NCAA notes: Jayhawks hope history on side

Kansas, Villanova, Virginia and Xavier — the No. 1 seeds in this year’s NCAA tournament — should remember the Alamo. Especially the Jayhawks. The last time all four No. 1 seeds made it to the Final Four was 10 years ago. That was the last time the NCAA tournament wrapped up in San Antonio, and the last time coach Bill Self and Kansas cut down the nets as national champions.

Here are a few things to watch with the NCAA tournament about to get underway:

Again and again: Coach K, Self and Tom Izzo keep going back to the NCAA tournament. All have won national titles — and they’re in the same regional this season. Mike Krzyzewski and Duke are in the NCAA tournament for the 23rd year in a row, two more than Izzo and Michigan State. Wildcats in the South: Four teams of Wildcats are in the South Regional. Three of them play first-round games in the same arena.

No. 5 seed Kentucky plays No. 12 Davidson on Thursday in Boise, Idaho. The winning Wildcats in that game face a potential second-round matchup against the Arizona Wildcats, the No. 4 seed that plays Buffal0.

The school with the most consecutive appearances is Kansas, which stretched its active streak to 29 in a row as the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Regional. Self is in his 20th NCAA tournament in a row, the 15th with Kansas after the Jayhawks won their unprecedented 14th straight Big 12 Conference championship.