Topeka ? One for 36. Unbelievable.

Kansas University’s soccer team unloaded a record 36 shots, but planted just one in the nets and settled for a 1-1 double-overtime tie with Michigan on Friday afternoon at Hummer Sports Park.

“Fifteen of our 36 shots were on goal, and we make one,” KU coach Mark Francis said after the Jayhawks’ season opener. “That’s not a good stat to have. I’m a little disappointed. We need to develop a killer instinct.”

Francis was doubly disappointed his team couldn’t put the Wolverines away in one of the two 10-minute overtime periods.

“They got tired before we did,” the KU coach said, “and we should have buried them.”

Under a bright, sunny sky with high relative humidity, the artificial surface at Hummer Park registered 120 degrees on one thermometer.

Kansas University's Emily Strinden, right, slides into Michigan goalkeeper Megan Tuura. The Jayhawks tied the Wolverines, 1-1, Friday in Topeka.

“It was tough,” KU senior co-captain Jessica Smith said of the conditions. “We were planning on a rainy day, and it was really hot.”

After overnight rains and an overcast morning, the sun came out with a vengeance Friday afternoon.

“We heard it was 117 (degrees) on the field and 101 in the air,” said senior Caroline Smith, who scored the Jayhawks’ lone goal midway through the second half, “but I don’t think we felt it as much as they did. We’re pretty fit.”

Still, the Jayhawks, despite peppering the Wolverines’ goal with a school-record number of shots in a 2OT game, were fit to be tied.

“We had a lot of chances, which is a positive thing,” Jessica Smith said.

Echoed Caroline Smith: “We should have won the game, but we did create a lot of chances. I think we just got unlucky, and Michigan was playing a lot of people in the box.”

Smith’s lone goal came with 31:44 remaining in the second half and was the culmination of the Jayhawks’ all-time leading scorer juking defender Brenna Mulholland, then drilling a shot in the box past diving goalkeeper Megan Tuura.

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However, Smith misfired on seven other shots. At the same time, Jessica Smith was 0-for-7, and Jessica Bush and Emily Strinden both were 0-for-5. Eleven Jayhawks attempted at least one shot.

Meanwhile, Michigan managed only 10 shots. Melissa Dobbyn posted the Wolverines’ lone goal, a 20-footer that skimmed over goalkeeper Colleen Quinn’s head into the top right of the net in the first half. Quinn, a sophomore, was making her first career start.

Michigan's Emily Kalmbach, left, comes down hard on her ankle as she defends Kansas University's Jessica Bush. The Jayhawks and Wolverines tied, 1-1, Friday in Topeka.

“The (Michigan) kid hit a good shot,” Francis said, “but you shouldn’t get beat near the post like that. And we gave her a little too much time to shoot.”

Kansas will return to Hummer Park for a 2 p.m. clash Sunday with Wisconsin, a ranked Big Ten team. Michigan is unranked. If the weather is a brutal as it was Friday, the Jayhawks could be physically drained after logging 110 minutes against Michigan.

“We’re pretty fit, but this kind of game takes a lot out of you,” Francis said. “We’ll see.”

KU officials moved this weekend’s season-opening games to the Topeka facility because the grass at Jayhawk Soccer Complex was fit only for growing rice.

“I don’t think you could play on it without snorkel and fins,” Francis said. “There’s no way we could play on it.”

The KU coach said it also was possible next Wednesday’s scheduled home game against Missouri State will have to be shifted to Hummer Park, too.