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No. 9 Kansas hit yet another speed bump on Monday as its losing streak stretched to three games with a 75-69 road loss to No. 17 Baylor. The Jayhawks have now lost three in a row for just the fourth time under Hall of Fame coach Bill Self, shaking up a wide-open Big 12 that not long ago seemed to be KU’s for the taking.
Baylor was the preseason Big 12 favorite and closed as a 3.5-point favorite over KU, so the result can hardly be considered an upset. However, the Bears did their damage in impressive fashion over a top-10 opponent by leading for more than 38 minutes and holding off run after run from a feisty Jayhawks team that hung around until the end.
Kansas’ defense held Baylor to just 2 of 14 shooting from the 3-point line in the second half and kept the Bears from scoring a field goal for a stretch that spanned more than seven minutes into crunch time. But Baylor made free throws when it needed them late and made just enough defensive stops to scoop out a massive win.
The win pushed Kansas off the No. 1 seed line and to a projected No. 2 seed, according to CBS Sports Bracketology expert Jerry Palm, with Arizona benefiting the most and supplanting the Jayhawks as the new projected No. 1 seed. The move comes with Kansas falling to Kansas State, TCU and Baylor all within the last week.
CBS Sports will update this story with takeaways shortly.
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