Notes, quotes and comments while wondering how many of the KU students who wielded those noisy inflatable “Thundersticks” at the Missouri game the other night will bring them back for Colorado on Saturday.
Speaking of Colorado, I don’t foresee a pleasant Allen Fieldhouse reception for CU freshman David Harrison, whose lip went loose after Kansas thumped the Buffs a few weeks ago in Boulder.
Asked to describe the atmosphere in AFH, Missouri’s Arthur Johnson he of the no-dunk, on-your-fanny funk replied succinctly: “Loud for 40 minutes. I couldn’t hear sometimes.”
Paul Pierce is the first former Kansas University basketball player since Danny Manning in 1994 to earn a berth in the NBA all-star game. Manning earned the berth as a member of the Los Angeles Clippers.
Yes, you’re right. Former KU teammate Raef LaFrentz was selected before Pierce in the NBA Draft. LaFrentz, probably playing his last season for the Denver Nuggets, has had a spotty pro career so far.
Surviving members of the 1952 NCAA championship team will be recognized at halftime of Saturday’s Colorado game. Fifty years. Long time. Hard to believe they played their home games in front of a stage in old Hoch Auditorium.
One member of that ’52 team was, of course, Dean Smith who, if he had any Joe Paterno or Bobby Bowden in him, would probably still be head coach at North Carolina.
Have any two KU basketball players ever improved as much over a three-year period as Drew Gooden and Kirk Hinrich? Missouri’s Quin Snyder called them the two best players in the league. As freshmen, Gooden played like he hadn’t had a day of coaching in his life while Hinrich looked like he left his muscles in the locker room before tipoff.
KU reserve forward Bryant Nash, who had never made a three-point goal until the Texas A&M game, swished another trey just two days later against Missouri. Can Colorado stop the torrid soph? Or are the Buffs just hoping to slow him down?
Interesting to see Kim Anderson, the Big 12’s director of basketball operations, at the KU-MU game. Twenty-five years ago this month, Anderson was wearing a Missouri uniform in Allen Fieldhouse and was one of the protagonists in a disturbance that resulted in the ejection of KU’s Donnie Von Moore and MU’s Jim Kennedy. Anderson had a brief joust with KU’s John Douglas.
After that game KU won, 77-72 MU coach Norm Stewart grumbled that he and two players were struck by Kansas fans as they left the floor. Said Stewart: “We were attacked. We had people hit. I was pushed. The verbal abuse was ridiculous.”
Darned KU fans. They just wouldn’t leave Stewart alone.
Do you think the major networks wish now they had picked up the Kansas-Texas Tech game? Bob Knight and the Red Raiders will be here a week from Saturday. It’s one of those 3 p.m. games on the Big 12 network.
What does Wayne Simien have in common with KU’s football tight ends? No, it isn’t size. It’s pass-catching inconsistency.
Uneasy rests the crown of preseason Big 12 player of the year on the head of Missouri junior Kareem Rush. Right now it appears Rush has Bernard King Disease. Like the Texas A&M guard, Rush has fallen into the bad habit of launching too many forced shots.
Still, Rush and King are the two best players on the Big 12’s All-Southpaw team. Meanwhile, KU’s Keith Langford is a leading candidate for Southpaw Freshman of the Year.
Will Iowa State become the first Big 12 team to go from first to worst? The two-time defending champion Cyclones have some quality front-line players, but Larry Eustachy’s bench is as thin as a corn grower’s profit margin.
Is it possible next Monday night’s Kansas-Kansas State game in Bramlage Coliseum won’t be a sellout? Two factors are involved. One, KSU fans are currently enamored with their women’s team. And, two, the ‘Cats haven’t defeated KU in Manhattan since the Treaty of Ghent.
Notes, quotes and comments while wondering how many of the KU students who wielded those noisy inflatable “Thundersticks” at the Missouri game the other night will bring them back for Colorado on Saturday.
Speaking of Colorado, I don’t foresee a pleasant Allen Fieldhouse reception for CU freshman David Harrison, whose lip went loose after Kansas thumped the Buffs a few weeks ago in Boulder.
Asked to describe the atmosphere in AFH, Missouri’s Arthur Johnson he of the no-dunk, on-your-fanny funk replied succinctly: “Loud for 40 minutes. I couldn’t hear sometimes.”
Paul Pierce is the first former Kansas University basketball player since Danny Manning in 1994 to earn a berth in the NBA all-star game. Manning earned the berth as a member of the Los Angeles Clippers.
Yes, you’re right. Former KU teammate Raef LaFrentz was selected before Pierce in the NBA Draft. LaFrentz, probably playing his last season for the Denver Nuggets, has had a spotty pro career so far.
Surviving members of the 1952 NCAA championship team will be recognized at halftime of Saturday’s Colorado game. Fifty years. Long time. Hard to believe they played their home games in front of a stage in old Hoch Auditorium.
