In the first-ever Final Four that featured all four No. Lovellette made 16-of-24 shots in the game as Kansas shot 52 percent for the game. The Jayhawks' Clyde Lovellette won Most Outstanding Player and led all players with 141 points.Illinois and Santa Clara also reached the Final Four in Seattle, Washington. "I had a feeling fro the last week that our kids thought they could win," Larry Brown said, according to The Salina Journal.Kansas won its second national championship in school history, becoming the first-ever No. But I will say this, he does get 99 percent of the breaks. The Jayhawks took just a two-point lead into halftime, three points five minutes into the second half and by eight with eight minutes left. Bob Kenney, the national leader in free throw shooting, missed the game with strep throat but Kansas still had "the most magnificent shooting exhibition ever seen here in the 24-year history of the Oklahoma fieldhouse," reported The Kansas City Star.Kansas moved one step closer to clinching an outright Big Seven championship and a spot in the western NCAA playoffs by beating rival Kansas State. Danny Manning had 18 points, including two 3-pointers, and eight rebounds in the win.Kansas' Danny Manning and Milt Newton, who had 31 points and 12 rebounds and 15 points, five assists and five rebounds, respectively, both fouled out as Kansas fell to Duke in overtime after running out to a 15-point lead in the game's opening 12 minutes.

"Kansas," reported The Kansas City Times, "never could pull away despite a leading position almost all the way. Under Self, the Jayhawks finished the regular season in the #1 spot of the AP poll and Coaches poll, securing the #1 seed in the South Region.

"I know it means a lot around the city, people at the school," said Kansas State's Michael Beasley, according to the AP.

"Rival Kansas State ended Kansas' undefeated start to the season after 20 games as the Wildcats won against the Jayhawks in Manhattan for the first time after 24 consecutive losses. In the Final Four, Kansas jumped out to a 14-0 lead while Danny Manning had another outstanding performance with 25 points, 10 rebounds, six blocks and four steals. Born: December 27, 1962 Alma Mater: Oklahoma St. (1985) As Player: 109 G, 6.3 PPG, Oklahoma State (Full Record) Career Record (major schools): 27 Years, 708-214, .768 W-L% Schools: Oral Roberts (55-54), Tulsa (74-27), Illinois (78-24) and Kansas (501-109) Conference Champion: 19 Times (Reg. Seas. Manning hit a 3-pointer early in the game and scored 11 points in the opening nine-plus minutes. What Bill Self wanted, Bill Self got. "That was one of the best games I've ever been a part of," Bill Self said, according to the AP.

Find the bracket, scores and more below.Since the tournament's expansion to 64 teams in 1985, the 1988 Jayhawks are the only No. 2 seed UCLA.They lost just three players from their 2007 roster, including the team's third-leading scorer Julian Wright:Kansas then added four freshmen to its roster in the fall of 2007:The 2008 NCAA tournament was the eighth NCAA tournament with a 65-team bracket, prior to the introduction of the 68-team bracket that featured the First Four in 2011. They scored the first eight points after halftime to turned a 34-32 halftime lead into a 42-32 edge. The Tigers missed four free throws late in the game as the Jayhawks rallied from a nine-point deficit. (That’s after Self texts Gassnola that they “just got to get some real guys.”)If Bill Self had spent the first 15 years of the 21st century coaching in Turkmenistan and then suddenly arrived in college basketball, he might not have any idea what Gassnola’s reputation and track record were within the sport.

Gatto was arrested, so kicking him to the curb (and ultimately trying to gouge money out of him in court) was an easy call.

1 in the AP poll during the 2007-08 season, they only spent one week ranked outside of the top five, when they were ranked No. KU stumbled out of the gate with a humbling 32-point defeat at the hands of #1 Kentucky in its second game, and then also suffered an embarrassing 25-point loss on the road at Temple in late December. "Kansas has lost four in a row for the first time in Larry Brown's five years as head coach," reported the AP. He was helping recruiting.The school administrators who were uneasy about Gassnola either didn’t have the juice to challenge Self or, just as likely, fully suspected what was up and accepted it as a risky byproduct of doing business. Danny Manning scored 19 points on 8-of-17 shooting and pulled down 16 boards.

13 San Diego). 6 seed to cut down the nets in the NCAA tournament, as the Jayhawks beat Big 8 foe Oklahoma, which had beaten Kansas by eight points in both regular-season meetings.

But the school argued that it still had no reason to know Gassnola was trouble even after the Adidas schemes were revealed. However, four of those six came from No. "It felt pretty good to get out there and just play," Rush said, according to the AP.