Excuse Me For A Moment

[Kansas Viking]

Rock Chalk Jayhawk!

Thank you. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming!

[OJVIKE]

are you feeling ok???

[Kansas Viking]

Pretty darn good since I didn't think the Hawks would get past UNC.

[OJVIKE]

you win it all then?? i am out of the bracket now

[HardcoreVikesFan]

Wow... Memphis Vs. Kansas. Dang, I had UCLA Vs. UNC!

[PurpleMustReign]

Wow... Memphis Vs. Kansas. Dang, I had UCLA Vs. UNC!

I had UCLA vs KU. But i also had Louisville in the Final Four.

[PurpleMustReign]

Rock Chalk Jayhawk!

Thank you. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming!

You suck. I'm jealous that you have a team (of any kind, in any sport) that is that close to a championship.

[Kansas Viking]

You suck. I'm jealous that you have a team (of any kind, in any sport) that is that close to a championship.

Thank you.

Of course as you know, close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. A lot of "my teams" get close, but very seldom finish it out. I hope that this one will. '88 was a long time ago.

[glg]

I watch PTI pretty religiously. They've had a number of coaches on since the tournament field was announced. They've asked them all "if not your team, who?" and it's been nearly unanimous. Other coaches think Kansas is the best team.

[Kansas Viking]

Woo Hoo!

[PurpleMustReign]

Rock Chalk Jayhawk!

What does that mean and where did it come from? I know its the battle cry or whatever, but what does it mean?

Congrats to the Jayhawks. And congrats to thr Tigers for pissing away a National Championship.

edit: I am so mad at myself because I was going to post here last night before the game that Memphis would lose because of free throws. And sure enough. Makes me mad because I predicted it right, but no one will ever know now...

[DeeEss57]

Woo Hoo!

Congratulations! Having had my team win a National Championship recently, I know exactly how you feel!


Dawn

[PurpleMustReign]

Congratulations! Having had my team win a National Championship recently, I know exactly how you feel!


Dawn

Sure, rub it in...

[wang_chi7]

What does that mean and where did it come from? I know its the battle cry or whatever, but what does it mean?

Congrats to the Jayhawks. And congrats to thr Tigers for pissing away a National Championship.

edit: I am so mad at myself because I was going to post here last night before the game that Memphis would lose because of free throws. And sure enough. Makes me mad because I predicted it right, but no one will ever know now...

The free throws would have clinched it, but that ain't why they lost. They would have won the game when with about 15 seconds left they tried a quick fast break basket to put the game away but missed. If they would have just held onto the ball they would have (most likely) put the game away. They also didn't do crap when Rose was being shut down. For the first half they didn't use their offense and tried (unsuccessfully) to use screens to get Rose open trips to the basket. If they would have gone to their isolation offense earlier than halftime they probably would have won handidly.

Also, during OT you could tell they had no confidence and were still holding their heads down that they screwed up their chance in regulation. They didn't keep their heads in the present.

Memphis didn't lose at the FT line, they lost the thinking game.

[Kansas Viking]

What does that mean and where did it come from? I know its the battle cry or whatever, but what does it mean?

This explains it better than I can.

"Rock Chalk, Jayhawk" (a.k.a. the "Rock Chalk" chant) is a chant used at University of Kansas Jayhawks sporting events. It is probably best known as being loudly chanted at basketball games at Allen Fieldhouse and football games at Memorial Stadium. Its lyrics are a refrain of "Rock chalk... Jay-Hawk... KU," repeated twice slowly, and then three times quickly. It is usually preceded by the Kansas alma mater "Crimson and the Blue", and followed by the fight song, "I'm a Jayhawk".

The chant was first adopted by the university's science club in 1886. Chemistry professor E.H.S. Bailey and his colleagues were returning by train to Lawrence after a conference. During their travel, they discussed a need of a rousing yell. They came up with "Rah, Rah, Jayhawk, KU", repeated three times. "Rock Chalk"—a transposition of chalk rock, a mineral that exists in western Kansas and similar to the coccolith found in the white cliffs of Dover—later replaced the two "rahs", after an English professor's suggestion.

U.S. president Teddy Roosevelt called it the greatest college chant he had ever heard. Kansas troops have used it in the Philippine-American War in 1899, the Boxer Rebellion, and World War II. In the 1920 Summer Olympics, Albert I of Belgium asked for a typical American college yell, and gathered athletes replied with the chant.