Weber’s most important recruiting class will be forever remembered by next three games

The predictable result predictably happened but somehow it feels more meaningful. Like this might last. Those feelings are often lies. The best part of sports is being caught in the moment, but being caught in the moment is a rotten way to navigate through something as confusing as this Big 12 basketball race.

“You shouldn’t put too much emphasis on tonight,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “But we did kind of grow up tonight.”

KU beat K-State 64-49 with a motivation foreign in a program that’s won at least a share of the last 14 league titles: desperation.

K-State may very well be the better team, but this was a classic trap — Allen Fieldhouse, at its loudest and most involved, 48 hours after KU…