Jayhawk Central

I'll be at this game and rooting hard, but I don't have much confidence in the Hawks coming away with a win in Stillwater. OSU is playing very well right now, and for KU to get this road win they will have to bring their best game offensively. An inefficient offensive performance won't work. KU looked good against Texas but the game should have been over at half time. Way too many missed lay ups. Against a good team like OSU if you don't put them away when you have a chance it will bite you.

Marcus Smart is going to get his. There is no one on KU's team that can stop him, but stopping Brown and Nash will determine the outcome of the game I believe.

I'm way more worried about defense and defensive rebounding than I am about offense. Offense may be the problem, but it's a problem every time we play, and yet we find a way to win most nights. What I don't know is how we slow Smart and how we keep any of them off the glass on their missed shots. The reason we lost to them the first time was because after we climbed back in the game, and even took the lead, we couldn't manage to collect the defensive rebounds when we had to.

You'd think so, but Matt and I talked at the beginning of the year about whether we'd miss TRob more for his scoring or his rebounding, and I would honestly say his rebounding is more sorely missed than is his scoring at this point (and has been for most of the season).