LAWRENCE
On Monday night inside Allen Fieldhouse, the No. 1 Kansas Jayhawks and the No. 2 Oklahoma Sooners played the 40th-ever college basketball game between the two top-ranked teams in the country. This alone would have made for quite a night. This, of course, was not all there was.
This was a classic, an exercise in survival, the sort of basketball game that hangs in that undefined layer of instant history. This was Kansas guard Frank Mason, swiping an inbounds pass from the paws of Oklahoma’s Buddy Hield with 12 seconds left, cementing a 109-106 victory in triple overtime.