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No live blog apparently tonight. Anyone want to chat here?

Chatting at KUsports instead!

@wissoxfan83 really?

No one showed up here!

@wissoxfan83 I just tweeted Jesse....hope he's alright.

@wissoxfan83

No live blog for Baylor game

Internet is down at location
Posted: January 7, 2015 - 7:56pm

By The Capital-Journal

The internet is down at Baylor, which is why there isn’t a live blog from CJOnline staff member, Jesse Newell.

Eric Smith, online editor at The Topeka Capital-Journal, said the issue is trying to be resolved, but he is unsure of when it will be resolved.

@RedRooster

Thx Rooster!

we can go here...brannen scored, again!!!

brannen doesn't lack confidence

@RedRooster That's why I came here, hoping some more would show up. It's a pretty good discussion over at KUsports, I'll stay there and check back here too I guess!

@wissoxfan83 don't you have to sign in via facebook?

@VailHawk Yep, I have facebook!

@wissoxfan83

I'm NOT much of a Blogger / Chater but I certainly will NOT use the KUsports web-site. It goes back to their policy that they instituted a couple of years ago. No way, No How will I ever comment on that web-site.

I will admit that at one time they had a GOOD thing going on at KUsports but that was before management got involved and they "instituted some crappy policies" and nearly all of there bloggers left them .... and I AIN'T going BACK !!

Yeah, can't do the old site even tho I have FB...

@RedRooster I hear you on that. It was a blow for sure. It really felt, and this sounds weird, that I was losing some friends when that happened. This site has been a pretty good replacement, but I still miss the articles at KUsports that generated most of our discussion.

We are moving the ball well.

@KansasComet

comet!!!

I really want to win this game! We're not playing particularly well and we're only down 3

I'm not smart enough to figure out if games like this are great defense or bad offense.

@wissoxfan83

I hear ya!

@VailHawk We are not winning, but we are learning how to deal with the zone. We are making progress.

@wissoxfan83 I'm there too, see me?

@Crimsonorblue22 stay here!!!

@KansasComet this game is VERY winnable

@VailHawk Agreed!!

At one point, @approxinfinity had set up a chat tool on the site.. Maybe we should look into that for these kinds of instances.

@RedRooster

Your upvoting is very kind!

@VailHawk ok

@bskeet I'm down! It's prolly easier than this, huh?

@VailHawk some of us did it this way w/royals game

Hellooooooooo!!! :beers:

@brooksmd

Hello Jerry!

Here hoping we hit some 3's in the second half.

Really lousy zone Offence

@VailHawk huh Mike

@jaybate-1.0 Mari!

@jaybate-1.0

Need more Jam Tray!!!

@VailHawk u got it

@brooksmd sorry thought you were quoting seinfeld

@jaybate-1.0 How's the weather in Peoria?

@VailHawk the lead

@Crimsonorblue22 go wayne

Mobile big man attack platform MBMAP

Guess I'm not too far behind. Mari just shot his ft.

@brooksmd damn 3's

maybe we should guard their 3 pt shooters?

@VailHawk Oh. Forgot about that.

@Crimsonorblue22 Yep been seeing you there too!

@VailHawk for sure, no up votes during this, to hard

How can cjonline be down but not low?

@jaybate-1.0 funny

@jaybate-1.0 ?

@Crimsonorblue22 come on Selden!

You'd think cjonline would at least set it up even if Jesse can't moderate from the arena...

@VailHawk Mari!

Yeah!!!

This cold weather is impacting games everywhere. UW scored way below their average, but won, Bulls are at 60 points half way through the fourth.

intentional!

Make them

scott drew didn't like the call cuz he really doesn't understand basketball that much

Sh$t

He almost jumped up like he wanted to fight. All for naught.

Man Oubre has quick hands.

Oubre taken out of his game

@jaybate-1.0 Selden is not reacting

Perry hustle

My daughter scored three goals tonight, not that I'm bragging or anything.

unreal

Big Frank trey

greene first hustle stat of career!

Oubre got fouled on that drive, no call

Good evening all!

@Eric

welcome!

