LAWRENCE
The last time Long Beach State coach Dan Monson was at Allen Fieldhouse five years ago, Kansas forward Thomas Robinson scored 26 points.
There was no wondering where KU’s points were coming from, or whom the focal point of the offense was.
Monson remembers that 88-80 loss well. He laments that Robinson made four or five buckets on tough 12-foot turnarounds. If those didn’t go in, and if his team made a couple of more plays to shut down KU’s inside game … well, who knows?
That KU team went on to the NCAA championship game.