AP News, January 5th, 2008
Darnell Jackson scored 25 points with nine rebounds and Darrell Arthur added 22 points in front of a surprisingly supportive road crowd on Saturday to lead No. 3 Kansas to an 85-60 victory over Boston College.
Kansas won its first 14 games for the sixth time in school history, and the Jayhawks remained one of six unbeaten teams in the nation with one game left before next week's Big 12 opener against Nebraska. Boston College (10-3) failed in its first game against a ranked opponent this season.
Rakim Sanders scored 21 and Tyrese Rice had 20 for the Eagles, who had the game tied at 22-all before giving up 33 of the next 41 points. BC went on a 10-2 run early in the second half to cut a 25-point deficit to 17, but couldn't get any closer than 14 points.
Kansas held a 39-24 edge in rebounding and outscored BC in the paint 54-26.
Kansas, whose first team was coached by James Naismith seven years after he invented the game in Springfield, Mass., made its first trip to Boston College and first visit to Massachusetts since 1999. The sold-out crowd of 8,606 included a large contingent of Jayhawks fans, who were able to increasingly drown out the home cheers as the game wore on and the BC supporters headed for the exits.
BC stayed close for about 12 minutes before Kansas went on a 25-7 run to finish out the first half. Jackson scored eight in the span, and Mario Chalmers' consecutive 3-pointers gave the Jayhawks their first double-digit lead of the game, 36-24 with 4:11 left.
BC then never got closer than 10. Kansas also scored eight of the first nine points of the second and went on an 8-0 run after an odd near-skirmish between Chalmers and Sanders that was quickly broken up by the referee.
