Kansas City, Mo. ? Sherron Collins wasn’t blaming anyone but himself after KU’s 89-81 overtime loss to Syracuse in the CBE Classic Championship.

“I got a little mad, a little frustrated, and the whole team fell with me,” Collins said. “That starts with me. I think I kind of let them down a little bit out there.”

Syracuse battled back with help from a key 61-second stretch in the second half.

KU led 53-43 with 13:59 left before things fell apart. Collins turned it over once, and SU’s Jonny Flynn finished on the other end with a dunk.

Just 19 seconds later, Collins tried to drive through the defense by himself again, and this time Andy Rautins came away with the basketball.

Flynn followed with a layup, and the KU lead was down to six.

“The turnovers — I kind of lost my poise there at the end of the game,” Collins said. “I had two key turnovers that shouldn’t have happened.”

Though Flynn was smack-talking a bit, Collins said that wasn’t what threw him off his game.

“Flynn didn’t get in my head. Wasn’t nothing much he was doing to get into my head,” Collins said. “We all talk out there. That’s the game.”

Following a KU timeout, Flynn stole the ball from Marcus Morris, leading to another transition bucket.

In 1 minute and 1 second, Syracuse had a 6-0 run.

“We’ve got to do a better job on the perimeter, keeping guards out of the lanes,” Collins said. “That was getting our big men in foul trouble. We didn’t do a good job of that.”