Jayhawks Sweep to 20th Straight Home Win

Darrell Arthur scored nine points in a second-half surge that carried No. 4 Kansas past Missouri 90-71 Monday night, giving the Jayhawks their 20th straight home victory and a season sweep of their archrivals.

Brandon Rush had scored 19 points for the Jayhawks (22-1, 7-1 Big 12), going 7-for-13 from the field.

Jason Horton and Darryl Butterfield entered the game midway through the first half, giving Missouri (13-10, 3-5) its full complement of players, except for injured Stefon Hannah, since a fight outside a Columbia, Mo., night club in the early morning hours of Jan. 27.

Hannah, who had 23 points and six assists in Missouri's six-point loss to Kansas on Jan. 19, broke his jaw in the altercation and four players were suspended indefinitely. Leo Lyons and Marshall Brown were reinstated for Saturday's 77-74 victory over then-No. 22 Kansas State.

But Butterfield and Horton did not return until about nine minutes remained in the first half of Kansas' ninth straight home win over the Tigers.

By then, the Jayhawks already had a 27-19 lead and were in the middle of a 13-6 run that Rush capped with a 3-pointer that made it 36-23.

Keon Lawrence played 36 minutes and had 25 points for Missouri. DeMarre Carroll, J.T. Tiller and Lyons all had 13.

Sasha Kaun had five points in the early run as the Jayhawks rolled into halftime with a 45-33 lead en route to their 30th victory in their last 31 regular-season games.

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