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Your home for Kansas Jayhawks commentary.
Joined February 2015
“welcome to raising cane’s, what can I get for you, BITCH?”.
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Bill Self is 18-8 vs. the bluebloods (Kentucky, UNC, UCLA, Duke) at Kansas. He's 296-16 at home. He's won 16 Big 12 titles in 19 years. He's made 4 Final Fours. He's won 2 national titles, which ties the most of any active coach. He's the best coach in the country. Case closed.
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The reason the NCAA tournament is so good is because of stories like this year’s K-State team. Jerome Tang waiting 20 years to be a coach. Keyontae Johnson’s amazing comeback. Markquis Nowell being a wizard. You don’t have to like it, but you’ve got to acknowledge it.
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Texas Tech fans have been in my mentions all tournament with positive comments - they deserve a big shoutout for how gracious and congratulatory they’ve been to Kansas and Kansas fans. Laughing at Chris Beard brings all Big 12 fans together! Props and thanks for the kind words!.
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Hard not to be happy for K-State. Those fans have been waiting for something like this for awhile and with a coach like Tang and guys like Johnson and Nowell, it’s hard not to be happy for their success. They’re a likable bunch. Also never hurts to see Calipari get bounced.
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There will be a new banner on the north wall at Allen Fieldhouse next season. And it will read "NATIONAL CHAMPIONS - 2022.".
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Tonight is the final time you’re going to watch Ochai Agbaji, David McCormack, Mitch Lightfoot, and Remy Martin play basketball for Kansas. Quite possibly Jalen Wilson and Christian Braun, too. Soak up every second. What an incredible season this team has given their fanbase!.
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Bill Self now 5-0 against UNC and 5-2 against Duke in his tenure at Kansas. Also 4-0 vs. Michigan State and 6-2 vs. Kentucky over the last decade. No doubt who college basketball's bluest blood is.
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Ochai Agbaji's season:. Big 12 champion.Big 12 tournament champion.First-Team All Big 12.Big 12 Player of the Year.First-Team All American.National Champion.NCAA Tournament MOP. Best season by a Jayhawk since Danny Manning in 1988.
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Immediately after this game, KJ Adams will fly home to Texas for his mom's celebration of life tomorrow. What an unbelievable, heart-of-a-champion performance by him tonight.
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Big Texas Tech fan today. All of America is. They can end Coach K’s career tonight by beating Duke in the Sweet Sixteen. Hashtag guns up!.
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THE LARGEST COMEBACK IN THE HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.
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Kelvin Sampson deserves a ring. I hope he gets it on Monday. I certainly wouldn’t bet against ‘em. All week long, people talked about Duke and Duke alone - and not the Houston team that’s now 31-1 in their last 32 games. Quiet and disrespected. And they got the last laugh.
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I don’t know how you can’t be impressed with Texas Tech. They are tough, gritty, fast, and play a brilliantly fun style of basketball. Simply put, they’re just better. McCasland has done a tremendous job and I hope they do worlds of damage in the NCAAs.
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He brought that hat down specifically for Devon Dotson. Just awesome! They did it for 2020!.
Here’s Bill Self celebrating with the group of former KU players who were down here in New Orleans. He had something special to say to Mario Chalmers.
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Remy Martin’s 9-game postseason run: 12 pts & 4 reb per game, 25 assists to 9 TO, and 12-for-30 (40%) from three. Came to KU having never won an NCAA tournament game. Wound up winning Midwest Region MOP and made 4 threes in the title game. They don’t win without him. No chance.
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Kevin McCullar needed 39 minutes and 59 seconds to secure it, but he grabbed that last rebound just in time. 12 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists. The third triple-double in Kansas basketball history. The first one to feature assists.
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Bill Self: “We absolutely do not win a championship without Remy Martin. He’ll be the first to tell you that it took me some time to figure it out, but when we did… God, he was good.”. Remy says that coming to Kansas was the best decision he’s ever made.
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So many players you're just so overjoyed for. Mitch Lightfoot. David McCormack. Ochai Agbaji. Christian Braun. Remy Martin. Dajuan Harris. Jalen Wilson. National champions. Forever and ever.
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Coach K made an entire basketball season about himself only to lose to an unranked UNC team in his last game. Oh, and they got hundreds of former players and said the tickets were tens of thousands to attend, and they totally blew a game they had control over. Hysterical.
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Thank you, Texas Tech, for restoring order! America is on your side as you advance to the second weekend. Go beat Duke!.
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David McCormack was really +41 in the Final Four and the national title game. Helluva way to wrap up that career arc.
