Let's get it on

Stay focused .. stay healthy .. Enjoy the ride .. Rock Chalk

The thing I don't understand is why we were scheduled to play so early in the day. Usually aren't we scheduled for a night game in the first and second rounds?

Here we go baby!! Let the madness begin.

Good to see B-Rush aggressive early on despite the missed three to start.

Anyone know where I can get a live feed? I can't get lazer to work.

Try 610Sports.com.

My only beef so far is that KU seems to be getting outrebounded. Otherwise, great energy and solid play to begin the game.

we look hungry!

Shady is in what Julian Wright used to call "beast mode".

Uh-oh, we're getting into a "trading buckets" game with PSU now...

CBS Sportsline sign-up for On Demand and get video.

Great follow by BR.

cbs doing it usual lousy job of staying with a ku game. as bad as lazer.com

At least On Demand is working better at cbssports.com than espn last week. Very little hiccups in the feed.

KU is playing perhaps as good of basketball as they have all year.

Are we looking at a 100-point game today?

Would have to say they aren't looking past PSU. Look to be very focused on this game. 49-26 at the half. Rush and Colins with great game.

looks like i,ll have to go on internet vip list early to beat cbs tv. do you supose N.C. and duke put up with this crud from cbs

The refs seem to be letting them play and bump a bit for the most part, and still keeping it under control.
Hightower is doing the Xavier game. Wonder how that is going?

KU usually places in the later game, but this time KSU/USC are in Omaha and that freshman duel gets the prime-time slot and since we're not in the same "pod," we get the early game. It's ok, the game's gonna be a massacre at this point anyway.

For those wanting to watch the game on computer - go to NCAA.com/MMOD and you can watch a live feed. It's working well for me.

All three games going on right now have the losing team with 26 points at half. Weird.

Hey did you all hear that K-State and Michael Beasley are playing USC and OJ Mayo later tonight? I really wish that would have been publicized more. I wouldn't have scheduled my dog's bath for that time.

Just for that, I hope the freshmen get schooled and CBS loses their gamble!

Aldrich needs to get some more playing time in this blow out.

Georgia now by 11 over Xavier.

Im not in Kansas right now and they are showing the Georgia-Xavier game. What are they showing in Kansas?

Incidentally, the stream on cbs.sportsline.com SUCKS!

They are showing the KU game jross.

now we're getting sloppy.

Sportsline working much better for me than ESPN last week. But then we in "da bayou" don't get many KU games so any we can watch in any kind of condition is good. lol

our free throw shooting is atrocious. 6-12.

Who's got a good link to listen to the game??? I need help here!

I know Kaun has never been a good free throw shooter but 1/6 today?

Abysmal!

tis4tim....

Take away Kaun and the team is 5/7 on free throws.

and he isn't close either. the last one bricked hard off the backboard.

Darnell!

way to go cbs i have not seen 1 sec of 2nd half yet on my sat. tv.

People love to bitch about Sasha every time he struggles at the line. Quit f'ing crying about it.

i think our team has lost interest in this one.

And they've gotten the interest right back, because the team is back to its first half form.

Lebowski...

Pointing out facts doesn't equal crying.

it's nice to see Case get some playing time in the tourney...and that pass inside to Aldritch was pretty nice.

Thank goodness we built a 23 point lead in the first half. Portland is on the verge of out scoring us in the second, inexcusable!

Wait, correction, we outscore Portland by 1 in the second half.

No upset of a #1 seed on our watch. Good to know we won't have that distinction this year. The team looks incredible, I wish we could play again right away to take advantage of this groove.

I guess I'll chalk up that poor second half to the huge first half lead...

Survive and advance. Five more to go!

Good game guys.

Get some rest, get ready for Saturday and a trip to the Sweet 16!

NOT one sec of the 2nd half shown on the west coast. just two east coast teams that are going nowhere. we are cutting away for a more meaningful game was their excuse.
FIRE LEW PERKINS!!!!!!! or get him to get espn and cbs to show more respect to a nationwide audience.
if i paid out huge sums of money to advertise a KANSAS game and you show ga. and X instead i,d get my lawyers ready to sue.
cammon lew perkins get with your JOB!!!!
if i was a poss. recruit on the west coast i,d never see ku play.

For those with problems with the streaming video problems (CBS or ESPN), you might try ncaa.com. May not be much better for you as my suspicion is it is not the source that is the problem. I find DSL to be crap. T1 line here at work and no problems.

LOVED that first half......... guess we didn't HAVE to play with the intensity in the 2nd but i still wish we would have!! alot of difference between 49-26 and 36-35..... wow. oh well......1 down and 5 to go..... hope we have a good ride!! need to practice those free throws.... did NOT like to see that at all but hope it will improve.... glad to see some of the bench get to play..... would like to see them again, too!! anyway, ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK!!!

USA Today's website has a great article about the game, here are a couple of hightlights:

"Not everything went Kansas' way. With the clock running down on the first half, Chalmers grabbed a loose ball and launched a 60-footer that caught the backboard and rim but bounced away as the predominantly Jayhawks crowd let out a collective, ``Ooooooh.'' Their team had to settle for a 49-26 lead at the break"

And:
"The second half was academic, though Kansas got a chance to have more fun above the rim against a team that mostly played below it...It's not an official stat, but in case you were wondering: The Jayhawks went 7-for-8 on dunks overall, the only miss coming when Rush botched an alley-oop pass."

