After getting the previous week off for the university’s spring break, the Kansas football team got back to its spring practice schedule Tuesday afternoon and, unlike the first two sessions from earlier this month, the Jayhawks got to wear some shells and do some hitting. “Today was the first day in pads of any kind,” Miles told media members in attendance afterward. “We wanted to be physical. We put ...
On Saturday night in Kansas City, Mo., shortly after Kansas lost to Iowa State in the Big 12 tournament championship game, freshman point guard Devon Dotson sat in the Jayhawks’ Sprint Center locker room answering questions about what went wrong. As he detailed both the positives and negatives of the defeat from KU’s perspective, Dotson emphasized that the disappointing result came with some important ...
If Selection Sunday is any indication, the Kansas Jayhawks should enter the NCAA Tournament feeling lucky. While it’s true this team experienced way too many valleys during an at times rocky regular season to make any assumptions about what’s in store for the Jayhawks this week in Salt Lake City, Utah, their potential next stop was too massive to ignore. A nine-loss KU team that is seeded fourth has no ...
The Colonial Athletic Association’s postseason champions, the Northeastern Huskies, didn’t have to sweat out Selection Sunday wondering whether their team’s name would appear before the broadcast concluded. Their automatic bid at least rid head coach Bill Coen of that drama as the NCAA Tournament field was unveiled. But the program’s 13-year coach admitted the element of the unknown associated with ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Over the course of the past few weeks, David McCormack morphed from being a large freshman who plays minutes here and there for Kansas into an effective and, at times, overpowering producer in the paint. The Jayhawks entered Saturday night’s Big 12 tournament title game playing two bigs and doing so effectively because of McCormack’s timely emergence and how well he and Dedric Lawson ...
**Kansas City, Mo.** — Prompted Thursday night after his Big 12 tournament debut to take a trip down his personal March Madness Memory Lane, Dedric Lawson’s roots popped up. A native of Memphis, Tenn., and, of course, a former Memphis Tiger himself, it came as no surprise that his hometown college basketball program left quite an impression on him as a child. Though Lawson said he didn’t run around ...