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There's an argument to be made that Jalen Wilson has been the most valuable player for Kansas in this tournament. His rebounding is so consistent and he's turned into such a dependable, steady player on both ends for this team. His career arc has been really awesome.
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Silvio De Sousa should be remembered as a damn legend. He was the best big on the floor in an Elite Eight Kansas/Duke game. Then he proceeded to be the single greatest teammate in unimaginably frustrating circumstances. That is one courageous 20 year-old.
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A reminder that Grayson Allen was never once ejected from a college game. Worst ejection I've ever seen with my own two eyes in college basketball. An all-timer.
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When Bill Self took over at Kansas, the Jayhawks were 48 wins behind Kentucky on the all-time wins list. After today, they are 5 wins behind UK. Kentucky has won 478 games in 18 years (almost 27/year), and Kansas has trimmed 43 games off the deficit. Bill Self is amazing.
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Wait, coaches can retire without doing a year-long retirement/look at me tour?.
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Any K-State fan who uses the Wade injury as an excuse for losing this game should be forced to use the Azubuike injury as an excuse for KU losing the Big 12. /ducks.
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Bill Self is 300-16 at Allen Fieldhouse. He’s won 300 frigging basketball games there and he has as many conference titles as he does home losses. I have never seen anything like that.
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Bill Self has won 17 Big 12 titles in 20 years at Kansas. For comparison's sake:. Mike Krzyzewski: 13 ACC titles in 42 years.Roy Williams: 13 ACC+Big 12 titles in 33 years.Tom Izzo: 10 Big Ten titles in 28 years. He's the best regular season coach in the history of the sport.
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Svi: “I didn’t really get upset when Coach Self would yell at me during my freshman year because I didn’t know what he was saying.” #kubball.
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Kansas’ reward for setting a record for Q1 wins is:. - 2 seed UCLA out west.- 3 seed Gonzaga out west.- their 4-seed is KenPom’s No. 4 overall team.- their 5-seed is KenPom’s No. 11 team.- their 8-seed is preseason SEC champs. WHAT THE HELL.
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Did Texas make the second weekend?. No, of course they didn’t. They haven’t done that since 2008. How funny is it that Texas Tech is headed to the Sweet Sixteen while Chris Beard and his preseason top-5 team aren’t?.
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David McCormack in his final two games:. 25 points (10-12 FG), 9 rebounds vs. Villanova in the Final Four.15 points (7-15 FG), 10 rebounds vs. UNC in the title game. Hang the jersey.
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Ochai Agbaji is the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four.
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Houston was an OT loss to the second best team in the league away from going 20-0 in Big 12 play, what is we doing.
Houston being a #1 seed over Michigan State would be laughable.
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Bill Self finishes in conference play:. Tulsa: 3 1 1.Illinois: 1 1 2.Kansas: 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 2 1 1. 26 years. 21 1st place finishes. 0 finishes outside the top 3.
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Say what you want about Bill Self/Arkansas/chokes/whatever. This Houston team was never better than Kansas. And based on their resumes, they had absolutely no business being seeded in front of the Jayhawks. One of the most asinine misses by the committee in recent memory.
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Kansas and Kansas State, two games this year:. Baskets made: 98.Fouls called: 96. It was a battle, but in the end, basketball narrowly defeated the @Big12Refs.
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Missouri at Kansas is official. Saturday, December 11, at Allen Fieldhouse.
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The arena in Austin is packed with Texas Tech fans today. Chris Beard just got booed walking out on his home floor. It’d be pretty funny if the Red Raiders beat them and knocked Beard to 0-2 vs. his old team.
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The college careers of Dajuan Harris, KJ Adams, Zeke Mayo, Shakeel Moore, and Hunter Dickinson have come to an end.
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Big 12 road record:.Turner Gill: 0-7.Charlie Weis: 0-9.Clint Bowen: 0-5.David Bety: 0-18.Les Miles: 0-10.Lance Leipold: 2-3.
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Tech is damn good, aren’t they? Mark Adams is legit. That team plays hard and is so well coached. Offense, defense, they’re an absolute nuisance and I hope to hell KU is done with them for the year.
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Also, Silvio De Sousa got a two-year suspension for $2,500. James Weisman got 12 games for $11,500. The @NCAA is a bunch of fools.
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He got EJECTED for this? Can we start ejecting refs instead???. Love how McCassland lost his mind and got tossed, too. And then the team answered in a big way. Frigging awesome win for Texas Tech after getting dealt this screwjob in the opening few minutes.
