Aaron Miles hears the criticism, but chooses not to listen.

As Kansas University’s sophomore point guard prepares for today’s showdown with Marquette, the customary questions about negative comments directed toward him have turned into inquiries about why people tear apart the Jayhawks’ possibilities of winning the title.

“A lot of people other than our fans would love to see us go out,” Miles said.

He could care less. The Jayhawks have had a chip on their shoulders this postseason, proving naysayers wrong after making up for a regular-season loss to Arizona by beating the Wildcats in an Elite Eight rematch in Anaheim, Calif.

“I wouldn’t call it revenge,” Miles said, “but we definitely wanted to win the game since they beat us before. Really, it just feels good in making the Final Four. We could have played 65-year-old retired people and won, and I’d be just as happy. We’re going to the Final Four.”

They’re going to the Final Four to play a solid Marquette team today.

“They are good, man,” Miles said. “They’ve got good guards, good big men and play hard. It’s going to be a tough game, but we have a tough team.”

Nobody is tougher than Miles, who has been able to shrug off criticism even from his own fans.

Before he even played a game in a Jayhawk uniform, Internet rumors swirled about the Portland, Ore., native’s possible weaknesses.

A fabulous freshman campaign — which featured the 6-foot-1, 175-pound Miles dishing out the second-most assists for a season in school history with 252 and quarterbacking one of coach Roy Williams’ most talented teams to the Final Four — didn’t quiet critics.

Haters — as Miles supporters Keith Langford and childhood buddy Michael Lee categorize them — still haven’t hopped off his back.

Yet Miles, who is 319 assists away from Jacque Vaughn’s all-time school mark, says he tries to stay oblivious to criticism.

“I’m not here to show the fans what I can do, I’m here to do whatever it takes for this team to be successful,” said Miles, who joins a short list of NCAA players who have never ended a season without playing in a Final Four.

“It feels real good, actually,” Miles said about making it to back-to-back Final Fours. “But last year we just got there, and some of us might have been satisfied with just getting there. This year ain’t none of us satisfied. We want to got out and finish it.”

That’s why he came into this season and admitted trying to do too much.

“I don’t know if he got caught up in criticism, but he got caught up in thinking about what other people were doing and trying to be somebody else,” KU coach Roy Williams said earlier in the season.

“He didn’t have to be Isiah Thomas. He didn’t have to be Muggsy Bogues,” said Williams, who added Miles had been the most overly criticized player he ever had coached. “He didn’t have to be anybody else but Aaron Miles, because Aaron Miles is good enough.”

After logging just 10 more assists than turnovers in KU’s uncharacteristic 3-3 start, Miles settled down the rest of the season with a plus-2-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio.

The honorable-mention All-Big 12 Conference selection boosted his scoring average from 7.1 points per game last season to 8.9 ppg this season and recorded 30 more steals than a year ago with 90.

While Miles, a career 40 percent shooter from the field, struggled beyond the three-point line, he still had several big games.

He scored in double figures 16 times, including a season-high 20 points against Central Missouri State and an 18-point effort in KU’s second-round NCAA Tournament blowout of Arizona State.

While Nick Collison and T.J. Ford stole the show in a big-time Big Monday game in January, Miles was solid, scoring 15 points while handing out nine assists against one turnover in the Jayhawks’ 90-87 victory against the then-third-ranked Longhorns.

Miles bettered that by nearly recording a triple-double in a game against Iowa State in Allen Fieldhouse in mid-February.

Yet his 14-point, nine-assist, nine-steal performance was overshadowed by his technical foul because of an altercation when he rushed to Wayne Simien’s aid after a hard foul by the Cyclones’ Jackson Vroman.

Miles also stood up for Lee after a loose-ball scramble resulted in a scuffle and another technical foul in last week’s win against Arizona in the NCAA Tournament’s West regional final at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, Calif.

“No one can ever question his toughness,” Lee said.

Whether it was his three-point shot from the hip that provided a lift in KU’s conference finale at Missouri or being overshadowed in an NCAA Tournament where he has averaged 8.25 points and 6.5 assists per game, compared to 2.5 turnovers, Miles said he doesn’t care what others think.

“I’m not worried about how others perceive me or look at me, I just care about how the team looks at me,” Miles said. “As long as we keep winning man, I don’t need no accolades or anything like that. I just want a championship.”