It's 10am Sunday morning and I'm sitting on the couch in the living room drinking my coffee and relishing in the news coverage of the Jayhawks pummeling of North Carolina last night.

I spent the day yesterday honestly trying my best to keep my mind off the game. Kansas vs North Carolina - a juggernaut of Final Four match-ups and one I knew was going to be the greatest test the Jayhawks have had to face thus far in the tournament. I told Andrea that as good as North Carolina was I wasn't worried as much about them beating us - I was worried about us beating ourselves, which has been the pattern as of late in our NCAA tournament runs. Turns out my worries were unfounded as we rolled out of the gate, 'hit them between the eyes' (as former coach Roy Williams put it after the game), and continue to not give up throughout the game. We took the best of what North Carolina had to shell out & didn't survive - we pulled away and won by 18 against what all but one of the SportsCenter pundits (thanks Jay Bilas) seemed to think was a lock for the national championship game.

So, again, I sit here enjoying the euphoria of waking up knowing that Kansas won - instead of the annual March/April dread that has come over me the last five years.

One game left to go until a 20th anniversary celebration of our last national championship in 1988. Memphis is going to be a formidable opponent, but one that I believe we match up with well. Should be a hard fought game. If we play anything close to as well as how we played during most of the semi-final, we may just find a new trophy in the trophy case and one more legendary KU team to be remembered for the ages.