LAWRENCE
Four days after their first conference loss, the Kansas Jayhawks played a get-well game Saturday, playing host to perpetual cellar-dwelling TCU.
From a stylistic perspective, No. 1 Kansas’ 70-63 victory was far from a smooth performance. The Jayhawks never buried the overmatched Horned Frogs, and the afternoon was defined, in part, by two KU players — Wayne Selden and Jamari Traylor — taking elbows to the face and lying dazed on James Naismith Court.
But Saturday’s victory, which improved the Jayhawks to 15-2 and 4-1 in the Big 12, was useful in other ways, namely in allowing freshmen big men Cheick Diallo and Carlton Bragg to play significant minutes.