Jayhawks are a close-knit TEAM

The players on this Jayhawk team are very close and that has helped them tremendously in winning 10 of their last 12.

It is sooooooooooooo refreshing to see that after what we've witnessed in Lawrence over the last couple of years, when it was clear that there wasn't a "all for one and one for all" mentality.

I said after watching Late Night how I loved how unselfish this team is and that clearly has been a constant this season as they are all maturing together and becoming a very solid team. They truly are starting to care more about the name on the FRONT of the jersey instead of the one on the BACK.

And major kudos have to go to Bill Self and his staff for fostering that kind of environment and getting the kids to buy in.

I'm starting to believe we are witnessing a very, very special Kansas Basketball team.

Under the Radar

I just finished checking all of the major sports web sites and couldn't find one mention of KU's win in Ames, their 10th win in 12 games. We lead the nation in FG%, we've won 3 conference road games, our last home game was a dismantling of Nebraska, and our losses have been by a total of less than 20 points. Yet NO ONE is talking about Kansas on the national scene, unless they are talking about us potentially missing the NCAA tournament.

I, for one, LOVE IT. While the "experts" are slobbering all over Texas and Oklahoma, KU is putting together a very dangerous postseason team.

By the way, Digger Phelps yesterday on the GameDay set said his hottest team in college basketball was Texas. Nice call, idiot. That goes nicely with your call that ISU would beat Kansas because Kansas is "too young".

All Streaks Come to an End

I'm not too upset about this loss. The streak had to end some time and everyone knew that KSU's best chance in a long time was this season. I hadn't said it on the list, but while I was happy with the winning streak and the win over CU on the road, I was under no impression that this team was going to be a buzzsaw the rest of the way. Self has talked about all season how this team can labor to score. We had 3 pts. in the final 8:45 of the first half when we could have buried K-State. But just before that drought, they scored about 10 points in 3 minutes. They have spurtability and it all comes from their defense. But when they slack off on defense, it slows down their offense almost to a crawl.

It's a loss and it sucks, but there is no time to sulk because we have the morons on Monday.

I will say that I hope Self has himself and all of the big men on the treadmill at this very moment.

And there is no excuse for us going for 2 with 9 seconds left.

Sometimes the ball bounces your way. Sometimes it doesn't. And sometimes it bounces of Brandon Rush's face.