Most of our guys just aren't up to the B12 intensity yet

Energy find ball? Not us!!! Dang guys fight a lil!

@Eric What's up Eric?

@wissoxfan83 not sure but it says I edited u!!

@Crimsonorblue22 That's fine, I need an editor!

Just got home to catch the game. Kinda weird since I moved back to KC, I haven't been able to catch a full game.

mo3 would say "let's go jayhawks!"

How do I @ people?

NM.. Figured it out.

@Eric Just hit reply which appears when you mouse over to the right of the heart and pointer thingy

this zone is so easy to beat

Our young guys are saying, oh I see what self meant by its going to get harder

@jaybate-1.0 there we go

wow

NICE!

Go

Chicago Connection

jam tray is instant offense

But our guys are finding their huevos

Yes!!!

@jaybate-1.0 I remember a few years back we were bemoaning a low scoring win with statements of what's wrong with our team. I said well defense is part of the game. You said, something like a 1-0 win is ugly but still a fantastic defensive game. This is reminding me of that. Our defense is very stout tonight.

@jaybate-1.0 you think hcbs is designing plays for jam tray in huddle?!

Perry can't do it

Mari's looking for Cliff too

@Crimsonorblue22 oh I think perry could design plays for jam tray in the huddle

I mean make a play

Told u!

MBMAP!

walk?

@jaybate-1.0 ???

What does that mean, u know I hate initials!

@Crimsonorblue22

mobile big man attack platform!

@Crimsonorblue22 I think it's a Peoria thing.

Help us brooks!

@Crimsonorblue22 What did you think of the conversation on KUSports blog? I didn't think it was too bad.

I miss Freshman Perry Ellis

He'll be back!

Was pounding my head forCliff to get in-Perry couldn't find the middle with an assist dog.

50 50 balls!!!

Had to get off my phone and the TV and get to the box.

Now I'm having trouble linking up to ESPNEunuch

Poop!!!

Selden been on the bench for a while now?

Cliff be somebody

@Crimsonorblue22 They are mauling us on the boards recently

@wissoxfan83 yes, Cliff get in the game!

so we had a brief lucas siting first half

so I wonder if anyone's ever told selden you can't pass it waste high through a zone?

Leave Mari in! Perry locker room

Wth 2 ugly turnovers

Connected and loving that we are only 2 down on these green geeks

This is disgusting. We had a nice start to the half, now we're dead.

Nice pass

But my feed says we are only down four

perry almost missed that

Weak

41-38

Finally a travel, after oh about 6 missed travels!

Crazy, both teams have turned it into a 2 pt shooting game. Come on KU...shoot the trey.

Yea Mason is quick..

Greene shoot it

@jaybate-1.0 You just read my mind

greene's gonna launch one from 30' soon

Thx!

@VailHawk Shazzam!

Traylor has to come back soon

Shoot the trey, shoot the try

perry as a junior you have my permission to call time out if you're in trouble

This is brannen's game to win

If he doesn't pass to much-off feet- getting cute

Keep the ball outside and AWAY from Ellis down low.

Repeat: away from Ellis down low. they are suckering the ball into him because they know they can eat him alive on the baseline.

@jaybate-1.0

we can get a wide open 3 within 5 passes

Anytime Selden!! Someone guard chery

I think it's time Ellis sits on the bench.

Go wake

Anyone been paying attention to Wiggins in the L?

@DoubleDD agreed! he can sit next to selden

@VailHawk

Self has to BELIEVE now.

@Eric dvr ing it

I miss JNew, but I have to say this format is just about as good as the cjonline chat format

There's some parts of the CJonline thing I really dislike. I get lost on it sometimes.

Wouldn't it be really cool if Self surprised them with a press...or something...anything

@jaybate-1.0 it works pretty well...but it's gotta be hard for @RedRooster to keep up w/ upvotes!

What's that crap! Selden

Bg

Wow Greene

@VailHawk

HOwling

Is KO hurt?

what was THAT

Sh$t

red dog called to before jump ball

NCAA hoops ought to go back to jump balls. There's one or two tieups a game. We make a nice defensive play and Baylor gets the ball with a fresh 35.

Nice drive Frank!

