonte’…those guys played with pretty good poise down the stretch. Really good.”

Missy Minear/KANSAN Guards Frank Mason III and Devonte’ Graham stand together during a dead ball late in the second half against Kentucky. The Jayhawks defeated the Wildcats 79-73 in Rupp Arena.

The twosome’s scoring reflected that. 10 of Graham’s 12 points and 13 of Mason’s 21 came during the second half after Kansas found itself down five going into halftime.

Mason’s rise from Towson-commit-turned-Jayhawk climbed even higher on Saturday night against two future NBA lottery picks. After every marquee game, Mason’s chances of having his jersey hanging in the Allen Fieldhouse rafters seem to increase.

Graham struggled in the first half, but Kentucky

guard Dominique Hawkins said that Graham “was able to get to the basket and hit second chance points as well.”

During the second half with Kansas up by just two, Graham ran up to freshman guard Josh Jackson in the corner, took the ball out of his hands and proceeded to hit a three-pointer at the top of the key seconds later.

With 8:30 gone in the second half, Graham had already outscored both Monk and Fox, after the two had scored 18 of Kentucky’s 32 points in the first half.

Graham’s display showed two things: he wants to take big shots with the game close, and he’s capable of hitting them. After going 0-of-3 from deep in the first half, Graham hit two of his four three-point attempts in a close second half.

“I think we just believed in each other,” Mason said about how the team overcame the poor three-point shooting in the first half. “[We] started to drive the ball down hill and stay in attack mode.”

Kansas’ defensive game plan involved switching to

and from zone, which helped force five turnovers from Monk, two from Fox and another three from sophomore guard Isaiah Briscoe. That’s just one more impressive accomplishment on the growing resumes of Mason and Graham.

As for Kentucky’s defensive against Kansas’ guards, Mason and Graham were able to capitalize by not forcing anything.

“Coach tells us all the time don’t play to the mismatch or just move the ball and it will naturally come.

So that’s what we tried to

do,” Jackson said.

Kansas’ backcourt wasn’t perfect themselves, the two upperclassmen finished with a combined nine turnovers, but the high turnover rate was a small price to pay for a key win in Rupp Arena.

There’s still the heart of conference play, the conference tournament, March Madness and of course the NBA Draft, but for a cold Saturday in January, there was no better duo than Frank Mason and Devonte’ Graham.

Similar origins, separate paths define KU and Kentucky SKYLAR ROLSTAD @SkyRolSports

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari took a long pause before answering the last question in a news conference.

The conference was held with a large group of reporters the day before his Kentucky Wildcats faced the Kansas Jayhawks in an annual SEC-Big 12 matchup of the top college basketball powers.

A reporter asked Calipari a question that forced him to take a side.

Which basketball tradition is richer: Kansas or Kentucky?

He went back in time to illustrate the history Kansas carries with it into games like these. Calipari was an assistant for Kansas under coaches Ted Owens and Larry Brown from 1982 to 1985.

“We were in Allen Fieldhouse in the old locker room and they had, literally, a shower that was 50 years old, and I’m thinking Phog Allen showered in this shower,” Calipari said.

“So they had a good shower and then they had that old one. I always went in the old one. And, you know, from Wilt Chamberlain to you think of JoJo [White], all the guys that played there — I’m hoping [former Kentucky coach Joe B. Hall] was here today, I know I was trying to get those guys to come in too.”

File photo/KANSAN Bill Self, Larry Brown, Ted Owens and Roy Williams come together to honor Allen Fieldhouse’s 60th anniversary.

Owens, Calipari’s mentor, would join the team at practice after the news conference.

Since Owens cultivated a coaching mind that went on to accomplish everything, Calipari has operated a basketball mammoth in Lexington that didn’t begin with him and certainly won’t end either.

In Lexington, there is decidedly a more ‘basketball royalty’ feel to the program.

An image of former Wildcats Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist smiling on draft day springs off the wall behind Calipari outside Kentucky’s practice gym.

At Kansas, images of everyone from former Jayhawks Wilt Chamberlain to

Andrew Wiggins cover the gallery near the Kansas locker room, with one common theme: every player is pictured in a Kansas jersey.

Kansas subtly stratifies its program from the rest of the country.

The DeBruce Center makes the arena look more sleek, and perhaps Kansas is stepping it up, but Allen Fieldhouse is modest. The knowledge that Chamberlain, JoJo White or Paul Pierce once occupied that rectangle on the floor — even if it wasn’t that specific hardwood — is enough to count it among the venerated college basketball arenas.

Rupp Arena isn’t a cathedral. It’s a factory.

Davis, Julius Randle and

John Wall played there. Rick Pitino and Tubby Smith coached there. The arena is attached to a mall. A college basketball museum is attached, and this one doesn’t hold anything written by Dr. James Naismith.

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A college basketball museum is attached, and this one doesn’t hold anything written

by Dr. James Naismith.”

Kansas’ and Kentucky’s basketball traditions stem from a similar, coinciding history. When Adolph Rupp

took to Kentucky, it was after being a pupil of Kansas’ Phog Allen, who revolutionized basketball coaching.

It’s only fitting that the men who stand at the helm of these two programs now began at the same place: cutting their teeth as assistants at Kansas. Calipari coached under both Owens and Brown.

Bill Self came to Kansas shortly after Calipari left.

Self and Calipari’s origins may have been similar, but their paths to success were vastly different.

While Calipari’s fledgling head coaching career found him coaching in an Elite Eight and Final Four with UMass, Self’s career had him recording the first winning season in his three years as Oral Roberts coach. Self left Oral Roberts with an NIT Tournament first-round appearance as his biggest accomplishment.

Calipari’s Kentucky machine is unabashed and it’s also wildly successful.

After Calipari’s Memphis team fell to Kansas in the 2008 National Championship, Calipari hit back with a win over Kansas with Kentucky in the 2012 national title game. Self’s consistent success over 14 years with Kansas contrasts with Calipari’s explosive success: three Final Fours, an NCAA championship and an Elite Eight all in eight years with Kentucky.

Much like Self or any other successful college basketball coach, Calipari is a respected celebrity in Lexing-

ton. But that’s different, too.

Calipari hosts his own radio show called “Cal Cast,” where he most recently interviewed Drake. He doesn’t tweet at halftime like Nebraska coach Tim Miles, but who’d be surprised if he did?

The Kentucky basketball program wouldn’t mean this much without physical proof of it either.

The team built a $7 million dorm for basketball players in 2012 called “the Wildcat Coal Lodge.” Kansas’ residence hall, McCarthy Hall, cost more at $12 million, but it was built three years later. The Jayhawks’ last upgrade in the recruiting arms race likely won them Josh Jackson, who averages 15.5 points in an outstanding freshman season.

A lot has changed since these two programs were born.

More than 4,000 games have been won by Kansas and Kentucky combined. The internet wasn’t invented, let alone social media. And there sure weren’t lavish residences for basketball players when Phog Allen and Adolph Rupp were coaching.

But even as the modern college basketball landscape has grown into what it is today, the Kentucky and Kansas brands of basketball set themselves apart.