Basketball is a game of runs. Go on enough and keep the other team from doing the same and good things can happen, like a run to a conference title.

Arizona used runs of 19-0 in the first half and 16-0 in the second half to beat No. 14 Kansas 84-61 on Saturday afternoon at McKale Center at ALKEME Arena. The win clinches at least a share of the Big 12 title for the second-ranked Wildcats (27-2, 14-2), a championship they can clinch outright Monday night at home against No. 4 Iowa State.

The UA outscored Kansas 35-14 over the final 12 minutes after the Jayhawks (21-8, 11-5) got within two, giving Tommy Lloyd his 139th win to tie him with Brad Stevens for most in the first five seasons as a Division I head coach.

Brayden Burries had 20 points, a career-high 12 rebounds and five assists, while Koa Peat scored 12 with seven rebounds and five assists in 23 minutes in his return from a 3-game absence due to a muscle strain in his lower leg. Motiejus Krivas added 13 points, 10 rebounds and two blocks as Arizona had five players in double figures.

Kansas freshman Darryn Peterson, the projected No. 1 pick in the 2026 NBA Draft who missed the previous meeting won by the Jayhawks on Feb. 9, led all scorers with 24 points. He was 8 of 21 from the field while the rest of the Jayhawks were 14 of 43.

Arizona dominated on the boards, finishing with a plus-22 advantage, and was 30 of 34 from the line compared to 10 of 11 for Kansas.

The Wildcats led 39-28 at the break after being up as much as 18 late in the first half. It started 0 for 5 from the field, after missing the last five of the first half, and a Peterson 3 got Kansas within seven.

An Anthony Dell’Orso 3 got the lead back to 10, but Kansas kept chipping away. Peterson’s third 3 made it a 6-point game and then Flory Bidunga scored inside for his only basket to make it 49-45 with 13:03 to go. Bidunga had scored 23 in the first meeting.

After a UA timeout and an empty possession, Melvin Council Jr. scored on a runner to make it a 2-point game before Ivan Kharchenkov hit a corner 3. That sparked a 16-0 run which included a possession where Arizona got three offensive rebounds before Burries was fouled and made both free throws.

It also saw Kansas turn it over twice and commit three fouls, including a flagrant on Jamari McDowell to keep Kharchenkov from scoring after a steal.

Peterson hit a long 2 to end a second long scoring drought only to see Burries drain a corner 3 to put the Wildcats up 68-49 with 7:13 remaining.

Peterson hit a 3 on the game’s opening possession, and Kansas had a 5-2 lead before Arizona found its groove and scored 19 in a row. The first eight forced Bill Self to call timeout after watching Peat score four points, including his first basket since Feb. 9 in Lawrence, and dish twice toKrivas for dunks.

Two more baskets and Self called a second timeout, with the run lasting 4:37 with the Jayhawks missing nine consecutive shots before Peterson got a steal, basket and foul for a 3-point play.

Kansas’ Bryson Tiller, who had 18 points in the first meeting, picked up two fouls before the UA’s run and got his third with 7:39 left in the first half on a moving screen.

The Jayhawks had a chance to cut the deficit to single digits but a steal and score by Ivan sparked another 6-0 run for a 37-19 lead with 3:50 left before halftime, forcing a third Self timeout. That was the UA’s last field goal of the half, though.

Arizona wraps up its home schedule Monday against Iowa State, which lost at home to Texas Tech on Saturday and was eliminated from the Big 12 title race.