KU plays the game of its life to get to the NCAA Final

Best head­line so far this morn­ing is from the local guys, “KU cools heels.”  Fol­lowed closely by the sub­head, “Kansas beats tar out of UNC.”  I’m sure sports­writ­ers who cover Car­olina all the time have used these before, but this was my first expo­sure to it.

In case you missed it, read this recap of the game by Stew­art Man­del of SI.  And this arti­cle by Pat Forde of ESPN is an excel­lent sum­mary of the good and the bad of the game.

We could hardly believe it.  Those first fif­teen min­utes were pure agony.  Kansas ended that run up 40–12, and Tiffany and I were hor­ri­fied.  All sea­son we have had a way of blow­ing huge leads like that, of get­ting incred­i­bly sloppy and nearly los­ing games.  Of show­ing how ter­ri­bly imma­ture we can be.  So a lead like that ter­ri­fied us.  And rightly so.

But unlike all those years at Iowa, when Steve Alford would take a bad sit­u­a­tion, coach his guys, and make it worse, Bill Self is actu­ally a good coach.  He reset the game after UNC’s stun­ning come­back, and had the guys play­ing well again.

I admit that I have not seen Mem­phis play all year, but from what I read and hear, they can beat us.  And maybe they even should beat us.  Just like Carolina.

On the “We Hate Roy Williams” front, even after being beaten by his for­mer team, he report­edly spent a while on the River Walk in San Anto­nio last night, pos­ing for pic­tures with Kansas fans and even spend­ing a lit­tle time at a Kansas-fested restau­rant, chat­ting with any and all.  If noth­ing else, that shows the idiocy of this sup­posed bitterness.

See you Mon­day night (or Tues­day morn­ing, more like).