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I'm probably the only Sweet 16 truther on here, but I still don't think that was a terribly impressive run. Joel Embiid was the best player in the country that year, and Kansas was missing him. The true colors of Dawkins's coaching were shown against Dayton, in which the team got blown out by some mid-major who couldn't guard Nastic.

I'm with you WIM, but Kansas even without Embid was still the better team on paper.  That week was two well-played games after several mediocre to bad ones including barely beating a bottom-feeder WSU team in game 1 of the conf tournament and being embarrassed by UCLA.  The team was slightly better than previous ones because they got a bid where others have failed but deserved its #10 seed that year.  AFAIC, it was a slightly above average Dawkins season.

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I'm probably the only Sweet 16 truther on here, but I still don't think that was a terribly impressive run. Joel Embiid was the best player in the country that year, and Kansas was missing him. The true colors of Dawkins's coaching were shown against Dayton, in which the team got blown out by some mid-major who couldn't guard Nastic.

I'm with you WIM, but Kansas even without Embid was still the better team on paper.  That week was two well-played games after several mediocre to bad ones including barely beating a bottom-feeder WSU team in game 1 of the conf tournament and being embarrassed by UCLA.  The team was slightly better than previous ones because they got a bid where others have failed but deserved its #10 seed that year.  AFAIC, it was a slightly above average Dawkins season.