Kansas against a Pacific 12 team at the Sprint Center … what could possibly go wrong?
Echoing the last Jayhawks game that counted in this building, No. 2 KU on Wednesday was muzzled 74-65 by unranked and unheralded Washington.
It was the sort of disturbing loss that essentially offsets the impressive win over Kentucky in the Champions Classic, even if it was perhaps an inevitable lapse this time of year.
But on the flip side, as KU coach Bill Self likes to say, the nature of the defeat definitely begs questions about just how much fans can believe in this team right now.