Final Four

[Diane Amberg]

Congratulations to all. That was THE best basketball game I have ever seen!!! True strategy, as well as shooting, missing, fouling, fouling out, 2 pointers, 3 pointers when it really mattered, and an overtime that caught Memphis completely off guard. They really didn't know what hit them.

[patyrn]

What a great ballgame last night!!!!!  Although we live in Soonerland and our kids went to OU, we still love KU and its basketball.  Bill Self is a native of Edmond, Oklahoma  where we now live and has family and lots of friends here, so this is a great victory for the entire Midwest and Big 12!!!!!!!  Go Jayhawks!!!!!!  Rock Chalk!!!!!

[Bonnie M.]

You all probably know this, but, courtesy of "Google," here's a bit of information:

KU's world famous Rock Chalk Chant evolved from a cheer that a chemistry professor, E.H.S. Bailey, created for the KU science club in 1886. Bailey's version was "Rah, Rah, Jayhawk, KU" repeated three times. The rahs were later replaced by "Rock Chalk," a transposition of chalk rock, the name for the limestone outcropping found on Mount Oread, site of the Lawrence campus.
The cheer became known worldwide. Teddy Roosevelt pronounced it the greatest college chant he'd ever heard. Legend has it that troops used the chant when fighting in the Philippines in 1899, in the Boxer Rebellion in China, and in World War II. At the Olympic games in 1920, the King of Belgium asked for a typical American college yell. The assembled athletes agreed on KU's Rock Chalk and rendered it for His Majesty.
http://www.ku.edu/about/traditions/chant...

The Jayhawk is a mythical bird, a cross between two hunting birds--the noisy blue jay and the quiet sparrow hawk. The term came to prominence just before the Civil War, in Bleeding Kansas, where it was adopted by militant abolitionist groups known as jayhawkers. With the admission of Kansas as a free state in 1861, Jayhawker became synonymous with the people of Kansas. The Jayhawk appears in several Kansas cheers, most notably, the "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk" chant. [1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_Jayh...

[frawin]

Bonnie, that is very interesting!  I had always wondered where the chant came from. 

mlw

[Tobina+1]

Well, from this die-hard K-State fan... CONGRATS TO KU!
That was a very well-played, hard fought game last night!