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Absent from Kansas University’s first home game of the season was the raucous student section, the “who’s who” of former players sitting a few rows behind the KU bench and the rest of Jayhawk Nation cheering their squad on inside Allen Fieldhouse — arguably one of the best atmospheres in all of college basketball. 

There may be nothing more important to the Independence Pirates’ basketball game than setting the tone.

Jason Brown and the ICC football team isn't the only program on campus bringing in big names from big schools to take their program to the next level.

The basketball team is starting to make waves too. They have several Division I players looking at the program with the possibility of making the move next year and they already have one young man on campus that made the move from the SEC.

"I feel like he's way more confident," sophomore guard Da'Jon Streeter said. "Before the Coffeyville game and the conference games we didn't know if he was going to redshirt or not but now he's a key piece to the team.

"And the last three or four games he's feeling it, scoring 15-plus, so we just want the same thing from him, 15 to 20 a game."

It seems like a cliche when athletes are described as having on/off switches. The idea that Richard Sherman is so in the zone when he's on the field that he makes up things in his head that opponents say seems a little bit far-fetched if we're being honest.

But is it possible that some players get better when games get rougher or crowds get nastier? Of course it is. It would be hard to deny that fact when you look at how both ICC teams played Wednesday night at the Beaver Dome in Pratt.