Playing shorthanded without junior center Udoka Azubuike, Kansas’ No. 5-ranked Jayhawks turned the ball over an unsightly 24 times in a 77-60 loss to unranked Iowa State on Saturday at Hilton Coliseum.
The total was just five off the school record of 29 turnovers committed against Colorado on Feb 15, 1992. Turnover records go back to 1988-89.
Azubuike — who hurt his right wrist at practice on Friday with X-rays negative — had played in KU’s last two games, against Eastern Michigan and Oklahoma after missing four straight contests because of a severely sprained right ankle.
Marial Shayok scored 24 points, Tyrese Haliburton 14 and Nick Weiler-Babb 12 for unranked Iowa State (12-2, 2-0), which is 2-0 in the Big 12 for the first time since the 2014-15 season.