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Originally Posted by CoMoChief
If this team didn't go through that weird 3-week funk they'd be #1 in the nation and we wouldn't even be talking about this.
Personally when firing on all cylinders, KU's the best team in the nation, and I think they could beat anyone...anywhere. I would love to have that MichSt game back, I don't know what Self's problem is with no being able to ever beat Tom Izzo.
I thought KU would lose to OhioSt at their place. I also thought they'd be KU's only loss heading into NCAA tourney. Things change. But while KU's had their problems....others are starting to have theirs now, at the worst possible time. Meanwhile KU shook that off and now has their shit together.
Anything other than a national championship game will be a failure IMO.
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I'm taking the opposite approach, if for no other reason than keeping my sanity during the tournament. But, one good reason would be that one possible 1 seed has lost to TCU and another has lost to Wake Forest... and another that was at least a #2 until mid-February lost to Penn State.
On one hand, it is one of those years where if they don't make it all that far, we might look back at the path they would have had to a NC and think they really missed their chance... but, OTOH, like last year, I didn't really know what to expect at the beginning of the year and I'm happy keeping expectations low. And after watching them pull out so many close victories in the tournament last year, it wouldn't surprise me if one went the other way this year (granted, if there's one coach in the country I trust in a close game, it would obviously be Self).