UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Kansas will stay undefeated with only three more threats
© Lord, it's hard to be humble when you're perfect in every way...
Is that how we feel about the men's basketball team?
Wednesday, January 15,1997
Can it go undefeated? No one is willing to go out on a limb and say yes.
They say the season is too long and losses happen.
Last year, the Jayhawks lost only three games during the regular season: Temple at a neutral site, at Missouri and at Oklahoma.
Temple won because it packed it in on defense and Kansas shot terribly. Oklahoma won because it was a good team with Ryan Minor. Missouri won because — well, I guess that's the loss that just happened last year.
This year, those types of losses shouldn't happen.
COLUMNIST
Coming into the season, there were five potential losses for the Jayhawks: Cincinnati, UCLA.
at Connecticut, at Texas Tech and at Iowa State.
The first two of those are already W's, which leaves three more road games that are potential threats.
But if this team is really as good as it seems, it should be able to beat any team, anywhere, every time.
The losses that could have "just happened" would have happened at K-State and against Texas. It was ridiculous how poorly Kansas shot during the K-State game and in the first half of the Texas game. That won't happen again.
Now that we've accounted for the losses that just happen, lets talk about the other three possibilities that remain.
UConn — Its home winning streak was broken earlier this year by an up-and-down St. John's team. In the last meeting between the two teams, No. 2 Kansas beat No. 1 UConn 88-59 at Kemper Arena.
That game was two years ago, and most of those players are gone, so forget the revenge factor. Kansas will be too good and too deep for UConn on Sunday.
At Texas Tech — Kansas has won 21 consecutive games in the month of January. It will be 24 by the time the Jayhawks travel to Lubbock. Kansas has beaten 12 of the last 15 ranked teams it has played. Tech just isn't good enough or deep enough to beat the Jayhawks, even at home.
This leaves the game at Iowa State on Feb. 9 as the only chance for the Jayhawks to lose this season.
Monday night, Iowa State shot 52 percent. That won't happen again. Granted, Dedric Willoughby didn't play the whole second half, and his presence would have changed the game. But Kansas can win, even losing a player, and that's why it's a better team. With six players scoring in double figures Monday, the Jayhawks showed why they're the No. 1 team in the nation and why they could go undefeated.
In the words of Robert Goulet:
Look out, here come the Jayhawks,
Double team and say your prayers.
No room for pansies on the floor,
When you get Kansas in your hair.
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