Here's another KU forward that's circulating with the pre-game buzz:

"Our Father, who art in Lawrence ,

Hallowed be thy Game.

Thy tourney come,

Thy championship will be done, In San Antonio as it is in Allen Field
House.

Give us this day our deserved victories.

And forgive us our turnovers,

As we forgive Roy who double-crossed against us.*

And lead us not into defeat,

But deliver us from East Coast bias,

For Kansas is the basketball kingdom,

And the tradition,

And the glory,

For ever and ever.

Amen.

GO JAYHAWKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I feel asleep with Memphis up by 10 points with about 3 minutes to play.

I woke up and the game was late into overtime and I thought, "Overtime, what happened? How did Memphis blow this?"

Then I saw the Chalmers shot and all the missed free throws by Memphis.

Ya gotta make your free throws down the stretch if you want to win a championship.

Free throws are part of the game, too, though...even if the Memphis coach didn't think so going into the game! The quotes from this press conference will probably haunt him for a while:

Teresa Walker, Associate Press:
Q:You talked a lot about not worrying about free throws expecting to be made at the pressure points. Fifteen made yesterday. Does that worry you at all or are they still making them when you'd like them to?

A:We'll be fine. We made one more free throw than they did, so we beat them at the free throw line. We missed a couple down the stretch that I was surprised that we did miss, but again we shot 75 percent in our tournament, which was last week. We shot 70 percent last year. We shot in the mid 60's in the first game; well we had a bad game. Every once in awhile we'll do this, then we'll come back and shoot 75 percent and no one will say anything. It's almost to the point of do you really even know what my team does well or doesn't do well or is it because you don't know, you just say its free throw shooting that's all I'm going to talk about. They're not talking about how we blocked shots. We had 11 blocked shots and you turn on the TV and all it's talking about is they missed free throws and it's going to cost them a championship. We had 11 blocked shots. We played great team defense. Offensively against the zone we got it where we wanted it against a great defensive team that is second in the country in field goal percentage defense. We only had five turnovers. Wait a minute let me say that again, we only had five turnovers. But everybody all they want to talk about is our free throw shooting. I don't know why. I come back to the conclusion that maybe they haven't seen our team play nor do they really know and the easy thing to talk about off the stat sheet is our free throws. Maybe I'm wrong though.