Kansas basketball bracketology: Check out March Madness, NCAA tournament projections

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LAWRENCE — Kansas basketball’s 2024-25 regular season came to an end with an 83-76 win Saturday at home against No. 23 Arizona.

The win provides the Jayhawks (20-11, 11-9 in Big 12) with some much-needed momentum going into the Big 12 Conference tournament. They’d lost back-to-back games coming into that matchup with Arizona, and both were games they had their chances to win. The win against Arizona also came on senior day.

So, while there’s still this next week of conference tournaments to play out, where might Kansas end up starting out in this year’s NCAA tournament? Considering the up-and-down nature of the Jayhawks’ experience in league play, how much more difficult will their NCAA tournament path be than many expected when they entered the season as the preseason No. 1 team in the country? Odds, are, while they’ll be favored in their first matchup of the NCAA tournament, they won’t be in the round of 32 if they are able to advance.

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Check out these projections:

Kansas’ first opponent of this year’s NCAA tournament, in this instance as of a Sunday evening update, would be a No. 10 seed in Arkansas. It’d actually be a rematch of an NCAA tournament game from 2023 that the Jayhawks lost in the round of 32. The winner would advance to face either a No. 2 seed in Alabama or a No. 15 seed in Robert Morris.

This projection from Friday morning is less favorable for Kansas, as it’d open the NCAA tournament as a No. 8 seed against No. 9-seed Vanderbilt. However, even though the Jayhawks would likely then have to face No. 1-seed Duke in the round of 32 should both win, KU isn’t unfamiliar with Duke this season. Earlier this season Kansas beat Duke in a neutral-court setting.

Kansas is a No. 7 seed again in this projection from Sunday morning, and would be in line to face No. 10-seed Indiana. Given the momentum IU has garnered for itself of late, this could be…

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Author : The Topeka Capital-Journal

Publish date : 2025-03-10 08:04:00

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