LAWRENCE
The visitors locker room at Allen Fieldhouse is where dreams come to die. Smaller than you might expect, too. The room is the size of the lane on a basketball court, perhaps a bit bigger, just enough for 15 or so folding chairs.
This is UMKC’s best team in years, but the same might eventually be said of Kansas so there was never much doubt about whether this would end with another Rock Chalk chant. Maybe the men in this room expected to win. Maybe some didn’t.
But they sure as heck didn’t expect this, a 105-62 loss on Tuesday, a first half the coach called “an ass kicking“ followed by something even worse in the second half.