Memphis couldn't get back to basics

 
Kansas will remember overcoming a big deficit in regulation and triumphing in overtime. History, however, will remember it as the night the Tigers blew it, largely because of missed free throws. > SAN ANTONIO -- That's the thing about one shining moment. [link]

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