Brannen....when I said it was yours to win, I meant with treys

Mari gone?

refs owe us at least 2 calls

time for more MBMAP by Mari

mason got hit ten times as hard as that one

@VailHawk

:+1:

Stop that

Mom would want to know the name of that ref! I didn't see the foul

@wissoxfan83 funny

Frank under the damn screen AGAIN

Lovin Mason

Finally

makeup

If Brannen had any more wild hairs he would look like the wolf man on meth

BG 3

@jaybate-1.0

PHOF!

FM3.0 to the iron

Gotta shoot it before he turns it over

Self is at that point where he has to live with Brannen and its spike his BP out through the roof.

Finally

Defense

It is at this point that we are trying to get Baylor to beat themselves.

Pee ew!

we're gonna win 57-54

Who woke Wayne up for the shot?

I bet self dies every time Greene handles ball!

@jaybate-1.0

fools gold

Frank is my most surprising Jayhawk of the year. And so is Selden, but not for the reason Frank is.

@jaybate-1.0 he had to , shot clock

@VailHawk

iron pyrite

@wissoxfan83 right

How many 3s has KU attempted so far?

@Eric good question, less than 15?

@Eric

I quit counting at 1

We got to get Rodney Crain from KUSports. The guy's a good poster.

LoL

I don't like him

@wissoxfan83

Introduce him to an agent runner and get him over.

Like that

Clutch 3

wow

@Eric 4-15

Finally Wayne wakes up

@brooksmd thanks

Cliff rebound

Wow Selden

selden is a prayer warrior!

5-16 with Seldens

Who's guarding chery?

Time for some Jamari from trey

Jam Trey

Nobody is guarding cherry

Hard to believe we're near 50% shooting for this game.

@jaybate-1.0 serious?

@jaybate-1.0 jam tray fouled out even tho he only had 3 fouls

Any fouls?

Fouls to give? They've been fouling all half.

Baylor at 35%

That's what I was thinking wissox

BG out?

I'm scared

How has Self done it?

He is beyond genius.

This is more like savant.

He has no conscious idea how this is happening.

He's grokking it, like someone in Stranger in a Strange Land

Scott is about to start crying again.

Something tells me Cherry hits a 3 for OT

Me too

oh my

Omg..

Might not need a three now

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

foul on 00?

Frank got hammered on that rebound by 00. No call.

Zone it?

I don't like this feeling in my stomach.

I prefer we win this game

Will the refs let them play it out or call a cheap one?

@VailHawk

:+1: ^1000000

Methinks we're gonna lose this replay

my wife just said "who's #12?"

@Kip_McSmithers what is it???? Shaking here

I'm sure they'll over turn this one just because

Vegas making a call..

Please!!!!

Different angle

@Kip_McSmithers same refs that did dallas cowboys-detroit lion game?

@VailHawk great one!!!

@VailHawk :thumbsup:

Need BG to shoot ft after another foul

after further review we've decided we want baylor to win

Go

They will give this to Baylor

Never thought that would happen. Still a foul or six to give....

BG now!!!

Yeah!!!!!!

open path!

That wasn't a play on the ball....

Still gonna have to defend a three provided we make these.

So smooth

Figure out the d!! Foul em

Er no?

Brannen,yours to win

If we make do we foul before they shoot? I say YES

Have we defended a three all game? Or is Bill going to have to draw that up for them??

Like I said

Self is thinking, oh, no, now I have to play the wild hair even more minutes next game.

gotta love that piped in music meant to inspire the one sellout of the year

@VailHawk from jock jams 1996

brannen doesn't even hit rim

@Kip_McSmithers

PHOF!!!

@VailHawk

Its not really a sell out. Its just a whole bunch of Chanellor Starr's stock of confiscated old love dolls of Bill Clinton's

But if we foul, can we block out on ft?

I think it's the same cassette tape kstate has

@Kip_McSmithers

Kip I just laughed out loud a 2nd time I read your post!

Greene is cold. Ice in his veins.

Fouled too early!