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Also extremely bummed for Zeke Mayo, who dreamed his whole life of getting to play for Kansas, only to come be a part of the worst team they’ve had in 25 years. He had an outstanding season and was one of KU’s best-ever transfer adds, and he was at his best in the postseason.
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The Allen Fieldhouse intro video is about to get a major facelift, methinks. Mario Chalmers’ shot, after 14 years, will no longer get the biggest roar of all the clips. Brian Hanni’s call and David McCormack’s game-winner are about to become permanent staples in that video.
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Iowa State doesn’t have to go to Lubbock or Lawrence. Baylor doesn’t have to go to Ames or Houston. Kansas had to go to Ames, Lubbock, Baylor, and Houston. The unbalanced schedule sucks. This isn’t even a “it’s not fair” post. It’s a “home and homes were the best” post.
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The Kansas-Villanova streak continues!. They’ve met 4 times in the NCAA tournament - 2008, 2016, 2018, 2022. The winner of each meeting went on to win the eventual NCAA tournament.
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The Dean Wade news is awful. He missed last year’s tourney, and it seems inevitable he’ll miss this one. Considering all he put into K-State for 4 years, he deserves so much better. Kid has worked his ass off for years. Historically bad luck for a guy that’s so easy to root for.
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It’s pretty damn funny that we spent the whole season talking about Coach K only to get the Roy Williams bowl in the national championship game.
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When Brannen Greene threw down a dunk at the buzzer, K-State fans whines about how classless it was. “THE GAME WAS OVER, JUST DRIBBLE IT OUT.”. Today, Silvio De Sousa is trying to dribble it out before the pathetic steal, and the take is “YOU PLAY UNTIL THE FINAL WHISTLE.”.
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Texas Tech, who was the worst team in the Big 12 like four years ago, is going to play for a national championship on Monday night. Bananas. Chris Beard is a wizard.
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Kansas just went an entire decade without winning a single Big 12 road game. They went 0-43.
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Bill Self doesn't have 591 wins at Kansas. He has 606. You know it, I know it, and the NCAA knows it. He passed Phog Allen last January. One day, when these schools finally tell the NCAA to piss off, the record book will truthfully reflect it.
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Bill Self wanted dawgs. Bill Self is getting himself some dawgs.
NEWS: Illinois transfer wing Tre White has committed to Kansas, he tells @On3sports. The 6-7 junior averaged 10.5 points and 5.5 rebounds per game this season.
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Kansas is officially North Carolina state champions. They've beaten UNC, Duke, and UNC Wilmington all in the first three weeks of the season. Hang the banner!.
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Now that Jeff Long has been canned and Shaka Smart is gone, Kansas should call Andrea Hudy.
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Big 12 records at Allen Fieldhouse in the Bill Self era:. Oklahoma 0-13.West Virginia 0-9.TCU 0-8.Texas Tech 1-12.Baylor 1-12.Texas 1-12.Kansas State 1-16.Oklahoma State 2-11.Iowa State 2-15. Missouri 0-9.Nebraska 0-9.Colorado 0-9.Texas A&M 1-4. Total: 9-138. 🔥.
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Mark Adams has more Big 12 tournament wins in the last 36 hours than Chris Beard has in his career. Bahahah.
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Shaka Smart's last 5 NCAA Tournaments:. 2014: Round of 64 loss to 12-seed.2015: Round of 64 loss to 10-seed.2016: Round of 64 loss to 11-seed.2018: Round of 64 loss to 7-seed.2021: Round of 64 loss to 14-seed. 0-5. Keep him forever, please.
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I have waited my entire life for one of those shots to go in for the Jayhawks in this sort of setting. Finally. CB has arrived!.
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Just the perfect storm. Tough draw, losing their coach, missed free throws, three-point shooting disappears… they got beat. It’s why winning this beast is so tough, and it makes you appreciate the times they’ve reached the top of the mountain.
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K-State losing before the conference finals means that the greatest senior class in school history - Wade, Stokes, Brown - went 1-9 against the Jayhawks.
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I'm all for friendly booing and letting college kids be college kids (like the F KU chant), but f-you Kevin is a bit much. Seems like an awfully harsh thing to scream at a 21 year-old kid that gave you three years of winning.
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Just go ahead and put that Kansas at Texas Tech game in Lubbock on College Gameday now, @ESPN. It’ll be an environment for the ages.
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Bill Self says he still has the voicemail then-high school senior Mitch Lightfoot left him in 2015 on his phone. He said that if you cut open Mitch Lightfoot, a Jayhawk would fly out because of how much he loves the University of Kansas.
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The Big 12 goes 6-1 in the first round of the NCAA tournament. I know what you're wondering. Don't ask. Not important.
