So this is how the end of an era, or at least a radical outlier, looks:
As a whirlwind Auburn team seized a 20-9 lead over Kansas on another fast-break three-pointer by Bryce Brown in their NCAA Tournament Midwest Regional game on Saturday at Vivint Smart Home Arena, KU coach Bill Self stood in a hapless, hopeless pose on the sideline. Exasperation radiating from his red face, he turned one way and then another. He seemed to start to speak to no one in particular as he perhaps sought an answer out of the literally thin air here.