Kansas State’s creative student section provided plenty of reading material for Kansas’ Svi Mykhailiuk before last year’s Sunflower Showdown at Bramlage Coliseum.
Signs pointed Svi’s way during warmups included the inscriptions: “Svi Has More Rushing Yards Than KU Football,” “Today’s Number is 4; Svi Took 4 steps,” “The Travelin’ Man” and “Svi’s Walk of Shame.”
The words didn’t shake the 6-foot-8 shooting guard, whose three-pointer with 2:32 left broke a 63-63 tie and sparked the Jayhawks to a 74-71 victory.
“We always expect them to get on us,” Mykhailiuk said. He drew the ire of K-State fans by hitting a game-winning layup in a 90-88 victory over the Wildcats at Allen Fieldhouse a month before KU’s rematch victory in Manhattan, Kan.