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Kansas is NCAA champion
Jayhawks follow Manning to 83-79 win over Oklahoma
Seems Danny Manning, basketball-player deluxe, is also a poet. And not a bad one at that. Get a load of the verse Kansas’ 6-10 senior recited moments after the Jayhawks’ resounding 83-79 national championship — sounds sweet, doesn’t it? — victory over Oklahoma on Monday night at Kemper Arena: “To all the people who said it coulldn’t be done … we’re national champions, we’re No. 1 … how do you like us now?” bellowed Manning, who somehow mustered the energy to create rhyme, following his one-for-the-ages 31-point, career-high 18-rebound effort.
1988: Notebook
Kansas senior Danny Manning and coach Larry Brown were scheduled to fly to Los Angles this morning for Wooden Award festivities.
1988: We’re Number 1
83-79 win over Oklahoma prompts noisy celebration
They boogied in the streets. They set what must be a world record for slapping palms in high-fives, they climbed lightpoles, they chugged beer, twined toilet paper in tree limbs and howled at the nearly full moon.
KU players waiting for win to sink in
He was the only Kansas basketball player who didn’t step on the floor during the NCAA championship game. Marvin Mattox didn’t care, though.
Bedore: Woodling: Yes, Budig was happy; no, Johnson’s no OU fan
The digital clocks high up in Kemper Arena read 10:09 p.m. when the scoreboard clock hit :00 and Kansas became the NCAA basketball champion. We will have that moment to remember … and we will also have other moments.