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Joseph Salvador

When Was the Last Time Kansas Men’s Basketball Won a National Championship?

Kansas’s dominant 76–50 win over Miami on Sunday in the Elite Eight has once again left the Jayhawks as one of the last teams standing in the country. This is nothing new for a school that has such rich basketball history but winning a national title has alluded them several times in recent memory. 

The Jayhawks last won a men’s national title in 2008, the final of their three national championships. The program also won it all in 1952 and 1988. While Kansas has had plenty of incredible deep postseason runs, the championships are far and few in between. 

Kansas has been the runner-up in the NCAA tournament six times and has made the Final Four 16 times after Sunday’s win. The program also has an absurd 31 straight appearances in the NCAA tournament—the longest streak in NCAA Division I history.

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