Sporting News' second-team All-American scored 30 points, giving him 71 in the Jayhawks' last two games, and Kansas scored nine of the 12 points in overtime to outlast a very hot Oklahoma State team 76-70 in the Big 12 Tournament quarterfinals.

For all of those expecting Wiggins to light up the scoring column like this all season, you may get your chance through the rest of this month. With Wiggins playing like this, Kansas is still very much a threat to win a national title without Embiid.

Interesting, though, that Wiggins continues to be a complete player in his new role. His three assists, three steals and eight rebounds vs. the Cowboys show the total effect he can have on a game.

"It was a great win," Jayhawks coach Bill Self said on ESPN's broadcast afterward. "They're good. I don't know what seed line they'll be on, but they're playing like a top four seed right now. That's a great win for us."

Markel Brown’s 3-point field goal with 1:30 left turned a 1-point Kansas lead into a two-point Cowboys advantage, but Wiggins responded on the other end with a tough baseline jumper with 1:02 remaining to tie the game at 67. That was the final bucket scored before the extra session. Cowboys star Marcus Smart and Wiggins both misfired on 3-pointers.

Self says Wiggins is aware that he must be aggressive without Embiid, who is not available for the Big 12 Tournament because of his back injury, and perhaps longer than that.


SO LONG, TERPS


Humor me for a moment here. For the conclusion to Maryland’s time as a member of the ACC basketball world, I’m going to quote a few lines from the movie “Fletch.”

Seems fitting, considering the star of the movie, Chevy Chase, shares a name with a town that’s just about 15 minutes from the campus of the school that will join the Big Ten for the 2014-15 season. Anyway, there’s a scene where Fletch is trying to con some information from a doctor by pretending to know a guy named Ed.

Doctor: You know, it's a shame about Ed. 	Fletch: Oh, it was. Yeah, it was really a shame. To go so suddenly like that. 	Doctor: He was dying for years. 	Fletch: Sure, but the end was very, very sudden. 	Doctor: He was in intensive care for eight weeks. 	Fletch: Yeah, but I mean the very end, when he actually died. That was extremely sudden.

The end of Maryland’s time in the ACC has been coming for a long time, since the school made the announcement way back in November 2012. But the end, when the Terrapins actually ceased to exist as an ACC basketball entity, was extremely sudden.

The end came on a powerful two-handed slam dunk with 0.4 seconds left by Florida State big man Boris Bojanovsky. Maryland’s ensuing full-court heave was off the mark.

Instead of overtime, there was no more basketball for the Terps. Extremely sudden.

“We are never out of any fight,” said junior Dez Wells, who had 18 points. “Even when we took that last heave with .4 seconds, I still thought it was going to win the game. So when it didn’t go in, my heart dropped.”


COWBOYS' FEEL


The NCAA released the court design that Final Four participants will be playing on at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, home of the Dallas Cowboys.

So yes, the colors will remind you of the Cowboys. The only disappointing thing is that we don’t have a picture of Jerry Jones’ face in the center circle. The big Final Four logo is disappointing.


DOING IT FOR HIS SON


Earlier this week, Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery told media that his 13-year-old son Pat is battling a non-cancerous thyroid tumor.

On Thursday, McCaffery's Hawkeyes took the court in Indianapolis for their Big Ten tournament game against Northwestern in shooting shorts that supported Pat's battle.


ONE BIG ASSIST


Doug McDermott, a.k.a Dougie McBuckets, is absolutely lighting up DePaul inside Madison Square Garden.

But despite how well he's playing, the best play of the night belongs to his teammate Devin Brooks, who is now the clubhouse leader for "Assist of the Year."



We'd put good money on the fact that he can't do it again.

But that's what makes this play so awesome.

Contributors: Roger Kuznia, Ryan Fagan, Troy Machir