Ewwwwww

Let's not be like kstate here

Shooter

If we win this now, I predict Scott will lie down on the floor and get in the fetal position and thumb suck to self-calm

@Eric totally! I actually watched that game on tv live in Kansas

@VailHawk LOL not sure which is worse, kstate ending or the guy on Florida scoring his own goal

mizzery style!!!

We did it!!

@Eric k-state loss by far

That was a bizarre ending!

Have scientists in Waco figured out how to freeze time inside that area?

that was a gratifying win

Rock chalk. Goodnight all!

Oh my! Hi fives around! Hugs

That was FUGGLY. But I'll still take it. Thanks Jesse. Oh wait....

thanks everyone! gotta go beat my 8 year old at uno before bed

I thought chery walked

I'd say our first try at live blogging a KU game went well. 300 comments! Ya'll are the best!

@Crimsonorblue22 WINNER...WINNER..CHICKEN DINNER...

It was artistry by Self milking this thing out.

Artistry.

Who was kstate playing when their guy picked up the ball and ran down the court with time still on the clock and ended up losing?

@Kip_McSmithers

The new saying at KSU is you don't play the opponent, you play against Bruce Weber.

Sometimes you get the bear- sometimes the bear gets you. We got the bear.

I'd like to thank Charter Cable. They won't let me watch ESPNU on tv, but they'll let me stream it. Go figure. Time for some :beers:

@KUSTEVE I'll take it! Man we sucked!

@RedRooster

You out did yourself tonight.

Rock Chalk!

@KUSTEVE I just feel bare!

@Crimsonorblue22 I disagree somewhat. After a slow start defensively, we really played very well except blocking out!

@wissoxfan83 or defense

@Crimsonorblue22 Perry pulled a mangina. Hopefully, it will heal.

Who, besides Mari and Mason played well? Selden finally

310 posts. Did we beat the other site?

Wow. Great game by Jamari and Greene. Love seeing that. Perry pulled another disapearing act but hey a Win is a Win. Nice Win on the road. I predicted a loss. We will take it.

Frank Mason is the man. That missed free throw was a shock but he did so much. Love this guy.

@brooksmd No, they had around 750, but per capita, I'm sure we did!

@brooksmd if you want to blog here- i'll join in. i don't like the other sites...

Blog here is much easier to read than cjol-do it again next time. Works for me

Got to talk to Mari after 3 fouls, he can't slow it down

@KUSTEVE labia majora

@wissoxfan83 we had a lot of those before we came here

@Kip_McSmithers That too...lol.

@joeloveshawks I just checked stats, perry had 3 blocks. That might mean 6 points he prevented. That's big.

@Kip_McSmithers

menora?

Any of u get post game?

@wissoxfan83 How many times was Perry blocked?

Got to suck to be Baylor!

I have invented a new stat for Perry.

FGs/blocks

He leads!

@Crimsonorblue22 said:

Got to suck to be Baylor!

Because Drew is your coach?

Oh, Man, I should have checked in here during the game. Where was Jesse, on a date with KenPom?

@DanR

PHOF

@jaybate-1.0 Or DB/OB

@DanR doing long division

@DanR OMG>>>LMFAO... ' HE SHOOTS...HE SCORES!!!!!!!!!!!!

@brooksmd

:+1:

@jaybate-1.0 Perry leads the team in scoring and shots that are put in the stands by the other team. You give and you take...

@DanR He called in and said there was a net outage at Baylor.

Who called wins, me,jethro, jbate?

@joeloveshawks

PHOF

@Crimsonorblue22

I'm in with the in crowd

@DanR Internet was down at baylor so there was no live update.

@Crimsonorblue22

And during the game I said it was Brannen's to win.

@wissoxfan83

So, why does KUSports get some bandwidth, but not JNew at CJOL?

Did Keegs accidentally on purpose sit on his router box?

@jaybate-1.0 who all called wins, me, jethro, jbate, brooks, slayer. Who else, lulu

@jaybate-1.0 said:

@wissoxfan83

So, why does KUSports get some bandwidth, but not JNew at CJOL?

Did Keegs accidentally on purpose sit on his router box?

Keegs picked up jesses land line and disconnected his dial up.

Nice use of that last possession by Coach Drew. What a f"cking joke. How many times do they practice this exact situation? God, I love it. Not even a reason to worry as there is not a shot in the air.

