KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs have placed cornerback Phillip Gaines on injured reserve, possibly ending his time in Kansas City, and signed defensive tackle Stefan Charles ahead of their playoff game against Tennessee.

The Chiefs announced the moves Wednesday.

Gaines dislocated his elbow in last weekend’s game against Denver. The former third-round pick’s playing time had already decreased substantially this season. He is not under contract next season and may have played his final game for the Chiefs.

Charles has spent time with the Jaguars, Bills and Lions. He gives the Chiefs some depth with defensive tackles Jarvis Jenkins and Rakeem Nunez-Roches dealing with injuries.

Hutchinson High School head football and track coach Ryan Cornelsen announced to his football team Wednesday that he has taken a job with another school. Cornelsen will resign both as head football and track coach as well as a physical education instructor at the end of the current school year.

Cornelsen coached at HHS for four seasons, making it to the state title football game his first year. His boys’ track team won state championship in 2017.

HHS Athletic Director Kevin Armstrong will begin the search for Cornelsen’s successor immediately.

Cornelsen joined Hutchinson in 2014 after coaching at Hays High School for the previous five years. In December, Hays High School named Tony Crough the next Indian football coach.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kennan Allen scored 15 points, Norense Odiase and Justin Gray had 12 apiece, and No. 18 Texas Tech never trailed in beating No. 10 Kansas 85-73 on Tuesday night for the Red Raiders’ first win at Allen Fieldhouse in 18 tries.

The Red Raiders (13-1, 2-0 Big 12) built a 16-point lead midway through the first half, then found an answer every time the 3-point-dependent Jayhawks (11-3, 1-1) tried to mount a second-half charge.

Zach Smith had 11 points and Jarrett Culver contributed 10 for Texas Tech, which has won its first two Big 12 games for the first time in a decade. The Red Raiders also snapped a four-game skid in league road openers by winning their seventh straight game in the toughest of venues.

Devonte Graham led the Jayhawks with 27 points, but a lot of that came at the foul line, where he was 13 of 13. The senior guard struggled from the field, just like the rest of his team — they were 6 of 26 from beyond the arc and missed all 12 of their 3-point attempts in the second half.

Svi Mykhailiuk had 11 points for Kansas before fouling out. Udoka Azubuike also scored 11.

The loss snapped the Jayhawks’ 16-game win streak against Texas Tech, and gave coach Bill Self’s team two losses in the Phog in the same season for the first time since 2006-07.

Everything went Texas Tech’s way in the first half — every loose ball, rebound and extra possession — and coach Chris Beard’s team began to grow in confidence with each passing minute.

Two sequences in particular summed up the first 20 minutes.

The first came when the Red Raiders scored a bucket inside, stole Mykhailiuk’s inbounds pass and buried a 3-pointer for a five-point jolt that silenced the sellout crowd in a matter of seconds. The second came when Zhaire Smith scored with 13 seconds left before the break, and the Jayhawks flubbed the inbounds, forcing them to rush a shot at the other end before the buzzer sounded.

Self was so steamed by that play that he was poised to slam his fist into the scorer’s table. He thought better of it and took his angst to the locker room instead.

Even though Evans was struggling with his shot, the Red Raiders kept answering Kansas, even when Self reluctantly turned to a zone. They merely dumped it inside to Odiase and Tommy Hamilton IV for easy baskets that kept their advantage in double digits much of the second half.

The Jayhawks trimmed the lead to 67-61 with about 5 minutes left, but Malik Newman missed an ill-advised 3-pointer and Azubuike turned the ball over to squander a chance to get closer.

The teams began trading free throws down the stretch, and even though Graham was perfect from the stripe, the Red Raiders were good enough to keep the Jayhawks at arm’s length.

BIG PICTURE

Texas Tech has staked a claim through two games for Big 12 superiority. The Red Raiders routed then-No. 18 Baylor 77-53 in their conference opener last Friday, giving them a pair of wins over teams that were expected to contend for the title this season.

Kansas fell in love with the 3-pointer again with ugly results. The Jayhawks are among the best in the nation when their shot is falling, but their lack of interior depth gives them little to fall back on when the jumpers start bouncing off the iron.

UP NEXT

Texas Tech faces Kansas State on Saturday.

Kansas visits No. 16 TCU on Saturday night.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas State coach Bill Snyder will be back on the sideline next season.

