In 2022, Bill Self and Kansas won the final 11 games of the season and waltzed through March Madness to secure the program's fourth men's basketball championship. Things have gone awry in the postseason for the Jayhawks since.

They are 2-3 in NCAA Tournament games entering a highly-anticipated 2025-26 campaign, which includes a disappointing first-round loss -- its first since the 2005-06 season -- and a failure to reach the second weekend for the third consecutive year.

Those shortcomings in large spots have led to a heightened urgency from Self and his staff to upgrade the roster across the board, and the result, at least on paper, is an improved team that is built to contend again within the Big 12 and beyond -- led by a top-10 incoming recruiting class and headlined by No. 1 over

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