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College basketball’s last undefeated is dead as Houston goes down at Iowa State in the latest installment of Hilton Magic. It took the Cougars less than a week to find out that this isn’t the American Athletic Conference anymore.
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If I could eliminate just one game off the schedule, it'd be the BYU game. The roster filled with guys that look like you typed "guy who would make threes against Kansas" into an AI-image generator. Coming off a horrible shooting performance. Hold onto your butts.
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Of those 75 wins, two of them were against ranked teams. Two. 2. T W O.
Gonzaga’s home win streak ends at 75. That is incredible.
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Remy Martin on Bill Self, in three words: “I love coach.”.
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Kansas-Iowa State is such a good rivalry. Plenty of venom, plenty of respect, and the games are always good, even if the styles change. The atmospheres are always electric, too. Good stuff.
Bill Self laughing at a police officier doing the Juicy Wiggle. How can you not love college basketball? @SickosCBB
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Three weeks from tomorrow: No. 5 Kansas vs. No. 7 Duke in the Champions Classic.
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The final Big 12 standings:. 1. Kansas 17-1.2. Baylor 15-3.3. Oklahoma 9-9.4. Texas 9-9.5. Texas Tech 9-9.6. West Virginia 9-9.7. TCU 7-11.8. Oklahoma State 7-11.9. Iowa State 5-13.10. Kansas State 3-15.
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Losses at Allen Fieldhouse:. Scott Drew: 14 in 15 games.Bill Self: 16 in 302 games.
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How damn good is Grant McCasland? Won at D2 Midwestern State. Won at Arkansas State. Won at North Texas. Now has Texas Tech, who was flopper U and grind-it-out-ugly under Chris Beard, as an offensive juggernaut with one of the sexiest styles in the league. Tech is a wagon.
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Silvio De Sousa has officially removed his name from the NBA Draft, per @GaryBedore. He will officially be a Jayhawk in 2019-20.
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Brutal to watch. B r u t a l.
No one more emotional coming off the floor than Jalen Wilson, really tough way to end a special career with the Jayhawks
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The KU band is playing YMCA and lots of students are doing the Trump dance on the big screen. I just report the news, folks.
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Houston really went 19-1 in Big 12 play. They are a wagon and Kelvin Sampson is your Big 12 bully. What a masterful job he's done, and what a frigging season by the top dog in the conference.
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Kansas won 300 basketball games in a decade. That is an amazing accomplishment. They will be the only power-conference team in the country to accomplish that in the 2010s, and one of only two total teams to do it (Gonzaga). Amazing decade for Bill Self.
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Remy Martin: Most Outstanding Player of the Midwest Region. He was the most valuable player on a Final Four run.
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That is one hell of a win for Bill Self immediately after the death of his father, too. He'll remember that one forever.
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I may tweet disagreements about a personnel decision on occasion, but Kansas is so darn fortunate to have Bill Self as its coach. That comeback was as much coaching as execution. He’s simply extraordinary at what he does. What a special win for him - one he’ll always cherish.
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New rule: Dedric Lawson scored 700 damn points this year. You are not allowed to say anything bad about him. At all. When he goes pro, it is because it's the right decision. He turned in one of the finest scoring seasons in the history of this program.
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Those fans are GUT-PUNCHED. They have no idea what just hit them. They waited in the cold and sat through 39 minutes and 50 seconds of leads just to blow it that late. Hilarious!.
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Hell of a season by Texas Tech. That was a fantastic game and they did everything they could. With Mark Adams at the controls, I’m not sure how much it matters who’s on the roster - that team is going to be tough for everyone every single night.
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Bill Self, who won more than 80% of his conference games in his first 20 seasons at Kansas, is now 17-14 in the last two seasons in Big 12 play. It's been rough.
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That Christian Braun shot was the Villanova-iest thing that Kansas has done this entire game. The script has been flipped.
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Bill Self has coached a team in a conference for 25 years. Tulsa (Western Athletic), Illinois (Big Ten), and Kansas (Big 12). Here are his finishes in those 25 years:. 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1.
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David McCormack was the best player on the floor in the Final Four, became a national champion in his final college game, and won Big 12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year. He had a tremendous career in Lawrence that peaked at the very end. He’ll be beloved by Jayhawk fans forever!.
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Two things about this football game:. 1. What a freaking performance. What a gutsy road effort to take down an undefeated top-10 team on the road. 2. It’s officially the biggest what if season in Kansas football history. This team is so much better than 4-6. So bittersweet.
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Bill Self's first day back is going to be the day after Kansas got out-rebounded by Southern Utah at home. Pray for the Jayhawks.
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