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Is the NCAA tournament favorite the NCAA's least favorite team?

With Selection Sunday fast approaching, the Kansas Jayhawks, 27-3 and atop all of the polls, have cemented themselves as the likely No. 1 overall seed.

And with its aggressive, confrontational and even mocking official response to the NCAA over alleged recruiting violations, they likely cemented themselves as the sport’s No. 1 enemy, at least with the NCAA enforcement staff.

Kansas, via hundreds of pages of legal filings on Thursday, didn’t just disagree with the allegations against it. In pointed language it blasted and insulted the NCAA for even daring to bring the case.

The basics are familiar to college hoops fans.