Men's Basketball vs. Kansas State

March 8, 2001

Kansas State Ends Nebraska's Season

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Travis Reynolds scored two baskets in the final 43 seconds Thursday night, including the game-winning jump shot from the lane with 1.5 seconds left, to lift Kansas State to a 62-58 win over Nebraska in the first round of the Big 12 Conference tournament.

Kansas State (11-17) avenged two regular-season losses to the Cornhuskers and improved to 7-0 against Nebraska in Big 12 and Big Eight tournament games.

Reynolds, who finished with 13 points and 10 rebounds for the 10th-seeded Wildcats, scored both of his clutch baskets after misses by Quentin Buchanan.

Nebraska (14-16) had the ball and a 58-56 lead with a minute remaining, but Cookie Belcher _ the Cornhuskers' leading scorer with 20 points _ fell to the floor and lost the ball to Buchanan off his hip.

Buchanan missed the resulting layup, but Reynolds rebounded and scored to tie the game at 58. After Reynolds' go-ahead basket, on a feed from Larry Reid, Buchanan caught the tipped inbounds pass, was fouled with .1 second left and iced the Wildcats' win with two free throws.

Reid led Kansas State with 21 points and Buchanan had 11. Kelvin Howell had a game-high 13 rebounds for the Wildcats.

Steffon Bradford and Brian Conklin scored 10 points each for the Cornhuskers, who shot just 36 percent (19-for-53) from the field.

Buchanan scored seven points and Reid had four in a 13-2 run, capped by Buchanan's 3-point play with 7:32 left in the first half that gave Kansas State a 22-14 lead. The Cornhuskers scored the last six points of the half, though, and Belcher's steal and layup with 39 seconds remaining put them up 30-28 at the break.

Conklin's 3-pointer with 4:30 left gave Nebraska its biggest lead of the second half at 56-51, but Kansas State forced a 56-all tie a little more than a minute later on Tony Atchison's 3-point play.

Source: University of Nebraska Sports Information