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re: Since its basketball season isn't Kansas a more historic basketball program than Kentucky?
Posted on 9/26/25 at 8:36 am to Harry Rex Vonner
Posted on 9/26/25 at 8:36 am to Harry Rex Vonner
I mean Adolph Rupp literally came from the University of Kansas to Kentucky, by that fact alone, yes, in terms of history. Now, once Kentucky got rolling under Rupp, they sustained success and relevance more consistently than Kansas but Kansas is more historic.
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Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:00 am to Lizardman2
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Harry Rex Vonner
quote:Yet you did. HRV speaks the truth.
Another reason to avoid reading when this name appears.
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:01 am to Harry Rex Vonner
Only because Kansas invented basketball.
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:07 am to UKWildcats
I think this is everyone’s idea of all time top programs outside of Kentucky:
1. Duke
2. Kentucky/Kansas
3. NC
1. Duke
2. Kentucky/Kansas
3. NC
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:08 am to Harry Rex Vonner
Basketball yay! 
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:17 am to bigDgator
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Basketball yay!
I heard Napier will dual coach BB and FB.
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:19 am to Hawglicious
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Duke
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:20 am to Harry Rex Vonner
kansas might've invented basketball but Kentucky perfected it.
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Kansas should be admitted to the SEC
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Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:45 am to Harry Rex Vonner
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Kansas should be admitted to the SEC
Kansas and North Carolina would be not bad as a package.
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:49 am to LOTOTiger
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This is correct. UK is Kentucky. kU is kansas (note the k in kansas should never be capitalized when referring to kU).
All of the old Big 8 conference schools abbreviated with the State initial followed by the U: MU, OU, CU, NU, kU. The other three were schools with "State" in the name, and they abbreviate as you would expect: ISU, KSU, OSU.
I don't know the backstory, but It is too consistent for that not to have been intentional.
You are correct and I believe it was a league decision that occurred when Colorado joined the Big Six in 1947. Despite the fact that these were all "Universities of" whatever state... The league wanted their acronyms to be the "state followed by the U" as you described.
We generally have to explain this several times a year on here when somebody comments about how "stupid" it is that these schools acronyms are the way they are.
Ironically, pretty much all of them have stuck except for Nebraska. Locals up there don't say "NU" consistently like they used to... the younger ones say "UNL" these days.
Posted on 9/26/25 at 11:18 am to Hawglicious
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outside of Kentucky:
But you included Kentucky.
Posted on 9/26/25 at 11:39 am to MtVernon
quote:They would, the SEC has all the football powers it needs, and adding those 2 would make it the strongest basketball league. Sankey could sell the two separately for a huge amount.
Kansas and North Carolina would be not bad as a package.
Posted on 9/26/25 at 1:57 pm to RTRnFlorida
Bierocks are gross but nothing wrong with a good pirohy and some cabbage with noodles
Posted on 9/26/25 at 2:34 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
3 of kansas' NC's were awarded y a baker (who lived in kansas.)
Posted on 9/29/25 at 4:55 pm to Gunga Din
UNL? I guess that is closer to what most big 10 schools do. The exception there is the I schools. Illinois uses UofI, Iowa uses Iowa, and Indiana uses IU (I think the only school in the Big 10 that does it the way the old big 8 schools did).
Posted on 9/29/25 at 4:59 pm to Dallaswho
No- Mizzou is not short for MSU, which would be Missouri State. Mizzou is not and has never been referred to as Missouri State.
This post was edited on 9/29/25 at 5:01 pm
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