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<\/p>\nI had a busy morning, so will blow through a few items from another rather laid-back weekend.<\/p>\n
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Saturday\u2019s regular season finale with Arizona summed up the season for KU.<\/p>\n
Nice start, only to fell apart when Hunter Dickinson went to the bench. Another solid run in the last 6\u20137 minutes of the first half on the verge of going up 16, only to give up a seven-point swing in the final minute to destroy their momentum.<\/p>\n
Then, in the second half, letting Arizona tie the game, stretching another nice lead out, then falling behind, and finally playing great in the last three minutes to win.<\/p>\n
All about wild mood swings, but at least they finally won a game against a good team by being the better side in the closing minutes.<\/p>\n
Dickinson was spectacular. KJ Adams\u2019 energy early carried the team. His lob dunk that put KU up by 7 late was the loudest I\u2019ve yelled all year.[1]<\/a> And Zeke Mayo found his mojo again.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not going to get too excited about this game, thinking they\u2019ve fixed their issues and are now dangerous in the NCAA tournament. I\u2019m just glad they figured it out and gave fans a fun game against a name opponent for the first time since November. More on that next week. A nice win to a frustrating regular season.<\/p>\n By the way, it drove me INSANE that ESPN said multiple times that this was the eighth straight year KU wore red uniforms on senior night. I was 1000% sure that was wrong, not because I remember every year clearly,[2]<\/a> but because I DID clearly recall the crazy Texas game in 2022, a game that I knew KU wore white for.<\/p>\n So I spent the first three timeouts of the game digging back through the six senior night games since this \u201ctradition\u201d allegedly began. KU indeed wore red in 2018. But then they wore white in 2019 and 2020. Red returned in 2021. White, as noted, in 2022. Then red the past two years. So, rather than an eight year streak, it was only three, and then five of eight.<\/p>\n Yet another sign of the dumbing down of ESPN. This is basic shit.<\/p>\n I was also a little bummed that the Lawrence Journal-World finally slapped a paywall on their KU coverage. I\u2019ve been reading their coverage since I was a student. It was a big deal to get an apartment and be able to have the city paper delivered, staying up on all the latest KU news that the campus paper didn\u2019t report. I\u2019ve been following their online coverage since whenever they first started posting on the web. Once upon a time I would have gladly paid for their coverage. But, like so much of print media, it has gotten dramatically worse in recent years. Where once a minimum of three writers covered each KU game, now it is one guy doing it all. And he\u2019s a young dude who tries hard but isn\u2019t all that great at his job.<\/p>\n Worse, with just one writer at games, the old \u201cnotebook\u201d stories that were a staple of postgame coverage have disappeared. Every sports fan knows the glory of the notebook pieces, a collection of blurbs no where important or deep enough for entire stories, but of high interest to the serious fan. These were the tidbits that insane people like me loved to digest. Hell, I (eventually) named this website after that concept!<\/p>\n In recent years the LJW started putting video of KU press conferences on YouTube. I\u2019ve found watching those are often more illuminating than one writer boiling them down to their basics. So the only thing I really garnered from them was looking at their photo galleries. A lot of their pictures have enhanced my posts over the years. I guess I\u2019ll have to search harder for those going forward.<\/p>\n This was sectional weekend on the boys side of basketball. To honor the occasion, I read a fantastic book about a key moment in Indiana high school basketball history. I\u2019ll get to that later this week or next.<\/p>\n The biggest upset in the state came in 3A, where #1 Cathedral lost in Friday\u2019s semifinals to their in-city rivals Crispus Attucks. It just so happened the book I read was about Attucks as well. Apparently the Irish were up 11 going into the fourth quarter and totally fell apart to lose by six. L was not super upset; she was glad the girls went further than the boys.<\/p>\n L was not at that game Friday. Instead she went with some friends and sat in a suite at the Big 10 tournament to watch the night games, which included eventual tournament champs UCLA.<\/p>\n She\u2019s a big fan of USC\u2019s JuJu Watkins, so was disappointed the Trojans had played during the afternoon session. She asked me if she could buy a shirt, and suggested it would be a tournament shirt. Then she arrived home with a nice, pretty expensive USC shirt. When the Trojans blew a 13 point lead and lost to UCLA in Sunday\u2019s championship game, I told her she had to burn the shirt. Those are the rules.<\/p>\n Super dumb that UCLA and USC traveled to Indianapolis to play for their conference championship. Can we fast forward 5\u201310 years when we go to two conferences with multiple, regional divisions and return some sanity to the games?