Kansas’ Flory Bidunga Flashes Ceiling In Dunking Clinic Vs Baylor

Flory Bidunga whitethorn not beryllium tin of scoring extracurricular of nan paint, but he is often arsenic bully arsenic it gets wrong 5 feet of nan basket. He showed precisely why during Kansas' 80-62 triumph complete Baylor successful Allen Fieldhouse connected Friday evening.

The 6-foot-9 large man was astir flawless from nan field, shooting 11-of-14 for a 23-point outing, tying his second-highest constituent full of nan season. He besides added 11 rebounds (two offensive) to headdress disconnected a double-double, and swatted distant 5 shots for his 2nd five-block capacity of nan year.

Following a 20-point first half from Darryn Peterson, Coach Self needed personification to measurement up successful his spot for nan last 20 minutes, and Bidunga did conscionable that. He poured successful 13 of his points successful nan 2nd half and sparked a barrage of dunks that brought Allen Fieldhouse to its feet respective times.

Nine of his 11 made section goals were dunks, 3 of which came connected alley-oops. Those kinds of power plays are precisely what nan Phog needs to get nan crowd riled up.

His 23 points, 11 rebounds, 5 blocks, and 2 steals made him only nan 2nd subordinate successful Division I hoops to grounds those numbers successful a azygous crippled this season, according to CBB Analytics connected X.

The container people tells nan communicative of Bidunga's monster night, but he had not been playing astatine this level successful caller games. Across his erstwhile 4 contests, he averaged conscionable 10.5 points and 7.8 rebounds.

There had been aggregate instances wherever he and chap starting large man Bryson Tiller were beaten connected nan glass, raising interest astir nan Jayhawks' rebounding. However, Bidunga went aft each loose shot connected Friday and secured rebounds pinch 2 hands for illustration a existent large man.

More importantly, Bidunga proved that he tin still beryllium an violative unit pinch Peterson connected nan court. He had lacked aggression astir nan basket successful immoderate of nan early games they played together, but now that nan prima freshman is nary longer missing games, Bidunga has learned really to play wrong nan offense.