Michigan State’s freshman sensation Miles Bridges will threaten to steal the show, but top-seeded Kansas will make it through to the Final Four once again
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Kansas. The Jayhawks are surely one of the six or seven best teams in the country. (Sixth in the power ratings of George Ignatin, former pollster for the WSJ, and Jeff Sagarin of USA Today.) In point guard Frank Mason III they have, perhaps, the best player in the country – certainly the best player under six feet in the country. Freshman shooting guard Josh Jackson combines with Mason to create a tandem which averages slightly better than 37 points a game. Bill Self is a tactician who is three-time National Coach of the Year and one of four active coaches to take three different teams as far as the Elite Eight.
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