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What we do in Lawrence after the Jayhawks win the National Championship

After stealing the glass slipper from Cinderella Davidson, then toppling the mighty Tarheels, the Jayhawks faced off with the Memphis Tigers last night, and you all know the story from there. For the first time since 1988, when Danny Manning led a 6-seeded Jayhawk team to victory in the National Championship, the Hawks cut [...]

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Jayhawks Roll into the Sweet 16

As predicted. Now the Jayhawks face 12-seed Villanova next weekend in the third round. That looks good on paper. But this is March and I’m not gonna jinx my ‘Hawks by making assumptions.
All is right in the state of Kansas. Not only did KU win, but the KState Beasleys lost [...]

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March Madness Begins. . . The REAL Day One

Yes, hubby got his bracket done. He’s got KU, UCLA, Texas and Louisville (hahahahahahahahaha) in the Final Four, with KU beating UCLA in the championship.
My basketball day started when I watched the KU game at my desk. I’ve got a double monitor, so I had the game going on one screen, while I [...]

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Basketball Mama Has Some NCAA Thoughts. . .

In between Ant’s first two tournament games, we headed over to a restaurant in the Casino complex next to the gym the team was playing in to watch the second half of the KU game. It was the closest place, and our folks weren’t going to miss any more of the game than they had [...]

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Thank You, Wake Forest Demon Deacons

There aren’t many times when I’ll show the Duke Blue Devils any love. The little media darlings just annoy me tooooo much. But tonight I’m sending them a little “shout out.”
Because it was pretty amazing to see their entire starting lineup foul out one by one down the home stretch in tonight’s loss [...]

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