Born to Mark and Donna Teahan some five months and three days after “Danny and the Miracles” shocked the college basketball world on April 4, 1988, Conner Teahan of Leawood, now 19 and a 6-5 reserve KU freshman guard, and the rest of 2007-2008 Jayhawks men’s basketball team enjoyed their own little taste of the miraculous, thank you, at this year’s NCAA title game April 7 in San Antonio. That night the Jayhawks made a deep and lasting impression in hardwood history all their own with a dramatic 75-68 win in overtime over Memphis that for KU secured the program’s fifth national basketball crown. Teahan, a 2007 graduate of Rockhurst High School, captured the prestigious DiRenna Award as the Kansas City metropolitan area’s top boys basketball player following a senior campaign where he averaged 25 points, eight rebounds and three assists for the state runners-up. The Missouri Coaches Association also named him Mr. Show-Me Basketball following the memorable campaign. He was Missouri’s two-time Gatorade Player of the Year. Teahan also performed as a standout starting quarterback for the tradition-rich Hawklets football program.
