Thou Shalt Not Heckle The No. 1 Team In The Country

... especially if you are 0-9 in the SWAC and are pocketing $75k for one of those early-season guarantee games.

↵According to the Lawrence Journal-World, during a ho-hum early-season cupcake game for No. 1 Kansas against Alcorn State, an Alcorn State assistant coach decided to taunt Kansas’ preseason all-American Sherron Collins. Alcorn State was actually leading 4-3 at the time and maybe thought they had a shot of getting to within 30 points of Kansas by the end of the game, so they were fired up. I dunno.

↵Either way, it didn’t work.

↵↵The 5-foot-11 Collins, who was knocked to the floor under the south goal, was being helped up by an Alcorn State player when Collins said he heard something shocking from an ASU coach.

↵“When I was on the way up, the assistant coach was like, ‘Don’t help him up,’’’ Collins said.

↵“I was like, ‘What?’

↵“I didn’t go over there (to confront the unnamed coach). I just told him, ‘This is our house.’ Then I shot a shot from the sideline and heard him say, ‘You got nothin’.’ I looked back and said, ‘All right, it’s time.’’’

↵Time to get rolling.

↵The Jayhawks completed a 36-0 run — one point shy of the NCAA record for most consecutive points in a game, which was 37 by Utah State in a game against Idaho in 2006.

↵↵Kansas eventually won the game 98-31. Nicely done, coach.

↵It’s easy to blame the coach for thinking that, as the assistant coach of an 0-9 team in a terrible conference, it was the appropriate time and place to taunt the best player on the best team in the country. But I’ll choose to blame testosterone instead. What can I say, it makes you do some weird stuff sometimes.