Disgusted

I don't know what it is about KU that begs people to try to steal and dunk when down by double digits as the clock is winding down, but I am tired of that. From now on, especially at KSU, we run and dunk til the last second. It will take that stupidity off the board. And when anyone says anything we point to these times that this garbage has happened.

1. Bush league move by the guy stealing the ball. Other than it being bush league, so what.
2. DeSousa's block. Heck yes. Even standing over him a bit. Pull a bush league move, you deserve to be shown up.
3. Everything after that. Disgusting.

All this is just my venting/opinion

The KSU guy in street clothes is the person that escalated that into a brawl. It was really a whole lot of nothing until he jumped in to the mix. Threw the first punches and should get 10 games minimum maybe more.
DeSousa threw punches and picked up a chair to hit someone with. Thankfully he dropped it on his own and didn't use it, but 10 games as well
McCormack punches and kicking the guy who was on the ground 10 games.
Anyone else who threw a punch 3 games.

By the way, the KU yell leader who was keeping people out of the mix. Good on him. He deserves a lot for getting in the way of huge athletes and trying to do the right thing.

It is going to be chaos in Manhattan.

And if we lose a game or two because of suspensions, we just handed it all to Baylor and might have cost us a #1 seed.

Disgusting

The guy off the bench may not have thrown the first punch. I think Gorden rushed in and pushed DeSousa from over the KSU player who Desousa was standing over. DeSousa fell back. Got back up and launched a punch. The KSU bench was coming in at that point and the bench guy threw a punch then.

If that is really what transpired, then DeSousa may well be done for the year.

It is interesting to me that DeSousa has struggled so much this year to the point where he is playing scrub time after showing so much potential previously. He is clearly frustrated and that steal set him off. Not good

I can only speak for myself here.

Several things separate this from those you are comparing them to.

I don't like fighting in sports and don't cheer them on. I think baseball fights are the silliest with rarely a punch landed, but I don't cheer or condone it. In fact, I think because they are so silly, they should get even stiffer penalties as anyone jogging from the bullpen has enough time to think about it and if they get into an altercation, it is worse.

With hockey, I happen to hate fighting in hockey. For a while there was way too many of them and it takes away from the game. Having said that, hockey has part of its culture the enforcer/fighter so it is accepted as part of the game. I don't like it, but I accept it.

Fighting has no place in most sports and specially in college sports where we are supposedly trying to display a modicum of sportsmanship.

That is why I am saying that the penalties should be stiff.