The 78-year-old coach told his assistants during a short meeting Tuesday that he will return for his 27th season with the Wildcats, a person familiar with his decision told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because Snyder has not announced his plans.

Snyder said after a Cactus Bowl victory over UCLA last week that he was still mulling whether to return next season or retire for a second team. He stepped away briefly after the 2005 season.

Snyder was diagnosed with throat cancer last offseason, but hardly missed a practice and headed into the year with high expectations. A series of early losses scuttled Big 12 title hopes, and it took a run at the end of the year just to become eligible for a bowl game.

“I would just as soon have won all those ballgames in the middle of the season that we lost,” said Snyder, who is 210-110-1 since taking over the program in 1988. “But by the same token there’s some great value in that as well, for life, for the young people in our program.

“They recognize it,” he said. “They realize the value in life and I think it helps add to their value system, so to speak, and makes them better people, I think.”

Now, the Wildcats will return most of their starters from a team that ultimately went 8-5 and won its second straight bowl game. Alex Delton and Skylar Thompson, the two quarterbacks who took most of the snaps, will be back along with a veteran offensive line and several skill players.

Their defense should also be stout next season, too, even though standout cornerback and return man D.J. Reed has announced plans to skip his senior season for the NFL draft.

Snyder has a contract that rolls over each year, which means he can essentially choose when to walk away. And he has said the last several years that he makes that decision on a year-by-year basis, based primarily on his health but also the wishes of his family.

Now that his decision has been made, Snyder can go about replacing offensive coordinator Dana Dimel, who left for the top job at UTEP. Dimel had grown unpopular with many Kansas State fans eager for a fresh start, and there are several candidates on the staff that will get consideration, among them former Heisman Trophy candidate Collin Klein and wide receivers coach Andre Coleman.

Snyder can also begin putting the finishing touches on a recruiting class that was nearly filled during the fall, and begin preparing for a season that should again be full of expectations.

Along with its regular conference games, the Wildcats have a trio of home games highlighted by a visit from Mississippi State in early September that should provide a good early barometer.

“It’s pretty obvious we’d have to change course because we didn’t take advantage of the strong finish that we had last year,” Snyder said after the Cactus Bowl. “As you know we were not a real good football team earlier in the season. So whatever that approach was, we’re going to have to change it.

“The main thing is every year’s different. And the dynamics are different regardless of how many young guys you have back, et cetera. And it’s still about the same process. And you’ve heard that, so I won’t repeat all the things that we talk about, what our program’s about and what the process is about, but that is indeed — they understand it. It’s just a matter of doing it.”

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Even though John Elway chose continuity over change, major shifts are afoot for the Denver Broncos in the wake of the team’s most disappointing season in decades .

A day after deciding to retain head coach Vance Joseph, Elway said he’s expanding Gary Kubiak’s front office role to help him in free agency and the draft.

“I’m not sure what his title is going to be,” Elway said Tuesday. “I don’t even know what his title is now.”

Kubiak returned to the Broncos last summer in a scouting capacity seven months after stepping down as their head coach over health concerns. As a senior personnel adviser, Kubiak scouted college and pro players and provided input on Denver’s offense to Joseph, a protege and first-year head coach with defensive roots.

Elway said he considered firing his head coach following Denver’s 5-11 finish, which was the worst in his seven seasons as the Broncos’ chief football executive.

“It’s my responsibility to think about other options to see what would be best for the football team,” said Elway, who decided against embarking on a search for his fourth head coach in five years.

Elway said he shoulders some of the blame for Denver’s dismal season and aims to fix the roster deficiencies this offseason to give Joseph a better hand.

“Looking back I feel good about the fact that we can stay where we are,” Elway said. “With Vance making some changes on his staff … we’ll have a chance to get better.”

Joseph jettisoned six assistants on New Year’s Day, including longtime running backs coach Eric Studesville, receivers coach Tyke Tolbert, O-line coach Jeff Davidson and special teams coordinator Brock Olivo.

Joseph said he wanted to “change the culture so we could get back to pushing our players to be the best that they can be and getting our best players to play at their best all the time.”

Studesville, whose firing rankled running back C.J. Anderson and other Broncos, is interviewing for the Giants’ head coaching job Thursday.

Joseph said he’s also taking the interim tag off offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave , who was promoted from quarterbacks coach when Mike McCoy was fired midseason with the Broncos in the midst of an eight-game skid that was their longest in a half-century.

