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What the world looked like in 2004, the last time Kansas basketball didn’t win the Big 12

By Brad Berreman

MANHATTAN, KS - FEBRUARY 05: Head coach Bill Self of the Kansas Jayhawks instructs Devon Dotson #11 during the first half against the Kansas State Wildcats on February 5, 2019 at Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan, Kansas. (Photo by Peter G. Aiken/Getty Images)
MANHATTAN, KS - FEBRUARY 05: Head coach Bill Self of the Kansas Jayhawks instructs Devon Dotson #11 during the first half against the Kansas State Wildcats on February 5, 2019 at Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan, Kansas. (Photo by Peter G. Aiken/Getty Images) /
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Kansas will not win the Big 12 regular season title for the first time since 2004, so what was the world like back then?

The world was a different place in 2004, the last time Kansas didn’t win the Big 12.

With Tuesday night’s 81-68 loss to Oklahoma, a remarkable streak officially ended for the Kansas Jayhawks. They will not win at least a share of the Big 12 regular season title for the first time since 2004, ending a 14-season streak of superiority.

For some perspective, that 2003-2004 season was Bill Self’s first as the head coach.

In honor of that 14-year streak, and the last time the Jayhawks’ men’s basketball team was not a regular season Big 12 champion, here are 14 fun facts about the world (and the sports world) in March of 2004,

  1. President George W. Bush was roughly eight months from being re-elected to a second term.
  2. The No. 1 song in the United States was “Yeah”, by Usher and Ludacris.
  3. The Passion of the Christ was the No. 1 movie in the United States.
  4. The Jayhawks leading scorer was Wayne Simien (17.8 points per game), on a roster oddly lacking top talent but that made the Elite Eight.
  5. Zion Williamson was four years old.
  6. Friends was in its final season.
  7. Nick Saban was entering his final season as head coach at LSU.
  8. Phil Mickelson had not yet won a major. He would win The Masters for the first of three times in April 2004 and has now won a total of five majors.
  9. Facebook had just been founded, in February.
  10. Twitter was two years away from existing.
  11. Barry Bonds was entering the season where he hit his 700th career home run.
  12. The first iPhone was over three years away from being released.
  13. The Apprentice with current president Donald Trump was early in its first season.
  14. Tom Brady had just won his second Super Bowl, famous for Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” during the halftime show, three years before he started dating Gisele Bundchen.

From the cell phone you had, to what you were watching on television (and how you were watching it?), to what would fit the broad label of social media but didn’t exist in the form that’s now routine, a ton has changed in 15 years. In regard to the Kansas basketball, their streak of conference championships in a major conference may stand forever.

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