Salving My Pain

Here's some stats I cited from the comments of an earlier post [Note: living in the past is an effective method for ignoring your present trials]:

• KU has 2 wins in 7 NCAA championship game appearances since 1939 (4 national championships total).
• The rest of the Big 12 combined? 2 wins in 7 championship game appearances. Oklahoma A&M (OSU) won twice in 1945 and 1946.
• The only Big 12 school with a championship game appearance since 1951 other than KU? OU in 1988 (which lost to Kansas).
• K-State is the only other Big 12 north school to appear in a championship game in NCAA history, losing in 1951.
• KU has the fourth most NCAA tournament appearances in the nation (34) and the fifth most tournament victories (73).
  
• Loony Conspiracy Theory of the Week: During the Second World War and Korea, agricultural schools were actually in cahoots with local draft boards, stacked with alumni farmers, who passed out Class II-C agricultural deferments like candy to particularly tall farm boys, keeping them out of the army and available for midwest college basketball teams. I'm still trying to figure out if UFO's were involved.