Jayhawks Have Buffs Blue

I say people people come on and check it out now
You see the mic in my hand now watch me wreck it now...

As the Kansas faithful broke into their "waves of wheat" victory chant in the last two seconds of last night's CU-KU hoops game, Buff faithful said their own waves of goodbye to the Hawks. Some of them might've been the one-fingered variety.

Throughout the history of the Big 12, the Buffs have only beat the Jayhawks once. When Stephan Pelle hit a late jumper in 2003 to lift Cu to their only win that wasn't a sign of things to come, but a mere hiccup in KU's dominance of the series in Bouder (for that matter they've dominated in Kansas, Dallas, Edmonton, the parking lot behind Hooters, wherever.)

It stretchs even futher, back to the old Big 8 (you know, the quaint Midwest consortium before the Texas mucky mucks got involved) where KU also stuck it to the Black and Gold. 22 years is how far I go back in this series and only in 03 did I witness a win. Billy Law missing free throws in the early 90s, Chauncey and crew unable to beat them on Super Bowl Sunday in 97, last year's and this year's edition with two NBAers couldn't do it.

Unlike our former football foils Nebraska, I might actually miss the smug KU fans, for it was one of the few times per year the Foam Doam was actually rocking (the best part of last night's game was letting a Hawk fan know that you could in fact get a beer in the Coors Event Center, that you had to go to the basement through a nearly secret staircase to imbibe. She looked at us like Pee Wee's bike was hidden in the basement of the Alamo.)

But unlike the three previous coaches who came through Boulder (how's Wake going for you Jeff?) Coach Boyle might actually have something brewing with the long suffering hoops program. A new facility is opening, sellouts are more frequent, three blue chippers are incoming along with some size and a Utah transfer, Andre Roberson is a beast, and Boyle has the pedigree. Rock Chalk bye bye, it's time to put the fun back in the Foam Dome without the blue.

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