Editor's Note
It’s one week away from basketball season. Surprised? Wondering how time flew by so quickly? So were we.
Friday, October 26th, 2007
Amidst a perfect season from the football team, one week ago we realized that we hadn’t planned ahead for one of the cornerstones of the fall semester at the Kansan: the basketball preview special section. This left us four days, with a Monday-night deadline, to scramble for content and put together this comprehensive preview of the 2007-2008 season of Kansas Basketball.
Well, here it is, an entire section about the basketball teams — if you even want to read it that is. For the first time, well, maybe ever, basketball season could dwell in football’s shadow until the Big 12 Conference comes calling in January and the Bowl season is recent history. When are there ever empty seats at Late Night in the Phog? In 2003, hundreds were denied entry, but this year you could have skipped the skits, walked in when the scrimmages started and still gotten a decent seat.
Despite this lack of interest, we’ve got columns, Q and A’s, predictions, Big 12 team previews, Jayhawks in the NBA, a basketball-band article and tips for camping out — in case you’ve been so caught up in KU football that you forgot the rules.
Is Kansas in danger of changing its face from a basketball school to a football school? Eh, probably not. Bill Self knows this isn’t a competition.
“Everybody asks me,” Self said, “I know they ask Mark (Mangino) this all the time, ‘you’re competing with basketball there’ or this or that. I loved his response: ‘I don’t think they’re on our schedule this year.’ ”
So even though there’s a scheduling conflict, I’m sure you can fit a little bit of basketball into your life, especially for a team expected to compete for a national championship. And even though a home date against Nebraska may be dancing in your head, once the first whistle blows to tip-off against Pittsburgh State, you’ll be reminded why basketball was the first love of Kansas Athletics.
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