Kansas City, Mo. — The out of nowhere David McCormack performance Saturday at Sprint Center diverted attention from another equally encouraging subplot for the No. 2-ranked Kansas basketball team. Udoka Azubuike, the Jayhawks’ starting center who plays with such gravity that KU’s other two bigs can at times get lost in the rotation shuffle, impacted the 98-57 rout without thinking once about trying to pad ...
Two seasons into his college football career at the University of Kansas, running back Pooka Williams Jr. is now a two-time member of the Associated Press All-Big 12 first team. Williams, a sophomore rusher from Louisiana, became the first KU player to earn first-team distinction from the AP in back-to-back seasons in more than a decade, since standout cornerback Aqib Talib pulled that off in 2006 and 2007. ...
It may come as a surprise to many, including the head basketball coach at the University of Kansas, that the Jayhawks’ starting point guard currently is leading the Big 12 in scoring. Bill Self called that development “a shocker” for him nine games into Devon Dotson’s sophomore season. But Dotson (19.8 points per game on 49.5% shooting) has done much more for KU’s offense this year than get to the ...
A week ahead of December’s early signing period for college football, the Kansas coaching staff’s 2020 recruiting class shrank by one member. A prep cornerback from Shreveport, La., Tanner Hooker announced Wednesday he is no longer tied to the Jayhawks. “After a long talk with my family it was best to decide that I should reopen my recruitment,” Hooker wrote in a note he posted to Twitter, in which he ...
When a Kansas basketball player’s effort level is keeping him from living up to his potential, he knows he will hear about it. And he certainly knows whose voice will bring the problem to his attention. So after Udoka Azubuike went a two-game stretch — more than 58 minutes of action — and had only nine rebounds to show for it, he had to know Bill Self wouldn’t be pleased. “The coaches, they ...
Les Miles gained no shortage of notoriety during his 11-plus seasons as the head football coach at LSU. Even though he has since moved on to the next stage of his career at the University of Kansas, Miles still is reaping the rewards of his LSU tenure. ESPN named Miles one of college football’s top 150 coaches of all time as part of its yearlong celebration of the sport’s 150th season. Miles landed at ...