At least for KU fans? Especially if they are also Chiefs fans?
• KU beat Indiana in Bloomington for the first time ever and tied up the all-time series at 8-8!
(After starting 0-6, including two NCAA title game losses for Phog in 1940 and 1953!)
• KC beat the Patriots (no great feat this season, but given recent KC miscues, a good thing!)
• KState got humbled at home by Nebraska, of all programs! Are Hoiberg's Huskers going to be good at last?
• mOO lost to Seton Hall in KCMO! (Thank you, Pirates!*)
And in Big 12 v SEC men's hoops competition, Big 12 was 3-0 --
• Houston beat Texas A&M
• Texas beat LSU
• Texas Tech beat Vanderbilt
Sadly the Big 12 did not fare so well (1-2) against the B1G --
• KU beat Indiana, but
• Sparty smacked Baylor hard (a 24 point differential!) and
• As already noted, NU crushed the kitties in the second half to win by 16 in the Little Apple.
(In a recent interview -- just after reportedly delivering an ultimatum to *someone*, I do not recall who, that if KSU president Rich Linton was not gone next year, he would be -- KSU HC Jerome Tang said he was in Manhattan, which is where God wanted him to be for now. KU fans who saw the video of that interview are asking if this game was God sending him a message?)
All things considered, it was an almost PERFECT weekend.
Darned nice of the tiggers and kitties to give Mrs. HE's mom such nice gifts for her 9#st birthday yesterday!
*"Pirates" is *such* a great name for a sports collective. In addition to Boston (initially because of my Massachusetts mom's family) and the Yankees (I was an Air Force brat nomad growing up and moving around and becoming a baseball fan in the era of Maris, Mantle, Berra, Whitey Ford, Elston Howard, Tony Kubek and Bobby Richardson, of *course* I was enchanted!), I loved the Pittsburgh Pirates. During my HS years spent in Cumberland, MD I was almost equidistant from the Baltimore Orioles, the Washington Senators and the Pirates. As a high schooler the Pirates of Roberto Clemente and Wille Stargell got much of my heart that wasn't already locked up by Carl Yastrzemski, Rico Petrocelli, George Scott, Tony Conigliaro and the rest of the Red Sox crew.
