KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- This column is probably going to enrage some Kansas fans. There, how's that for trollin'? Anyway, glad to do it. We're here to please.

Usually, Jayhawkers are as sensitive as a baby's behind anyway, as belligerent as Kanye during an awards show. They demand to have the final say on their Jayhawks. Not this time, boys and girls. Here's why I’m scooping you: I've seen your tweets. I've listened to the radio. I've heard you in the bars.

Your assessment of your top-10 team has not been kind this season. You don't dislike it. Let's just say you're less in love with this edition of the Jayhawks than others. Some have called it one of the "worst" Bill Self teams at KU.

Some have hinted they lack cohesion, grit, a big man. That's you talking Jayhawk Fan. Remember -- tweets, radio, bars.

This may hurt JF but ... your Jayhawks look like they can make a run in the tournament.

This a good thing. It just happens to run contrarian to a large portion of a smothering fan base. The same folks who had high expectations for the season, seemingly don't have high hopes for this month. That despite a 62-52 Big 12 tournament semifinal win here Friday night over Baylor.

When your team has won at least a share of 11 straight conference titles, how does the term "worst" even come into the conversation?

"I've heard that [word] a couple years since I've been here," junior forward Jamari Traylor countered. "We're winning games."

Traylor has seen and heard a lot of things in Lawrence. He played his 90th game in a Kansas uniform Friday. He's a glue guy. In the best season of his career, he has averaged five points. A superstar he is not. More like a keen observer.

Friday marked the 26th win this season, the 351st of Bill Self's career at Kansas. But the expectation each year is the Final Four. Kansas and Self have had the audacity not to go to one since 2012.

In a sport harder to watch by the day, Friday's result was impressive enough for the Jayhawks. Kansas choked off the Bears like it was a UFC fight. It limited Baylor to its lowest point total of the season. Baylor is the best shooting three-point team in the Big 12, supposedly best conference in the country. On Friday, the Bears clanked 18 of 22 from beyond the arc.

Baylor had two more field goals (19) than turnovers (17).

Seasons shouldn't be judged in a snapshot. For Self, this team has sometimes been a day-to-day proposition. Freshman five-star forward Cliff Alexander has underachieved and is currently sitting out with NCAA issues. Junior forward Perry Ellis is a 4.0 student whose major (flaw) has been aggressiveness. That doesn't make him a bad person but it does raise questions with the fan base.

Since Jan. 31, Ellis -- who returned Friday from a knee injury -- is more foundation than soft spot. He has averaged 16.7 points and 7.5 rebounds. Sophomore guard Wayne Selden has stepped up. Freshman Kelly Oubre looks like a one-and-done.

Arkansas transfer Hunter Mickelson may the world's only 6-foot-10 gnat, he's so annoying on the court.

Kansas is in the Big 12 tournament title game for the fourth time in six years. Still, to a large part of its adorers, this team is a 26-7 enigma. To those on the inside, they’re shaking their heads.

"We're all spoiled with how much we win. It's crazy," Traylor said. "Some people are just fighting for one. We're winning every year."

Traylor was referring to those Woodenesque 11 consecutive conference titles by Self. But even that accomplishment has been sliced and diced by folks with nothing else better to do.

The Big 12 isn't that much of a challenge, they say. Kansas has it too easy, they say. Maybe, the Jayhawks have a lot to do with that. Like all great sports franchises, sometimes it competes against its own legacy.

Maybe it's just end-of-season doldrums. KU won and it probably didn't matter. The Jayhawks are going to be a No. 2 seed if Jerry Palm sleeps from now until Monday. Maybe it's getting routed by both Kentucky and Temple by a combined 53 pints. Maybe it's finishing an undistinguished 5-6 in true road games.

But maybe this team is also underappreciated. How many teams in the tournament have three serviceable big men, depth at guard and that dominant defense to take into March Madness?

"I feel the same way," Traylor said.

They're just hard to play and figure out. In the same post-game Self went from ripping his team's effort to lauding it.

"The last 24 hours hasn't been very pleasant with us," Self said Thursday, in assessing a sloppy quarterfinal win over TCU. "I'm tired of it and they're tired of me being tired of it."

Then he reminded reporters his team came from six down against Texas in the second half. It came back from 18 down at home to beat West Virginia. The Jayhawks played their guts out last week at Oklahoma without Perry and Alexander.

Offensively, these Jayhawks are hard on eyes, but aside from Kentucky and handful of others there are no truly great teams in the country. If you're going to trash Kansas, at this point you're going to trash the game.

Play like they did Friday and the Jayhawks go a long way. Fall short of the Final Four and a top-10 team that lost two first-round draft choices (Joel Embiid, Andrew Wiggins) suddenly has a lot of questions to answer.

Just check Twitter, the radio and the bars.

"We don't know how good we have it, I guess," Traylor said.