[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

You do this every tourney game every year.

It’s stale.

From there, it was one of those if-you-can’t-beat-’em-join-’em situations for the Jayhawks (31-6). Eventually, Croswell slowed down. But throwing the ball into McCormack and trying to re-establish a presence in the paint helped Kansas survive the Friars’ threat of taking control of the game.

“We wouldn't have won the game without him,” Self said of McCormack, who got to the free throw line a couple of times late and hit four of six charity shots overall.

Bothered by a foot injury throughout the season, McCormack continues to look like a guy who is playing at less than 100%. He and Self have been asked about his foot on multiple occasions during the past several weeks and both continue to say it’s fine. Sore, but fine.

And there’s not a soul alive who thinks that McCormack is going to start worrying about it now, with his team one win away from reaching the Final Four. According to their coach, the Jayhawks might not be in that position if not, in some small part, for the play of their big man on Friday night.

“At the end of the day he delivered for us when it counted,” Self said. “So it's not how you start, it's how you finish.”

http://www2.kusports.com/news/2022/m...-help-kansas-/

Self even loved how he played yesterday's game. There's no question what happens on Sunday.