- Kudos to the City of Kansas City, the Host Committee, the Greater Kansas City Sports Commission & Foundation, the Convention and Visitors Bureau, and all concerned who helped make this past week a special one in Kansas City. K.C. simply knows how to host the conference's Mens and Womens Basketball Tournaments with historic Municipal Auditorium and Sprint Center sandwiching the fun Power & Light District.
- Kansas-Texas games in the past have featured a mutual respect for one another. Yesterday's game was characterized by pre-game trash talking and some "chippiness" on the court by both teams.
- The officiating gaffe in the Rutgers-St. Johns game in Big East tournament has garnered the most national attention this past week. But, officiating quality, as a whole, seems to be incredibly inconsistent in the college game. As an example, in yesterday's KU-Texas game, the first half had rhythm and flow because of the lack of whistles. In fact, Kansas wasn't even in the bonus in the first half. The officials must have had a committee meeting at halftime and decided to change the way they were calling the game as there were five fouls called in the first minute and 30 seconds of the second half. That's one foul every 18 seconds! The quick whistles changed the flow and for no apparent reason.
- It's hard to quibble with the All-Tournament team of the Morris brothers, Tristan Thompson, Alec Burks and Jordan Hamilton. However, I'm not sure any player was as valuable to his team as Tyrel Reed was to Kansas. Reed forced Colorado's Cory Higgins into 1 of 11 shooting on Friday night and hit a couple of key three-pointers. Yesterday, Reed once again seemed to hit a three when it was most needed and his fast break dunk in the first half was the play which seemed to most energize the crowd, and his team.
- Yesterday's atmosphere was great but did not compare to last year's very equal crowd split between Kansas and Kansas State. The KU-Texas crowd had to be 90% blue and sounded like a game at Allen Fieldhouse, minus the decibel level created by the low ceiling and layout of that building.
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