Let's talk some KU hoops as we head down the home stretch of the basketball season,

but also get into some off-season football.

Mike Plank is joining us, Rock Chalk Talk, here at Heartland College Sports Weekly.

Part of Heartland College Sports.com. I'm Pete Mundo.

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Mike, let's start with the basketball side of things.

This team, obviously, the expectations are sky high right now.

How has this year's team been different from some of the teams in previous years that maybe did not meet some of those lofty expectations?

Well, I think the easiest answer that at least comes to my mind is this team is not dependent on one player or even two players.

You know, this isn't a case where they'll struggle if, you know, say, Perry Ellis has an off night

or Andrew Wiggins or Frank Mason or Thomas Robinson or whoever you want to say.

This year's Kansas team has had seven different players

scored 20 or more points in a game this season.

Dots and Moss, Doak, Aibbaji,

McCormick did it once, Brown, and Garrett.

And four of those guys have scored 20 or more multiple times,

Dots and Doak, Moss, and Igbachi.

So, like, they've got options all over the floor,

up and down the bench. It's just a, they can go two bigs, they can go five guards, they

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