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Point Plankin on the absurd conclusion to the 2012 game
Posted on: July 1, 2020 at 09:50:27 CT
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kansas' 87-86 overtime win over Missouri on Feb. 25, 2012, in Lawrence, Kansas.
With 17:03 to play in the game, Missouri had a 55-36 lead. But the jayhawks rallied with an incredible run down the stretch. Taylor's two free throws cut Missouri's lead to three with six minutes to play, and Thomas Robinson's shot and free throw in the final seconds of regulation sent the rivalry matchup into overtime, when Taylor scored nine of his team's 12 points.
"That's an easy pick. My senior year, we played Missouri at home. It was a huge rivalry game. It was the last time we were going to have that home-and-home rivalry. We definitely wanted to win it. We were down like 19, 20 points. I don't know how we ended up getting into overtime, and then in overtime, taking control of the game.
"Missouri was a great team that year. They played four or five guards, and we'd actually lost to them at Missouri earlier in the season. In this game, we got down big but made every right play the last like 20 minutes of that game. It was ridiculous. I've watched it probably 10 different times. I can still remember the last four or five plays, how I was feeling, what was happening in the moment. It's the loudest I've ever heard Allen Fieldhouse. I don't know how we won. But when I saw the switch on [my teammates'] faces, I said, 'We got this.' It's not really much [Bill Self] could say. He said to just do what we do. It's about the next play. You're not going to make a 17-point shot. Next time, let's get the lead down to eight. We're just playing four-minute games. That's how he broke it down. The game was so loud you couldn't even hear him."
kansas' 87-86 overtime win over Missouri on Feb. 25, 2012, in Lawrence, Kansas.
With 17:03 to play in the game, Missouri had a 55-36 lead. But the jayhawks rallied with an incredible run down the stretch. Taylor's two free throws cut Missouri's lead to three with six minutes to play, and Thomas Robinson's shot and free throw in the final seconds of regulation sent the rivalry matchup into overtime, when Taylor scored nine of his team's 12 points.
"That's an easy pick. My senior year, we played Missouri at home. It was a huge rivalry game. It was the last time we were going to have that home-and-home rivalry. We definitely wanted to win it. We were down like 19, 20 points. I don't know how we ended up getting into overtime, and then in overtime, taking control of the game.
"Missouri was a great team that year. They played four or five guards, and we'd actually lost to them at Missouri earlier in the season. In this game, we got down big but made every right play the last like 20 minutes of that game. It was ridiculous. I've watched it probably 10 different times. I can still remember the last four or five plays, how I was feeling, what was happening in the moment. It's the loudest I've ever heard Allen Fieldhouse. I don't know how we won. But when I saw the switch on [my teammates'] faces, I said, 'We got this.' It's not really much [Bill Self] could say. He said to just do what we do. It's about the next play. You're not going to make a 17-point shot. Next time, let's get the lead down to eight. We're just playing four-minute games. That's how he broke it down. The game was so loud you couldn't even hear him."
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Point Plankin on the absurd conclusion to the 2012 game - FIJItiger MU - 7/1 09:50:27