… and then there is this from Brady Morningstar last evening in the waning moment of the Kansas-Texas game:

Cue the Yakety Sax!

Morningstar told the Lawrence Journal-World the ball was wet, and that’s why it slipped.

Wet balls. They’ll get you every time.

Yesterday, Allen Vaughan of the Springfield News-Leader reported Kansas coach Bill Self quickly chatted with John Wall — pretty much the top unsigned recruit in the nation — after one of his games at a basketball tournament over the weekend. Not a huge deal, but this is one of the NCAA’s quiet times, an evaluation period for coaches where talking to the teenage boys they are fawning after is a no-no. Speaking of which, I wish I had these with my wife every once and a while!* Am I right, guys? Am I right?

/laugh track

Anyway, some were a bit dubious about whether this conversation really happened — though, I don’t see why Mr. Vaughan would make up such a story — but Bill Self is here to tell you it did indeed take place.

“Basically, it’s accurate,” Self said after beating Texas A&M 73-53 Monday night. “I don’t know if the exact quote is accurate. After the game was over, like I always do, like every coach always does, I had to catch a plane. So I went back to tell the coaches, ‘Congratulations, good win.’ I was approached and shook a hand and said, `I can’t talk to you, but you played really well.”‘

“If that exchange, which is all it was, is a problem, then our administration will deal with it,” Self said. “I certainly by no means am going to deny that basically that happened. But the reason I was back in the back was to say hi to the coaches after the game.”

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