@Crimsonorblue22

I believe so.

But then I am just a pussy cat with ladies.

@Crimsonorblue22 Not me. Call me "scared Michael" since he wasn't here. On a positive note, Hawks only had 8 TO's.

@joeloveshawks

PHOF

Anyone that insults Drew in a new way that hasn't been done before gets a PHOF

@jaybate-1.0 Upvote for the Drew slam reference.

Gueldner is killing Perry!!!

@brooksmd

8 TOs?

That's our new offensive scheme.

@KUSTEVE

Thankeeee kindly.

@Crimsonorblue22

This allusion eludes me. Clarify?

@jaybate-1.0 self needs to give him a nice late Christmas gift- a watch

@jaybate-1.0 on post game Jeff gueldner is talking bad about Perry. U have to be in ks

Who on this site said we win by putting up 56 points? Just realizing what a horrific offensive game it was as it was so exciting.

@Crimsonorblue22 I thought we played better with Perry on the bench.

Is that what u mean? I'm way to excited! Several times I spelled shot shi!

Red rooster, join us!!

@KUSTEVE That is not you thinking. It is you knowing.

And the game ball goes to...

!OW3.jpg ↗

@Crimsonorblue22 I'm going to be up awhile. that game got the blood pumping...

@joeloveshawks That is not you thinking. It is you knowing.

That, too....lol.

@KUSTEVE stay up w/brooks, vail, jbate, where's global?

Game ball to Mari!

Well, let's see. It looks like KUBuckets.com should be part of the Civil Defense system. When commercial internet breaks down, this hardened web site keeps on ticking.

@Crimsonorblue22

Good call. His drives down the lane turned the tide. He was the only guy at that point that didn't seem to be intimidated by how intense B12 ball was. He kind of just said, give me the ball and let me drive guys. I'll show you we can play at this speed.

350 of our posts came in the 2nd half, like selden!

Really glad to see Greene assert himself. The second half we saw a Jamari we haven't seen this year. Frank was simply clutch - kept us in the game without trying to over-do it. Selden was flat terrible...until it counted. Then he was CLUTCH. This team refuses to lose- BIG 12 CHAMPS DEFENDING THEIR TITLE!!!!

Good question about Global...didn't he say he was down in Florida? Maybe he is out night fishing.

@KUSTEVE Great post. Exact thoughts. Perry is not in this game but he will be later. Mari was big. Greene was showing what he can do. Selden was patiently waiting to show what he can do. Love our depth.

@jaybate-1.0 He won't be fishing tonight - it's going to be in the forties here, with 30mph winds...brrrrrr! I'm going to have to wear a jacket tomorrow...

@KUSTEVE

The last ten minutes they played like guys that wanted to win a street fight. They can now walk proudly when the older guys come back for games to watch them.

@KUSTEVE

Ah, it must have been you that was down there.

@Kip_McSmithers

So i'm playing uno w my daughter and i laughed out loud about your k-state cassette comment! She asked me what I was thinking of so i tried to explain to her that cassettes were really old technology and k-state has to pipe in jock jams from 1996!

@VailHawk

Yeah, its funny this chatting during the games has become a very fun thing. I really think it is one of the best things that have fallen out of the whole online sports gig, at least for me.

Much better than just watching without interacting.

And it keeps one one one's toes and learning. Everyone sees a little something else and it helps to get a feel for the flow of games.

@jaybate-1.0

Totally! I used to think you guys were crazy on the old site for typing DURING the game...but now I dig it.

@jaybate-1.0

OBTW, How did we win this game?

20-25 years back I worked on some research about the future of the internet. And it is really amazing what we did NOT foresee. Never had a clue this sort of thing would happen. Predicted online communities, even chat boards, but never ever even dreamed of persons sitting around all over the country chatting in real time about a game.

@jaybate-1.0

Funny, I was just thinking something similar during the game. My wife tried to dispute that scott drew isn't a poor coach and I said there are a lot of people who think the same thing as me!

@VailHawk

I am not really sure to tell you the truth.

