Brett Ballard is the perfect person to discuss this.
The Washburn basketball coach played at Kansas, has been on coach Bill Self’s staff in the past and works less than 30 minutes down the road. He joked on the radio pregame show that he had to convince his kids to cheer for Washburn on Thursday night; after all, they usually wear a KU shirt to school at least once each week.
So Ballard knows KU as well as any opposing coach will. And he understands, perhaps better than anyone, what led to KU pulling away in a 79-52 exhibition victory Thursday night.