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KANSAS UNIVERSITY MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM GUARD ELIJAH JOHNSON, CENTER, WALKS into the locker room following the Jayhawks’ 72-66 loss — their third straight— to Oklahoma on Saturday at Noble Center in Norman, Okla. The Jayhawks hadn’t lost three straight games since February 2005. KU will look to get out of its funk against in-state rival Kansas State at 8 p.m. Monday at Allen Fieldhouse.
KU losing streak grows with loss to OU By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com
NORMAN, OKLA. — Kansas University’s men’s basketball losing streak stretched to three games Saturday as the Jayhawks dropped a 7266 decision to Oklahoma in Noble Center. The No. 5-ranked Jayhawks, who figure to fall
dramatically in this week’s AP poll, moved into a tie with Oklahoma State for second place in the Big 12 Conference at 7-3. First-place Kansas State (8-2) will travel to Allen Fieldhouse Monday for an 8 p.m. ESPN Big Monday game versus KU. Saturday’s loss, coupled with a home setback to
Oklahoma State on Feb. 2 and road defeat at TCU Wednesday, gave KU (19-4, 7-3) three straight defeats for the first time since losses to Texas Tech, Iowa State and Oklahoma from Feb. 14-21, 2005. KU last lost four in a row back in the 1988-89 season, when the Jayhawks were on probation and could not
play in the NCAA Tournament. The only good news of the day came when Withey blocked a second-half shot to tie Greg Ostertag for first place in blocked shots in KU history. Withey and Ostertag each have 258 blocks. Find much more on the game in Sports on page 1B and at KUSports.com.
The losing streak so far... Feb. 2 OSU 85, KU 80
Wednesday TCU 62, KU 55
Saturday OU 72, KU 66
Talented Cowboys squad ends KU’s 33-game home winning streak
KU scores 13 points in the first half and can’t recover against lowly TCU
Defense can’t stop hot-shooting Sooners as losing streak hits three games
om Carlson figures he must have taken over for old Billy Hayes about a year or so after John Lennon died. You’ll have to excuse Carlson if he doesn’t have an exact date for you. He’s not really a numbers man. He’s more a man of letters. Lots of them. Carlson has been a Lawrence mail carrier for 37 years, with about the last 30 years spent delivering the mail in West Hills and the other smaller neighborhoods just west of Kansas University’s campus. As for John Lennon, Carlson just remembers he was going to a Lennon concert on the day Billy Hayes was going to have a tumor removed. About a year or so after that, the route became available, which is saying something because Hayes had been the only mailman the neighborhood had known for at least three decades. In case you are trying to do that math, let me save you some time. That’s two mailmen for one neighborhood for a long time. Just how long is up for debate. One postal official told me he thought the neighborhood had only had two mailmen since World War II. Carlson thinks it’s more likely it has been two since the Korean War. But who knows. Carlson really isn’t a numbers man. At first glance, he’s not much of a spokenPlease see MAIL, page 9A
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