LAWRENCE, Kan. — Highly-touted freshman Darryn Peterson was not available for No. 21 Kansas against fifth-ranked UConn on Tuesday night because of a lingering hamstring injury, while the Huskies were missing big man Tarris Reed Jr. because of an ankle injury.

Peterson played the first two games of the season for the Jayhawks, a blowout of Green Bay and a loss at North Carolina, but the game against the Huskies was the seventh he has missed because of the hamstring injury. Peterson sat out a loss to Duke at Madison Square Garden in New York and three games last week at the Players Era Festival.

The Jayhawks still managed to go 3-0 against power conference schools in Las Vegas without Peterson in the lineup.

“He is very close,” Jayhawks coach Bill Self said. “He has worked his butt off, b

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