One member of that ’52 team was, of course, Dean Smith who, if he had any Joe Paterno or Bobby Bowden in him, would probably still be head coach at North Carolina.
Have any two KU basketball players ever improved as much over a three-year period as Drew Gooden and Kirk Hinrich? Missouri’s Quin Snyder called them the two best players in the league. As freshmen, Gooden played like he hadn’t had a day of coaching in his life while Hinrich looked like he left his muscles in the locker room before tipoff.
KU reserve forward Bryant Nash, who had never made a three-point goal until the Texas A&M game, swished another trey just two days later against Missouri. Can Colorado stop the torrid soph? Or are the Buffs just hoping to slow him down?
Interesting to see Kim Anderson, the Big 12’s director of basketball operations, at the KU-MU game. Twenty-five years ago this month, Anderson was wearing a Missouri uniform in Allen Fieldhouse and was one of the protagonists in a disturbance that resulted in the ejection of KU’s Donnie Von Moore and MU’s Jim Kennedy. Anderson had a brief joust with KU’s John Douglas.
After that game KU won, 77-72 MU coach Norm Stewart grumbled that he and two players were struck by Kansas fans as they left the floor. Said Stewart: “We were attacked. We had people hit. I was pushed. The verbal abuse was ridiculous.”
Darned KU fans. They just wouldn’t leave Stewart alone.
Do you think the major networks wish now they had picked up the Kansas-Texas Tech game? Bob Knight and the Red Raiders will be here a week from Saturday. It’s one of those 3 p.m. games on the Big 12 network.
What does Wayne Simien have in common with KU’s football tight ends? No, it isn’t size. It’s pass-catching inconsistency.
Uneasy rests the crown of preseason Big 12 player of the year on the head of Missouri junior Kareem Rush. Right now it appears Rush has Bernard King Disease. Like the Texas A&M guard, Rush has fallen into the bad habit of launching too many forced shots.
Still, Rush and King are the two best players on the Big 12’s All-Southpaw team. Meanwhile, KU’s Keith Langford is a leading candidate for Southpaw Freshman of the Year.
Will Iowa State become the first Big 12 team to go from first to worst? The two-time defending champion Cyclones have some quality front-line players, but Larry Eustachy’s bench is as thin as a corn grower’s profit margin.
Is it possible next Monday night’s Kansas-Kansas State game in Bramlage Coliseum won’t be a sellout? Two factors are involved. One, KSU fans are currently enamored with their women’s team. And, two, the ‘Cats haven’t defeated KU in Manhattan since the Treaty of Ghent.
Notes, quotes and comments while wondering how many of the KU students who wielded those noisy inflatable “Thundersticks” at the Missouri game the other night will bring them back for Colorado on Saturday.
Speaking of Colorado, I don’t foresee a pleasant Allen Fieldhouse reception for CU freshman David Harrison, whose lip went loose after Kansas thumped the Buffs a few weeks ago in Boulder.
Asked to describe the atmosphere in AFH, Missouri’s Arthur Johnson he of the no-dunk, on-your-fanny funk replied succinctly: “Loud for 40 minutes. I couldn’t hear sometimes.”
Paul Pierce is the first former Kansas University basketball player since Danny Manning in 1994 to earn a berth in the NBA all-star game. Manning earned the berth as a member of the Los Angeles Clippers.
Yes, you’re right. Former KU teammate Raef LaFrentz was selected before Pierce in the NBA Draft. LaFrentz, probably playing his last season for the Denver Nuggets, has had a spotty pro career so far.
Surviving members of the 1952 NCAA championship team will be recognized at halftime of Saturday’s Colorado game. Fifty years. Long time. Hard to believe they played their home games in front of a stage in old Hoch Auditorium.
One member of that ’52 team was, of course, Dean Smith who, if he had any Joe Paterno or Bobby Bowden in him, would probably still be head coach at North Carolina.
Have any two KU basketball players ever improved as much over a three-year period as Drew Gooden and Kirk Hinrich? Missouri’s Quin Snyder called them the two best players in the league. As freshmen, Gooden played like he hadn’t had a day of coaching in his life while Hinrich looked like he left his muscles in the locker room before tipoff.
KU reserve forward Bryant Nash, who had never made a three-point goal until the Texas A&M game, swished another trey just two days later against Missouri. Can Colorado stop the torrid soph? Or are the Buffs just hoping to slow him down?
Interesting to see Kim Anderson, the Big 12’s director of basketball operations, at the KU-MU game. Twenty-five years ago this month, Anderson was wearing a Missouri uniform in Allen Fieldhouse and was one of the protagonists in a disturbance that resulted in the ejection of KU’s Donnie Von Moore and MU’s Jim Kennedy. Anderson had a brief joust with KU’s John Douglas.
After that game KU won, 77-72 MU coach Norm Stewart grumbled that he and two players were struck by Kansas fans as they left the floor. Said Stewart: “We were attacked. We had people hit. I was pushed. The verbal abuse was ridiculous.”
Darned KU fans. They just wouldn’t leave Stewart alone.
