KANSAS HOLDS OFF DAVIDSON TO REACH FINAL FOUR

Five years after Roy Williams left Kansas, Jayhawks get their shot

Kansas holds off Davidson to reach Final Four Kansas 59, Davidson 57

Kansas’’ cakewalk to the River Walk turned bittersweet on Sunday.

• You were hard-pressed to find any evidence inside Ford Field that the champion of the Big 12 is superior to the champion of the Southern Conference. Kansas’’ biggest lead was six points, and the boys from the tiny Carolina school of 1,700 students controlled the tempo, the action, from start to finish. With 16.8 seconds left, they had possession and the ball in the hands of the tournament’’s best player, shooting star Stephen Curry