^plus we would fire him after he showed up to a unc tournament game wearing light blue.

4/8/2008 10:12:00 AM

if he got us to the final four, he could wear whatever he damn well pleased

4/8/2008 10:57:19 AM

So where does this championship put Kansas when talking historical perspective and prestige when compared to Duke, the only other team to have 3 national championships.

Kansas
3 National Championships (1952, 1988, 2008) won by three different coaches
5 National Runner-up finishes (1940, 1953, 1957, 1991, 2003)
13 Final Fours (1940, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1971, 1974, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1993, 2002, 2003, 2008)
Third all-time in wins (1,943 wins) and fourth all-time in winning percentage (71.2%)
51 Regular Season Conference Championships, 1st all-time, 2 ahead of UK (1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1915, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1960, 1966, 1967, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
10 Conference Tournament Championships, note the Big 8 didn't hold a tournament until 1977 (1981, 1984, 1986, 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2006, 2007, 2008)
36 NCAA Appearances
36 All-Americans
1 NPOY (Danny Manning 1988)


Duke
3 National Championships (1991, 1992, 2001) all won by Coach K
6 National Runner-up finishes (1964, 1978, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1999)
14 Final Fours (1963, 1964, 1966, 1978, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2004)
21 Regular Season Conference Championships (1940, 1942, 1943, 1954, 1958, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1979, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006)
20 Conference Tournament Championships (1938, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1978, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006)
32 NCAA Appearances (7th all-time)
55 All-Americans
9 NPOY (Dick Groat, Art Heyman, Johnny Dawkins, Danny Ferrry, Christian Laettner, Elton Brand, Shane Battier, Jason Williams, J.J. Redick)

4/8/2008 10:58:18 AM

Kansas has a basketball tradition dating back 120 years to the founder of the game. I think that pretty much breaks any ties...

4/8/2008 11:15:30 AM

Duke has Coach K, and had Vic Bubas.

Kansas's program was started by James Naismith. They have since had Phog Allen, Larry Brown, Roy Williams, Bill Self, etc. Adolph Rupp and Dean Smith learned from Phog Allen, not to mention John McLendon, Ralph Miller, and Dutch Lonborg (HOFers). Kansas wins.

4/8/2008 11:24:08 AM

You forgot one stat....20,000 women banged by Wilt Chamberlain

4/8/2008 11:34:05 AM

^ I thought it was 10,000?

4/8/2008 11:45:22 AM

Notice in that picture that Roy is wearing his Championship UNC ring.

Quote :

"let this be a lesson to everyone who thinks state is the only school that has crazy fans. every school has crazy fans, you ignorant asses."

Pretty much.

4/8/2008 1:11:55 PM

Nevermind, 20,000 is right. I think Wilt exaggerated b/c for that to be true, he would have had to had sex with 1.14 women per day from the age of 15 up until the day of his death, a rate of almost eight women a week, and they say he was really shy when he was young and didn't break out of his shell until he was older.

4/8/2008 1:26:39 PM

just to be clear, i don't think roy should be fired, thats stupid. people talking like that are mentally challenged and most likely never attended the university anyway

4/8/2008 7:36:36 PM

still cant believe memphis blew it last night.

those guys are going to have that ghost in their subconscious the rest of their lives.

4/8/2008 11:00:09 PM

Quote :

"1 NPOY (Danny Manning 1988)"

cant believe Wilt never won it...also paul pierce went to kansas and he's probably a better nba player than anybody who ever went to duke (though you could obviously argue grant hill in his prime or maybe brand or somebody)

^seriously...i cant even imagine how depressed memphis is...how many "what if" scenarios they've played through their heads in the last ~24 hours

[Edited on April 8, 2008 at 11:05 PM. Reason : .]

4/8/2008 11:04:12 PM

I think mainly just one "what if" scenario...what if we didn't shoot free throws like ben wallace?

4/8/2008 11:07:46 PM

yeah but "what if rose had made both FTs"..."what if Hyphenated-Lastname made just 1 free throw"..."what if Chalmers wasn't such a beast"

i'll happily collect my bracket pool winnings since i picked kansas to go all the way, but Memphis SHOULD have won that game and they're not going to forget about it anytime soon...i'll bet the game was like 95% of their thoughts today...it would suck to be them

4/8/2008 11:09:29 PM

thanks for the breakdown bill rafftree

4/8/2008 11:11:33 PM

word up Slay Bilas

4/8/2008 11:22:10 PM

nice going Verne Lundtwist

4/8/2008 11:31:54 PM

i'm coming up empty...but gg on lundtwist...you didnt simply settle for the easy long e sound pun

[Edited on April 8, 2008 at 11:39 PM. Reason : LONG e sound...short e sound is "eh"]

4/8/2008 11:36:27 PM

thanks...i'd been relying too much on the 'ee' sound...couldn't find a good person for the 'twist' part of your name till I though of Verne

4/8/2008 11:38:08 PM

i would have never thought picking kansas just cause it was the team roy williams use to coach for would cause me to correctly make my ncaa bball bracket

4/9/2008 2:22:01 AM

when kansas was 20-0 to start this season, them and memphis were the only 2 undefeated teams at the time

that trend apparently played out throughout the tourney

4/9/2008 8:20:23 AM