Is newman gone for sure?
We should be good next year regardless… the tourney is a harsh mistress, and we got out played by a team that made three in tourney History We got blitzed… I was at the Boston garden last weekend and nova looked NOWHERE NEAR this good against WVU and TT.
Good luck Michigan… you’re going need it big time
@Buster-1926 And always remember to keep zipper open in case you need to count to 11
That’s what I must have remembered…? That curry was involved and I was petrified of him…
Now if we do win it all this year, Grayson’s In and out shot will defintely enter the the lore of great moments In KU B-ball history.
@mayjay Really ? Thanks for the clarification! That’s why this site is awesome… I do remember it being a real nail biter though
Can’t argue with you there 
And yes how could I forget the Villanova game… Wayne’s shot was uncontested… I though for sure it was going in. But their guards drained big time key shots late and we didn’t. Season over. Were they a better team than us? No. But They were better than us at the end of the game.
And yes indeed The ball bounces in crazy ways in the tourney… in 2008, Stephen curry with Davidson misses a three at the buzzer and we survive. (And I hear he’s a pretty good outside shooter. ) Then Derrick rose misses some key free throws… was it 3 of them? which keeps us In Reach of a last second trey that does go in. The margin of victory and thus history is SLIM
“WE ARE LUCKY IT MISSED BECAUSE IF HE MADE IT WE"D BE SEEING THAT SHOT REPLAYED BY CBS AND ESPN FOR THE NEXT MILLENIUM.”
Funny - time slowed down as that ball rolled around on the rim - felt like 10 minutes - I was holding my breath and a small voice in my head said “you will have to wake up every morning for the next 8 months with the image of Grayson #%~*!> Allen jumping up and down with glee “
THANK the everloving hoop gods it rolled out . Then I breathed and though “ hey - overtime … just like 2008 - we are going to win this “
True - funny how things can turn out (especially when you have a great coach )
Wonder what’s going thru Colby and Whitman’s head right now… what they could have been part of and contributed towards especially with the Preston sadness.
Yes good article about newman- I wonder how many top ranked kids and their parents would want this message. Self puts up with nothing. His way or highway. May be just easier to go to lesser school, play a lot during your one mandatory season, regardless of real improvement, protect the goods, and then declare. It says a lot about Newman and his dad that they both realized buying completely into HOFCBS was the path. And now Newman is our scoring, defense playing, hustling, passing, rebounding (did I say scoring?) stud. He was arguably my least favorite player this year… now I am sold. And in awe of him. Jayhawk for life even though he is gone after this year.
Not so with some of our other past raw talent guys who didn’t or couldnt buy in. The Brannon Greene’s etc.
True- newman did look, as you wrote about at length a while back, like a chemistry-killer bent on improving his NBA stock above all else.
He is now our stud scorer in the tourney on top of being a system guy.