Lawrence-The regular Kansas Basketball season in 2024-25 ended with a victory of 83-76 on Saturday at home against n ° 23 of Arizona.
The victory provides the Jayhawks (20-11, 11-9 in the Big 12) with a well-necessary momentum in the Big 12 conference tournament. They had lost consecutive matches when this match arrived with Arizona, and the two were matches they were lucky to win. The victory against Arizona also came on the day of the senior.
So, while there is still this next week of conference tournaments to play, where could Kansas manage in the NCAA tournament of this year? Given the nature of high and bottom of the Jayhawks experience in the championship game, how much their NCAA tournament path will be more difficult than much planned when they have entered the season as a pre-season team n ° 1 of the country? It is likely, although they are favored during their first confrontation of the NCAA tournament, they will not be in the round of 16 if they are able to move forward.
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The first opponent of the Kansas of this year’s NCAA tournament, in this case from a Sunday evening update, would be a seeded n ° 10 in Arkansas. It would actually be a revenge match of an NCAA tournament match from 2023 that the Jayhawks lost in the round of 16.
This Friday morning projection is less favorable to Kansas, because it would open the NCAA tournament as a seeded n ° 8 against Vanderbilt n ° 9. However, even if the Jayhawks should probably face Duke N ° 1 in the eighth of the end of 32 should win, Ku is not familiar with Duke this season. Earlier this season, Kansas beat Duke in a neutral terrace setting.
Kansas is again a seeded n ° 7 in this Sunday morning projection, and would be online to face the Indiana n ° 10. Given the momentum that the IU recently got it, it could be a difficult match for Ku. The winner would face Tennessee n ° 2 or Robert Morris n ° 15.
Jordan Guskey covers the University of Kansas Athletics at Topeka Capital-Journal. He was the sports editor of the National Sports Media Association 2022 for the state of Kansas. Contact it to jmguskey@gannett.com or on Twitter at @jordanguskey.
This article originally appeared on Topeka Capital-Journal: Kansas Basketball Bracketology: Discover the projections of the NCAA tournament
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