Andy Mitts, the managing editor of SB Nation's Kansas blog Rock Chalk Talk, was kind enough to do a question and answer with Testudo Times to help preview Thursday's game between the Terrapins and Jayhawks. Be sure to give Andy a follow on Twitter. With that, let's do it:
When the season began, what were the expectations for this Jayhawks team? As the season progressed, Kansas seemed to emerge as the nation's best overall squad, but were fans expecting that back in November?
There was definitely an inkling that something like this could be possible, but most of those ideas involved Cheick Diallo getting cleared early in the year and developing quickly into a Joel Embiid-like player and making a huge impact down low.