Before we get to the real and personal reason Kansas and Missouri will finally play a men’s basketball game, we should address the question you are probably wondering:
Does playing an exhibition on Sunday, Oct. 22 at Sprint Center to benefit disaster relief mean they will soon play a real basketball game?
Bill Self, the KU coach and currently the most influential man on either campus, answered that question directly.
“It doesn’t have anything to do with playing Missouri,” he said. “Not one thing with playing Missouri.”
But, consciously or not, he also answered the question as purely, rawly and honestly as he possibly could when referencing why he had to tell his players about the game on Thursday instead of after the game became official on Friday.