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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Now that Jeff Long has been canned and Shaka Smart is gone, Kansas should call Andrea Hudy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Three weeks from tomorrow: No. 5 Kansas vs. No. 7 Duke in the Champions Classic.
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Losses at Allen Fieldhouse:
Scott Drew: 14 in 15 games
Bill Self: 16 in 302 games
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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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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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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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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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After losing to Bradley, Kansas State finishes in 4th place in the Ft. Myers Tip Off tournament. Not bad! Especially when you consider that...
... oh there were only four teams in the event?
.......
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These mediocre white guys that shoot the basketball like Steph Curry when they play the Jayhawks in the tournament have haunted me my entire life. I do not understand the science or the alignment in the stars that make this happen every single year. I just want it to stop.
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WHAT IS EVEN THE POINT OF COLLECTING QUALITY WINS IF YOU SET A RECORD FOR THEM AND IT’S STILL NOT ENOUGH TO BE SEEDED IN FRONT OF ***HOUSTON***????
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How funny would it be if Kansas-Texas went into like, three overtimes and ESPN missed half the UNC-Duke game?
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KU may have missed on a handful of frontcourt recruits, but they got Udoka Azubuike and Silvio De Sousa back, and I don't think they anticipated getting either when the 2019 season ended. Azubuike and De Sousa are better than any frontcourt recruits they could have landed.
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Best game of Big Dave's career? I think this is the best game of Big Dave's career.
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When Bill Self was hired as Kansas coach on April 21, 2003, the Jayhawks were 48 wins behind Kentucky for the most in college basketball history.
Today, just under 19 years since that date, Self and Kansas tied Kentucky with 2353 all-time wins.
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We're going to get Kansas and Villanova in the Final Four.
Oh boy.
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The 2019-20 Kansas Jayhawks end the season with a 28-3 record, a 16-game winning streak, and ranked No. 1 in every noteworthy poll and metric. It's over.
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Jay Wright is one of the greatest college basketball coaches of all-time. He is as likable of a coach as they come, and the way he retired shows the respect he has for both his players and the sport. A true class act that shows it on and off the court!
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Gonzaga finishes the year 5-4 against ranked teams and 3-3 against power-league teams.
I don't care how many games they win in that terrible league. They were who they always are: frauds.
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Bill Self, in 18 years at KU, has never been worse than a 4-seed. He is incredible.
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Nope. Nobody had worse luck in conference play, from a close game perspective, than they did. Now they’re righting the ship. They should be in the tournament.
Is there a better team on the bubble than Texas Tech?
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Jay Williams opens up his segment in the studio by giving a standing ovation out of respect for the "The Streak." Praises Bill Self for the sustained excellence of the program.
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Bill Self has still never lost back-to-back home games. Kansas hasn't lost two in a row at Allen Fieldhouse in 33 years.
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BOWL ELIGIBILITY AND THEIR FIRST TOP-10 WIN IN 15 YEARS!!
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