That’s more like it.

The more than 16,000 Kansas University men’s basketball fans who pay a dollar a minute per game to watch the Jayhawks perform in Allen Fieldhouse saw what they paid to see.

Tuesday night’s 91-51 flogging of Saint Joseph’s essentially was the reason Kansas can charge $40 per ticket, and a whole lot more in contributions, if you want a good seat.

No doubt the worst thing that happened to Saint Joseph’s — other than losing guards Jameer Nelson and Delonte West, both first-round NBA Draft choices last June — was Monday’s Associated Press basketball poll.

Kansas had dropped from No. 1 to No. 2 in the rankings on the lack of strength of their molasses-like 68-61 season-opening victory over Vermont on Friday. The Jayhawks did not look like a No. 1 team that night.

Tuesday night, they did. In fact, they looked like the deepest, most talented team in America, with 13 players traipsing onto the floor and 11 of them scoring. Coach Bill Self used more combinations than a lock factory.

Curiously, the Jayhawk who logged the most minutes had an off night. Keith Langford was on the floor for 26 minutes and finished with only four points. Langford didn’t score until 11:13 remained, so he played only a small role in the Jayhawks’ steamrolling to a 50-19 halftime lead.

So big was KU’s bulge that Hawks’ fans in Philadelphia must have turned out the lights and hit the sack. In the second half, ESPN analyst Dick Vitale, who must have wished he had never left his beloved ACC country for this one, spent most of his time praising everyone he happened to spot when he wasn’t watching the game, which apparently was often.

Even thousands of KU fans left before the final horn, eager to beat it back home with a wet snow falling outside.

Kansas freshman Darnell Jackson (32) beats Saint Joseph's Robert Ferguson to the hoop.

But the Hawk didn’t leave.

How often do you see a visiting team bring its mascot to Allen Fieldhouse? I can’t remember the last time. In fact, it may have been in the 1970s, when St. Joe’s was one of the teams in the defunct Jayhawk Classic, and

the Hawk also made an appearance.

The Hawk, in case you didn’t know, is the toughest mascot job in the country. The bird has to wave his arms all the time. With Tuesday’s game out of hand, I glanced at the Hawk from time to time and noticed that he — I say he, but it could be a she — cheated every now and then by waving just one arm.

But for the most part those two arms — er, wings — were flapping all the time. Whoever was in that mascot outfit must have arms of steel, sort of like the hands of iron that caused St. Joseph’s to shoot a metallic 29.6 percent.

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When the Hawk was here in the ’70s, I recalled that during timeouts it would run a figure-8 on the floor, all the time flapping its wings, of course.

I was beginning to think the Hawk had abandoned that tradition when, with 7:56 remaining and the teams huddled for a commercial timeout, darned if that Hawk didn’t prance out of the floor and run a figure-8 amid boos, mostly from the student section.

Then with 2:36 remaining, the students showed they hadn’t forgotten the St. Joe’s mascot’s intrusion upon James Naismith Floor by chanting “Kill that bird. Kill that bird.”

Nobody killed the bird, fortunately. But the Jayhawks made the Hawks wish they had been in St. Joseph, Mo., for their opener instead of in Lawrence.

Are the Jayhawks as good as they looked Tuesday night? Or are they more like the team that struggled against the boys from maple-syrup land four days earlier?

Two games don’t make a season, so the answer has to be that the Jayhawks are somewhere in between.