Kansas Jayhawk News
Dillon Davis at SI discusses the chatter about whether or not Self may give it up after this season.
“There are a lot of things out there … all it takes is for one person to say it and then it’s your guys’ job to follow up on that one person,” Self said. “But I wouldn’t believe what social media or the internet is saying. I actually feel pretty good and I’m really excited about the next (hopefully) several weeks, whatever it can be.”
Through the Phog takes a look at something that may end up hurting
the Jayhawks on Selection Sunday:
“The big argument I will make for Vandy is something that stuck with me from the mock selection in Indianapolis last month. Clark Kellogg said he values road wins almost more than anything else. Vandy is 8-4 on the road and 3-0 in neutral games. Kansas is 5-6 on the road and 4-1 in neutral games,” quotes lead Bracketology modeler Jacob Fetner.
Melvin Council proved the transfer portal rankings wrong this season:
Council’s emergence is a sign of coach Bill Self’s recruiting and evaluation prowess. According to 247Sports, Council was ranked No. 123 among all transfers and No. 29 among shooting guard transfers this past offseason.
Jay Bilas had this to say about Peterson’s season while naming him to his 3rd Team All America:
Kansas phenom Darryn Peterson has been, at times, the best and most captivating scorer in the game. But his injuries, illness and periodic unavailability have been frustrating — mostly to our selfish nature of wanting to see him perform for us. Peterson might be the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA Draft in June and would be on the 2026 All-American First Team, except he has played in only 20 of the Kansas Jayhawks‘ 31 regular season games. Under the current NBA rules, Peterson would not be eligible for All-NBA or any of the postseason awards. In the games he has played, he has been All-America good. There is no such designation for this honor, yet there should be.
Yahoo has the bracket and schedule for the Big 12 Tournament here in case you need a refresher.
Kansas softball freshman Ella Boyer was named Big 12 Freshman of the Week.
Freshman catcher Ella Boyer took home the Big 12 Freshman of the Week award for softball for the week of March 1-7. Boyer went 6-12 during that stretch including three home runs (two against Wichita State on March 4). She also drove in nine total runs during the week.
Kansas baseball took a beating on Sunday against St. Thomas:
Kansas was hitless through the first five innings. With little offensive support, its pitching struggled to shut down St. Thomas. The Tommies recorded hits against eight of the nine Kansas pitchers who appeared.
Other Links!
The Kansas Legislature may make a change requiring drivers to use blinkers in a roundabout, however I question how this would make things easier:
bill recently introduced to the Kansas Senate could make things easier for drivers, requiring them to use a turn signal while traversing a roundabout.
Staying in the Kansas Legislature, we’ve also seen an obviously unconstitutional law proposed that would punish school districts for student protests:
On March 3, the Senate voted 21-18 in favor of an amendment to punish school districts for student walkouts. The amendment, tacked onto a 364-page appropriations bill, would require parental permission for students to participate in protests and would impose harsh financial penalties for school districts found to have improperly encouraged or facilitated a walkout. The fine would be equivalent of the district superintendent’s salary for each day of a walkout, which for larger districts could be more than $200,000.
Think any of them have even heard of Tinker?
NFL free agency is in full swing with the Jets trading for Geno Smith, who was previously with the Jets until this:
Smith will be the Jets’ starting quarterback, a job he held for the Jets from 2013 to the 2015 preseason — until he was punched by a teammate in a locker room dispute that resulted in a fractured jaw.
Defector link of the week is David Roth on Trump buying shoes for staffers.
It goes without saying that there is a great deal of Psychology going on in Donald Trump’s second term. None of it is especially complicated, because the people involved are without exception clammy, low-wattage sociopaths who universally dislike and distrust each other, see their hugely consequential jobs primarily as opportunities to make short-form video content and fly on private planes, and have not let their (correct) understanding that they will be going to go to hell when they die sway them from gulping down huge foamy draughts of humiliation every single day. But if none of it and none of them are very interesting, the volatility of the visibly decaying real-estate priss at the center of it all generally keeps it surprising.
QOTD: It’s spring break next week in Kansas and I’m heading to the beach for 6 days. Do you have any fun spring break stories from growing up or college?
