Watching Kansas corral, spook and intimidate Michigan State over the final 20 minutes of Sunday's Orlando Classic was strangely surreal.

It was a role reversal from 12 days prior, when Kentucky—much more emphatically—did the same to Kansas and had the general basketball population questioning if Bill Self was finally going to have a down year in Lawrence.

Three wins at the Orlando Classic—finished off by the gritty 61-56 victory over Michigan State in the championship game—proved any such questioning of the 11th-ranked Jayhawks to be wildly premature.

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