After scoring a top of 22 points out of 9 shots, the Kansas state guardian dug McDaniel had interesting things to say after the defeat of the 80-65 Wildcats in Byu on Saturday evening.
“I have the impression that they were more ready than we,” said the 5-foot 11 inch McDaniel, who was transferred to K-State last April after two seasons in Michigan. “I feel like we needed this game … to humiliate ourselves. From the jump, it was just as if they wanted it more. »»
The task for Byu (17-8, 8-6) will now be to carry this same desire, this same desire, in the long-awaited confrontation of Tuesday with university basketball Blue Blood Kansas.
Cougars cannot afford to facilitate the gas pedal simply because the Jayhawks (17-8, 8-6) are not the Jayhawks of your grandfather. Heck, it’s not even the Jayhawks of your older brother.
Kansas falls a little in the world of university basketball, the most recent proof of it being a defeat of 74-67 against Utah (14-11, 6-8) about Saturday evening after Byu has Passed in front of K-State.
Byu, Kansas and Baylor are now tied for fifth place in the Big 12 ranking, while UTAH is tied in the 10th row with Virginia-Western, so the visit to Kansas on Tuesday (19 H, ESPN) is still very important but lost part of his chandelier.
Before the start of the season, when the Kansas was chosen to win the Big 12 and the cougars were chosen to finish ninth, it looked like a game to go around the calendar, especially given the fact that Byu surprised Ku 76-68 last year at the History Phog Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence.
One of the heroes on Saturday evening, the junior leader Dallin Hall, said that cougars will be “super excited”, however, because Kansas is still “a big team” from a “prestigious school”.
Hall, of course, delivered the dagger last year to upset the Jayhawks, a 3 -point steps on the outstretched arms of the Kansas, the 7 -foot hunter Dickinson.
Hall said that the team of coach Bill Self would be an angry and concentrated team, even before she learned that Kansas had lost against the Utes. Utah, a surprise team itself after being chosen to finish the last (16th) in the Big 12, will welcome the Kansas State on Monday while the states of the hive exchange adversaries as they did when the Two were members of the West and West Mountain Sports conferences.
“It’s just a great opportunity for us to go out and put our best foot forward. So obviously, we went home, took it last year. They are hungry this year, but we have a lot to prove, and we are currently playing a big basketball brand, so we are really excited for the opportunity, “said Hall.
“We are going to celebrate this evening and come back on Monday focused on Monday and ready to attack this team.”
By previously cooling the Kansas State, which had won six games in a row, Byu sparked its depth in the post and the prowess in the paint to compensate for a mediocre night from the 3 -point line.
The cougars were only 6 out of 23 of Deep, but went 21 out of 32 of the 2 -point beach to win. The team known for its shooting capacity becomes better and better inside, as 40 points suggest in the paint.
What coach Kevin Young calls his “3 head monster” by Keba Keita, Fouss Traore and Mihailo Boskovic in position five (in the center) combined for 22 points and 16 rebounds.
Keita blocked five shots and traore one.
“I thought that our three three men played very well in their respective roles,” said Young, who used the 6-foot boskovic for more than 15 minutes in the game, especially in the section, because K-State played a small ball and he wanted to match this speed on the perimeter.
“What I like about our team, the end of the second half, I go with Mihailo because they were doing a different diagram and (Keita) is there by applauding Mihailo,” said Young. “Really, it’s not normal. We all want to win, but sometimes it is difficult to have joy for someone else, so scream also to him. »»
It will be interesting to see how byu corresponds to the Dickinson of 7 feet 2 inches, which collected 12 points and seven rebounds in 29 minutes against UTAH. Zeke Mayo had 15 points and Dajuan Harris added 14.
Part of the reason why Byu was able to beat Virginia-Western Virginia and Kansas State in consecutive matches was that the cougars slowed down the best weapons of the two teams, Javon Smalls of WVU and Coleman Hawkins of KSU.
Cougars seemed to be more prepared than their counterparts, as McDaniel noted.
“Shoutout to our coach staff (for this),” said Young. “Our guys were able to execute their match plan.”
Young said he hadn’t planned to have 10 and 11 men’s rotations this year, but Byu has turned into this type of team because of so much depth, and also because of maturity .
So far, guys manage their reduced minutes with balance and class.
“I am there to train long enough to know that it is not normal to have a team that is committed to winning, everything you need,” said Young. “I am proud of our guys to be mature on this subject.”
Noted Hall, which recorded 24 minutes and has undoubtedly played its best Big 12 game since last year: “I think we have mastered the mentality of” Next Man Up “. … I think everyone does a great job to simply intensify and fulfill their role and live until the moment. »»
Cougars in the air
N ° 17 Kansas (17-8, 8-6) in Byu (17-8, 8-6)
Tuesday, 7 p.m.
At the Marriott Center
Provo, utah
TV: ESPN
Radio: byu Radio 107.9 FM / byuradio.org / byu Radio Application
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