The Jayhawks sealed their impressive conference play with a Big 12 Tournament championship on Saturday night, downing the West Virginia Mountaineers 81-71.<\/p>\n
Devonte\u2019 Graham led the Jayhawks in scoring, putting up 27 points while backcourt teammate Wayne Selden Jr. also dropped 21 points.\u00a0 Devin Williams was the high man for the Mountaineers scoring 31 points in the losing effort and shooting an efficient 9-12 from the field and 13-15 from the charity stripe.<\/p>\n
Graham finally got some recognition for his tremendous play, as the sophomore point guard was named Most Outstanding Player of the tournament.\u00a0 Graham scored 52 points and had 19 assists in three games.<\/p>\n
The Jayhawk winning streak is now sitting at 14 games, and the KU faithful are keeping their fingers crossed that it will reach 20 when it\u2019s all said and done.<\/p>\n
After all, six more wins are all it will take to bring a national championship back to Lawrence, and after running through the Big 12 Tournament the Jayhawks have locked up the number one overall seed in the big dance.<\/p>\n
Finally I get to say this and truly believe it, the Kansas Jayhawks are the best basketball team in the country.<\/p>\n
Yes, attending the university has the potential to have you make picks with ingrained bias, so to appease the masses, here is exactly why KU should be your champion on your brackets:<\/p>\n
By the way, I\u2019m not even going to take a cut from your bracket pool winnings, just shoot a nice thank you tweet to @MJ_Maicke once the Jayhawks are cutting down nets in Houston.<\/p>\n
This is the most collegiately-talented team Bill Self has had in the last five years.\u00a0 Way too many people don\u2019t understand that NBA talent cannot excel to its true potential in a slow, hand check-tainted, zone-infested college game.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t want to hear about the Andrew Wiggins team that didn\u2019t reach the Sweet 16.\u00a0 Yes there was a lot of talent there, but it was NBA talent, not collegiate talent.\u00a0 There is an enormous difference between the two.<\/p>\n
Backcourts win championships, just ask Kemba Walker, or Shabazz Napier for that matter, and Kansas has the best backcourt in the country.<\/p>\n
With upperclassmen in Frank Mason and Selden on the wing, and an emerging star in Devonte\u2019 Graham running the point, the Jayhawks have the experience that is needed to handle high-pressure late game situations.<\/p>\n
Oh, and by the way, they have a nice little bonus with senior leader Perry Ellis on the block.<\/p>\n
The team\u2019s free throw percentage is slightly over 70 percent, not bad considering how Selden is boasting an unexplainable mark of 58 percent from the free throw line, dragging the overall statistic down.<\/p>\n
KU also shoots an impressive 49 percent from the field and 42.6 percent from beyond the arc.\u00a0 What I\u2019m trying to say is the team can score.<\/p>\n
The one issue is the 13 turnovers per game, however everything slows down in the tournament, and as of late the turnovers haven\u2019t been an issue.<\/p>\n
So I\u2019ll take the team with four upperclassmen starting. I\u2019ll take the team that doesn\u2019t need to rely on speed or pressing or three-point shots.\u00a0 I\u2019ll take the team that can methodically break an opponent down in a half court set.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll take Kansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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