The simple answer is what I wrote about a few days ago: Self's approach is to hang around and let other teams self destruct.

But there was more to it than that.

This was a very tough match-up zone Baylor played. Very tough to get shots on. All match-ups are that way when played correctly.

The quantitative answer is we completely shut off their inside shooting game...held them to 34%.

Attendance at Baylor Game ==> 7,088

@RedRooster

Frankly, I didn't think there were that many in Waco that would go to a game. :-)

@RedRooster thx! Can't wait to play them properly at home!!

@jaybate-1.0

I assume 20-40% were Jayhawkers, right?

We sure as heck did not control the boards. We were minus 8 on the glass.

But we turned it into an inside shooting game and our M2M helping inside jammed them up and we found the seams inside on their zone, especially from about 14 to go the second half.

Just got through this whole, delightful thread... Awesome postings.. I could almost see the game in my mind's eye as I read the comments.

PHOF: The KState cassette reference... That's some serious wit!

Oh, and I'll add MBMAP to the glossary.

A win is a win... The quest for #11 begins on a positive note.

@VailHawk

Notice that Rico Gathers, who seemed to be just too much for us to handle on the glass just could not get untracked inside. He went 3-10.

BG and Selden at the post game. Both confident! BG really confident!

@bskeet

Yeah, it really is a wonderful win to squeeze out on the road.

Self says hi post was wide open not getting ball there.

@VailHawk

You look at our offensive numbers and it really came down to Jamari going 6-7 through the part of the game where our guys just didn't know if they could play as tough as Baylor. Jam Tray got them through the crisis of confidence, and then Brannen (4-5), Frank (5-11) and Wayne (4-9) just played very balls to the walls down the stretch.

It's often said the high after a win is never equal to the low of a loss. I can honestly say I'm sooooo glad we won this one bc losing to baylor would have REALLY been annoying!

Cliff also did some good things that don't show up much over 20 minutes, but were critical in the second half. He was only 2-3, but but notice that he got 4 assists. Those four assists were something new for him and that mean he was actually instrumental in 12 points (8 on assists and 4 of his own). He couldn't board much for reasons I don't understand.

@VailHawk self says great team win, they had 8 more throws, 8 more boards, and bears 8-15 from 3, hard to win on rd w/that

@Crimsonorblue22 Self loves getting it to high post! However, high post needs to take one or two dribbles and draw the D and then kick back out for threeeeee!

I'm thinking someone picked us 57-56 on a thread today. Need to let that guy read my palm & feed the chickens.

@HighEliteMajor

Thoughts?

@globaljaybird I said 57-54 w 3.5 min to go

@globaljaybird who?

@Crimsonorblue22 Don't recall but will look back tomorrow. Might a been Kip or DanR

One of the things we did on defense that Baylor was not expecting is we blocked quite a few shots for a small team. We got seven blocks to their 5. Perry actually got 3 blocks.

What I want to say about Perry is something a lot of people don't understand, or appreciate.

People always are quick to praise results: scoring, boards, etc.

But there is a thing called keeping going, keeping trying, keeping playing hard when nothing is working for you that is crucial for a team's players to be able to do.

Perry has had a history of folding out there, disappearing, when they block his shots and keep him off the boards.

But Perry didn't fold tonight. He kept flailing away against guys way bigger and more powerful than he was. He was on the floor many times. And he was scrapping with those big lugs. And to repeat he got three important blocks.

Look at their three bigs: ON'ealewent 1-7, Gathers 3-10, and Motley 1-5.

That can't happen unless all of your bigs keep fighting even when things look bad.

If any one of your bigs quits on you and disappears, then its 3 on 2 inside and you get overwhelmed.

But Perry Ellis learned tonight that even when he is being overwhelmed, if he will just keep fighting as hard as possible and banging and scrapping, that that will hold his man and keep him from helping on the other two. Perry learned tonight that he can make a big contribution even when he can't do squat in terms of scoring and rebounding. He learned to play a good floor game when all else fails.

In some ways, Perry Ellis was what made it possible. In previous games like this one, he would disappear and then our other bigs would be overwhelmed. But that did not happen tonight.