“I think how we played offensively after we hired Billy was my vision of offense: to run the football, control the games, play great defense and to minimize the errors by the quarterback,” Joseph said.

The Broncos were 5-0 when running the ball more than throwing it and 0-11 when they didn’t.

Although they ranked third in the league in defense, they allowed 29 touchdown throws. Only the Giants, with 32, allowed more.

The offense sputtered behind the turnstile trio of QBs Trevor Siemian, Brock Osweiler and Paxton Lynch, who combined for 19 TD throws, 22 interceptions and none of them topped Tim Tebow’s career passer rating of 75.3.

Asked if one of the three QBs under contract for next season — Siemian, Lynch and Chad Kelly — could be the starter next season, Elway said, “I don’t know,” avoiding an endorsement for any of them, all of whom are his draft picks.

“There is no doubt we have to get better at that position,” Elway said. “For us to have a chance to get better, we have to get better at that position.”

Even with a new QB, Elway acknowledged there might not be any quick fixes to return to the playoffs.

“That is our goal. That’s our mindset. Whether we can get there or not, I don’t want to raise the expectation level by saying, ‘Yes, automatically we’re going to get back there,'” Elway said.

“But, our goals have not changed for the Denver Broncos and what we want to do — and that’s to compete for world championships. Now, we have to build toward that process. That starts now. Hopefully, we can get back to where we’re very competitive.”

Joseph said he’ll change some things in his own approach in 2018.

“Early on in the season, I didn’t do a good job of pushing our coaches to make the proper changes that I thought could have helped us,” Joseph said. “I allowed guys to coach — that was my goal — but I wasn’t very good at coaching the coaches. I’ll get better at that. That was one of my shortcomings.

Elway said he, too, is open to blunt self-assessments.

“I don’t have all the answers,” Elway said when asked what he had learned in 2017. “I want to search and find all the answers because I want this team to be as good as it can possibly be. I’m fortunate in the fact that I played for a long time. I’ve been in this job now for seven years. So, therefore, I’m always trying to get better. As soon as I think I have it down, I’ll retire.”

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs put wide receiver De’Anthony Thomas and running back Akeem Hunt on injured reserve and added wide receiver Marcus Kemp and running back C.J. Spiller to the roster on Tuesday.

Kansas City is preparing for its AFC wild-card playoff game against Tennessee on Saturday.

Thomas broke his leg during the Chiefs’ victory in Denver on Sunday, while Hunt left the game with an ankle injury. Both have provided depth this season, especially on special teams.

Kemp has spent the season on the practice squad, while Spiller has been on and off the roster several times. The veteran running back’s presence is especially helpful with Charcandrick West, the primary backup to Kareem Hunt, who has been dealing with an illness.

West was inactive last week, but participated in Tuesday’s practice.

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Teddy Allen scored 22 points, Lamont West added 19 and sixth-ranked West Virginia beat pesky Kansas State 77-69 on Monday to push the Mountaineers’ winning streak to 13 games.

James Bolden and Daxter Miles Jr. added 10 points apiece for the Mountaineers (13-1, 2-0 Big 12), who have not lost since their season opener against Texas A&M in Germany.

West Virginia was clinging to a 65-61 lead down the stretch when Allen went to work, slicing down the lane and picking up fouls. He kept knocking down the free throws, scoring eight points in the closing minutes while helping the Mountaineers to their first win on New Year’s Day.

West Virginia had lost its previous four games on Jan. 1.

The Wildcats (11-3, 1-1) were led by Xavier Sneed with 20 points and Dean Wade with 17 points and 10 rebounds, but the duo couldn’t compensate for miserable performances by guards Barry Brown and Kamau Stokes.

Brown finished with 14 points, but he was just 5 of 13 from the field and committed seven of the Wildcats’ 15 turnovers. Stokes was 0 for 10 from the field and had six points.

The Mountaineers’ pressure defense caused several lengthy first-half droughts for Kansas State, and at one point West Virginia had built a 25-15 lead with just over three minutes to go.

It took little-used guard Brian Patrick, whose career-best night came against West Virginia last season, to get the Wildcats going. He entered just before the break and knocked down a 3-pointer, then fed Brown for another 3, closing the deficit to 31-26 heading to the locker room.

The Mountaineers kept the Wildcats at arm’s length most of the second half, relying on their tough defense, some ugly misfires and a few fortunate calls to maintain their advantage.

