This is the best version of Kansas, or at the very least the best version that could be reasonably expected, and good thing too because here comes the place we've often seen the Jayhawks' worst.
The Elite Eight.
Is that fair? Maybe not. Disappointing might be the better word, because this is the place more often than not where the Jayhawks' dreams have come to die.
Oregon last year. Villanova the year before that.
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"I think about it all the time," senior guard Devonte Graham said.