Nov 11, 2025, 10:45 PM ET<\/p>\n
No. 25 Kansas<\/a> bounced back from last week’s loss to North Carolina<\/a> with a 77-46<\/a> rout of visiting Texas A&M-Corpus Christi<\/a> on Tuesday night, doing so without star freshman Darryn Peterson<\/a>, who was a surprise scratch.<\/p>\n Jayhawks coach Bill Self said after the game that Peterson, the nation’s No. 1 recruit, didn’t play because of a tight hamstring.<\/p>\n “We didn’t anticipate this but at the end of the practice [this morning], he said it was tight. So I told him no reason to go,” Self told reporters in Lawrence.<\/p>\n Self called the move precautionary.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n “I look forward to seeing him practice Thursday, at least we think that’s the case,” the coach said.<\/p>\n Kansas plays Princeton<\/a> on Saturday, then has a stretch of high-profile games against the likes of No. 4 Duke<\/a>, Notre Dame<\/a>, Syracuse<\/a>, No. 3 UConn<\/a> and Missouri<\/a> before Big 12 play begins.<\/p>\n Kohl Rosario<\/a> scored 16 points to help make up for the absence of Peterson. Flory Bidunga<\/a> added 12 points while Bryson Tiller<\/a> and Tre White<\/a> had 11 apiece for the Jayhawks (2-1), who held the Islanders (1-3) to 32% shooting while winning their 22nd consecutive nonconference home game.<\/p>\n Peterson scored 21 points in his debut against Green Bay<\/a> and 22 against North Carolina<\/a>. He also has been dealing with cramping issues early in the season.<\/p>\n “It’s frustrating for him, I’m sure,” Self said. “And it’s frustrating as a coach, too, because we don’t know from day to day how he’s going to be.<\/p>\n “It’s a long season, guys. And he’s too valuable to put out there and create a situation out of something that shouldn’t be a situation.”<\/p>\n Kansas was sloppy and sluggish without Peterson in the lineup early Tuesday night, but Rosario eventually lifted the team from its malaise. He threw down a series of alley-oop dunks, then began knocking down 3-pointers, helping the Jayhawks to pull away.<\/p>\n They led 38-18 at the break and used a 14-0 second-half run to bury a program that was in the NCAA tournament two years ago.<\/p>\n Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 11, 2025, 10:45 PM ET No. 25 Kansas bounced back from last week’s loss to North Carolina…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-46022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}