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When you win a national championship, you get to talk a lot of smack, so please indulge the following:
Downtown Lawrence (during the parade to celebrate and congratulate the Jayhawks - 80,000 fans showed up):
Downtown Manhattan (home of K-State):
Thanks to my friends the Stineman's for the photos.
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Rock Chalk, that is.
I was a KU freshman in 1988 when Danny and the miracles won the national championship. It was amazing. I was just a small-town farm-boy, in my first year at a major university, living in a fraternity, having a blast (and studying...), and watching some of the best basketball in the country, live, in the most exciting arena in college basketball -- Allen Fieldhouse.
Watching KU defeat Oklahoma was a highlight of my college days. We piled into a pick-up truck and sped toward campus. Jayhawk Boulevard was a mad-house. People everywhere, hugging, drinking, laughing...it was like we all had known each other for years. The power of our common bond as KU fans brought us all together.
Now, 20-years later, I'm witnessing it again. The emotion, the craziness, the powerful basketball. I so hope our guys pull it off tomorrow night, not only for themselves, but for the KU fans who have waited 20 years for another night like that one in 1988.
More great pictures here, courtesy of the Lawrence Journal World.
March. Madness. Today starts the official season of fun we call the NCAA tournament. Beer, brackets, cats and dogs living together -- mass hysteria!
If you fill out a bracket this year, keep this in mind:
"According to Kansas University math professor Ben Cobb, the probability of picking all 32 first-round winners randomly is 1 in 4.3 trillion."
If you need a little help beating the odds, check out Hack The Bracket -- a site started by a Kansas alum. And if anyone should know something about basketball, it's someone from Big-12-Champion, Big-12-Tournament-winner, number-one-seed Kansas.
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