LAWRENCE, Kan. — With 51.5 seconds left in regulation, as Houston coach Kelvin Sampson called timeout after Kansas guard Rylan Griffen had buried a 3 to put the Jayhawks ahead by 4, Sampson’s wife Karen got out of her seat behind the Cougars’ bench, said goodbye to the nice Kansas fans who sat next to her and started walking around the concourse of Allen Fieldhouse.
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The coach’s wife knows how these usually end.
It’s always Kansas that makes the miraculous play, the wild comeback, justifying the “Beware of the Phog” banner that hangs in the rafters. Once her husband led by 16 points in this building as the coach of Oklahoma.
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