No, KU seems to get bit every year in the tourney when they are under prepared game plan-wise and run into an aggressive team. Looking at how the tourney played out, Nova was the worst possible #2 seed that KU could have been given. If the Selection Committee had seeded to their posted 1-68 seed line without trying to line things up for Michigan State and Oklahoma then KU would have been in the Midwest with Xavier as their #2 seed and would have rolled to the Final Four.