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Jayhawks are a ravenous team.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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| April 01, 2003 | Barnhouse, Wendell | COPYRIGHT 2003 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Wendell Barnhouse

After a 3-3 start, Roy Williams stopped reading his mail. But there's a newspaper clipping on his desk that he reads all the time.

"It said, `The biggest disappointment this season is Kansas.' Those are the sort of things you feed off of sometimes," he said.

The Jayhawks are playing like a ravenous team. They're in the Final Four for the second consecutive year and the fourth time in Williams' 15 seasons in Lawrence. Injuries, a lack of depth and some disappointing losses didn't prevent Kansas from winning the Big 12 Conference regular-season title and reaching college basketball's last weekend.

"In my 15 ...

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