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Darlington race gives Chris Buescher a chance to put Kansas finish behind him
DARLINGTON, S.C. — Being a part of the closest finish in NASCAR history means little to Chris Buescher.
He’s been focused on how he lost the lead and then the race by .001 seconds to Kyle Larson last weekend at Kansas Speedway.
Buescher admits he’s watched the end of the race and “replayed it in my head no less than 100 times.”
Kyle Larson flew to Paris to see Taylor Swift perform ahead of Darlington weekend.
Buescher, who starts a season-best third in Sunday’s Cup race at Darlington Raceway, says he has a list of things he would do different.
“Ultimately, the way we see it is you need to be in those positions to know what you want to do better next time,” Buescher said. “Someone told me, not about this weekend, but a long time ago that you’ve got to lose some to win some”.
One of the key questions about that overtime lap is why did Buescher take the middle lane entering Turn 3 instead of going high?
“We were better down low on restarts on four tires,” Buescher told NBC Sports. “That was something that I realized now on two might not have been strong enough to make that work. Obviously weren’t. Almost.
“It felt like we could really make up good ground for about three laps on the restart. Next part of that is if you go run the top, (Larson) had a run off of (Turn) 2. If we go run the top, we’re going to get either slid in front of or you’re going get slid into. You jus watch these races play out enough to know that you put yourself in a very vulnerable position as well.
“I thought with us being good on the bottom would be good enough to go down there. I was just trying to cover the bottom to make sure we had that. In doing that, (it) probably made it to where … I ended up missing the bottom. So then I ended up at the top, it’s not really where we wanted to be.”
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Larson said Saturday that he was planning to go to the outside lane in Turn 3.
“I honestly thought that he would just run low and fast; kind of run the shorter distance,” Larson said of Buescher. “So, when he kind of ran the middle, I was like, ‘Oh yeah, wow, here we go.’ But it wasn’t until l got exited off of the corner to the straightaway that I thought we still had a shot here.”
Austin Dillon and Tyler Reddick made contact on the last lap at Kansas, causing Dillon to spin through the infield grass.
While Buescher has learned more about NASCAR’s high-speed camera that is pointed at the finish line and why the transponders are not used to determine the finish of a stage or race, he looks at what his team accomplished last weekend — “the most competitive mile-and-a-half that we’ve had.
“That was a better weekend than we had at Michigan (last year) when we won. I take that as the highlight of how it all went down and it kind of gets you through some of the bitterness of it as well. What we’re talking about it is how do we make that our baseline for mile-and-a-halves and see what we’re able to transfer here to Darlington.”
Hendrick Motorsports swept last season’s Cup races at Darlington.
This weekend has started well for RFK Racing. Brad Keselowski qualified second on Saturday and Buescher right behind him. That was the first time this season Keselowski had advanced to the final round of qualifying.
While both RFK Racing teams have are winless this season, they’ve combined to finish runner-up in four of the last nine races. Buescher has been second at Phoenix and Kansas. Keselowski has been second at Texas and Talladega.
“Success is always going to be a win and nothing short of that,” Keselowski said Saturday. “I’m not going to call a second-place day a failure. It’s a strong showing. What we need is just to have strong showings week to week.”
Betting line: K-State (+3.5)
O/U: 141.5
Money Line: CIN -160, KSU +132
Game time: 4:00 pm, EST
Where: Schollmaier Arena, Fort Worth, TX
TV: CBS (watch here)
VITALS: Kansas State is coming off their first victory after losing three in a row. Dug McDaniel had just his second start of the season, where he scored 17 on 53.8 percent shooting. Coleman Hawkins had his best performance as a Wildcat, logging 20 points, 10 rebounds, and four steals. They face a TCU squad looking for its first Big 12 victory after losing to Arizona Monday.
PROJECTED STARTERS
WILDCATS
G Brendan Hausen: 13.0 PTS, 2.3 REB, 1.3 AST
G Dug McDaniel: 10.3 PTS, 2.6 REB, 4.3 AST
F Max Jones: 8.7 PTS, 3.5 REB, 2.1 AST
F David N’Guessan: 13.6 PTS, 6.8 REB, 1.6 AST
F Coleman Hawkins: 10.1 PTS, 7.0 REB, 4.1 AST
HORNED FROGS
G Noah Reynolds: 10.6 PTS, 2.5 REB, 3.9 AST
G Vasean Allette: 10.7 PTS, 3.3 REB, 2.3 AST
F Trazarien White: 10.2 PTS, 3.3 REB, 1.7 STL
F David Punch: 6.1 PTS, 4.8 REB, 1.0 BLK
F Ernest Udeh Jr.: 9.2 PTS, 8.6 REB, 1.3 AST
QUOTABLE: “It makes us even more versatile,” Dug McDaniel said about Coleman Hawkins’ presence in starting lineup. “When you have a 6’10” guy who can put the ball on the floor and make decisions. Nine times out of 10, their fours and fives are guarding him, and it’s harder for those guys to guard in the perimeter. He’s very versatile, and I feel like if we keep using him the right way, he can go very far.”
Jayden Armant is a graduate of the Howard University School of Communications and a contributor to Kansas State Wildcats on SI. He can be reached at jaydenshome14@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter @jaydenarmant.
JUNCTION CITY (KSNT) – A northeast Kansas school district announced it will be closed early next week due to winter weather.
Matthew Hoover with the Geary County Schools USD 475 said in a press release on Jan. 3 the district will be closed on Monday, Jan. 6. Athletic and after-school activities on Monday are canceled.
“We look forward to seeing our students and staff back in our schools on Tuesday, Jan. 7. USD 475 will continue to monitor the weather throughout the upcoming days and will notify parents of any school closings or changes.”
USD 475 press release excerpt
Hoover said classes are expected to resume on Tuesday, Jan. 7. However, school officials will continue to monitor the situation and keep parents informed as the weather changes.
Parents can keep up with urgent alerts from the district through its School Messenger text message service. People can access this by texting ‘Y’ or ‘Yes’ to 67587.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Police are investigating after officers found a man and two juveniles dead inside a Northland house.
Someone called Kansas City police and asked officers to check on the people living inside a house in a neighborhood northwest of Route 152 and US 169 around 9:45 p.m. Thursday.
Officers arrived at the house and smelled smoke. They also noticed a fire burning inside the house.
They called the Kansas City Fire Department and then entered the house to search for anyone inside. They made the decision to evacuate because of the threat of the fire.
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After firefighters extinguished the flames, police reentered the home. Inside they found a man and a girl dead from gunshot injuries.
They also found a boy suffering from gunshot injuries. Emergency crews rushed him to a hospital where he died from his injuries.
Detectives are working to determine what happened leading up to the shootings. They said they are not looking for a suspect, but have not provided any other details about what may have happened.
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The names of the people killed have not been publicly released.
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