Filed under: Recap | Tags: Big 12 Conference, Bill Self, Jayhawk, kansas, Oklahoma, TCU Horned Frogs, Texas Christian University, Topeka YMCA
See the title? They beat us in a game that they deserved to win, so I can’t kill them with a bullshit hate-name. Good job, TCU, you deserved to win.
This is a dead-eyed, soulless team with no passion, no charisma. We deserved to lose last night. We’ve deserved to lose a few others so far this season, but somehow we were able to come away with victories. Last night was not one of those miraculous wins. It was the culmination of all the things we saw game in, game out, writ large. It was also the most brain-crushingly disastrous game I’ve ever seen us play. And that’s saying a lot.
Final Score: Kansas 55, TCU 62
The Good: This season seems to be all about snapping streaks, so why not throw 264 games without consecutive losses out the window. Good job, boys. You’ll be remembered by this writer for all the streaks you helped end. Aren’t small numbers easier to remember anyway?
The Bad: Oh, I don’t know…maybe it’s the fact that we lost to the worst team in the Big XII X XII, a team that’s in the conversation for worst in all college hoops. What could be worse than that? Well, aside from the void of enthusiasm on this year’s team. That’s actually the more devestating takeaway from this one. No one on our team gives a shit. Which begs the question, why should I?
Withering Bill Self Quote of the Night: Toupee seemed disoriented after this one, convinced that he was coaching a rec league team:
“It was the worst team that Kansas ever put on the floor, since Dr. Naismith was there. I think he had some bad teams when he lost to Topeka YMCA and things like that in the first couple years.”
Of whatever.
JCTD Award: Get the fuck out of here. No one deserves anything after that performance.
Looking Ahead: Oklahoma, a team we beat by like thirteen. Which makes it seem like we were in control of that one, when in reality, Oklahoma just sucked. I have zero confidence that we can actually win this game right now. Zero. So little confidence right now that I’m seriously debating not watching the game. It might make sense, given that I don’t have any KU shirts that isn’t soaking in the stink of defeat right now.
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