Kansas State trailed 65-55 with 5 1/2 minutes left when it made a final run. Wade got to the foul line, Brown followed him there and Sneed knocked down his sixth 3-pointer from right in front of his bench to claw the Wildcats within 65-61 at the under-4 media timeout.

Allen and the Mountaineers showed their poise down the stretch.

The freshman forward went to the foul line on three consecutive trips down the floor, knocking down six straight free throws. And when Wade threw the ball away and failed to convert on a free throw of his own, the Mountaineers built enough of a cushion to hold on the rest of the way.

BIG PICTURE

West Virginia is often undersized, but the Mountaineers had a 38-27 rebounding advantage and a 40-18 edge for points in the paint. That kind of production inside makes the frenetic, guard-oriented team of coach Bob Huggins a nightmare to defend.

Kansas State scorched the nets in a win at Iowa State to open Big 12 play. But throw out Sneed’s 3s and the Wildcats were 4 of 17 from beyond the arc and shot 35.7 percent from the field.

UP NEXT

West Virginia heads home to face No. 7 Oklahoma on Saturday night.

Kansas State travels to No. 18 Texas Tech on Saturday.

DENVER (AP) — Patrick Mahomes II made both his first NFL start and his first NFL relief appearance a success.

After handing off a two-touchdown lead midway through the fourth quarter in his spectacular NFL debut, the rookie first-round QB returned to rescue the Kansas City Chiefs , driving them 67 yards in 11 plays to beat Denver 27-24 on Harrison Butker’s 30-yard field goal as time expired.

“You always have to be ready,” Mahomes said. “All season long, it’s kind of been the same thing — you have to make sure you’re ready to go at any moment.”

The Chiefs (10-6) will go back to starting Alex Smith for their wild-card game Saturday against Tennessee, even more secure in the knowledge they have a clutch backup in Mahomes, the former Texas Tech standout they selected with the 10th overall pick in April.

“He played fantastic,” said Kareem Hunt, who secured the league’s rushing title by scurrying 35 yards for a touchdown on his only carry.

Smith and several other starters rested because Kansas City was locked into the No. 4 seed in the AFC playoffs, allowing coach Andy Reid to essentially use this regular season finale as a playoff bye.

“It was good to get a couple bumps and bruises healed up,” Reid said.

Von Miller said he was impressed by Mahomes, whom he expects to see plenty of in the coming years.

“He’s great,” Miller said. “He’s the quarterback of the future for the Chiefs.”

The Broncos (5-11) head into another offseason still searching for their quarterback of the future — and maybe their fourth coach in five years after Vance Joseph oversaw a team that lost eight times by double digits and oversaw an eight-game skid, their longest in 50 years.

Joseph, who inherited what was seemingly the best situation of the half dozen new head coaches in 2017 only to finish with the worst record of the bunch, will meet with GM John Elway on Monday to discuss his future.

“I want to be here,” Joseph said. “It’s a football team that’s close. We have to make some adjustments in some places, but our football team all year has not stopped working. That was fun to see, even tonight. It’s been a hard year but everyone kept fighting. I want to be here to fix it.”

Mahomes became the first quarterback drafted by the Chiefs to win a game for them since Todd Blackledge in 1987. He threw for 284 yards on 24-of-35 passing with no touchdowns and an interception.

Mahomes thought his day was won at 24-10 and Reid sent in Tyler Bray, who handed off late to fullback Anthony Sherman, who carried 14 times for 40 yards after coming into the game with six career carries in seven NFL seasons. Linebacker Zaire Anderson scooped up the loose ball and scored from 38 yards out to pull Denver to 24-17.

After the Chiefs punted, Lynch added a 6-yard TD pass to Demaryius Thomas on fourth down with 2:53 left, and Brandon McManus’ extra point tied it at 24.

Mahomes took off his jacket, put on his helmet and returned to the game with 2:45 left. He was promptly sacked by DeMarcus Walker but recovered nicely to drive K.C. to victory.

Mahomes made a good first impression , connecting with tight end Demetrius Harris for 51 yards on Kansas City’s opening drive. Then, he handed off to Hunt, who dashed for a 35-yard touchdown less than a minute into the game.

TOP RUSHER: Hunt secured the NFL rushing title over Todd Gurley II and Le’Veon Bell, both of whom were inactive Sunday. Hunt wasn’t planning on playing, either, but the Chiefs were thin at running back and dressed him.

