Editor's note: The University Daily Kansan traded sports commentaries with The Maneater, the student newspaper at the University of Missouri, to provide another perspective on Sunday's men's basketball game. The Kansan's column, by Jonathan Kealing, associate sports editor, is on Kansan.com.

Well, well, well, Jayhawks. The time has come again to rekindle the hottest rivalry in college basketball.

This Sunday in Mizzou Arena, you will roll into town feeling confident about your chances of coming away with another victory. After all, your team has compiled quite an impressive record, as well as a national ranking that many teams would sell their textbooks back for. Your team has beaten almost every challenger that has crossed its path on your way to an impressive and memorable season.

I give kudos to Kansas for that. But this time things are different. That may sound like hollow talk but, in truth, you could not possibly be playing the Tigers at a worse time. You’ve been winning consistently. We have not. You’ve been garnering national attention. Not us. You have a bevy of stars that will one day be getting paid to play the game. We’ve got … ?

The point is, to walk away from this season with any positive lasting memories and to head into next year with a positive outlook, you guys need to win out and make it deep into the NCAA Tournament. You will have to be continuously preparing to battle new opponents, both home and away from home.

We have to do only one thing: beat you.

We have had the type of season that makes fans, players and coaches angry. Players have lost starting spots, fans have lost interest and coaches are in danger of losing jobs. We acknowledge that we have had a terrible year by Missouri standards, but beating you would be sweet enough to cleanse our collective pallet of the sour taste of losing. Seeing your big, dominating Jayhawks walk away from Missouri for the last time empty-handed is the closest thing we are going to get to cutting down nets at the end of the year.

The business-like mentality with which Kansas approaches its games is something that other teams should aspire to emulate. Wayne Simien may be the best big man in college basketball. Keith Langford is as much of a clutch player as you will see in today’s game. You regularly face top opponents and consistently turn them away. And in the long run, should you beat us Sunday, it would seem fitting.

On the other hand, should we beat you, it would seem miraculous.

That is the main difference between our two teams. You stand on the threshold of history, and we are a bunch of guys with talent, a game plan and absolutely nothing to lose. Gene Hackman might as well have been talking about the Tigers when he said, “That makes you all very dangerous people!”

Here’s wishing the stars of Kansas all the success in the world, great NBA careers and an ass kicking of biblical proportions Sunday. Only because the Tigers have had to swallow their pride and eat their words all too often this year.