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Ugly Brawl With Rival K-State Shines Another Embarrassing Light on Self, Kansas

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The Kansas Jayhawks extended their national lead in bad optics Tuesday night. Will the university choose to do something about it this time?

There was Silvio De Sousa, of all players, holding a stool over his head, ready to commit assault and battery amid an astonishing brawl at the end of a blowout of rival Kansas State. Someone intervened, grabbing it out of his hands, and he was stopped short of potentially doing grievous harm to someone. But the image will be the most indelible in a string of embarrassing ones for a blueblood program.