Men's Basketball

KU Men's Basketball 2004-05 Season Recap

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NCAA TOURNAMENT

One and done (Mar. 18, 2005)

No national championship. No Final Four. No Sweet 16. No Elite Eight. Heck, even no Round of 32 for Kansas University's men's basketball seniors, stunned beyond belief following the No. 3-seeded Jayhawks' 64-63 loss to No. 14-seeded Bucknell, a team with just five scholarship players, Friday night at Ford Center. "It's hard to put into words. Everybody is in a moment of shock," second-year KU coach Bill Self said after the Jayhawks dropped their first first-round tournament game since 1978. That's before the NCAA seeded teams. KU had won 21 in a row in Round One. "Having it end so abruptly is devastating for those guys. I don't have enough words to say how proud of them I am. Just because we lost a game doesn't change what they've accomplished," Self said. The seniors were in shock