@wissox Slo mo replay you dummy. It actually was a foul. Guy going up Garretts arm was in there.

No way that's a foul on Garrett

Stupid foul even if it may not have been.

I hate ioveratedwa

Harris has a junior hi boy 3 point shot.

Glad we're hanging around

Ramey jumps with the ball, comes down, takes a pivot step, shoots and scores. Go replay it if you want. This officiating is so bad when they don't call that crap.

3 carries it again then scores. That's 7 points off carries today.

Guy carries, drives, gets fouled and big dave then foolishly goal tends.

Dejuan harris throws up an absolute prayer on the fast break. Horrible.

I don't get worried til the last minute.

I might have to rename this thread.

I really wish refs would call carries

Enaruna is Dutch, I wonder if he has wooden Adidas?

Enaruna got fouled like 3 times on that drive.

8-3 since the TO. We should call more timeouts.

All our guys have white legs including Braun.

The classic early Bill Self TO. This team needs to wake up. So far we've only scored two points the entire year.

Anytime we start to score fine with me.

Really? How much is it?

Dumb foul by Dave.

@nwhawkfan We kept hearing snow here but nothing really.

Got a good announcing team for today.

Texas coach out. Clemson out, ND out. Good day.

I'll just keep this one going.

looks like shark started another chat

@RockChalkinTexas Oh, yes, lets keep that streak alive!

@RockChalkinTexas Not sure what you mean?

KU had the most wins in 2020. After today they'll have the most in 2021.

@Texas-Hawk-10 Who was the other African? Diallo?

Funny thing is after the season is over the video may become obsolete because new greatest games ever will be added to it!

My thread has been hijacked!! What about our tough schedule?? LOL, just kidding, it's fun to gloat about UK's demise.

@FarmerJayhawk Disappointing performance in front of a HUGE Missouri crowd!

KU is the only blue blood that is any good this year.

I guarantee if Iowa played in the Big 12 we all would loathe Fran McCaffrey more than any other coach in the conference. Maybe he's nice in person or whatever, but he's such a whiner.

LOL, I'm on a little road trip today driving through Kentucky. All decked out in KU gear by the way. So I find the postgame on the radio of Kentucky/Louisville. It's a Kentucky broadcast. The announcer is interviewing a Kentucky player who missed a game tying shot. The announcer says in a paraphrase 'you have a nice little fadeaway jumper but you don't shoot it enough. Don't you think you should shoot it more?' The poor kid was speechless that some radio hack would ask him a question like that. I was laughing.

Also laughing as the thought of KU wins approaching Kentucky's total. Not sure of the current tally but we've certainly narrowed the gap this year and will likely continue to do so.

And by the way Minny Goofers picked up a ranked win over Iovaratedwa.

@Texas-Hawk-10 Yes of course we can! We want no inconvenient facts to spoil the current narrative! So my story is Kentucky has been losing to a bunch of really underrated teams therefore those losses ain’t that bad!

Strength of Schedule. While it seems like every time Gonzaga turns around they're playing another ranked team, they haven't been like we have.

According to https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/standings ↗

Jayhawks 4-1 against ranked teams, the next closest number of games against ranked teams is 3 with quite a few teams. Duke and Kentucky are 0-4 against ranked teams.

Some other factoids: PAC12 0-8 against ranked teams.

SEC has played 7 ranked teams. They have 14 teams in their league. Misery, kudos to them, rare on these pages I know, is 2-0. Rest of league is 0-5.

BIG has a lot of games and wins, but really most of those are because they're into their league schedule.

Wisconsin is 2-0 against ranked teams and beat MSU in E. Lansing today!

But the Jayhawks, wow, 4-1. No one else with 3 wins.

@drgnslayr Thoughts? Of course! I'll volunteer for said duty. Actually that would be selfish, @approxinfinity who rescued us all from kusports is the one who deserves the honor!

I'll try to write up another one after the Texas game.

Nice! Got to go to one KU game there, the Josh Jackson year. Their fight song is the tune of "I've been working on the railroad". Well I found that Rock Chalk Chalk Jayhawk KU fit very well to the tune and sang it heartily.