“Honestly, it wasn’t on my radar because I wasn’t supposed to play,” said Hunt, who finished with 1,327 yards and joined the Bengals’ Paul Robinson, who led the AFL in rushing in 1968, as the only rookie rushing champs not selected in the first round of the common draft era — the last 50 years.

C.J. Anderson gained 61 yards to top 1,000 for the first time in his five-year with the Broncos.

“It was tough,” said Anderson, who carried 18 times.

LYNCH SO-SO: Broncos QB Paxton Lynch was 21 of 31 for 254 yards with two TDs, two interceptions and was sacked five times. He threw an interception late in the first half and was sacked three times in a five-snap span in the third quarter, losing the ball on one of them with linebacker Ramik Wilson scooping it up and scoring from 11 yards out.

It was 17 degrees at kickoff, the fifth-coldest home start in Broncos history and the coldest temperature for any of Lynch’s starts, in the pros or at Memphis.

INJURIES: Chiefs backup PR De’Anthony Thomas broke his right leg and CB Phillip Gaines was knocked out with an elbow injury just before halftime. Broncos S Will Parks (shoulder stinger) left in the fourth quarter.

UP NEXT: The Chiefs seek their first playoff win at Arrowhead Stadium in their history while the Broncos, who have lost five straight to K.C. for the first time since the early 1970s, head into another offseason where the only certainty is change.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — This was the type of debut Wichita State envisioned when it joined the American Athletic Conference.

Landry Shamet scored 16 points and the eighth-ranked Shockers opened conference play by beating UConn 72-62 in front of a packed arena, which has four national championship banners hanging from the rafters.

Rashard Kelly, Conner Frankamp and Austin Reaves each added 11 points for Wichita State (11-2, 1-0).

“It was a cool atmosphere to finally get into conference play and get that first win out of the way,” Shamet said. “Our first American win, on the road, a 10-point win at UConn. (It) looks good.”

Jalen Adams and Terry Larrier each had 18 points for the Huskies (7-6, 0-1), who have lost three in a row and four of their last five. Christian Vital chipped in with 17 points for UConn.

The Shockers led by four points at the half and the game was tied at 49 with just over 9 minutes left. But Wichita State took control with a 15-6 run and held on from there.

UConn eschewed its traditional man-to-man defense in favor of a zone that gave Wichita State some open 3-point looks.

The Shockers went 12 of 25 from behind the arc, while the Huskies were just 3 of 16 from 3-point range.

Wichita State held UConn to just 39 percent shooting from the field including 31 percent in the first half, when the Huskies had just one field goal over the last 7:45.

Reaves credited the scouting report.

“Whatever they did, we knew what was coming,” he said. “And we knew their tendencies, which way they liked to go and how they liked to shoot it.”

But a jumper by Larrier pulled the Huskies within 30-27 with 54 seconds left in the first half and they went into the break trailing just 33-29.

Coach Kevin Ollie said his young Huskies, with eight new players, are giving great effort, but have shown their inexperience down the stretch in big games. They trailed Michigan State by just a point earlier in this season before losing by 20.

“It’s definitely frustrating,” Vital said. “But the one thing I loved about my teammates it that they didn’t stop. They won by 10, but it didn’t feel like a 10-point loss to be honest with you. It was just another tough game that we came up short on.”

THE BIG PICTURE.

Wichita State: The Shockers have gone 17 straight games without being outrebounded. They outrebounded UConn 47-34, including 17-8 on the offensive end.

“Rashard Kelly was just a monster,” coach Gregg Marshall said. “He got 12, but I thought he had 15. He got his hands on so many.”

UConn: The Huskies fall to 0-3 against ranked opponents this season. UConn lost to Michigan State 77-57 last month in the PK80 tournament, and fell last week at Arizona, 73-58. The Huskies have won just twice against ranked teams over the past four seasons.

TOUGH TRAVEL

The Shockers didn’t get into Connecticut until late Friday night. A mechanical problem with their charter led to hours of delays, with the team heading back to campus for an unscheduled practice before finally getting onto a new airplane and departing. Since the start of the 2013-14 season, the Shockers are 44-6 on the road, with the best road winning percentage (88 percent) in Division I.

INJURIES:

UConn announced this week that starting point guard Alterique Gilbert has lost another season to a left shoulder injury. Gilbert played just three games last year before dislocating the shoulder and re-injured it last month in the loss to Michigan State.

