Manhattan ? For a minute, Jeff Boschee played dodgeball, not basketball, on Monday night at Kansas State’s Bramlage Coliseum.

“I almost got hit by a thing of Chapstick,” the KU senior guard said after the Jayhawks’ emotion-filled 98-71 men’s hoops victory over Kansas State. “Somebody threw a penny. I was thinking about picking it up for good luck.”

He and the Jayhawks had the last laugh on a night tempers flared KSU coach Jim Wooldridge was ejected after being called for two technicals following a Nick Collison bucket with 11:21 left. The angry Wildcat fans reacted by tossing objects on the floor.

When the final buzzer sounded, long after cooler heads had prevailed, the Jayhawks (20-2, 9-0 Big 12) had extended their winning streak over Kansas State to 23 games overall and 19 in Manhattan. They’d also tallied a whopping 98 points, the most by either team in a game in the history of the series.

“It’s something we’ve got to learn from, to be mentally tough to fight through distractions, like when the crowd gets into it like that,” Boschee said, aware KU had a 31-point lead when Wooldridge was ejected and an 18-point advantage five minutes later.

Kansas' Drew Gooden (0) reacts after getting called along with Kansas State's Pervis Pasco for a double-technical foul in the second half. There were four technicals in KU's 98-71 victory Monday in Manhattan.

Two other technicals were called when KU’s Drew Gooden and KSU’s Pervis Pasco jawboned at each other as they ran back down court after a Gooden layup with 5:31 left and KU up 86-65.

“Nobody got ejected. I mean, it never got out of hand,” KU junior guard Kirk Hinrich said after tying a career high with 26 points on 4-of-5 three-point shooting. He also was a perfect 10-of-10 from the line.

He admits it was mighty unusual, however, to see Wooldridge stomp onto the court and receive a pair of T’s and ejection by ref Steve Olson.

“I just figured, ‘He’s gonna get kicked out,'” Hinrich said of Wooldridge’s stroll onto the court. “I called everybody over into a huddle so nobody would get poked in the eye with a Coke bottle or quarter or something. I said, ‘Be ready,’ because I knew they’d be enthused after that.”

Collison, who had a big game with 15 points and six rebounds, had to step out of the way to avoid running into Wooldridge as the coach barked at the refs.

KU coach Roy Williams became a little hot under the collar, but he didn't draw a T.

Of the play that drew Wooldridge’s ire Collison scored into KSU’s Matt Siebrandt, who tried to draw a charge Collison said: “It might have been a charge. I was a little worried they might call it a charge, but it was a no call. Maybe he did flop a bit, but everyone does on a play like that. It’s always the official’s decision to call it a block or a charge.”

KU coach Roy Williams ended up coaching against KSU assistant Mike Miller the last 11:21.

“It was a wild game. The second half it was really a wild game,” Williams said after the Jayhawks, behind the hot three-point shooting of Hinrich, who knocked in his first three threes, led 15-3 early and 50-31 at the break. “Kirk got us off to a great start making shots. We were really good running the floor. One time we had our two biggest guys running the fast break. The second half did get ugly at times. I thought some of our guys lost focus. I thought Kirk kept his focus on basketball the entire game.”

KSU coach Jim Wooldridge drew two technicals and was ejected.

Williams said Gooden, Aaron Miles and Keith Langford lost their focus in the second half.

“I told Drew he did. I think Aaron did and Keith did,” Williams said. “Drew was complaining to the officials and ended up getting a technical, getting tangled up with one of their guys. Aaron lost it some when Larry Reid was scoring. Keith didn’t run a couple of sets the way we’re supposed to run them. We’ll show them the mistakes on tape and hopefully keep learning from them.”

Langford, who scored four points and grabbed four boards, said focus indeed was lost at times.

“It’s true. We went through a stretch the second half where we weren’t playing well,” Langford said. “I’m just glad we won the game. Whether we win by two or 20, I just want to win.”

Kansas' Kirk hinrich saves a possession before landing in press row.

Boschee scored 16 points on 3-of-6 three-point shooting, while Gooden and Collison had 15 points and Wayne Simien had 13 points and six boards. KU hit 56.7 percent of its shots to KSU’s 46.7.

“It’s a good situation to play your worst basketball for a while like we did after the coach got thrown out and still keep a good lead,” Collison said. “It’s good to get a victory, especially on the road.”

And especially at K-State’s Bramlage Coliseum, where KU is 14-0 all-time.

Next up for KU is Texas Tech. Tioffp is 3:05 p.m. at Allen Fieldhouse.