KU Men’s Basketball

Self announces he will continue as KU coach

Kansas coach Bill Self will continue leading the Jayhawks. He announced his decision to return for his 24th season at the helm in a statement posted on social media on Wednesday evening. The statement did not specify how long he might keep coaching, but Self will be back for at least the ...

Future Jayhawks represent KU in McDonald’s All-American Game

Two future Jayhawks represented Kansas in the McDonald’s All-American Game on Tuesday night in Glendale, Arizona. Guard Taylen Kinney of Newport, Kentucky, played for the East team in the boys’ game, while center Cydnee Bryant of Riverside, California, played for the West team in the ...

How will Darryn Peterson’s year be remembered?

SAN DIEGO — The college career of the player Bill Self called the best he had ever recruited at Kansas ended with a futile half-jump. Twenty-two feet away from the hoop into which St. John’s point guard Dylan Darling was about to deposit the basketball for a game-winning layup, there stood ...

A look into the future of the KU men’s basketball roster

SAN DIEGO — What happened on the dais in the media tent just outside Viejas Arena on Sunday afternoon ensured that any assessment of the upcoming Kansas men’s basketball offseason must come with a very big asterisk. In stating after KU’s loss to St. John’s that he hasn’t decided yet ...

Jackson, Jayhawks endure agony of losing at the buzzer

SAN DIEGO — Of all the despondent Jayhawks in their locker room at Viejas Arena on Sunday evening, perhaps no one was taking the loss to St. John’s as hard in the minutes afterward as Elmarko Jackson. The redshirt sophomore guard, subbed in for Kohl Rosario with six seconds remaining, had ...