On Saturday, for the first time since the final regular-season game of the 2004 season, Kansas will take the floor without a chance to win a conference men’s basketball championship.
One contest remains on the Jayhawks’ Big 12 schedule and because they lost to Oklahoma 81-68 on Tuesday night, KU is eliminated from the title chase.
For the previous 14 years, that was every other team’s situation, or all but the four that shared the championship with Kansas during that time. For every Big 12 game KU played in that span a title was on the line or already clinched.