photo by: Mike Yoder

Kevin Young (40) drives the baseline on Deniz Kilicli (13) in the Jayhawks 61-56 win against the Mountaineers Monday night at West Virginia University.

A few links for your Thursday morning …

• As you might have expected, the postgame Facebook reaction to the Kansas men’s basketball team’s alternate, monocromatic uniforms from Monday was not great.

My take: They look good on a poster but are terrible for TV viewing purposes. Somehow, adidas needed to come up with a way to make the numbers to pop out a little bit more.

• We’ve known that Kansas guard Travis Releford has been spectacular in transition this season, but SI.com’s Luke Winn reports that Releford is the fourth-most efficient transition scorer in the nation in his latest Power Rankings. Interestingly, Travis’ brother Trevor, who plays for Alabama, is ninth in the nation in transition efficiency.

By the way, Winn dropped KU from No. 1 to No. 2 in his rankings.

• This has been mentioned before, but here is KU director of basketball operations Doc Sadler’s half-court shot video if you haven’t seen it yet:

• A good feature here from JayhawkSlant’s Bryan Cisler, who talks about how KU — and specifically KU assistant athletic director for sports performance Andrea Hudy — is using cutting-edge technology to help prevent injuries while targeting areas of strength improvement for each athlete.

• Baylor coach Scott Drew took a funny spill during the last seconds of his team’s home loss to Oklahoma on Wednesday night, falling to the floor as BU guard Brady Heslip’s potential game-tying three rattled out.

• A few more video highlights from KU’s win over West Virginia from KU Athletics:

• Colorado coach and former KU player Tad Boyle has a talented 10-year-old son, Pete, who loves to dance during the Buffaloes’ home games as a floor sweeper. Video is from Fox 31 in Denver.

• After suffering a concussion last week, KU signee Conner Frankamp returned to the floor Tuesday and scored 29 points in Wichita North’s 64-29 victory over Wichita Northwest.

• And finally, a blast from the past: Here’s a December 1996 article from SI.com’s Vault that talks about the Jayhawks’ high expectations for the 1996-97 season. Included topics are Jacque Vaughn’s injured wrist (and quoting of poet Robert Frost), Jerod Haase’s offseason work on his shooting and Paul Pierce’s insistence that he wouldn’t be afraid to take the big shot at the end of games.

As you’ll remember, KU finished 34-2 that season, falling in the Sweet 16 to eventual national champion Arizona.