Since the creation of a professional basketball draft in the United States, every single NCAA champion has had at least one future top-30 NBA draft pick (the equivalent of a modern first-round selection) in its playing rotation at the time it captured the title, and most had several.
The No. 1 seeded Jayhawks are led by senior guard Ochai Agbaji, who joins a long list of Kansas City-area natives to play or coach in the Final Four with KU.