It was as hard-fought a game as there was in the 2007 NCAA Tournament. Every shot, every pass, every movement hotly contested. Every momentum swing quickly snuffed out.
Blue-blood Kansas had a No. 1 seed and one of the most potent offenses in college basketball, but this Sweet 16 game was played — from start to finish — at the pace of the mid-major admiringly referred to as “Floorburn U.”
