Last night, Kansas easily handled Colorado at the Coors Event Center, the only arena in the Big 12 I’ve been to that completely lacks a home court advantage. Hell, for Texas it even skewed neutral if not in favor of the Horns. I would not be surprised to hear that there was more blue and red in the stands last night as the Jayhawks steamrolled the Buffs by 29. It keeps KU right in the hunt for the conference title, as they await a stumble from Texas A&M.

There’s not a whole lot going on in the world of basketball today, besides some games out west in the Pac 10. USC heads to Arizona at 9:30 PM (Central) in a game that is absolutely huge for the up-and-down Wildcats. After losing five of six, including that embarrassment at home to UNC, Arizona has won their last three. They are tied for fifth in the stacked Pac 10, but a visit from UCLA is just two days away. A win tonight is necessary to stop another momentum-killing losing streak.

In Austin, we don’t get this game, but instead UCLA at Arizona State followed by Oregon State at Stanford. Good choice on that one, FSN. Perhaps Austin viewers will find the A-10 clash between UMass and Fordham (8 PM, ESPN2) a bit more thrilling. If not, there’s always the 2004 Powerade Jam Fest at 10 on the Duece. I might just have to clear my calendar for this lineup.

At 6 PM (Central), there’s a generally useless game back east, as St. Francis takes on St. Francis. The two schools — one located in Loretto, PA, and the other in Brooklyn — are in the midst of abysmal seasons. The loser gets the glory of having a 21-loss season, while they both will still be slumming it in the bottom of the Northeastern Conference. If I haven’t sold you on watching this painful display of mediocrity, I’m just not sure what else I can do.

I’ve been toying around with the GoogleMaps API to create a clickable map of the places I’ve visited that will hopefully organize things a little nicer and spruce the place up. Tomorrow I’m dedicating the entire afternoon to the site, so look for some new content and a Baylor re-preview.

Chances are, you didn’t notice the new link stuck at the top of the page today. But it’s there, hidden in between the schedule and our contact information. I’ve got the first two photo galleries up online, with more coming throughout the weekend.

For now, I’ve only got them grouped by city. That means pictures from the game, the arenas, and the places around town are all stuck in the same place. Eventually, I’ll create albums for photos of each player, each game, and one combining all the arenas. Then you can skip the stuff you don’t want to see and get right to what you are looking for.

But in the meantime, click the link above and you can get started with the shots from New York and Phoenix. I’ll get around to the others sometime after I bring you the Baylor preview.

I want to apologize for the recent lack of post-game updates. Much to my surprise, there are actually quite a few of you who check the blog regularly, and I know how much it sucks to visit a favorite page and see no new content.

I knew when I started this journey it was a pretty crazy idea, but I really had no idea of how physically draining it was going to be until this last week or so. Between the start of classes, holding a job, and actually travelling to the games, it’s starting to take its toll. But I wouldn’t trade this for anything — including a few extra hours of sleep each night — and I’m going to continue to bring you updates as often as I can.

Hopefully later tonight I’ll get my post-Villanova thoughts out on paper. But of course, homework comes first, and for some reason I have an insane amount for only having attended the T/TH courses once so far. So maybe by “later tonight” I actually mean “very early on Tuesday morning.” But it’ll be there for you to mull over as you down the morning coffee. And sometime this week you can also expect a ton of pictures to be available. I got a lot of work on the gallery pages done while flying to and from Philly, so by the end of the week you’ll at least be able to see the photos from New York, Phoenix, Houston, Tennessee, and a few home games.

So again, thank you for reading. And I must once more offer my apologies for failing to bring you timely post-game updates for the last three games. But keep coming back, because I promise I’ll be here all throughout conference play and into the post-season.

So the comment feature is fixed for those of you using Internet Explorer. Of course, for you IE folks the layout and colors still look like a baby vomited up pea soup. And for that I apologize.

If any of my readers happen to be HTML or CSS geniuses and would like to offer some help, please feel free. I might give you a piece of gum I chewed, which will definitely fetch a pretty penny on eBay. Or I could just give you a public thanks in this space.

But in the meantime, for all of you who have e-mailed or IMed to say the comment feature doesn’t work — problem solved. Talk amongst yourselves. I’m all verklempt.

It’s been brought to our attention that readers accessing the site with Internet Explorer are seeing a mangled version of the page with all the useful links shoved to the bottom. We’re working on the problem, but in the meantime you can still see the page as intended by using the Firefox browser.

It’s possible that this IE issue is also related to the problems some have been having with the comment link. If you’ve tried unsuccessfully to leave a comment and are using Internet Explorer, drop us a line at contact@longhornroadtrip.com to let us know.

Thanks again for reading, and for letting us know about the problems!