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Kansas University’s Keith Langford said he liked the excitement ESPN’s GameDay brought to town, but wasn’t happy to hear some of the announcers tapped Oklahoma State as perhaps the best team in the league.

“It’s good, but you’ve got all these people here, and half of ’em are predicting us to lose,” Langford said. “You can come in our building, but don’t predict us to lose. You can leave if that’s the case.”

Also, last week, Digger Phelps tapped Villanova to defeat the Jayhawks in Philadelphia.

Aldrich in house

Cole Aldrich, a 6-foot-10 high school sophomore from Bloomington, Minn., attended on an unofficial recruiting visit. He is considering KU, Minnesota, Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, Wisconsin and others.

“Kansas is definitely my leader right now,” Aldrich told rivals.com. He also visited KU for Late Night in the Phog in October.

Moody documentary

ESPN did a special feature on KU junior walk-on Christian Moody as part of its daylong GameDay coverage. Moody was interviewed for the piece along with KU coach Bill Self, former KU coach Roy Williams and Moody’s high school coach, Rich Sizemore, of Roberson High in Asheville, N.C.

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This, that

KU improved to 11-4 versus Texas all-time and snapped a two-game losing streak versus the Longhorns. … KU is 7-0 versus UT in Lawrence, 5-0 at Allen Fieldhouse. … Self now is 1-4 against UT. … KU is 16-1 for the first time since since the 2000-01 season, when the Jayhawks started 17-1 in 00-01. … Wayne Simien moved past Eric Chenowith and JoJo White into 23rd on the all time scoring list at KU. … KU’s 91.7 free-throw shooting marks the highest percentage in a league game since shooting 93.3 against Oklahoma in 2002. … Texas had one second-half assist, fewest by a KU foe since Houston had one in the first half of a game in 2001. The Longhorns’ five total assists were fewest since Iowa State had five Feb. 16, 2003.

Wright in Roundball

KU signee Julian Wright has been chosen to compete in the 41st annual Roundball Classic set for March 22 at Chicago’s United Center.

The game features 22 of the top high school basketball players in the country. Players such as Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal and LeBron James have played in the game, sponsored by shoe publicist Sonny Vaccaro in the past.

Wright, 6-8 from Homewood-Flossmoor High in the Chicago area, scored 11 points in Friday’s 79-50 victory over Shepard.

TV stars

Like KU, Texas reaped the benefits of being featured on ESPN’s GameDay.

“Anytime you have your program featured in front of the country, it’s a big plus,” Texas assistant coach Rodney Terry told the Austin, Texas, paper. “You can’t put a price tag on that.”