Big Jay gets into the mix in the student section during the second half against New Mexico State on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008 at Allen Fieldhouse.

Kansas University’s home winning streak is apparently alive and well at 29 games and counting.

An NCAA official Monday indicated KU’s 61-60 loss to UMass on Saturday in Sprint Center would not count as a home game and erase the streak as far as college’s governing body is concerned.

Gary Johnson of the NCAA statistics staff said the Jayhawks’ 29-game home win streak currently ranks fourth nationally behind Brigham Young (53), Notre Dame (41) and Tennessee (35). Georgetown has the fifth longest streak at 27 games.

“We’ve not talked about it as far as RPI is concerned,” Johnson said of deciding whether the KU-UMass game was a home game or neutral-court game. “The homecourt can count either way (at nearby Sprint Center), whichever the advantage toward the school. We’ll now make sure all homecourt streak games for them are Allen Fieldhouse games period until the streak is broken.”

KU officials said they had been advised by the Big 12 to count Sprint Center games as KU home games since they are part of the school’s season-ticket package.

So — in counting last year’s victory over Ohio in Sprint Center — KU (in the Big 12’s eyes) carried a 30-game home win streak into Saturday’s action. That home win streak was snapped, leaving KU only with a 29-game “Allen Fieldhouse streak” to talk about.

Now it’s not just a 29-game Allen win streak, but a 29-game home win streak heading into Saturday’s 1:30 p.m. game against Temple.

“The games we’re talking about — Ohio and UMass — were on our season-ticket package. We sold the tickets. The question to ask is whether the NCAA considers those home games. It’s all semantics, really,” KU associate AD Jim Marchiony said.

KU, by the way, had its school-record 62-game home win streak broken by Iowa in 1998, a 55-gamer snapped by Kansas State in 1988 and a 33-gamer halted by Missouri in 1951.