Where is the link to streaming video feed at NCAA.com?

I wish we would have used the second half to rest more of our regulars. We have a potentially very physical game coming up with UNLV or Kent State (Kent State especially). I would have preferred to rest guys than try to push the lead past 30. The last 7 minutes of the game I kept asking my friends why guys like Rush and Robinson and Arthur were still in the game.

UNLV is dominating Kent State, their guard can penetrate at will and dish out to their outside shooters. A man-to-man defense is more appropriate to guard UNLV, it will be a good game.

KU shooting 46% (7-15) from the free throw line isn't going to get the job done in the later rounds. Kaun has to do better. Let's leave those numbers up to Memphis.

Man, Kent State cannot get anything going in the 1st half.

10 points for Kent State in the first half. Tied for lowest first half total ever.

Strikewso,
The streaming link on the NCAA website is on the upper right just below the page banner (WATCH OR LISTEN TO NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES). you will have to register the first time but it is free.

NH JHawk...i couldn't agree more. our performance from the line was absolutely repulsive, and will not suffice...even in the second round!!! 46.7%?? terrible!!!

on another note...winning means moving on...five more to go boys!!!!

ROCK CHALK

I'm willing to bet that the free throw shooting will be fine. Kaun didn't do well and contributed 5 misses, so the team did pretty well. Kaun will get going and do well, we will all see. Great game to watch. Like others above have said, 5 more to go. I can't wait until Saturday!!!!

It is odd that the first three losers in the tourney only had 61 points!! Be creepy if that continues.

Speedy - have you calmed down? Do you realize how silly your comment sounds now? You think 1 AD is going to influence the billion dollar industry that this tournament is? Get MMOD and watch it on your computer if you can't see the game. CBS has done this for years and they'll keep doing it for years. Blowouts mean no coverage, unless there are no other games on - it's a fact of life in the tournament and anyone who calls for Lew Perkins' head after the year this athletic department has had, really needs to start thinking and not just running their mouth.

BannerforKirk ... Sadly what you say about cbs is true .. I did end up watching the game on my computer. Directv has there $70 tourn coverage but the only problem is our CBS station advertised the KU game so Directv had to black it out. Didn't make any difference that they were not showing the game (per Directv). CBS has done this year after year with games and unless you are in the local market you can count on not seeing any Blowouts or even close game if the national higherups think you would rather see the UNC, KY, UCLA teams... And you are correct its not going to stop sadly... I just resign myself to getting the game on my computer and take less tums....

if i do not bitch about espn and cbs coverage who will? you ? you mamypambys.

Wouldn't it be hilarious if Lew Perkins did get fired for the game not being aired on the west coast? It would make a lot of guys think twice about applying for the job...

BCraven, thanks for the info, I'm good now.

The free throws should be fine, it's hard to complain about them in a blowout like this. Sasha needs to come up big against UNLV since they have a small lineup.

Another note: not a single upset so far, that is a little odd. Hope the trend continues at least to the Final 4!

i thot the 61 points in the first 3 games was kinda creepy and odd...... they also each had 26 at halftime!! wow. can't believe no upsets either....... okay for ku but would like to see some others!!! should we worry about unlv?? think it COULD be a pretty tough game....... hope we are ready for them!! ksu looking good so far against usc.......

8 straight hours of basketball so far and I'm still going strong. I LOVE MARCH MADNESS!

Now Duke has run into a killer "B", Belmont! 1:02 to go Bruins 70, Blue Devils 69. Go Belmont!!!

duke is going to survive ....... wow, what a game. and ksu wins big..... what happened to usc?????

Too bad, Duke pulled it out in a squeaker. A&M wins. Go Turg!

big 12 is looking good!! that's ok as long as our hawks go farther than the rest of them, huh?? think i could have enjoyed that belmont win that ALMOST happened even though it sure would have screwed with our brackets!!

speedy your an idiot for wanting Lew fired. He's the best thing that has happened at KU in a long time

Unibrow and the ghost of Jack Hartman would like nothing better than spoiling KU's season.

It shouldn't be close, but I have a feeling this is going to be a very tough game. KU is do for an off night from three, or we would probably crush them. UniLV will be playing Jack and Eddie Ball and this will be one of these incredibly weird games where both teams are playing take what they give us and trying to let the other team set the tempo for a brief period until they realize the other team is giving them the tempo and then they will BOTH try to set the tempo. It will be like playing aTm last year with Gillispie and Self mirroring each other and then looking for matchups until a match up edge forces the other team to make an adjustment, which leaves the other team to take what the adjustment gives them, and so on. Basically the team that can rebound better and has a bit of a hot hand when needed wins, regardless of how deep, or good either team is.

is anyone else tired of us never getting shouts on sportscenter or anything.....all they ever talk about is DUKE DUKE DUKE DUKE.....UCLA UCLA UCLA......we got like 2 highlights.....can they not say hey Kansas is impressive.....Kansas looks poised to make a deep run......or even UNLV will give matchup problems because.......its a bunch of BS....sorry about the rant but i want to see the hawks get some love.....and not kevin love at all