As a favorite, Kansas has compiled a long record of tournament embarrassments, losing under Bill Self to the likes of Bucknell and Bradley, and under Roy Williams to UTEP and Rhode Island.
Computers invaded my life in 1985, when my mother, a master's student at UTEP, bought a RadioShack Tandy TRS-80 4P to pound out her thesis on the negative transfer of speech sounds from second to first language.