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MANHATTAN, Kan. Harold Reynolds Mariners Jersey . -- Kansas State head coach Bruce Weber has remarked several times this season about sophomore Barry Browns commitment to staying in the gym this season.Wednesday nights performance against Green Bay gave Weber the chance to talk about Browns commitment once again.Brown scored 18 points on 7-of-11 shooting, Xavier Sneed added 14 points and Kansas State beat Green Bay 80-61 on Wednesday night.Hes been the most consistent and been in the gym the most, Weber said. I dont know if hell be in there tonight but usually hes in there every night and thats why hes making shots.Wesley Iwundu had 11 points and five assists and Carlbe Ervin II scored 10 for Kansas State (6-1). Dean Wade added eight points and eight rebounds.Turner Botz led Green Bay (4-3) with 11 points.Iwundu, Kamau Stokes and Sneed each hit a 3-pointer during a 13-2 run that put the Wildcats up 30-14 with 7:27 left in the half. The Phoenix trimmed its deficit to 37-29 at halftime, but Wade and Brown hit back-to-back 3s before a dunk by Iwundu to make it 45-29 fewer than two minutes into the second half and Kansas State led by double figures the rest of the way.Green Bay was 11-of-33 shooting, including 3 of 15 (20 percent) from 3-point range, and committed 11 turnovers in the first half.I think their defense had a lot to do with it, Green Bay coach Linc Darner said. We cannot match their length and size in practice. We are shooting over 6-foot-7 to 6-foot-9 guys. We do not have a lot of those guys in our practice and thats one area where weve struggled this season.Kansas State shot 57 percent from the field and never trailed.BIG PICTUREGreen Bay: The Phoenix had not faced a Big 12 opponent since they hosted Kansas State in 2002.Kansas State: With the win over Green Bay, Kansas State is 7-1 against opponents from the Horizon League.UP NEXTGreen Bay: Green Bay will face off with Toledo on Saturday as the second game of their four game road trip.Kansas State: On Saturday, the Wildcats travel to St. Louis to face off against the Saint Louis Billikens.STAT OF THE NIGHT: The Wildcats had 20 assists but committed 20 turnovers.FRESHMAN STANDOUT: Xavier Sneed rebounded from a poor performance against Maryland to rebound with a 14 point, three rebound effort against Green Bay on Wednesday night.LETDOWN: Green Bays Khalil Small struggled from the field early and often missing his first three shots of the game. He finished with just four points on 1 of 11 shooting. Juan Bernhardt Jersey . -- The St. Johns IceCaps weathered a wild first period with the help of goaltender Jussi Olkinuora, before finding offensive inroads in the second. Donnie Walton Jersey . Fellow centre Pavel Datsyuk remains out because of a concussion. Zetterberg has 11 goals and 19 assists for a team-high 30 points, and Datsyuk has a team-high 12 goals and 11 assists. https://www.cheapmariners.com/735k-kyle-lewis-jersey-mariners.html . Those lessons were more than enough to overwhelm the Utah Jazz. Lou Williams scored 25 points and the Hawks continued their offensive upswing as they rolled to an easy 118-85 victory over the Jazz on Friday night, winning their third straight and for the fourth time in five games. Its hard to believe that Keaton Jennings day started in panic.So calm did he look in compiling a century in his first Test innings - the first England opener to do so since Andrew Strauss in 2004 (Alastair Cooks came in the second innings of his debut in 2006) - that it was hard to imagine him waking at 5am, fearing he had missed the bus to the ground and throwing his kit together in a rush.For most of the rest of the day he looked supremely assured and unruffled.Has anyone ever brought up a century on Test debut before with a reverse sweep? It seems unlikely.But it was a mark of Jennings confidence that, throughout the second half of his innings, he played the shot when the opportunity arose. He seemed to be waiting for the delivery on off stump and, combined with his no-nonsense treatment of the short ball and his long stride enabling him to put away the full one, he produced the most assured England debut for… almost a month.For a team that couldnt find an opening partner for Alastair Cook for years, England suddenly have an embarrassment of them. That old cliché about London buses springs to mind.It is hardly a problem. There seems no reason why one of the top three - presumably Jennings or Haseeb Hameed - could not bat at No. 3 and allow Joe Root to move back to No. 4. With Jonny Bairstow at No. 5 - his position for the foreseeable future - and Ben Stokes at No. 6, an England line-up searching for solidity for some time might be taking shape.These are early days, of course. Jonathan Trott, in 2009, was the last England player to make a century on Test debut and we now know that, under that apparently calm exterior, the anxiety was building. The relentlessness of modern international cricket is part of the challenge and that is all to come for Jennings. Perhaps the fact that he and Hameed are nowhere near selection for the limited-overs team may turn out to be a blessing.This innings was a reminder, too, of the absurdly small margins that separate success and failure. Had Jennings edged his ninth delivery - a nervous push away from his body as he sought to get off the mark - or been caught off his tenth - a fence off the back foot that lobbed just over gully - he would