Kansas fans
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Even though KU has won the Big 12 tournament far more than any other team in the conference, most KU fans don't put too much stock it. When you've just played an 18 game round robin to determine the best team in the conference, the conference tournament seems pointless. The only years I've really cared about the tournament are the years in which we tied for the regular season championship, because then it can serve as an unofficial tie-breaker. Of the 4 times during the 10 year streak that KU has tied for the Big 12 championship, we have won the conference tournament 3 times. And while we hate losing in the NCAA tournament, it is hard to feel jealous of ISU or Baylor for accomplishing something (Sweet Sixteen) that we have achieved 10 out of the last 14 years.
Definitely ISU is the closest thing KU has to a competitive rival in the Big 12. If you guys had beaten us Monday it would have been the first time since coming to KU that Bill Self lost to a conference opponent 3 times in a row.
Kinda sad, don't ya think, that a conference tourney is "just an exhibition game" to KU fans, coaches and players. But I suppose it's true based on KU stumbling against lower seeds in the dance. Funny how the only metrics they use to measure success are the one they succeed at.
Yeah, it must be all those UMKC fans casually attending the tournament when I see that blue everywhere each year. Because Kansas fans don't care...
Meh i don't see why twocoach is arguing. In the end no one can stop kentucky this season.
KU will always be a second rate program to UK (also Duke).
KU will always be a second rate program to UK (also Duke).
Are you kidding? KU has dominated the conference tournament. North Carolina and Duke are the only two teams in the country that have gone to more Final Fours than KU since the tournament went to 64 teams.
1. Duke: 11
2. UNC: 9
3. KU: 8
Now your starting to sound like the other Hawk fans that we don't care much about here. Love the excuse when you don't win it, "well we didn't care about it as much as you guys". Must just be the Hawk logic whether its JHawk or Hawkeye.
Hey, it's still fun and we still want to win it. It just doesn't mean much. Plus, you only get to enjoy it for a few hours and then the brackets are released.
You do realize you are on our board expecting us to bow down and kiss the feet of Bill Self and almighty KU. If you really thought you could come here and set us all straight and get everyone here to all of the sudden say "You're right Champ, KU is God's gift to all things basketball" then you are delusional. Go play swords with twocoach and play Pullnpray with Pullnpray.
It's not an excuse. I'm not saying that our apathetic attitude about the tournament is the reason we only win it a mere 50% of the time. All I'm saying is that when we do lose, it bothers me for all of about 10 minutes. Losing at Aimes this year bothered me a lot more than losing to you guys in the tournament.
Well since you are so determined to use the Big 12 Tourney as a measure of success, KU is 30-7 all time in the Big 12 tourney with 9 titles. The next best team is OU with three titles and Mizzou, Iowa State and Okie State with 2 each. If my math is correct that means KU has as many Big 12 tourney titles as all current and former members of the Big 12 combined.
Just seems weird that your fans spend a lot of money to go to the tournament but they don't put much stock into it. ISU fans love it, might as well give it to a fan base that cares
It's not an excuse. ISU fans just seem hell bent on finding something that raises the hackles of KU fans and we just aren't tat worked up over it. Sure, I'd LOVE it if KU would win the Big 12 tourney every year and make the Final Four every year but to expect that would be pure foolishness and to be bent out of shape when they don't just isn't needed when you know you'll get another great shot at it the next year.
Most KU fans don't need to spend a lot of money to go to it. It's been in KC virtually every year recently and there are enough KU fans within an hour of the Sprint Center to fill the arena 5 times over. I have never been to see KU play in the Big 12 tourney. I'd rather spend my money on regular season tickets and to go watch them play in the real tourney whenever they are in a bracket in Omaha or KC.
Agreed, and if I am going to take a few days off work for a multi-day party at a sporting event I just go down the street from my building to watch the college world series. That's a ten day party with fans from all over the country.
