Tech upsets No. 6 KU

LUBBOCK -- Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self did not expect his team's eight-game winning streak to continue indefinitely.

"First of all, we were not going to go 18-0 in our league. We were probably not going to go 17-1. I'd like to think we would, but that's not the type of league that we play in," Self said after No. 25-ranked Texas Tech's 75-67 victory over No. 6 KU on Saturday afternoon at United Supermarkets Arena in Lubbock.

The Red Raiders (11-3), like KU 1-1 in Big 12 play, handed the Jayhawks (12-2) their first defeat since the day after Thanksgiving when Dayton clipped the Jayhawks, 74-73, in Florida.

"Maybe Baylor is good enough to do that," Self said of the No. 1-ranked Bears (15-0, 3-0) perhaps winning all their conference contests. "We are a team that has to grind it out away from home and we just didn't do that.

"This was the first real road game we played. Even though St. John's was on the road (95-75 KU win on Dec. 3), even though Oklahoma State was on the road (74-63 KU win on Tuesday), this was the first game I felt like it felt like a road game. I don't think the crowd had anything to do with our performance," Self noted of KU's play before 14,320 Tech fans, "but what they didn't understand is how turned up the other team would be when it's the biggest game to date scheduled so far this year and those sorts of things."

Baylor currently tops the Big 12 Conference standings at 3-0, followed by Oklahoma and Texas (2-1), KU, West Virginia, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State (1-1), Iowa State (1-2), TCU (0-1) and Kansas State (0-3).

Baylor already has won two road games while KU is 1-1 on the road.

"They were coming off a disappointing loss," Self said of Tech, which lost to Iowa State, 51-47, on Wednesday in Ames, Iowa. "and how coaches can use things as motivation. I don't think we respected that. I think we thought we could show up and think we'd play hard and that would be good enough. It's not good enough," Self added.

Self didn't buy the notion that the Jayhawks may have looked past Tech because the team's top two scorers, Terrence Shannon and Kevin McCullar, were not available Saturday against KU because of injuries.

"We didn't know they weren't playing until right before tipoff. That didn't have anything to do with it," Self said.