How the question of Darryn Peterson's availability is shaping KU's season (ESPN)

Thanks, port!

A little note on something I caught that inspires this question -

Has the media decided to ignore NCAA official records with vacated wins and talk about the actual results from the games played?

A few weeks back there was the congratulations in the media to Rick Pitino for earning his 900th NCAA D1 win.
But his official NCAA record was only 777 at the time because the NCAA had vacated 123 Louisville wins under Pitino due to NCAA infractions.

In this article Myron Medcalf writes "Two national championships and 644 wins with the Jayhawks make him an expert on what it takes to capitalize in the final month of the regular season to prepare for the grind of the NCAA tournament."

That number is not equal to the official NCAA number of 629, which does not include the 15 vacated 2018 SIlvio De Sousa wins.

As a college sports fan who does not believe in vacating wins as a form of punishment, especially when all the individual records of the athletes who participated in those events are not vacated, I am all for the media quietly but clearly intentionally giving a metaphoric finger to the NCAA.

Perhaps the media, by highlighting the NCAA's inability to stop the media from talking about what actually happened by ignoring the vacated wins punishment, will eventually humiliate them into realizing all those vacated wins need to be restored, since it is historically clear that the media and the fans are looking at what actually happened. Especially as the NCAA has chosen to ignore certain violations and pursue others. How many wins and NCAA titles would UCLA have to stop counting if the NCAA retroactively vacated wins earned during the Sam Gilbert era? The evidence is out there in many sources, including the stories from the players who received those forbidden fruits. But nope, the NCAA never did and never will hurt the Wooden record, or for that matter the record of the Tar Heels sports teams.and their coaches - in hoops including both Smith and Williams because the violations happened over that long of a period (1993-2011, 18 years).

I'm ready to add the 15 KU wins back to Self's and the program's record.
That punishment never fit the "offense" - and as far as any reasonable person looking at the facts could say there was none by Silvio or his family - and they know it.

Good piece, even if it still didn't answer what, precisely, is going on with him physically. Unlike some of the bashers out there, particularly in opposing fan bases, who have questioned his heart, character, and work ethic, I do not. If I were to surmise, I think there's some mix between a physical ailment (stiff legs/quad lockups) and mental anxiety around same - hence, perhaps, the reluctance of him or others close to him (Coach, his parents, his handlers, his teammates) to go into that.

But who knows? All I know is that, ever since the OSU game, the kid has been absolutely pilloried by national media and on social media, including an absolutely destructive, ludicrous tweet from the aging Vitale saying he and KU should "divorce" (i.e., shut it down and part ways). What nonsense, and you know Dukie V would never say such a thing if it were a Duke kid (Kyrie Irving says hello, btw).

At this point, I want even more than ever for the young man to get better asap and just roll. Do his thing. As for KU and all the haters out there, it's time to circle the wagons and kick some a**. Hope that starts tonight.

Rock Chalk.