{"id":226772,"date":"2026-01-08T06:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/226772\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T06:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:33:10","slug":"no-1-arizona-remains-unbeaten-with-101-76-win-over-kansas-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/226772\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 1 Arizona remains unbeaten with 101-76 win over Kansas State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tStory Links&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n   &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TCU.png\" alt=\"TCU\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at TCU<\/p>\n<p>1\/10\/2026 | 2:00 PM MST<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        ESPN  &#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        Arizona Sports Enterprises (AM1290)&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Jan. 10 (Sat) \/ 2:00 PM MST&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TCU.png\" alt=\"TCU\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0TCU&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/opponent-history\/tcu\/143\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/brayden-burries\/18562\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18562\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden Burries<\/a> scored 28 points, <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/motiejus-krivas\/18532\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18532\" target=\"_blank\">Motiejus Krivas<\/a> added a career-high 25 and No. 1 Arizona remained unbeaten with a 101-76 win over Kansas State on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona (15-0, 2-0 Big 12) is off to its best start since winning the first 21 games of the 2013-14 season. Arizona won by at least 18 points for the 10th consecutive game, matching a mark Michigan had earlier this season that tied for the longest such run since 2003-04.<\/p>\n<p>Burries had his fifth 20-point game and matched his career high by going 12 for 16 from the field while adding nine rebounds. Krivas was 7 of 10, making 11 of 13 free throws, and had 12 rebounds for his third double-double of the season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/koa-peat\/18561\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18561\" target=\"_blank\">Koa Peat<\/a> had 15 points and 10 rebounds, his third double-double as well, and <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/tobe-awaka\/18525\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18525\" target=\"_blank\">Tobe Awaka<\/a> added nine and 11 as Arizona outrebounded Kansas State 55-32. Arizona shot 49.3% from the field but was just 3 of 16 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas State (9-6, 0-2) went 8 for 36 from deep and shot 33.8% overall. PJ Haggerty led the way with 19 points on 8-of-20 shooting, while Nate Johnson added 15 and Dorin Buca 12.<\/p>\n<p>Down 15 at the half, Kansas State pulled within 58-49 with 16:09 left on a 3-pointer by Johnson. Arizona responded with a 6-0 run and kept the margin at least 12 the rest of the way. Back-to-back dunks by Burries and Peat and a corner 3-pointer by <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonawildcats.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/jaden-bradley\/18526\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18526\" target=\"_blank\">Jaden Bradley<\/a> keyed a 13-0 run to put Arizona ahead 92-65 with 3:31 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona built a 10-point lead less than six minutes into the game and upped it to 20 with 2:52 left in the first half. Burries had 16 before halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona plays at TCU on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at TCU 1\/10\/2026 | 2:00&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-226772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}