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Originally Posted by KC_Connection
They didn't. They faced one team in the top 10 in KenPom (Gonzaga). It was a weak road and it made for a boring ending with 2 mediocre teams for them (Miami and SDSU) in the FF.
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Kansas also faced one team in the final top 10 in KenPom in 2022 in the tournament (Villanova). Baylor faced two in 2021 (Houston and Gonzaga). Virginia only faced one in 2019 (Texas Tech).
I'm really not sure I understand your point. They can only control what they can control. They dominated teams at an almost unprecedented level in a bracket that had all of the 1 seeds gone at the end of the Sweet 16 and the 2 seeds eliminated after the Elite 8.
Just because they've been feast or famine for the better part of 30 years and there was a volume of upsets that was unprecedented in the bracket this year doesn't make their accomplishment(s) any less impressive.