Nancy Boyda: “I rise again with my colleague Mr. Moran to salute the 2008 national champion Kansas Jayhawks. Rock Chalk Jayhawk. Rock…”

“I rise again with my colleague Mr. Moran to salute the 2008 national champion Kansas Jayhawks. Rock Chalk Jayhawk. Rock Chalk Jayhawk. My district includes some of the most loyal college basketball fans in the Nation. Every week they get up, go out in the dark in the middle of the Kansas prairie winter, and they journey out into the cold and dark to sit on wooden benches in an old field house, and they cheer on our local team, the Kansas Jayhawks, just like their parents and grandparents did. They are also some of the luckiest college basketball fans in the Nation. Our field house is the legendary Allen Field House, and our local team is the Kansas Jayhawks, one of the most dominant college basketball teams in this Nation. This year the Kansas Jayhawks made their 13th, their 13th, Final Four and they won their fifth national championship. Eat your heart out, MU. In 109 years of basketball, the Jayhawks have had only eight head coaches. The position was first held by James Naismith, the very founder of this legendary game, but there have been none better than our current head coach, Bill Self.”