New uniforms next week!! Love them!!!!

www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-...-black-history-month

I like them too, Mom. The shorts look a little "short" for what the kids seem to prefer today. I guess we'll see.

Can't say as I'm a big fan, but if they win they can play in hazmat suits for all I care,

RC

Why not go all the way and go with silk shorts for a true throwback.

Do you really think anybody could make the guys wear them??? Hahaha

OK, I just discovered the unis are for black history month. Having just discovered this bit of trivia, I would like to apologize to anyone conceivably offended by my "Harlem Globetrotters" comment. I did not, do not, and will not want to start something on this board pertaining to race, history, or the tenuous link between all that has been done for civil rights and college bball uniforms.

And for the record, I am a big fan of the Globetrotters.

Thank you for your time with this matter, about which I will not speak again,

--RC

I would think the shorter they are, the easier it is to play in them. Just speaking from my volleyball games.

Those shorts look real skimpy compared to what they wear these days. Or will they be wearing "longer" version of them? I know in the '50's even thru the '80's they were rather short.

Mom.....I didn't know you are a jock!

You must have really been eating up our Women's volleyball success this year!

I'm sure that nobody took the Globetrotters comment in anything other than the way you intended it. Fun fact: I took my son to his first KU game at Madison Square Garden when they played Bucknell in some early season thing. He got picked out of the crowd (because he was wearing a KU jersey) to participate in a little gimmick contest during a timeout on the floor. He ended up winning us two tickets to see the Globetrotters and I had to explain to him that a.) our seats were far far away from where we sat at the KU game, and that b.) it was highly unlikely that he'd get to go back on the floor any time soon.

OK, so now about the uniforms. Here's my question: what is the connection between 1950's styled uniforms and Black History Month. Seems to me that in the 1950's the country was still very segregated, and there were all kinds of "gentlemen's agreements" about how many black players teams would play. Somewhere I think I even remember stories of Wilt facing some issues on road trips in highly segregated places. Anyway I don't get the connection, but I suppose at the very least it's a way to acknowledge it. Maybe even just having this brief discussion is all part of getting people to think about things for a minute.

On a side note, I looked this up and found it interesting that race was an "issue" in certain parts of the basketball all the way up into the 60's. < en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_participation_in_college_basketball >

As for my take on the look of them? Love the fighting Jayhawk logo. Other than that I'm pretty neutral on the way they look. I'd like to see the guys cutting down the nets in them on Saturday if we clinch the championship at home. Then I'll be a fan!

Good stuff. Thanks for sharing. 1970 for UK hoops?!? Geez.