Wichita State’s Markis McDuffie, who played in his second game since returning from a stress fracture in his left foot, played 16 minutes with four points and four rebounds.

UP NEXT

UConn: The Huskies travel to Oklahoma to play Tulsa on Wednesday.

Wichita State: The Shockers will play their American Athletic Conference home opener on Thursday against Houston.

Listen as the ‘Voice of the Chiefs’ Mitch Holthus recaps last week’s win over the Miami Dolphins and previews Sunday’s game at Denver.

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Kansas players saw Mohamed Bamba, Texas’ long-armed shot blocker, stationed near the basket and figured there were easier ways to score than to challenge him.

So the 11th-ranked Jayhawks shot 3-pointers, converting 17 of 35, and defeated Texas 92-86 on Friday night in the Big 12 opener for both teams. They made 11 3-pointers in the second half.

“We definitely weren’t getting any layups with him down there,” Kansas guard Devonte’ Graham said.

Graham had 23 points and eight assists, converting six 3-point baskets.

Lagerald Vick scored 21, making a career-best five 3s. Svi Myhailiuk added 20 points, hitting five 3-pointers.

Sophomore center Udoka Azubuike had 13 points and career-best 13 rebounds for Kansas (11-2, 1-0 Big 12).

Kansas has won 13 of its last 14 games against Texas, including eight in a row. The Jayhawks won a conference opener for the 27th straight season.

Bamba, a 6-foot-11 freshman with a 7-9 wingspan, led Texas (9-4, 0-1) with 22 points, 15 rebounds and eight blocks, all season bests.

“The guy could have blocked the sun,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “We shot the heck out of the ball. We needed to, though. I told them before the game we were going to shoot 35 3s.”

Dylan Osetkowski scored 15 of his 17 points in the second half for Texas. Matt Coleman scored 17 for Texas.

Kansas could not pull away despite making seven 3-point baskets in the first 9 minutes of the second half and leading by 13. They had another three-point play – a dunk and free throw – by Azubuike during that stretch.

“I just thought there was a few stretches in the game when we didn’t have the defensive energy that we needed to stop a team like Kansas during those runs,” Texas coach Shaka Smart said.

Osetkowski, after missing six of seven shots from the field in the first half, scored 10 points during the first 9 minutes of the second half to help Texas stay within reach. Coleman and Eric Davis Jr. also helped with 12 points apiece in the second half.

Graham made four-3-pointers in the first half, including one with a minute remaining to give Kansas a 37-34 lead.

Before Friday, Texas limited opponents to 28.2 percent on 3-pointers, 11th best in the country.

“They got a few open looks, they knocked down a couple with hands in their face,” Coleman said. “I give them a lot of credit, a lot of respect. It was almost like playing the (Golden State) Warriors.”

BIG PICTURE

Kansas: Self’s thin seven-man rotation could expand if freshman Silvio De Sousa has his eligibility approved by the NCAA. De Sousa, a 6-9 forward, arrived in Lawrence this week and practiced with the team after recently graduating from IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. Self told reporters the NCAA must vet “amateurism stuff,” as it routinely does with incoming athletes. Self hopes to have De Sousa available soon. Kansas is still awaiting resolution in the case of freshman forward Billy Preston, a five-star recruit who has yet to appear in a game while the school and the NCAA investigate the financial situation with a car he drove during the fall semester.

Texas: Guard Andrew Jones, the Longhorns’ leading scorer and by far their most accurate 3-point shooter, returned after missing four games with hairline fracture of the right wrist. Jones, who started the first eight games before his injury, served as a reserve scored five points in 9 minutes.

“He didn’t quite have his wind the way he did before he got hurt,” Smart said.

NOT THEIR BEST NIGHT, ACTUALLY

The 17 3-pointers Kansas made were not even a season high. The Jayhawks hit 19 of 36 against Texas Southern. They average 11 3-point baskets a game with 42.2 percent accuracy, 13th-best in the nation.

SMART T’d UP

Smart said he was surprised to receive a technical foul with 3:43 remaining. Kansas led by 12 at the time.

Asked if he received an explanation from the official, Smart said, “Just that I deserved it. I’m not allowed to comment on that stuff. I’m disappointed.”

UP NEXT

Kansas hosts No. 22 Texas Tech on Tuesday night. The Jayhawks have won 16 straight against Tech, the last one by a single point in Lubbock.

Texas is at Iowa State on Monday night. The Longhorns have lost six straight in Ames, last winning in 2010.