LAWRENCE – Wichita State led by as many as six in a game with six lead changes but came up just short in the fourth quarter as the Jayhawks claimed a 70-60 victory Thursday evening in Allen Fieldhouse.
 
In head coach Terry Nooner's return to Allen Fieldhouse after playing and coaching for the Jayhawks, his Shockers held Kansas to its second lowest field goal percentage of the season (.349).
 
Junior Princess Anderson led Wichita State in scoring for the second-consecutive game with 16 points, and senior Taylor Jameson hit three three pointers for the third time this season on her way to 13 points.
 
Wichita State out-rebounded the Jayhawks 42-37 as senior Ella Anciaux led the Shockers with a season-high nine boards. Redshirt-junior Jayla Murray scored nine points and grabbed seven rebounds, and senior Aicha Ndour scored eight points and recorded five rebounds.
 
Both teams experienced foul trouble with two Shockers (Ndour and Bre'Yon White) and one Jayhawk (Laia Conesa) fouling out in the fourth quarter.
 
S'Mya Nichols, who averaged 21.4 points per game coming into this game, picked up her fourth foul less than a minute into the third quarter after scoring 13 of KU's 33 first-half points and didn't re-enter the game until halfway through the fourth quarter. Nichols still put up a game-high 19 points for the Jayhawks in her 19 minutes.
 
Free throw shooting plagued the Shockers again as they shot just 12-for-23 from the line, and Kansas scored 28 points off 21 Wichita State turnovers.
 
The Jayhawks took a four-point in the first quarter, but the Shockers came out swinging in the second as Jameson hit back-to-back-to-back threes to score the first nine points of the period to give Wichita State a five-point advantage.
 
Anderson and Jameson combined for 16 of the Shockers' 19 second quarter points, but the Jayhawks were able to tie it up at 33-33 going into halftime, courtesy of a second-chance layup by Conesa as time expired.
 
Wichita State out-scored the Jayhawks 16-13 in the third quarter to claim a three-point lead going into the final quarter, but the Shockers shot just 3-for-10 from the field and 0-for-5 from three and committed 10 fouls as Kansas capitalized at the free throw line, shooting 11-for-15 on its way to 24 fourth quarter points.
 
Wichita State fell to 3-6, and the Jayhawks improved to 8-1. The Shockers return home to face undefeated Western Kentucky on Sunday, Dec. 8.