The NBA playoffs were interrupted with the melancholy news of Wayman Tisdale’s death last week following a two-year battle with bone cancer. Almost universally, sports writers nationwide gushed about how nice of a guy the former Oklahoma star was. The exception? An old Kansas homer named Chuck Woodling, who took the opportunity to rip Tisdale and the Sooners for on-the-court antics that happened 25 years ago, when Tisdale was 19.

Wayman Tisdale always will be remembered as a bit player in one of the ugliest incidents in the history of Kansas University’s Allen Fieldhouse. Tisdale, who died Friday at the age of 44, was among several Oklahoma University basketball players who cut down the nets in the KU arena following a victory over the Jayhawks. KU fans who were there will never forget the temerity of the Sooners on that late February night in 1984 after OU had posted a 92-82 overtime victory and clinched at least a tie for the Big Eight regular-season title.

As a testament to just how terrible this column is, check out the comments – Kansas fans mercilessly rip the ink-stained wretch. We’re fairly certain this photo is of Woodling; it came from a newspaper article dated 1971, which is probably how long that fossil has been in the tank for the Jayhawks.

Tisdale on hand for net cutting (LJ World)