Sunflower Showdown KSU. From 1946 through 1978, Kansas and Kansas State made the competition for the basketball title for their conference (known as the Big Six, Big Seven and Big Eight during this time) virtually a two-way affair. During this 33-year period, KU or KSU won or shared the title 26 times. The following chart shows the conference titles captured by the Sunflower Showdown schools during this span of time. Since 1991 Kansas has won or shared the Big 8 and Big 12 titles 20 times. Kansas and Kansas State shared the Big 12 regular-season title for the 2012–2013 season. After the
Sunflower (mathematics) sunflower lemma, stating that if formula_40 and formula_41 are positive integers then a collection of formula_42 sets of cardinality at most formula_41 contains a sunflower with more than formula_40 sets. The sunflower conjecture is one of several variations of the conjecture of that the factor of formula_45 can be replaced by formula_46 for some constant formula_47. For formula_48 this is now known to be true, with constant formula_49. Sunflower (mathematics) In mathematics, a sunflower or formula_1-system is a collection of sets whose pairwise intersection is constant. This constant intersection is called the kernel of the sunflower. The main research question