I was thinking that means that we haven't hit on all cylinders yet in the tournament. Plus, there's less of a chance of any type of over confidence. Last year we blitzed two power 5 teams in the round of 32 (MSU) and the Sweet 16 (Purdue) before stinking up the joint against Oregon. Today I read this article from the LJW and HCBS seemed to be thinking the same thing
Omaha, Neb. — As difficult as it was for the pro-Kansas crowd to watch a 20-point lead shrink to one-fifth that size, the final 10 minutes of KU’s 80-76 survive-and-advance victory Friday night against Clemson served a purpose.
“Certainly nobody can say that we’ve played our best game yet,” Kansas coach Bill Self said in the hall outside of his team’s cramped locker room inside CenturyLink Center. “Hopefully, that will come Sunday.”
To players and coaches who draw so close to the Final Four only to fall one game short, that one game always seems as if it happened yesterday.
Listening to Self and senior point guard Devonte’ Graham look back on the Elite Eight loss to Oregon, the disappointment seemed that fresh to them.
Most who watched Kansas blitz Purdue in last season’s Sweet 16 gave Oregon little chance of keeping Kansas from what would have been Bill Self’s third Final Four.
“We played almost three perfect games going into that game and pretty much laid an egg against Oregon,” Self said.
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