Anyone who has spent spare time during the past couple of months checking in on the always fluid NCAA Tournament bracket projections by now knows the destinations by heart. First- and second-round games will be played next week in San Jose, Calif.; Hartford, Conn.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Des Moines, Iowa; Columbus, Ohio; Tulsa, Okla.; Columbia, S.C.; and Salt Lake City, Utah. So where will the University of ...
If the only objective on the last day of the regular season was to pick up another victory, Bill Self would have been thrilled with the play of his Kansas basketball team on Saturday. The truth is he was looking for more. Self had no complaints about the way the Jayhawks handled Baylor’s zone defense in a 78-70 win at Allen Fieldhouse. In fact, the coach thought his players executed solidly for the most ...
Halfway through the Kansas basketball team’s regular season finale, the Jayhawks only held a one-possession lead against Baylor, and it didn’t take a deep dive into the first-half footage or box score to figure out why. The player Bill Self considers the best in the Big 12 this season hadn’t lived up to that billing — not even close. “You’ve got to be better than this,” Self would tell Dedric ...
Even though the man who recruited him to the University of Kansas left before Thomas MacVittie ever had a chance to work under the assistant coach’s tutelage, MacVittie wasn’t afforded the time to ponder what might have been. Les Miles made sure of that. Once Chip Lindsey, KU football’s short-term offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, bolted to become the head coach at Troy, Miles called ...
In spite of the Kansas basketball team’s undefeated home record and the necessity for a Jayhawks victory against Baylor, what with Selection Sunday coming up in just more than a week, this season’s Allen Fieldhouse finale figures to lack the buzz and fervor of recent regular season closers. Many KU students will already be hundreds of miles away basking in all the diversions spring break has to offer. There ...
When Les Miles met with media members shortly after the conclusion of his Kansas football team’s first spring practice on Wednesday evening, the program’s first-year coach didn’t want to reveal too much about his offensive philosophy at this early stage of the offseason. However, Miles proved to be a little more forthcoming about some of the competition going on at three key spots for the offense. As one ...