Lawrence Journal-World 02-28-2016

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BIG 12 (in a row)

Fans in the student section hold up signs saluting the Kansas University men’s basketball team’s 12th-straight regular season Big 12 title following a 67-58 win over Texas Tech on Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse. See a recap and analysis from the game in Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo

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See what fans have to say about this season’s KU basketball team in On the Street, page 6A

DeBruce Center taking shape on KU campus Home for rules of ‘Basket Ball’ targets April opening By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep

James Naismith’s original rules of “Basket Ball” now have a home at Kansas University — right down to the nook they’ll rest in — but there’s a lot of finishing touches yet to be completed. That nook, for example, still has loose wires sticking out of it and is surrounded by unfinished wood. The target opening date for the DeBruce Center, being constructed adjacent to Allen Fieldhouse, is now mid- to late April.

The rules themselves will be the final finishing touch, going in only after every tile is laid and every speck of dust swept up, said Curtis Marsh, DeBruce Center director. “The rules don’t get put into the case until every stitch of construction is in place,” Marsh said. “We are not messing around with those rules.” KU alumnus David Booth and his wife, Suzanne Booth, purchased the 1891 document at auction in 2010 for $4.3 million Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo — a sports memorabilia record, according to Sotheby’s in New CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES WITHIN THE DEBRUCE CENTER and around the Rules Concourse, which will tell the story of basketball and lead to the Rules Gallery, where the original rules of “Basket Ball” will be York City. displayed, during a walking tour on Thursday. DeBruce Center officials are expecting the facility to be Please see DEBRUCE, page 2A open by mid- to late April. See a video about the new building at LJWorld.com/debrucetour.

At convention, Kansas Democrats ‘have nowhere to go but up’ By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock

Former Congressman Dan Glickman and former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius acknowledged that the Kansas Democratic Party is in a weak position in 2016.

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But they were still optimistic, telling a banquet crowd at the party’s state convention Saturday night in Topeka that there is reason to be hopeful about the future. “This state now has, for example, a very, very heavy Republican dominance in the Legislature,” Glickman

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said. “This is a hard patch, and we are all watching a state that we love being torn apart, piece at a time, with some values that I don’t think are Kansas values.” Glickman and Sebelius were the keynote speakers Saturday night at the state party’s annual convention,

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said. “We don’t have one statewide elected Democrat. We don’t have one statewide elected federal official. We don’t have one congressional federal official. So we’ve got nowhere to go but up, folks.” “There’s no question that Kansas Democrats are in some tough times,” Sebelius

where the focus at times alternated between honoring the party elders of the past, when Democrats were more competitive, criticizing Gov. Sam Brownback and the current GOP leaders in the Legislature, and gearing up

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