Selection Sunday has come and gone and it’s time to usher in another NCAA Tournament.
The Kansas men’s basketball team earned a No. 1 seed in the Midwest region after going 27-7 this season and winning both the Big 12 regular season and Big 12 tournament titles.
The Jayhawks will open NCAA Tournament play at 1 p.m. Thursday in Wichita against No. 16 seed Penn, the champions of The Ivy League.
Here are our early thoughts on that matchup and the entire 2018 NCAA Tournament bracket.
A native of Colorado, Matt moved to Lawrence in 1988 and has been in town ever since. He graduated from Lawrence High in 1996 and the University of Kansas in 2000 with a degree in Journalism. After covering KU sports for the University Daily Kansan and Rivals.com, Matt joined the World Company (and later Ogden Publications) in 2001 and has held several positions with the paper and KUsports.com in the past 20+ years. He became the Journal-World Sports Editor in 2018. Throughout his career, Matt has won several local and national awards from both the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Kansas Press Association. In 2021, he was named the Kansas Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. Matt lives in Lawrence with his wife, Allison, and two daughters, Kate and Molly. When he's not covering KU sports, he likes to spend his time playing basketball and golf, listening to and writing music and traveling the world with friends and family.