Once, in a far away land, the ancient basketball deity of “B-B teams” set forth a curse on all teams represented by magnificent mythical-bird mascots, that whenever such mythical bird meets a B-B team in the opening round of any tournament, said mythical bird shall choke on its inability to make easy layups and wildly positioned 3-point shots.

Baylor 71, Jayhawks 64.

So it was written, and so it shall be.