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BRACKET BASH
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OSU's starting five will take them to the 'ship
BY MIKE LAVIERI
mliavieri@kansan.com
I like Washington over North Carolina. I think Roy Williams has done a great job with this Tar Heel team since November/December, but they played two close games in the ACC Tournament and then got smoked by Duke.
I have Kansas losing to Ohio State because I think Ohio State's starting five are better than Kansas'. If I was looking at depth, Kansas is much deeper. However, Ohio State's starters play 30 minutes each. If Ohio State stays out of foul trouble, it will be hard to stop.
Speaking of Duke, it will be the Kansas of 2011. I have the Blue Devils losing in the third round to Michigan because I think if this game becomes a three-point contest, Duke will miss more times than naught. Duke had trouble with St. John's, Florida State and Virginia Tech, even though Duke is bigger down low because it started jacking up threes.
I would love to see Kansas play Illinois in the third round because I'm from Chicago and my younger brother is at Illinois, and I want bragging rights. But I don't think it will happen given how UNLV is 9-3 in its last 12 games and Illinois is 5-7.
The second round matchup I'm most looking forward to besides UNLV and Illinois is Louisville and Morehead State. These two schools are only 137 miles apart, but will be playing in Denver. I think Louisville will win, but Kenneth Faried is a baller and he could put the Eagles on his back to pull the upset.
Florida is the most overrated team in this tournament. It hardly played the schedule that Texas did and it didn't even win the SEC Tournament. Florida will lose to UCLA, which has only gotten better since it met up with Kansas on Dec. 2.
Kansas' strength shines through doubts; Jayhawks will win all six
I said all along this year that Kansas, for all its talent, never struck me as a national title team. Maybe that's because I spend enough time alongside the program that the flaws stand
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out to me. I don't know. It doesn't really matter. Because when it came down to it, as I filled out my bracket, I kept finding myself writing Kansas on the winner's line.
BY TIM DWYER
tdwyer@kansan.com
I, the doubting Thomas (the Bible kind, not the Robinson kind) of Kansas hoops, just put the Jayhawks as the national champs in my bracket.
There were a few match ups that struck me as favorable for the Jayhawks, including against Ohio State in the national title game. But more than anything, matchups aside, Kansas' talent rivals anyone in the country.
There are a few other notable picks in my bracket. I've got Wisconsin in the Final Four from the Southeast bracket, meaning the Jayhawks would be playing a No. 4 seed instead of No. 1 Pitt, No. 2 Florida or No. 3 BYU.
Wisconsin boasts the most under rated point guard in the country in Jordan Taylor — and perhaps more
importantly than being under-ated, he's flat out good. Taylor averages 18.1 points, 4.7 assists and 4.1 rebounds per game. Throw in forward Jon Leuer's 18.6
points and 7.3 rebounds, with a Morris-like ability to spread the floor with the three, and I think Wisconsin may actually be the toughest out for Kansas in the entire tournament. Picking the Badgers (which also works if you're the type that picks by more awesome mascot) wasn't so much of an upset for me.
The other two tough draws for Kansas are the other two best teams in the Big Ten. Purdue, Wisconsin and Ohio State all split the season series, each winning one game and losing one game to both of the others.
But Kansas dropped four Pac-10 teams in the regular season. And I think they can take three Big Ten teams in the tournament.
- Edited by Danielle Packer
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