Kansas started the season by winning nineteen games without a single defeat, which establishes a record for Western teams.  They were then defeated by Washington by the small margin of two points in a very close game.  Later, before they won the championship, they suffered a defeat at the hand of the University of Missouri team.

The championship series was arranged in a new and novel way this year for the first time.  It was under the Missouri Valley conference and the field was divided into a northern and a southern division.  Nebraska, Iowa and Ames composed the northern division, and Kansas, Missouri and Washington made up the southern division.   Nebraska won the undisputed championship of the northern division and Kansas the undisputed title to the best team in the southern division.  These two teams met at Kansas City and the Kansas basketball tossers took the first two of the three games from Nebraska.

Much credit undoubtedly belongs to Coach Allen for the brilliant record of the season, but he was fortunate in having one of the fastest squad of basketball men that was ever gotten together at the University.  Johnson, McCune and Long, who played at forward, were without doubt the most accurate goal throwers in the Missouri Valley.  At center Bergen and Heizer were not outmatched in a single game by a rival center.  The position of guard is one that is often not given the credit it deserves, because of the fact that the work of the guards does not show up in the score.  But Woodward and Martindell, who held these places, were easily the match of the other guards in the conference games, and much of the crdit for the record of the season belongs to these men, who kept down the score of the opposing teams.
Source:  The Jayhawker, 1080/09, p. 224.