St. Louis ? If Kansas University keeps winning, Bob Davis might have to take up juggling.

The radio voice of KU football and basketball for 18 years, Davis also covers Kansas City Royals baseball games for Fox Sports Net. Opening day for the Royals is scheduled for the afternoon of April 1 against Minnesota at Kansas City, Mo.

Meanwhile, the NCAA basketball national championship game is slated for that night in Atlanta. Davis, who’s been the Royals’ television play-by-play announcer since 1997, can’t call both games.

“We’ll work that out,” Davis said before KU’s 86-63, second-round victory against Stanford on Saturday night. “I don’t want to jinx it. I hope I have a problem. That’s a long way away.”

Davis has missed one KU game  last fall’s football game at Colorado  because of a conflict with the Royals. David Lawrence, host of the “Crimson and Blue Line” pregame show and football sideline reporter, filled in for Davis at the CU contest.

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Allen still a fan: Former KU football coach Terry Allen  fired with three games left in the 2001 season  is still a big supporter of Kansas basketball and KU coach Roy Williams, who is a close friend. Allen sat in the second row behind the KU bench on Saturday.

“After sweating out Thursday night’s game at home,” he said, “I thought I better get over here and cheer my Jayhawk basketball team.”

Allen, who will join the Iowa State football staff this spring as associate head coach/tight ends coach, still is living in Lawrence while his family looks for a house in Ames, Iowa.

“We’ve found a house,” he said, “but we don’t have it bought yet.”

Spring football starts March 27 at ISU.

“I’m really excited,” he said.

Also in the house Saturday was Dave Robisch, an All-American who led KU to the Final Four in 1971.

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Best start: Kansas opened with a 15-0 run, including eight points by junior forward Nick Collison. Top-seeded and second-ranked KU also had a 10-0 run near the end of the first half.

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Worst start: Stanford, seeded eighth and ranked 24th, shot 1-for-6 with five turnovers during KU’s opening run.

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Worst coaching decision: Stanford coach Mike Montgomery never called timeout during the Jayhawks’ opening blitz. When a TV timeout finally halted the carnage, it was 15-0 just 4:49 into the game.

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Best motivational tool: Collison, coming off a five-point game in the opening round against Holy Cross, was angered by Bill Mayer’s column in Saturday’s Journal-World.

“Personally, I was motivated because I played so poorly,” he said. “There’s been a lot of things in the media. I got up and read an article by Bill Mayer in the Journal-World about how we’ll be all right next year (in 2003) because we’ll have a lot of guys coming back, basically giving up on us and talking about how I take a disappearing potion in big games  despite having 15, 13 points against Oklahoma and 28 against Missouri. I was motivated to come out and play.”

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Dress warm: Fans planning to attend third- and fourth-round games Friday and Sunday in Madison, Wis., should pack plenty of warm clothes. Snow is forecast for Wednesday and Thursday with highs in the low 30s. The snow is supposed to clear out by the weekend, but cold temperatures are likely to persist.

The games in Madison are sold out. Kansas will have an allotment of 1,250 tickets, but a KU official said before Saturday’s game that the school already had received orders for 1,600.

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Cheap Seats?: The size of the 39,063-seat Edward Jones Dome has made tickets in St. Louis accessible for fans during the first two rounds. Despite ticket availability, scalpers were doing brisk business across the street Saturday afternoon.

The NCAA announced attendance as 31,484, and it’s likely about half those were Jayhawk fans.

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Most eclectic museum: Many a St. Louis tourist probably has wondered how the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame and the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame came to be housed under one roof.

Here’s the scoop: The bowling shrine opened in 1984 next door to Busch Stadium. In 1996, Gerald W. Baltz  executive director of the bowling museum  heard the Cards were outgrowing their museum inside Busch and invited the for-profit baseball team to share half the three-story building and split expenses with the non-profit bowling hall.

Visitors buy one ticket  $9.50 for adults and $7.50 for children  for both museums. Included is four free frames of bowling. The basement alley features eight lanes, four with automatic pin setters and four with old-fashioned, human pin setters.

Baltz said about 46,000 people visited the museums last year, and most took the time to take in both shrines.

The Cardinals’ hall contains uniforms from the likes of Stan Musial and a Gold Glove won by Bob Gibson, along with hundreds of other artifacts. The most unusual piece of memorabilia in the shrine? The classic Corvette convertible given to Mark McGwire after he broke Roger Maris’ single-season record for home runs.

The museum also is the place to buy tickets for tours of Busch, which won’t be around too much longer now that plans are in the works for a new stadium.