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Congrats Horns – 2008 Big XII Basketball Co-Champs

Posted by Z on March 9th, 2008 under Basketball

The team seemed to cross the finish line with three flat tires, a steaming radiator and running on fumes but the are off to Kansas City as the top seed.

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  1. Woody Bombay said:

    March 9th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

    F the bejeezus out of this ‘co-championship’ thing. Texas beat Kansas. They should be the champs.

  2. JonDoeSmith said:

    March 9th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    The refs missed 5 or 6 fouls on Texas. And I am a Texas fan. If I was OSU I’d be pissed.

  3. Facebook User said:

    March 9th, 2008 at 3:07 pm

    I hear you, Woody. But there’s this.

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    If we’d taken care of our business in Lubbock, it wouldn’t matter. What’s more distressing is the shit games we’ve seen out of these guys vs. Tech, Nebraska and Okie State. I suspect Trips will opine on this. I think I’d rest these guys all week. Play the games, work the bench, no practice.

  4. RansomStoddard said:

    March 9th, 2008 at 3:11 pm

    Someone PLEASE check Rick Barnes’ pulse. I’m pretty convinced he was in a coma for the entire game. Easily his worst coaching performance of the year.

  5. CrazyJoeDavola said:

    March 9th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

    How so? Is it good coaching only if he’s screaming?

    I mean, he can’t lay the ball in for AJ, or arrange for him to get better looks.

  6. kuelguapo said:

    March 9th, 2008 at 11:26 pm

    hey woody, you also lost by 13 to a mizzou team that’s the number 10 seed in their conference tournament… i’m not ignoring the fact that UT beat KU, but a 3point home win over a team with the same conference record doesn’t exactly scream that you were more deserving of the conference championship outright. that’s what the tourney is for. the regular season championship is just that – a reward for the team (or in this case teams) that played the best throughout the conference season. congrats to the ‘horns (although i would have appreciated the ‘pokes pulling that one out) and hopefully we’ll see you next sunday…

  7. Nordberg said:

    March 10th, 2008 at 6:20 am

    “but a 3point home win over a team with the same conference record doesn’t exactly scream that you were more deserving of the conference championship outright.”

    Well I guess that’s up for debate, but IMO, yes it does.

  8. flamingmonkeyass said:

    March 10th, 2008 at 6:48 pm

    I wasn’t aware that margin of victory a factor in determining who was more deserving of a championship. Perhaps we should consider strength of schedule, or perhaps quality wins in either Texas would hold a distinct advantage over the Jayhawks.

    Or the two teams could have, now just hear me out on this, met on a basketball court with the winner being the team with the most points after an agreed upon amount of time had expired….Nah, that’d be crazy.

  9. kuelguapo said:

    March 11th, 2008 at 6:50 am

    or you know what would be even crazier? understanding that we’re talking about the big 12 conference regular SEASON championship… i don’t seem to remember there being a tropy and a title at stake when ut/ku played in that ONE game that the ‘horns won. i wasn’t aware that they handed out tropies for good non-conference wins, either. if that was the case, then the horns would have some nice hardware, thusfar.

    however, i’m pretty sure i readily acknowledged that ku lost in my first post. along with the fact that over the course of the SEASON (that being the CONFERENCE season, you know the one for which this particular trophy was awarded) the teams, have in fact, played very similarly. one might even say they tied. contrary to popular belief, they both have the same CONFERENCE record and thus, are co-champions. it’s ok, it took me a while to grasp that one too…

  10. Minnesotahorn said:

    March 11th, 2008 at 7:17 am

    I’m assuming all Jayhawk fans aren’t as easy to needle as you, but it’d be awesome if they were.

    BTW, you do realize we’re taking over Hoops in this conference right? That we’ve engineered this from the very beginning even through such subtleties as moving the conference offices from KC to Dallas. It’s all a part of our grand plan to rule basketball in this conference and completely subjugate the old Big 8 powers. Heck, just look at baseball where we’re already starting to pry the conference tournament away from it’s historic home in Oklahoma City. Soon the basketball tournament will rotate through only the venues of Toyota Center, American Airlines Center and the Alamodome. It’ll be glorious.

    Shhhh. Don’t fight it. Shhhh. It’ll all be over soon.

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