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• Well, it’s Monday, and KU’s team is still playing basketball after a quite entertaining Final Four victory on Satuday.

I wrote a bit last week about Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little’s decision not to cancel classes on Tuesday if the Jayhawks win tonight (along with her counterpart at Kentucky, too).

I pointed out that classes had been canceled in 1988 and 2008 when the team won the title, too.

But now I have some sense of what happened in 1952, the only other time KU won the NCAA tournament, thanks to alert Heard on the Hill tipster Loy Kirkpatrick, who graduated from KU in 1953 and from law school in 1957, after serving two years in the Army.

Kirkpatrick wrote to me about what happened then. After KU won the title, students “marched on the chancellor’s mansion” and demanded classes be canceled the next day.

Franklin Murphy, the chancellor at the time, told students that “KU was not like K-State” and didn’t cancel classes after Kansas State won a few football games, Kirkpatrick wrote to me.

Classes were held as scheduled. Students dispersed. And few came on Tuesday, Kirkpatrick remembered.

A few have speculated that Gray-Little might be preparing to pull a bait-and-switch, canceling classes at the last minute if KU wins. I’m not sure, but given what I know about this chancellor, I wouldn’t bank on that. Put me down as one who expects KU to — officially, anyway — have class on Tuesday, win or lose.

• And speaking of 1952, that was the first Final Four covered by Rich Clarkson, a KU graduate and photographer extraordinaire. He’s photographed 57 Final Fours since then, and “CBS This Morning” is scheduled, at the time of this writing, to air a piece on Clarkson during the 8 a.m. hour of the show this morning.

Should be some good stories there, if you’d care to tune in.

Clarkson, a Lawrence native, used to work as a photographer at the Journal-World.

And, in case you’d like to see how basketball has changed during that time, here’s a look back, courtesy of our own Jesse Newell, featuring a few of Clarkson’s photos and a video featuring highlights of the game with Max Falkenstien.

• Also, at the time of writing this post, I haven’t heard a full report yet of any issues arising from Saturday’s celebration in Lawrence. But I think it’s safe to say that it wasn’t as bad as the celebrations in Lexington.

Lots of fire-setting there, and car-destroying and general mayhem.

I mean, just listen to Lexington resident Joey Frederick, quoted here in the Louisville Courier-Journal.

“We are the best team in America,” he said. “I think houses should burn.”

That’s quite a quote.

• If they want to burn houses in Kentucky when they win, I’d hate to think what might happen if the Jayhawks beat them tonight. If KU wins, I suggest fans celebrate by immediately sending me lots of tips for Heard on the Hill to ahyland@ljworld.com.