‘Poised’ Dajuan Harris keys Kansas in win over Duke at Champions Classic
New York TimesINDIANAPOLIS — Jalen Wilson was exhausted from an offense that was continuously running through him on Tuesday night at the Champions Classic. But somewhere in Indianapolis, Kansas coach Bill Self was probably telling anyone that would listen the man who secured this 69-64 win over seventh-ranked Duke was his fourth-year junior point guard Dajuan Harris. “When he’s out there,” Duke coach Jon Scheyer said, “they’re poised.” And in that 78-second stretch that flipped the script on what was looking like Scheyer’s night, Harris was the hero in the shadows. “You’re going to key the whole thing,” Self told his point guard that night at halftime against North Carolina. “They’re not gonna be able to run offense because of you.” GO DEEPER Watching the NCAA title game with Kansas coach Bill Self: 'We were pretty fortunate' This new iteration of Kansas, it appears, will be powered by a defense that has the potential to be the best Self’s had in years.
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