NORMAN — Bill Self sauntered into the Lloyd Noble Center interview room a couple of weeks ago relatively pleased with his Kansas basketball team’s performance. The Jayhawks had defeated the Sooners by 14 points.
The score was 66-52. “It’s unbelievable,” Self said. “We hung 66 tonight and felt like we were really on fire. That’s how hard it is to score.”
Welcome to Big 12 basketball. We are 39 percent through the conference schedule, and points are at a premium.
In only three of the 35 Big 12 games have both teams reached 70. Twenty-eight times in those 35 games has a team failed to reach 60.