At the start of this brutal three-game stretch to open conference play against Texas Tech, West Virginia, and Texas, I sent a text to a friend of mine (and fellow KU diehard) that said if Kansas wins two of three, I’d take it.
That’s what happened, but the way that loss on Saturday took place changes the perception a bit. It’s impossible for it not to change things. There’s no use dwelling on the game and what went wrong. There’s already been plenty of time for that. The question is what comes next. Because how Kansas comes out the next time it takes the court will speak to if this team has the potential we thought it did and if the Texas game was an outlier of sorts—the Longhorns couldn’t miss, Kansas couldn’t finish anything, and the long holiday break seemed to hit the Jayhawks hard.