The stubborn ease and familiar confidence are in every move they make, this group of friends. Some of them are famous. At least one will soon be a millionaire. Others will go into coaching, or business, or teaching, but no matter what, these last six months will be branded in their brains and hearts forever.
This Kansas basketball team has, almost from the very beginning, had the feel of a group fighting far more pressures than most — even by the standards of one of college basketball’s most storied programs.
Most of it has been self-inflicted. Some has been nothing, like Devonté Graham’s arrest stemming from an expired vehicle tag.