KU Basketball is Number One Seed in Midwest Region

He’s done it before, and he’s averaged 20.5 points per game since February 2. The Tar Heels are 6-1, followed by Nova, Kentucky and Kansas, each at 8-1. That’s a problem, but at least this matchup gives them a chance to regather some momentum.

The NCAA Tournament rarely plays out that neatly, of course.

There aren’t many things that are more certain in life than the Kansas Jayhawks making it to the NCAA Tournament.

This matchup will be decided on the perimeter, where both teams excel offensively and Nevada suffocates their opponents from deep.

Should they win their first two games, they will play in their “home-away-from-home”, the Sprint Center in Kansas City. That said, this region lacks the top-end star power of the East and South.

Texas State came up just a touch short.

Self realizes other coaches of No. 1 teams probably feel their regionals are just as tough or tougher than KU’s.

Owen says his restaurant, which specializes in craft beers, had patrons standing in line during last week’s Big 12 Championship week. No. 11 Rhode Island was a consensus top-25 team in preseason before struggling through most of the regular season due to injuries, but it got whole again in time to roll through the Atlantic 10 Conference tournament. In fact, three No. 10 seeds and a No. 11 seed have better odds. The Jayhawks often disappoint in March, but they’ll have every geographical advantage this time. That being said, the Rock Chalk Jayhawk faithful travel well and Kansas has one of the more favorable geographic paths to Phoenix, starting off in Tulsa and then traveling to Kansas City. The Mountaineers can get into the Zags, but can they make enough shots to upset the No. 1 seed? It helped the Wolverines win the Big Ten Conference Tournament.

Despite losing their first game in the Big XII Tournament to TCU, the Jayhawks were able to hold on to that number one seed.

“Frank has been really good the last two years, but this year his aggressiveness is much better”, Self said. The Wildcats, the only major conference school to never reach the NCAAs, finally punched their ticket.

Kansas will wait to see who their first opponent is, as they’ll be facing the victor of the play in game between North Carolina Central and UC Davis. Miami defeated North Carolina, Duke and Virginia, so a deep NCAA run is not out of the question. However, they don’t shoot well, and turn it over a lot while forcing very few.

Now in his third season as a starter, Mason averaged 20.5 points, 4.2 rebounds and 5.1 assists during the regular season. The Cardinals checked in as one of the strongest No. 2 seeds in the bracket, according to KenPom, where the Cardinals are listed as the No. 6 team in the nation. “They struggled away from home, and their non-conference schedule was not that hard yet they still struggled with that”.

These are not games in which Kansas flourished in recent years.

No. 9 seed Michigan State has been to 20 straight NCAA tournaments. A team – MI this year – gets hot in their conference tournament, but the committee doesn’t fall victim to recency bias and gives them a lower-than-expected seed.