--- KANSAN.COM / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / WEDNESDAY. MARCH 24, 2010 / SPORTS 3B COMMENTARY Recurring problems lead to early exit from tournament Opponent plays to Jayhawks' troubles It was never about the talent with this year's Jayhawks. They were always good. Staggeringly good. Talent-wise, they rivaled any team in America, and everyone knew it. The problem is, the guys on the team knew it, too. They knew they were invincible. Turns out they, along with the 42 percent of brackets on ESPN. com that had Kansas winning it all and the experts who said they were the favorites and the president himself, were wrong There were hints all along. BY TIM DWYER tdwyer@kansan.com Hints we probably should have seen. There were articles about a lack of killer instinct. There were slow starts, sloppy play and bad losses. There were teams that had no business being in the same gym as the Jayhawks — Colorado, Nebraska, even Cornell. — hanging with them until the bitter end, holding second half leads or going into overtime. But there were also wins. Loss of them. Thirty three, to be exact. So the world — myself included — turned a blind eye to the eventually devastating flaws of the Jayhawks and penned them in as the prohibitive favorite to win the national title. After all, what proof was there of a chink in the armor? The Tennessee loss? Fluke. The Volunteers had just had four guys suspended. They were rallying around their coach, had a brilliant crowd and hit unbelievable shots down the stretch (I'm looking at you, Skylar McThree) The Oklahoma State loss? Let me quote myself from Twitter. com/UDKbasketball the day after that game. 15+ and the opponent shooting over 60 percent for the Jayhawks to lose, they'll be just fine." How could Bill Self convince a group of 18-24 year old guys — prone to believing in their own invincibility without any evidence — that they weren't unassailable, when all signs pointed to just that? Good call, Dwver, D'oh. Experts salivated over the Jayhawks' potential and their depth and their completeness as a team. Every time Self looked at his team he'd see all the ingredients for a perfect college basketball team: Sherron Collins, a proven winner and gritty-as-sandpaper senior captain at the most important position on the floor; Cole Aldrich, a defensive nightmare for opponents who was liable to pull down a double-double on any given night at center; a gifted sweet-shooting wing with the ability to take over a game in Xavier Henry; the Morrrii, twin brothers with a raid desire to grab every offensive rebound that came off the rim; two home-grown kids that hustled, played defense and stroked the ball from outside like they were real-life versions of Jimmy Chittwood from Hoosiers. 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