Do you think the major networks wish now they had picked up the Kansas-Texas Tech game? Bob Knight and the Red Raiders will be here a week from Saturday. It’s one of those 3 p.m. games on the Big 12 network.
What does Wayne Simien have in common with KU’s football tight ends? No, it isn’t size. It’s pass-catching inconsistency.
Uneasy rests the crown of preseason Big 12 player of the year on the head of Missouri junior Kareem Rush. Right now it appears Rush has Bernard King Disease. Like the Texas A&M guard, Rush has fallen into the bad habit of launching too many forced shots.
Still, Rush and King are the two best players on the Big 12’s All-Southpaw team. Meanwhile, KU’s Keith Langford is a leading candidate for Southpaw Freshman of the Year.
Will Iowa State become the first Big 12 team to go from first to worst? The two-time defending champion Cyclones have some quality front-line players, but Larry Eustachy’s bench is as thin as a corn grower’s profit margin.
Is it possible next Monday night’s Kansas-Kansas State game in Bramlage Coliseum won’t be a sellout? Two factors are involved. One, KSU fans are currently enamored with their women’s team. And, two, the ‘Cats haven’t defeated KU in Manhattan since the Treaty of Ghent.
Notes, quotes and comments while wondering how many of the KU students who wielded those noisy inflatable “Thundersticks” at the Missouri game the other night will bring them back for Colorado on Saturday.
Speaking of Colorado, I don’t foresee a pleasant Allen Fieldhouse reception for CU freshman David Harrison, whose lip went loose after Kansas thumped the Buffs a few weeks ago in Boulder.
Asked to describe the atmosphere in AFH, Missouri’s Arthur Johnson he of the no-dunk, on-your-fanny funk replied succinctly: “Loud for 40 minutes. I couldn’t hear sometimes.”
Paul Pierce is the first former Kansas University basketball player since Danny Manning in 1994 to earn a berth in the NBA all-star game. Manning earned the berth as a member of the Los Angeles Clippers.
Yes, you’re right. Former KU teammate Raef LaFrentz was selected before Pierce in the NBA Draft. LaFrentz, probably playing his last season for the Denver Nuggets, has had a spotty pro career so far.
Surviving members of the 1952 NCAA championship team will be recognized at halftime of Saturday’s Colorado game. Fifty years. Long time. Hard to believe they played their home games in front of a stage in old Hoch Auditorium.
One member of that ’52 team was, of course, Dean Smith who, if he had any Joe Paterno or Bobby Bowden in him, would probably still be head coach at North Carolina.
Have any two KU basketball players ever improved as much over a three-year period as Drew Gooden and Kirk Hinrich? Missouri’s Quin Snyder called them the two best players in the league. As freshmen, Gooden played like he hadn’t had a day of coaching in his life while Hinrich looked like he left his muscles in the locker room before tipoff.
KU reserve forward Bryant Nash, who had never made a three-point goal until the Texas A&M game, swished another trey just two days later against Missouri. Can Colorado stop the torrid soph? Or are the Buffs just hoping to slow him down?
Interesting to see Kim Anderson, the Big 12’s director of basketball operations, at the KU-MU game. Twenty-five years ago this month, Anderson was wearing a Missouri uniform in Allen Fieldhouse and was one of the protagonists in a disturbance that resulted in the ejection of KU’s Donnie Von Moore and MU’s Jim Kennedy. Anderson had a brief joust with KU’s John Douglas.
After that game KU won, 77-72 MU coach Norm Stewart grumbled that he and two players were struck by Kansas fans as they left the floor. Said Stewart: “We were attacked. We had people hit. I was pushed. The verbal abuse was ridiculous.”
Darned KU fans. They just wouldn’t leave Stewart alone.
Do you think the major networks wish now they had picked up the Kansas-Texas Tech game? Bob Knight and the Red Raiders will be here a week from Saturday. It’s one of those 3 p.m. games on the Big 12 network.
What does Wayne Simien have in common with KU’s football tight ends? No, it isn’t size. It’s pass-catching inconsistency.
Uneasy rests the crown of preseason Big 12 player of the year on the head of Missouri junior Kareem Rush. Right now it appears Rush has Bernard King Disease. Like the Texas A&M guard, Rush has fallen into the bad habit of launching too many forced shots.
Still, Rush and King are the two best players on the Big 12’s All-Southpaw team. Meanwhile, KU’s Keith Langford is a leading candidate for Southpaw Freshman of the Year.
Will Iowa State become the first Big 12 team to go from first to worst? The two-time defending champion Cyclones have some quality front-line players, but Larry Eustachy’s bench is as thin as a corn grower’s profit margin.
Is it possible next Monday night’s Kansas-Kansas State game in Bramlage Coliseum won’t be a sellout? Two factors are involved. One, KSU fans are currently enamored with their women’s team. And, two, the ‘Cats haven’t defeated KU in Manhattan since the Treaty of Ghent.
