If the experts' projections are correct, Kansas’ basketball team will return to the Sprint Center for NCAA Tournament Midwest Regional games March 29-31, 2019, and ultimately wind up in a second-straight Final Four on April 6-8 in Minneapolis.
The Jayhawks (31-8) — who this past season won a 14th-straight Big 12 regular-season title and the league’s postseason tourney crown en route to claiming a third Final Four bid in the 15-year Bill Self era — are a popular No. 1 pick in various preseason polls for 2018-19.
If that No. 1 distinction stands, one could envision another No.