When Kansas opens its Big 12 season against TCU in Fort Worth at the end of December, the Jayhawks will embark on a quest that can only be termed epic. Bill Self's team will be seeking its 13th consecutive regular-season conference championship. If the Jayhawks indeed hang another banner this season -- and the chances that they will are good -- KU will tie the mark for consecutive league titles set by UCLA between 1967 and 1979.
How big a deal would this be? Perhaps bigger than anyone will be able to fully put across. All the same, allow me to try.