<\/p>\n This winter has sucked. And by that I mean it\u2019s been pretty normal, which is mostly cold and dreary. A few really cold weeks but mostly just two months of temps in the 20s and 30s.<\/p>\n That finally broke on Sunday. It was only 60, but the sun was so warm it felt at least 10 degrees warmer. L actually got a little pink from sitting outside. The coming week will be in the 60s and 70s. Mother Nature surely has some tricks up her sleeves for the next eight weeks, but we\u2019re getting close, people, to shorts and t-shirts weather. Hang in there.<\/p>\n We\u2019re approaching the final countdown for C\u2019s senior year. She\u2019s trying to find a prom dress, which is turning out to be harder than last year for some reason. We just bought her senior ad for the yearbook. We\u2019re finalizing plans for which of her friends will be hanging out with us on spring break at the end of the month. And we\u2019re trying to figure out grad party plans. I believe she has eight weeks of classes left.<\/p>\n M accepted the offer for a summer internship in Cincinnati. She\u2019ll be working for a company that makes a variety of products, mostly in the hardware\/construction space. It\u2019s a marketing position but I\u2019m guessing she\u2019s going to have to learn way more about hardware than she knows now. And it pays pretty well, which is a bonus. She\u2019ll be home for two weeks in early May then head back to Cincy. Timing worked out perfectly and she was able to claim a sublease at a friend\u2019s apartment before another girl could.<\/p>\n L had her second post-op visit this morning. They cut off her first cast, removed her stitches, then re-casted her. Everything looked good and she\u2019s not feeling any pain. Seventeen days in this cast and then she\u2019ll switch to a boot.<\/p>\n We took advantage of the nice weather Sunday and did a seated shooting workout. She got about 180 shots up from various distances and rim-heights. She threw in some ball handling drills, as much as she could do around her chair.<\/p>\n I had a busy morning, so will blow through a few items from another rather laid-back weekend. Jayhawk Talk Saturday\u2019s regular season finale with Arizona summed up the season for KU. Nice start, only to fell apart when Hunter Dickinson went to the bench. Another solid run in the last 6\u20137 minutes of the first half on the verge of going up 16, only to give up a seven-point swing in the final minute to destroy their momentum. Then, in the second half, letting Arizona tie the game, stretching another nice lead out, then falling behind, and finally playing great in the last three minutes to win. All about wild mood swings, but at least they finally won a game against a good team by being the better side in the closing minutes. Dickinson was spectacular. KJ Adams\u2019 energy early carried the team. His lob dunk that put KU up by 7 late was the loudest I\u2019ve yelled all year.[1] And Zeke Mayo found his mojo again. I\u2019m not going to get too excited about this game, thinking they\u2019ve fixed their issues and are now dangerous in the NCAA tournament. I\u2019m just glad they figured it out and gave fans a fun game against a name opponent for the first time since November. More on that next week. A nice win to a frustrating regular season. By the way, it drove me INSANE that ESPN said multiple times that this was the eighth straight year KU wore red uniforms on senior night. I was 1000% sure that was wrong, not because I remember every year clearly,[2] but because I DID clearly recall the crazy Texas game in 2022, a game that I knew KU wore white for. So I spent the first three timeouts of the game digging back through the six senior night games since this \u201ctradition\u201d allegedly began. KU indeed wore red in 2018. But then they wore white in 2019 and 2020. Red returned in 2021. White, as noted, in 2022. Then red the past two years. So, rather than an eight year streak, it was only three, and then five of eight. Yet another sign of the dumbing down of ESPN. This is basic shit. I was also a little bummed that the Lawrence Journal-World finally slapped a paywall on their KU coverage. I\u2019ve been reading their coverage since I was a student. It was a big deal to get an apartment and be able to have the city paper delivered, staying up on all the latest KU news that the campus paper didn\u2019t report. I\u2019ve been following their online coverage since whenever they first started posting on the web. Once upon a time I would have gladly paid for their coverage. But, like so much of print media, it has gotten dramatically worse in recent years. Where once a minimum of three writers covered each KU game, now it is one guy doing it all. And he\u2019s a young dude who tries hard but isn\u2019t all that great at his job. Worse, with just one writer at games, the old \u201cnotebook\u201d stories that were a staple of postgame coverage have disappeared. Every sports fan knows the glory of the notebook pieces, a collection of blurbs no where important or deep enough for entire stories, but of high interest to the serious fan. These