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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2014
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"We made mistakes. To their credit they came back, but our character, and that's something we talked about, let us overcome the emotion."
— Bruce Weber Kansas State Coach ESPN
FACT OF THE DAY
Out of the 121 games Kansas has played K-State in Bramlage Coliseum, Kansas leads 75 to 46.
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: What is the overall record of the basketball Sunflower Showdown?
A:187-92
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THE MORNING BREW
Stay classy in defeat,don't fuel rival fans
Everyone knows the Jayhawks are on the Mount Rushmore of college basketball. Kansas is one of those handful of teams that can refer to itself as "elite" without any argument. While this status as a program can bring joy from consistent success, it also brings with it a burden: it's a big deal when the Jayhawks lose. A big, big deal. And when that loss comes against a rival team, it becomes an apocalypse in Lawrence.
Monday was one of those apocalypses. The chaos did not come when the overtime buzzer sounded in Bramlage Coliseum. It was a road game, a rivalry game, the Jayhawks were outplayed; these things happen.
Instead, the real craziness came after the game.
The all-out social media war that ensued was a circus and a little bit of a problem. "K-State" was trending nationally on Twitter following the game Monday night, and a good portion of these tweets were justifications, excuses or unrelated attacks from Jayhawks fans. As expected, there was ample gloating from K-State fans. That's not to say Kansas fans have to take it lying down, either. Luckily, Kansas is a school where it's pretty easy to find a quick, one sentence statement or fact about the basketball team that can always suffice as a good comeback.
By Ben Burch sports@kansan.com
But just leave it there.
It's at the point when civil joking turns into long, heated arguments or personal, basketball-unrelated attacks or hour-long history lessons about Kansas basketball that make fans start to look foolish. This is the reaction
that Jayhawk-haters want to see, the reaction that K-State fans were eager to incite when they made their posts and tweets and texts Monday night. A lot of K-State fans got what they wanted.
It's tough to hold back in the heat of the moment. But, sometimes Kansas fans have to take a step back and think. Each time Jayhawks fans fight back after losses, it fuels the fire on the other side resulting in backlash that only leads to further anger and frustration.
Don't give them what they want. Try to be as gracious of a loser as you can when these rare losses, especially rivalry losses, happen. And if you want to make a quick comeback, do so in good fun, keep it to a minimum, and don't do it without also acknowledging
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the loss and giving a little credit to the other team.
Next time you find yourself, after another tough rivalry loss, phone in hand, finger over the "Tweet" button, your tenth-straight 140-character attack on K-State in front of you, just remember..you
g o to kansas. There's always March to look forward to as a layhawk, and if this season doesn't work out, it's almost a guarantee the next season's team will be poised to make another run toward glory.
- Edited by Cara Winkley
This week in athletics
Wednesday
Women's basketball
TCU
7 p.m.
Lawrence
Thursday
No events
Friday
Softball Fordham University 10 a.m. Charleston, S.C.
Tennis
Houston
11 a.m.
Houston, Texas
Softball
Mississippi
12:30 p.m.
Charleston, S.C.
Baseball
BYU
2 p.m.
Peoria, Ariz
Track and field
Tyson Invitational
All day
Fayetteville, Ark.
Women's golf
2014 Florida St. Match Up
All day
Tallahassee, Fla.
Saturday
Softball
Western Carolina
8 a.m.
Charleston, S.C.
Men's basketball
TCU
3 p.m.
Lawrence
Softball College of Charleston 2:30 p.m. Charleston, S.C.
Women's basketball
 Iowa State
 6 p.m.
Ames, Iowa
Sunday
Women's golf
2014 Florida St. Match Up
All day
Tallahassee, Fla.
Track and field Tyson Invitational All day Fayetteville, Ark.
Tennis
UT Arlington
Noon
Lawrence
Baseball BYU Noon Peoria, Ariz
Softball
DePaul
12:30 p.m.
Charleston, S.C.
Women's golf
2014 Florida St. Match Up
All day
Tallahassee, Fla.
Monday
Baseball BYU
Noon
Peoria, Ariz.
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Men's basketball
Texas Tech
7 p.m.
Lubbock, Texas
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