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Bill Self's first regular-season at KU was a bit rougher than probably he had hoped, but a 20-7 record highlighted by two victories over Missouri, including one in the Hearnes Center finale, and non-conference wins over Michigan State and Oregon helped blunt the sting from losses to Stanford, Nevada, and Richmond.

The Jayhawks tied the Texas Longhorns for second in the Big 12 Conference with a 12-4 league record, but were the third seed in the conference tournament because Texas had the head-to-head tiebreaker. KU won its third meeting with Missouri in the conference quarterfinals, but again fell to Texas in the semifinals.

The loss to the Longhorns didn't keep the Jayhawks from getting a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament and a first-round game just down Interstate 70 in Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo., though. KU cruised through it's first game, a 78-53 blowout of Chicago-Illinois, and had just as little trouble in the second round, defeating Pacific, 78-63.

KU got a little help from Alabama-Birmingham in the second round when the Blazers defeated the Kentucky Wildcats, 76-75. Rather than face the No. 1-seeded Wildcats in the Sweet Sixteen, the Jayhawks took on the Blazers and trounced them, 100-74, in St. Louis. With a chance for a third straight Final Four appearance on the line, KU forced overtime with Georgia Tech in the Elite Eight, but eventually lost, 79-71.

Two weeks after losing to the Yellow Jackets, the Jayhawks lost freshman guard Omar Wilkes, who announced he would transfer after the spring semester. The same night, sophomore center Moulaye Niang announced he also would be leaving KU. Those departures were just the beginning. Five days later, associate head coach Norm Roberts accepted the head coaching job at St. John's, and two days after that freshman center David Padgett announced he would transfer after this school year.