{"id":500619,"date":"2026-02-24T08:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/500619\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T08:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:49:07","slug":"kansas-rebounds-to-stun-houston-with-third-straight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/500619\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas rebounds to stun Houston with third straight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Tre White<\/a> scored a season-high 23 points, and No. 14 Kansas<\/a> bounced back from a surprising defeat with a 69-56 victory<\/a> over No. 5 Houston<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Freshman star Darryn Peterson<\/a> added 14 points on 5-of-14 shooting in 30 minutes for the Jayhawks (21-7, 11-4 Big 12), who fell six spots in this week’s AP Top 25 poll after an 84-68 loss at home Saturday to unranked Cincinnati.<\/p>\n

Bryson Tiller<\/a> had 11 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks for Kansas, which handed the scuffling Cougars (23-5, 11-4) their third consecutive defeat — all against top-15 opponents. Melvin Council Jr<\/a>. added 11 points, six rebounds and four assists.<\/p>\n

Kingston Flemings<\/a> scored 16 on 6-of-18 shooting for Houston, which hadn’t dropped three straight games since January 2017. The Cougars shot 32% from the field, including 5 of 24 (21%) from 3-point territory.<\/p>\n

Kansas hasn’t lost consecutive home games since the 1988-89 season, Roy Williams’ first as coach. The Jayhawks are 52-1 on ESPN’s Big Monday in Allen Fieldhouse, including 41-0 under coach Bill Self. Two weeks ago, they took down top-ranked Arizona at The Phog.<\/p>\n

Kansas used a 12-0 run early in the second half to turn a two-point lead into a 49-35 advantage at the under-12 timeout. The margin stretched to 20 before Houston went on a 7-0 spurt, but the Cougars never got closer than 10 the rest of the way.<\/p>\n

The Jayhawks missed nine of their first 10 shots, going 8:28 without a field goal. But they closed the first half with an 11-0 run to take a 31-27 lead into the break.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAWRENCE, Kan. — Tre White scored a season-high 23 points, and No. 14 Kansas bounced back from a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-500619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}