slides: 5 Takeaways From Holy Cross’ 92-59 Loss to #2 Kansas

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Joe Calabro, GoLocalWorcester Sports Team

The Holy Cross Crusaders (3-6) fell 92-59 to (7-1) #2 Kansas on Wednesday night at Allen Field house in Kansas. Holy Cross has now dropped three straight games.

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Holy Cross trailed 50-33 at the half but came out in the second half on fire. Holy Cross started the half on a 13-2 run over the first four minutes to cut Kansas' lead to just six points, 52-46.

However, the Jayhawks came back with a 17-1 run spanning over the next seven minutes to take control of the game.

The Crusaders would get no closer than 18 points in the final ten minutes.

The Leaders

Karl Charles led Holy Cross with 12 points, going 8 of 10 from the free throws. Charles also recorded four steals in the game.

Malachi Alexander followed up with 11 points for the Crusaders.

Next up

Holy Cross returns to action on Saturday, December 12th when they travel to Hartford, Connecticut to take on the University of Hartford. Tip off is set for 7 p.m.

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Getting to the Line

One of the positive things coming out of this game for Holy Cross is that they got to the free throw line.

The Crusaders go to the free throw line 23 times and knocked down 19 free throws. The Crusaders were led by Karl Charles who got to the line 10 times and made 12 free throws.

Kansas only got to the line 12 times and made all 12 free throws.

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Malachi Alexander

Malachi Alexander was the second leading scorer for the Crusaders, pouring in 11 points on 3 of 6 shooting from the field, including 2 of 5 from three-point range.

Alexander grabbed two rebounds and had two steals.