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Kansas Basketball: Ranking the Jayhawks’ 12 Big 12-winning teams

By Matt Ostrowski

Feb 27, 2016; Lawrence, KS, USA; Kansas Jayhawks fans cheer from the stands after the Jayhawks defeating the Texas Tech Red Raiders 67-58 winning their twelfth consecutive Big 12 titles at Allen Fieldhouse. Mandatory Credit: Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 27, 2016; Lawrence, KS, USA; Kansas Jayhawks fans cheer from the stands after the Jayhawks defeating the Texas Tech Red Raiders 67-58 winning their twelfth consecutive Big 12 titles at Allen Fieldhouse. Mandatory Credit: Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports /
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Mar 21, 2014; St. Louis, MO, USA; Kansas Jayhawks guard Andrew Wiggins (22) is congratulated by Wayne Selden, Jr. (1) against the Eastern Kentucky Colonels in the second half during the 2nd round of the 2014 NCAA Men
Mar 21, 2014; St. Louis, MO, USA; Kansas Jayhawks guard Andrew Wiggins (22) is congratulated by Wayne Selden, Jr. (1) against the Eastern Kentucky Colonels in the second half during the 2nd round of the 2014 NCAA Men /

7. 2013-14 (25-10, 14-4 Big 12)

In what might be a trend for Kansas teams of the past four years or so, this team had major issues sustaining a high effort on a game-to-game basis. They had arguably the highest expectations of any Kansas team in recent memory, with the extremely highly hyped Andrew Wiggins coming in as a freshman, along with other highly touted freshmen Wayne Selden and Joel Embiid.

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Yet, they are currently the only Kansas team under Bill Self to lose 10 games, and considering they were never really threatened for the conference title, the entire season was some kind of snooze fest. Texas made them sweat briefly after they blew them out in Austin, but Kansas responded with an 85-54 drubbing in Lawrence, including this Tarik Black dunk and epic bench reaction.

That was about as tough as it got for Jayhawks. They would win the conference by two games, despite losing two of their last three games, one on the road against Oklahoma State, and one on the road against West Virginia when Andrew Wiggins went bananas. He shattered the previously mentioned single-game freshman scoring record previously held by Ben McLemore with a 41 point performance against those Mountaineers.

When Joel Embiid went down with an injury in early March, you just knew they were ticketed for an early exit in the NCAA Tournament, a reality that came to fruition in their round of 32 loss to Stanford.

Their defense just wasn’t as good without him.

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