The clatter of the day's upsets was not lost on Kansas coach Bill Self by the time his second-seeded Jayhawks tipped off late in Omaha against No. 15 Detroit.
"I don't even know if I said anything to our team about Missouri at all because I didn't need to," he said. "They knew."Self was aware that Duke was going down, too. And that, in the same Midwest bracket occupied by KU, fourth-seeded Michigan had fall to Ohio and sixth-seeded San Diego State had lost to North Carolina State.
"So you had 15-2, 15-2, 13-4, 11-6, if I'm not mistaken. All today," he said. "I didn't make a point of it because, sometimes when you make a point of things like that, I think it could add pressure, saying 'well, it's possible.'
"But I did say, 'Hey, we've got to make sure Detroit doesn't play well.' Because it seems like to me, when upsets occur – at least in our past, and we've had a couple obviously – you let teams get comfortable. And when teams get comfortable, anything can happen."
Final score: Kansas 65, Detroit 50.
By Orlin Wagner, AP
"So you had 15-2, 15-2, 13-4, 11-6, if I'm not mistaken. All today," he said. "I didn't make a point of it because, sometimes when you make a point of things like that, I think it could add pressure, saying 'well, it's possible.'
"But I did say, 'Hey, we've got to make sure Detroit doesn't play well.' Because it seems like to me, when upsets occur – at least in our past, and we've had a couple obviously – you let teams get comfortable. And when teams get comfortable, anything can happen."
Final score: Kansas 65, Detroit 50.
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