Dallas ? Keith Langford has a message for Missouri basketball fans who say Kansas University was lucky to pull out a 79-74 victory over the Tigers six days ago in Columbia, Mo.

“Luck, luck … whatever,” Langford, KU’s sophomore guard, said of Sunday’s victory that wrapped up an undisputed Big 12 Conference championship.

“We won. It’s in the record books. Five straight. Go home and cry,” Langford said. “They can hate us now, hate us later, whatever. There’s nothing they can do to get that back.”

The Jayhawks — who Sunday were sparked by Aaron Miles’ desperation 23-foot two-handed shot at 1:21 and Kirk Hinrich’s 25-foot bomb at :23, turning a 74-71 deficit into a 77-74 KU lead — will try to make it six straight wins over Mizzou today.

Tipoff for the Big 12 tourney semifinal is 1 p.m. today at American Airlines Center.

“They will want revenge on our whole team, not just me,” said Miles, who scored 16 points in KU’s 89-74 semifinal victory Friday over Iowa State.

Miles may seek vengeance on one of the Tigers.

MU forward Travon Bryant, who hit a game-winning eight-footer at the buzzer in Friday’s 60-58 quarterfinal victory over Oklahoma State, last Sunday ridiculed Miles’ back-breaking, off-balance shot. Like Hinrich’s trey, Miles’ three-pointer came just before the shot clock expired.

“It was a horrible shot,” Bryant said at the time. “He (Miles) is a better shooter shooting it like that than actually having his feet set. He can’t shoot the ball a lick, and he throws that up.”

Miles’ response: “I heard about what he said. No comment.”

Bryant wasn’t backing down after emerging the hero Friday, but did say his words were “a little out of frustration. To know that shot went in … it was frustration of knowing we’d probably not get to play them again this year.

“It’s all competition,” Bryant said. “Aaron realizes it. I do. Now we both have another chance to do battle.”

Lucky or not — Friday, KU coach Roy Williams called Miles’ shot a “prayer that was answered” — it counted and helped beat Mizzou.

“Oh, man, it was pretty,” Miles said. “The fact it went in … all I was trying to do was get it on the boards. When it went in, it helped our team.”

The two late threes dominated talk shows this week. Tiger fans deemed both awfully lucky.

“One shot was suspect. The other was a big shot,” MU center Arthur Johnson said Friday. “Now we get to play them again. Everybody knows about the rivalry. Now the rivalry moves to Texas.”

Hinrich was asked by reporters Friday how he could top last week’s MU moment.

“I probably couldn’t,” he said. “It’s probably the biggest shot of my career.”

Of talk his shot was lucky, Hinrich said, “It doesn’t make me mad. I laugh because I know how mad they were. Aaron’s shot was crazy, but it helped us win the game.”

KU enters today’s game 25-6 overall. MU is 20-9.

“We always realize it’s hard to beat somebody three times in one year,” Williams said. “We were very fortunate Sunday.”

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Physical game: Hinrich iced his right arm and left knee after Friday’s game.

“I just got whacked around,” Hinrich said. “It’s the way they play. I guarded Jake (Sullivan, six points 2-of-11 shooting). They set screens. He’s a tough guy.”

At one point, Hinrich had had enough physical play, barking at Sullivan.

“I got frustrated, that’s the bottom line,” he said. “I was tired of people grabbing me.”

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Hard hat needed: KU sophomore Michael Lee didn’t play the last 91¼2 minutes after Sullivan’s head clubbed his chin.

“He was swinging the ball through, put his head up and banged my chin hard,” Lee said.

“This time I got the brunt of it,” said Lee, who bumped heads with Oklahoma’s Jabahri Brown Feb. 23 in Norman, Okla. Brown suffered a concussion; Lee escaped unscathed.

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Cut hand: Miles suffered a cut on his right hand in the second half that did not require stitches. It did require a heavy wrap until it stopped bleeding.

“It either was the (backboard) glass or somebody scratched it while I was going up there,” he said.

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Smooth Langford: Langford hit eight of 12 shots, including a three, good for 19 points. He also switched hands in midair, hitting an inside shot off a drive the second half.

“Like I said before, I am excited coming home and playing before family and friends,” the Fort Worth native said. “It’s fun to be back home and play here.”