COMMENTARY
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Assistant coach Larry Harrison strolled out of West Virginia’s locker room and succinctly summarized a hardly majestic 63-53 win over Texas.
“Hey, we’re still playing.”
That’s more than No. 1 Kansas can claim about the Big 12 tournament, which lost its top seed to TCU (or a Josh Jackson traffic citation, depending on your tolerance for excuses).
In 21 years of Big 12 tournament basketball, the Jayhawks lost their opener for only the second time. In the past 32 years, West Virginia has won only two league tournaments.