Repeating: to those those of you who think we could sport a better Kansas team if we went further away and win. I'm sorry to tell you that you're wrong. Ross Taplin lost to Brandon Simpson this summer in dual meet between an all-star Kansas team that had Cornejo, Baldridge, Northern, Perez, Altman, Cisper, Shumate, Elliott, Fisher, Sonderegger, etc. The dual tournment featured a number of teams from Missouri---Mo West/Team ST. Louis/etc. So the Missouri studs were broken up. Team Kansas placed third.
There's no way that an All-Star team from KS beats an All-Star team from MO, not this year.