NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Tyshawn Taylor made two big free throws and Thomas Robinson finished with 19 points and eight rebounds Saturday night to rally the Jayhawks past Ohio State 64-62 in the Final Four.
Kansas rallied from 13 points down to complete another comeback in a game the Jayhawks led for a grand total of 3:48 - two of those minutes coming when the score was 2-0.
Elijah Johnson, whose layup won an equally dicey game against Purdue in the regional semifinals, made one with 1:12 left to put the Jayhawks up 62-59 - their biggest lead of the game.
Kansas (32-6) plays Kentucky in the final Monday.The highlight packages will be full of Anthony Davis' one-hand jam off an alley-oop pass and a couple of his hook shots - including one with his non-shooting hand - but what got Kentucky to its 11th national championship game was defense.
A lot of defense.
The Wildcats didn't break the 80-point mark as they did in their first four NCAA tournament games - the first team to do that since Kentucky won its last title in 1998 - but they stopped Louisville whenever they had to in their 69-61 victory Saturday night.
Kentucky (37-2) held the Cardinals to 34.8 percent shooting (24 for 69), well below their season mark of 42.5, but even more importantly, it was below the 37.5 percent the Wildcats allowed all season - a mark that led the nation.