have been dismissed for 0 and under pressure immediately. He was always going to play the next Test, in Chennai, but unless he had scored heavily in one of the four innings available to him, it was hard to see how he would win another opportunity in the near future. This was potentially a life-changing opportunity and he seized it.Until a few months ago, Jennings looked a solid but limited player. He was, in essence, an accumulator. And theres nothing wrong with that, even if in modern cricket - and especially in this England side - it is an unfashionable quality.He owes his greater range of stroke, and his confidence to play them, in part to the opportunities he has won in Durhams T20 side. An unlikely team member until recently - even at the start of the 2016 season, he was in their side as a bowler and came in to bat at No. 9; his first 13 T20 games brought him a combined total of two runs - he was given the freedom and encouragement to expand his range. After all, theres no point playing like a traditional opener if there are only a few deliveries left in the innings. While the results were not immediately obvious - the 88 he scored in the T20 Blast final was his first half-century in the format - it pushed him out of his comfort zone, taught him new tricks and showed him that he could pull them off.The benefits were especially obvious in the second session. With India bowling a tighter line and length, Jennings run-scoring opportunities might have dried up. Indeed, having reached 64 from 107 deliveries, it took him another 34 to reach 70. The constrictors seemed to be tightening around his neck.But then, seeing the gap in the field and the line of the ball from Jayant Yadav, he unleashed his first reverse sweep - and he does sweep rather than just make contact - to send the ball speeding to the third-man boundary. Gerson Bautista Mariners Jersey. . The effects were immediate with Yadav, perhaps just a little disconcerted, over-pitching next ball and Jennings taking the opportunity to drive through the covers for four more. The shackles were, if not released, at least relaxed. Virat Kohli and his bowlers suddenly had to think harder about their fields and their lines of attack. Three times in that middle session, Jennings picked up boundaries with the reverse sweep; thats 12 of the 38 runs he mustered in the 31 overs.It was noticeable he took fewer liberties against Ravi Ashwin. Ashwins mastery of flight and variations are causing England huge problems in this series but, although Jennings did not hit him for a single boundary, he was able to eke out 23 from 66 balls against him. Once or twice he skipped down the pitch and then cut the resulting shorter ball and several times he swept, but generally he played him with a patience and composure that bodes well for the future.The reverse sweep has been a shot over the last six to eight months that, touch wood, Ive played fairly successfully, Jennings said later. I suppose at that moment [on 96] I looked at the scoreboard and thought Well, would I rather get out caught first slip defending or at first slip trying to get to a hundred?So I bit the bullet and went for it. Thankfully it hit the middle of the bat and went for four.The foundations of Jennings game had been built long before his T20 experiences with Durham, though. Back in those net sessions with his dad, Ray. Back when he was learning the compact technique that helped him leave well, after those couple of early indiscretions, yet still put away the short or over-pitched ball without fuss or extravagance. Back when he was developing that stance, far back in the crease, but still ensuring he was quick to come forward. He made it look simple and he made it look as if little could go wrong with his technique. And, most of all, he made it look as if he had been with this squad for months, not a few days. Those are all encouraging signs.Without those foundations, the decorative elements - the sweeps, in particular - wouldnt have meant a thing. But the combination… this is a man who can fit in very well with this England set-up.Where does all this leave the game? The England management feel that a score of 350 - somewhere around 30 better than the first-innings average here compared with the most recent five Tests - might prove highly competitive. They also feel that this may be the pitch that results in the shortest match of the series.The India camp takes a different few. They argue that there was just a little damp in the surface and that is what caused the turn. As a result, they suggested batting on the second and third days may be easier and it is true that, in those last five Tests, the second-innings scores have tended to be around 50 runs higher than the first innings. The third and fourth innings scores drop sharply, however, so a first-innings lead is likely to prove defining.That renders the last hour or so of the first day - when Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes weathered some agonisingly close moments - all the more crucial. The game could well have drifted away from England in that time but both men had the presence of mind to know that, for all the talk about positivity - talk they embrace and embody as much as any of their team-mates - this was a time to graft and fight, not attack and plunder. That they did it so well suggests they are learning the balance between attack and defence required and keeps England in with a chance in this match. ' ' '