The public-service qualifier came seconds into Kansas coach Bill Self’s assessment of his team’s 87-53 dissection of Northeastern in a NCAA Tournament Midwest Regional first-round game on Thursday at Vivint Smart Home Arena.
“All it is,” he said, “is one game.”
Against a vastly overmatched foe, as it happened, and despite the trendy notion that fourth-seeded KU was susceptible to an upset against the No. 13 seed Huskies and their 3-point circus.
Instead, the Jayhawks muzzled the Huskies, who made just 16 of 57 field goals and were 6 of 28 from three-point range. And they put them in the rear-view mirror with a preposterous 50-16 advantage in the paint as Dedric Lawson romped for 25 points.