After spending much of the season’s first three months doing his best to carry the Kansas basketball team, things are finally beginning to settle down for Dedric Lawson. Not only has the emergence of freshmen guards Devon Dotson and Ochai Agbaji meant the Jayhawks can actually win games without Lawson scoring 20-plus points and registering a double-double, KU’s leading scorer and rebounder will get some ...
Unfailingly at his most crotchety after a one-sided defeat, West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins was less than thrilled about discussing what had just transpired at Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday during his postgame press conference. Huggins’ Mountaineers had just shot 33.9 percent from the floor, a number that plunged with every one of their 20 missed 3-pointers on 23 attempts. Further contributing to ...
Before the season began, not a whole lot was expected out of David McCormack during his freshman year with the Kansas basketball program. It wasn’t that the 6-foot-10 forward from prep powerhouse Oak Hill Academy lacked potential. It was just that McCormack was joining what looked like a very crowded frontcourt, with 7-footer Udoka Azubuike, 6-9 forwards Dedric Lawson and Silvio De Sousa and 6-8 Mitch ...
At no point in the past couple of weeks did Bill Self give his team a directive to shoot more 3-pointers. But since the calendar flipped to February, the Jayhawks have definitely been more ready and likely to fire away from beyond the arc. On the season, KU is averaging 20.7 3-point attempts per game with a 35.9% success rate. Through 12 Big 12 games, the Jayhawks are averaging 21.4 3-point tries and hitting ...
When six junior college prospects signed with the Kansas football program this past December, it seemed new head coach Les Miles might be headed down a familiar recruiting path. The man who held the job before him, David Beaty, signed 10 juco players in 2017 and 12 more in 2018. However, when the dust settled on Miles’ first recruiting class at KU, he and his staff only ended up signing five transfers from ...
As currently comprised, the Kansas roster is too flawed overall for the Jayhawks to play the type of aesthetically pleasing basketball that has characterized so many of their predecessors coached by Bill Self. But they have now proven, most importantly to themselves, that they can offset some of their depth, ball handling and shooting deficiencies with one of the qualities that their coach appreciates most. By ...