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10 straight Big 12 titles (and counting) at Kansas
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Kansas fans celebrate gaining a share of their tenth straight Big-12 championship during the second half of a Big 12 Conference basketball game against Oklahoma in Lawrence on Monday night. - photo by The Associated Press
LAWRENCE — Winning conference titles has become so commonplace at Kansas that there were no scissors or celebrations after the Jayhawks wrapped up a share of their 10th straight championship.No cutting down nets. No confetti falling from the rafters.You see, the fifth-ranked Jayhawks can win the Big 12 outright with one win in their final three games, perhaps as soon as Saturday at Oklahoma State. And as tempting as it was to throw a party with 16,000 friends in Allen Fieldhouse on Monday night, there’s a lot to be said for standing all alone on the top step of the podium at the end of the season.So the trophy stayed in the box, at least for a bit, and the celebration began and ended with a brief message in the locker room from coach Bill Self.“It’s kind of anticlimactic,” he told his players, “because the season has so much left in it, you know?