Utah 59, at Kansas 71

LAWRENCE, Kan. (Interstat) — In a game defined by defensive dominance and one towering individual performance, the Kansas Jayhawks methodically dispatched the Utah Utes 71-59 in a men’s NCAA Division I basketball game Saturday at a sold-out Allen Fieldhouse. A crowd of 15,300 watched as Kansas, now 18-5 overall, used a stifling defensive effort and a historic afternoon from center Flory Bidunga to overcome a sluggish offensive start and pull away from a Utah team that fell to 9-14. The most critical phase of the contest was not a singular run, but a sustained defensive stranglehold applied by Kansas throughout… Read more...