The corner 3-pointer by Ochai Agbaji was enough to get Kansas to the Final Four. (0:23)
The John R. Wooden Award has five college basketball players on the list.
Johnny Davis, Drew Timme, and Oscar Tshiebwe are also on the Final Four team.
The Jayhawks are going to the Final Four for the first time in a long time because of the play of Agbaji, who leads the team in scoring at 18.9 points per game, along with 5.2 rebound. Agbaji was projected as a lottery pick in the most recent NBA mock draft.
The leading Wooden candidate when ballots were distributed earlier this month was widely perceived to be Tshiebwe, who led the nation with 15.1 rebound to go along with a team-high 17.4 points and 1.6 blocks. Monti Davis of Tennessee State averaged 16.2 during the 1978-79 season, which is the best in Division I college basketball since. Saint Peter's upset Kentucky in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Along with the Wooden Award finalist, the Wendy's All-American team was also revealed, including five of them.
The NBA lottery picks are projected by ESPN.
The five players listed on the national ballot for the John R. Wooden Award who were not chosen as Wooden finalist or named to the Wendy's All-American team were Duke's Paolo Banchero and UCLA's Collin Gillespie.
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