The UCF Knights lost a Big 12 basketball game in all-time fashion against the Kansas Jayhawks Sunday in Orlando.
Despite a strong start, the host Knights struggled to score points in the second half and lost 69-68 to the Cougars.
Dickinson, who labored through a knee bruise in last year's trip to UCF, opened the scoring and provided 18 of the Jayhawks' first 29 points. True freshman Flory Bidunga dominated in the second half, providing the night's major highlight with a block of Benny Williams at one end and a fastbreak dunk at the other.
J'Wan Roberts hit the go-ahead bucket with 1.1 seconds left in regulation, leading Houston to its 10th consecutive victory.
The Knights are coming off one of the worst losses in program history but have little time to wallow as they host Colorado on Wednesday.
Hunter Dickinson scored 21 of his 27 points in the first half and No. 7 Kansas posted the second-largest margin of victory in program history, beating UCF 99-48 in a Big 12 game.
The Kansas Jayhawks try to get back on track after a loss to West Virginia in the conference opener on Tuesday. Standing in their way is the team that might have pulled off the biggest upset last season, the UCF Knights. Kansas travels to Orlando for the second time in Big 12 play today.
The Kansas Jayhawks lost their first conference opener since the 1990s on New Year's Eve, and they take to the road to try and wash off the memory of that game. Unfortunately for them, the location is Orlando, where the Jayhawks suffered a huge upset in the first season that the UCF Knights were in the Big 12.
The Jayhawks forced eight turnovers in the first half alone. Kansas did an excellent job of swarming UCF’s players in the paint and held Knights star Keyshawn Hall to 11 points on 2-for-7 shooting.
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ORLANDO — For the second year in a row, UCF made history when hosting Kansas for its Big 12 men's basketball opener. Last January, the Knights scored their biggest upset in program history ...
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