Kansas’ season-opening, eight-day, 10,000-mile journey officially ends Wednesday afternoon when, if all goes well, the Jayhawks’ charter flight departs LaGuardia Airport at 1 p.m, lands in Topeka a couple hours later with the team bus pulling into an Allen Fieldhouse parking lot shortly before the sun sets.
Highlights of the trip?
Tours of Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 Memorial and oh, yes, Tuesday night’s 77-75 Champions Classic victory over No. 1 Duke in Madison Square Garden — a win that most certainly helped ease the sting of Friday’s 103-99 overtime loss to No.