The National World War I Museum and Memorial is in Kansas City, Missouri, for the best of reasons. Kansas City wanted it and has treasured it.
For almost 100 years, the bustling and proud city that straddles the Missouri and Kansas state lines has been home to America’s greatest honoring of the war that we so often forget. That’s longer than Kansas City has been hosting conference basketball tournaments (the Big Six Tournament launched in 1946).
The 2019 Big 12 Tournament has brought me again to Kansas City. My first Big Eight Tournament was 1992; when I was a kid, I turned down a chance to come to the Big Eight Holiday Tournament in KC, which I’ve always regretted.