NEW ORLEANS — Kansas senior guard Ochai Agbaji has achieved Jayhawks basketball immortality.
The 6-foot-5, 215-pound consensus first-team All-American out of Kansas City's Oak Park High School and reigning Big 12 player of the year, scored 12 points Monday in the Jayhawks' 72-69 victory over North Carolina in the NCAA men's basketball championship game at Caesars Superdome.
By winning the title, and the Most Outstanding Player award of the tournament, Agbaji, according to KU coach Bill Self, has had "the best year that anybody's had at Kansas since Danny Manning."