We've talked a lot about the poor officiating this season. Northwestern is trying to close out Indiana in Bloomington. They're up 5 with the ball under a minute and the ref calls a carry. I mean it was, but when was the last time you saw a ref call a carry? It happens all of the time of course in the college game, but rarely call, but in crunch time, they call a carry. Unbelievable.

Nice but don’t expect me to match @jaybate-1-0! But it’s an honor to be considered a worthy fill in for the professor of all things, a sort of Jack Ass of all Trades. Jaybate if you are reading this come back! We need you!

We've certainly given fodder to the people out there who believe KU is dirty. I too am relieved that we appear to have made a concerted effort to recruit that way. There was seemingly a yearly scandal/drama/dustup non basketball related incident until last year! In fact, DeSousa could still be here. There's so many characters with some bull crap that cost us the chance to utilize their sometimes prodigious talents.

@RockChalkinTexas I think that was a spell check error. I use that excuse a lot. It’s a handy excuse for anything we write that we later regret. Just blame spell check!

@bcjayhawk Thanks for the kind words! I really didn’t see the calls hurting us too badly. I know the foul count in the first half irked me a bit, but I just felt all along like this game was ours so I wasn’t too worked up.

@DanR Edited. Now how do we get this to the American people?

@RockkChalkk thanks

I was thinking erupted but exploded sounds good.

Staff Writer

AP (Amazing Press)

Lawrence, Kansas

Kansas coach could see it in their eyes. He could see the intensity of their glares as the Jayhawks left the court after unheralded West Virginia Sean McNeil had banked in a 3 at the end of the first half giving WVU a 1 point lead after a back and forth 1st half, but one which WVU had scored 8 points in a row to take the lead. McNeil had 20 points. He celebrated near the blue wing tip of the Jayhawk logo at venerable Allen Field House. It will go down as a career highlight for McNeil.

The Jayhawks made sure there were no more highlights. The players were mad going to the lockerroom Coach Self said. They were not going to see anyone celebrating on the Jayhawk unless they were wearing the sacred threads of the Crimson and the Blue.

Coach Self really didn’t have to say a lot. Defensive whiz kid Marcus Garrett was shocked. No one went off on us like that. Self pulled his mask down just for a moment. He was smiling.
Mitch Lightfoot, the elder statesman of the team nervously looked around. Bill Self had a plan, he knew it. Self pulled the mask back up and devised his scheme.

He said he’d liked some aspects of the 1st half. The Jayhawks had maintained a 3-7 point lead throughout. But the end of the half took care of that. The intensity let down as the cardboard cutouts headed early for the concession stands. Kansas was shooting fairly well themselves but went cold. The bench wasn’t contributing, a major concern tonight coach mentioned in the postgame presser.

WVU would start the 2nd half trading baskets with the Jayhawks, but Self’s plan was about to burst. Braun, coach said was ready for the moment. He was going to be the Sean McNeil of the 2nd half. He would unleash an offensive onslaught that hasn’t often been seen in the Self regime. 3’s firing from all spots. He exploded for 14 second half points, but unlike McNeil, Christian had help.

Jalen Wilson, who’s been a little bit enigmatic this season, also had a big half much like he did against Kentucky. He erupted for 12 more points on a series of athletic drives and 3’s and the Jayhawks were on their way. The threes kept flying and the Jayhawks kept rebounding the misses, with Dave McCormack playing maybe his most effective game of the season. Sure he still missed his bunnies, but he had a productive energy that was being noticed by the writers at KuBuckets. Dave has good instincts tonight was a common thread, and when he sent a Derek Culver shot screaming onto the scorers table a noticeable grimace came across the bemasked WVU coach Higgins.

By the time it was all done a season high 16 trifectas were cashed in on 37 bets by the Jayhawk cagers. Shooting and making more 3’s than 2’s is not something often seen by the #3 team in the land. It hasn’t happened this season. It may not happen again.

Christian Braun smiled as he caught Self’s eye while walking off the court. The plan had worked. Jayhawk nation can celebrate the holidays in good spirits as they usually do.

(I always wished I’d been a journalist, this is my lame attempt!)