Team of the day: Kansas

Midwest Regional champion Location: Lawrence Enrollment: 19,222 undergraduates

NCAA basketball championships: Three (1952, ’88, 2008). The Jayhawks have appeared in five other title games.

Coach: Bill Self, 475-157 in 19 seasons, including 268-52 in nine seasons at KU. His teams have made the NCAA tournament every year since 1998, the first of his three seasons at Tulsa. He spent three seasons at Illinois before coming to Kansas.

Record: 31-6 (16-2 Big 12). The Jayhawks have won at least a share of the last eight Big 12 regular-season titles, the longest active streak among Division I men.

Final Four path: Defeated No. 15 Detroit 65-50, No. 10 Purdue 63-60, No. 11 North Carolina State 60-57, No. 1 North Carolina 80-67. Did you know? -With its elimination of North Carolina in the regional final, Kansas assured this would be the first Final Four since 1980 without a team from a state with Atlantic Ocean coastline. This also is the first Final Four without a state with any coastline since 1951 (Kentucky, Kansas State, Illinois, Oklahoma State).

-Kansas’ 23 consecutive tournament appearances is the longest active streak for Division I men and is second all time, four shy of North Carolina’s run from 1975 to 2001.

-KU is the alma mater of three men who’ve coached teams to the NCAA title: Phog Allen (Class of 1906) won at Kansas in 1952; Adolph Rupp (’23) won four at Kentucky; and Dean Smith (’53) won two at North Carolina. Also, Dick Harp (’40) took KU to the title game in 1957, and Frosty Cox (’30) took Colorado to the 1942 Final Four. Ralph Miller (’42) coached three schools to the NCAA tournament and is in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. In all, Kansas says its alumni have 122 NCAA tournament coaching wins, most by any school.