LAWRENCE, Kan. (KCTV) - A disappointing season for the Kansas Jayhawks resulted in the lowest NCAA Tournament seed in the Bill Self era.

The Jayhawks were given a 7 seed in the West region on Sunday when the 2025 NCAA Tournament bracket was revealed.

It’s the first time Kansas has ever been outside a top-4 seed in the NCAA Tournament under Self, snapping a 21-season streak since he began coaching at KU.

Kansas will play No. 10 seed Arkansas in the Round of 64 in Providence, Rhode Island. Tip-off times have yet to be released.

With a win, the Jayhawks would play either 2-seed Saint John’s or 15-seed Omaha.

KU opened the season as the preseason No. 1 ranked team in the country in the AP top 25 poll. The Jayhawks returned a core of upperclassmen that included senior center Hunter Dickinson, senior forward KJ Adams and senior guard Dajuan Harris Jr.

The Jayhawks opened the season with wins in their first seven games, including victories over North Carolina, Michigan State and Duke. The Spartans and Blue Devils each went on to become consensus top 10 teams and won the Big Ten and ACC respectively.

KU then lost back-to-back games in early December in road trips to Creighton and Missouri.

On New Year’s Eve, the Jayhawks opened Big 12 play with a 62-61 loss at home to West Virginia, setting the stage for a disappointing 11-9 record in conference play.

When No. 7 Houston visited Allen Fieldhouse on Jan. 25, KU lost despite leading by 6 with 1:30 to play in regulation and leading by 6 with 18 seconds remaining in overtime. The disastrous sequence to end both regulation and the first overtime led to a 92-86 double overtime loss.

A week later, Kansas blew a 21-point lead in an 81-70 loss at Baylor. It was the largest blown lead in program history, surpassing a 20-point lead KU squandered in January 2003 to set the new record.

The Jayhawks bounced back from that stretch of remarkable defeats to beat No. 8 Iowa State in resounding fashion, 69-52, at home on Feb. 3.

A road trip to the state of Utah resulted in a pair of losses to the Utes and BYU Cougars, the latter of which came as the bottoming out of the season when Kansas lost in a Bill Self record-tying 34-point defeat in Provo.

This Jayhawks team matched the 2018 team with three home losses in a season with a 78-73 loss to No. 10 Texas Tech on March 1.

A Senior Day victory over No. 24 Arizona closed out the regular season with an 11-9 record in conference play for Kansas and set them up for a 6 seed in the Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City. There, the Jayhawks defeated UCF, 98-94 in overtime and lost in a rematch with Arizona in the quarterfinals.

The aforementioned Hunter Dickinson was the Preseason Big 12 Player of the Year and frequently produced double-doubles for the Jayhawks en route to a First Team All-Big 12 selection for the second year in a row. Dickinson averaged 17.6 points and 10.0 rebounds and totaled 16 double-doubles for the season.

Lawrence native Zeke Mayo returned home following three seasons at South Dakota State for his final season of college basketball and averaged 14.5 points per game while shooting 41% from 3-point range. As a result, Mayo was named All-Big 12 Third Team.

Dajuan Harris averaged a team-high 5.7 assists per game while playing a team-high 32.5 minutes per game for the Jayhawks. In Kansas’ March 3 game against Houston, he became the KU program and Big 12 conference record-holder for career games played. Harris was named an All-Big 12 Honorable Mention.

KJ Adams averaged 9.2 points and 5.0 rebounds per game in 30 games. He started 28 of 30 games and missed 3 games due to a shoulder injury in mid-January.

The Jayhawks struggled to find consistency from Alabama transfer Rylan Griffen and Wisconsin transfer AJ Storr, who they brought in to provide an upgrade to their play on the wings.

Griffen started 19 games and shot just 33.6% from 3-point range. Storr averaged just 5.8 points per game a year after averaging 16.8 points per game at Wisconsin as a sophomore.

Last year, the Jayhawks defeated 13 seed Samford in the opening round and then were eliminated by 5 seed Gonzaga in an 89-68 loss in the Round of 32.

Kansas’ national championship run in 2022 is the only time the Jayhawks made it past the opening weekend since 2018, when they made the Final Four.