It was Sunday. It was cold, rainy and December in Kansas and 12,528 butts filled 12,528 seats inside Bramlage Coliseum. It was the highest attendance for any women’s basketball game anywhere in the country this season.
Yeah, it was the Wildcats against the No. 1-ranked and nationally vaunted UConn Huskies. As my good friend, and yours, Luke Thompson mentioned on Twitter, #ContextMatters. But the atmosphere was stellar for a squad that reached the second round of the NCAA tournament last season, will likely go again this year, and has pregame highlight packages backdropped with blankets of empty seats.