were the tidbits that insane people like me loved to digest. Hell, I (eventually) named this website after that concept! In recent years the LJW started putting video of KU press conferences on YouTube. I\u2019ve found watching those are often more illuminating than one writer boiling them down to their basics. So the only thing I really garnered from them was looking at their photo galleries. A lot of their pictures have enhanced my posts over the years. I guess I\u2019ll have to search harder for those going forward. HS Hoops This was sectional weekend on the boys side of basketball. To honor the occasion, I read a fantastic book about a key moment in Indiana high school basketball history. I\u2019ll get to that later this week or next. The biggest upset in the state came in 3A, where #1 Cathedral lost in Friday\u2019s semifinals to their in-city rivals Crispus Attucks. It just so happened the book I read was about Attucks as well. Apparently the Irish were up 11 going into the fourth quarter and totally fell apart to lose by six. L was not super upset; she was glad the girls went further than the boys. Big 10 Tournament L was not at that game Friday. Instead she went with some friends and sat in a suite at the Big 10 tournament to watch the night games, which included eventual tournament champs UCLA. She\u2019s a big fan of USC\u2019s JuJu Watkins, so was disappointed the Trojans had played during the afternoon session. She asked me if she could buy a shirt, and suggested it would be a tournament shirt. Then she arrived home with a nice, pretty expensive USC shirt. When the Trojans blew a 13 point lead and lost to UCLA in Sunday\u2019s championship game, I told her she had to burn the shirt. Those are the rules. Super dumb that UCLA and USC traveled to Indianapolis to play for their conference championship. Can we fast forward 5\u201310 years when we go to two conferences with multiple, regional divisions and return some sanity to the games? Weather This winter has sucked. And by that I mean it\u2019s been pretty normal, which is mostly cold and dreary. A few really cold weeks but mostly just two months of temps in the 20s and 30s. That finally broke on Sunday. It was only 60, but the sun was so warm it felt at least 10 degrees warmer. L actually got a little pink from sitting outside. The coming week will be in the 60s and 70s. Mother Nature surely has some tricks up her sleeves for the next eight weeks, but we\u2019re getting close, people, to shorts and t-shirts weather. Hang in there. Kid Notes We\u2019re approaching the final countdown for C\u2019s senior year. She\u2019s trying to find a prom dress, which is turning out to be harder than last year for some reason. We just bought her senior ad for the yearbook. We\u2019re finalizing plans for which of her friends will be hanging out with us on spring break at the end of the month. And we\u2019re trying to figure out grad party plans. I believe she has eight weeks of classes left. M accepted the offer for a summer internship in Cincinnati. She\u2019ll be working for a company that makes a variety of products, mostly in the hardware\/construction space. It\u2019s a marketing position but I\u2019m guessing she\u2019s going to have to learn way more about hardware than she knows now. And it pays pretty well, which is a bonus. She\u2019ll be home for two weeks in early May then head back to Cincy. Timing worked out perfectly and she was able to claim a sublease at a friend\u2019s apartment before another girl could. L had her second post-op visit this morning. They cut off her first cast, removed her stitches, then re-casted her. Everything looked good and she\u2019s not feeling any pain. Seventeen days in this cast and then she\u2019ll switch to a boot. We took advantage of the nice weather Sunday and did a seated shooting workout. She got about 180 shots up from various distances and rim-heights. She threw in some ball handling drills, as much as she could do around her chair. Later, during dinner, C asked me what happened when KU was ahead 79\u201372. She had heard my screams from two floors above and looked at the score to see what happened. A couple of my KU buddies and I have a long-time saying of \u201cWAKE THE KIDS!!!\u201d when we are yelling during an evening game. We haven\u2019t had too many of those moments this year. It was nice to have one. Also a reminder that C was my one kid who was awake and aware of what was going on when I was losing my mind during the 2022 national championship game. \u00a0\u21a9 You damn well know once upon a time I could remember that kind of shit, though. \u00a0\u21a9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,52,26,13,58,14,15],"class_list":["post-16136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-family","tag-high-school-sports","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-parenting","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16139,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16136\/revisions\/16139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHS Hoops<\/h3>\n
\nBig 10 Tournament<\/h3>\n
\nWeather<\/h3>\n
\nKid Notes<\/h3>\n
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