3-1-1-2-1-2-2-1 ...

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.


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For the last several weeks of the season all the prognosticators were saying KU would go exactly where they went - to Des Moines for the first two rounds as a reward for their season. There was never any doubt about that. Sure as hell not a conspiracy based on three miles.

Eh, we're not talking about the opening rounds. Come on, man.
 
I thought it was some stupid Jurgen formation.

I thought it was a new zone-press configuration.

Even if you could have enough players on the floor to do it, timeouts don't last long enough to use that as in-game strategy.

"OK, if we score on this possession, slap on a 3-1-1-2-1-2-1 (etc) press. ... then fall back into a man-to-man."
 
Ku's last eight year seeds. Underachieved or overachieved?

So here are the final results of those seeds.

3 - Sweet 16
1 - 2nd round
1 - Elite 8
2 - Runner Up
1 - Sweet 16
2 - 2nd round
2 - 2nd round
1 - Elite 8

Given those high seeds every year, I could argue they have underachieved since their national title in 2008. But tough to ignore the title.
 

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