A few days into the summer, when they still could have used Hello My Name Is tags to identify one...

A few days into the summer, when they still could have used Hello My Name Is tags to identify one another, Kim English was chattering about winning a national championship.

"He's like, 'Hey, this team could win it all,'" J.T. Tiller said. "A freshman. I'm looking at him like, 'Let's make the tournament first.'"

No one laughs at English any more. Well, that's not true. This team laughs at everybody, a regular comedy on the court of smart-cracking jokesters who have grown from a team of strangers to a team; a team now 40 minutes from Missouri's first Final Four in school history, 120 minutes from making crazy English a prophet.

ESPN's Dana O'Neil. So much good stuff to read today.

almost 3 years ago Bill C. 4 comments 0 recs |

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congrats

I’m a lifelong Jayhawk fan, KU alum, and your standard missouri-hater. But I have to say, this is the hardest MU team in recent memory to root against. It was fun to make fun of Missouri when Quin was running the program into the ground and recruiting criminals left and right, but how do you wish bad luck on a guy like Mike Anderson? And the way the team plays is worthy of a lot of respect, I think. Supremely unselfish and relentless. You don’t see that much in today’s game. And man, I wish J.T. Tiller played for us.

But anyway, I’ve been lurking around here the last couple weeks just out of curiosity, because your season has been an interesting story; probably similar to our 2007 football season. And yeah, if the improbable happens and we meet in the Final Four, I’ll have forgotten all about this. But good luck against UConn.

by knayte on Mar 27, 2009 9:02 AM CDT reply actions