I would venture to say being a level headed person is a good quality when it comes to journalism of any kind. This is not an example of that. Washington is no juggernaut, to be sure, but they have a decent coach who knows how to game plan a little bit. It was one game on a semi-neutral court, a 9pt loss to a major conference opponent. Dropping Kansas 22 spots for that one loss is looney. Anyone can have one bad game. It happens. It was a bad loss, yes, but 1 game. This is clearly an overreaction. Drop them out of the top 10? Sure. Out of the top 20? Please.
And Kansas fans are like UK fans when it comes to overreacting to one loss.
Now, if I'm making a case Kansas fans should be worried, it would go like this...
1. This is a veteran Kansas team. They should be better than most teams right now if they're going to make any noise nationally tbis season.
2. This Kansas team is not deep at all. If their first 6 or 7 can't get it done, it's not getting done. There is nobody coming to the rescue.
3. This Kansas team doesn't have great upside this season because of the first 2 reasons I listed. Their ceiling isn't much higher.
As an aside, this seems yet another example of teams outside the Big12 not fearing Kansas. The Jayhawks have the B12 so afraid, it's almost comical.