@jaybate-1.0 I agree, Perry did that in the unlv game. He came back hard! He'll have more good games than bad.

what is it about ku basketball that makes me grow fonder and fonder of them every year...ye even every game?!?!

@Crimsonorblue22

My god, if Self even decided to quit free riding on Perry and scheme some stuff for him, Perry will have some very good games.

What Self is doing is just letting Perry muddle a long on his own, while Self tries to find ways to turn Oubre and Cliff and others into D1 players. Self is having to do all sorts of special stuff for Oubre and Cliff just to get the pacifiers out of their mouths and get them up to D1 speeds. While he focuses on scheming stuff for them so they don't just get blown out of the tub all of the time, Perry has to kind of run around and make do on his own. This is a real trial for Perry. Self did the same thing to Marcus Morris his second year.

Self always says its is a big step up from being the second option inside to the first. He said that about Thomas Robinson, when he took over for the Morri.

Perry is having to find out how lonely it is on a D1 floor when there are no older brothers looking out for you when the blue meanies come calling. Its just you and them. There's no Embiid. No nothing but Perry.

Cliff is off in head school. Cliff is thinking too much to really take the pressure off yet.

Oubre helps but relieve the pressure on Perry, but Oubre is no where near advanced enough to actually help Perry directly.

Perry is so quiet no one realizes that he is carrying the load out there even though it looks pretty bad some times.

And here is the thing: Perry is carrying the load AND the team 12-2 and has played one of the toughest schedules in the country. Talk about lonely. But for all of Perry's limitations as a 4, he just never quits coming. He is a true Kansas guy. Quiet. No excuses. Just keeps doing his job. It was a tough pre-conference schedule to have to become the guy in.

They r killing Perry over at KU sports, needs to give his scholarship up. They would eat their own!

@Jesse-Newell tweeted that this is game had the fewest possessions of a KU game since 97-98 ↗.

While that is amazing, the site that he referenced is even more amazing with a database of stats that allow you to make comparisons or look up records on a lot of : http://dailyjayhawk.com/ ↗ ↗

@VailHawk

I know people think I am out in the ethers when I say this, but I am absolutely serious. It happens because KU Basketball is a living myth.

Living myths are regenerative connections to the life force.

The more you give to it the more it gives back.

The more you learn the more you can share.

Literary and cinematic myths are things like StarWars and they are not interactive. They are a one way energy transfer...from the creators to the viewers.

But at the center of the living myth of KU basketball is not an illusion, not an art work, but a living breathing team. We are not cheering for a KU video made once a week. We are cheering for the real team of human beings that the weekly video is made about.

Self is real. He is not an image of a coach.

Allen Field House is unique. The light that comes in it really is different than the light that one finds in any other arena.

Lawrence really was born of a Civil War in which one of the great issues of human history--are humans meant to be free and self governing, or toadies of an aristocracy with slaves--was played out.

Kansas in the 1890s really did attract one of the most extraordinary collections of persons ever and really did generate a People's Party that said: "the government is the people and we are the people."

The inventor of the game really did bring it to the shelter of Lawrence and the university, after seeing it coarsened and vulgarized in the big easter cities.

The first coach and the first genius the game produced really did produce the KU basketball legacy for nearly 50 years.

KU really was among the programs that integrated the game.

KU really has had a phenomenal involvement in the evolution of the game.

It really is the father of all basketball programs.

Basketball really is the greatest game ever invented.

All of these things are like logs on a mythic fire that burns on.

You cannot help but experience it and feel its warmth.

The myth lives.

You touch it.

And it touches you back.

That is what is different about this.

@jaybate-1.0

+1,000,000,000,000,000 PHOF!!!

@jaybate-1.0 I need to get a framed poster (or better yet, a laminated plaque) of that post. Something to look at when times get tough.

There isn't a better reminder of why we bleed crimson and blue.

JB, you are our true hoops guru.

@jaybate-1.0 My Man, are you ever ON tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't make any predictions for the game, too superstitious.

@RedRooster it's crazy that a team can ranked with another ranked team in town can get that low of attendance numbers. Makes me appreciate being a Jayhawk fan even more. Hell we even pack the house for exhibition games.