The brotherhood of former Jayhawks was one of the compelling reasons for Billy Preston to play for the Kansas alumni team in The Basketball Tournament again. “(There are) some people I went to school with, like Lagerald (Vick), and people that I knew off the court like Cliff Alexander and a ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Less than 24 hours after he took the floor for the Washington Wizards in an NBA Summer League game in Las Vegas, Zeke Mayo made it halfway across the country to take part in an entirely different exhibition contest. He joined the Kansas alumni team JHX Hoops as part of its ...
Kansas City, Mo. — The Kansas alumni team has put the finishing touches on its roster for The Basketball Tournament by adding a couple of well-traveled athletes who never attended KU. Kelvin Amayo, a 6-foot-5 guard who played in college at Marshall, Iona and Loyola Marymount, and Marcus ...
Kansas City, Mo. — A group of Kansas and Kansas State men’s basketball alumni passed on some of their hard-earned knowledge to a handful of young players as part of a skills camp on Tuesday morning. As part of the first day of the camp, held in conjunction by The Basketball Tournament ...
When freshman guard Darryn Peterson found out that former Kansas great Jacque Vaughn was joining the coaching staff as an assistant, he sent Vaughn a text: “So excited to learn from you.” Those were clearly not just empty pleasantries. Kansas athletic director Travis Goff said on Wednesday ...