Morgantown, W.Va. — Trips to WVU Coliseum never seem to go too smoothly for the Kansas basketball team, and the Jayhawks’ experience against West Virginia on Saturday afternoon was no different. Jermaine Haley’s layup in the final seconds proved to be the game-winner for the victory-starved Mountaineers, who picked up their first Big 12 win, 65-64. Dedric Lawson came through with his 12th double-double ...
Morgantown, W.Va. — The senior guard should have known better. Playing in his 112th game at the University of Kansas and making his 57th career start, Lagerald Vick, by osmosis alone, should have picked up somewhere along the line a mental note about what to do when his team is down a point with the game on the line. However, in the 4.9 seconds between Marcus Garrett inbounding the ball to Vick and the ...
Though they will be playing in separate stadiums on opposite coasts of the continent, five seniors from the 2018 Kansas football team will have very similar agendas Saturday: impressing NFL scouts, coaches and decision-makers. Standout defenders Daniel Wise and Joe Dineen will do all they can on that front at the East-West Shrine Game, in Tampa, Fla. Meanwhile offensive starters from KU Steven Sims Jr., Alex ...
The reported courtship between the University of Kansas football program and one potential offensive coordinator didn’t last long. Though 247 Sports reported KU had interest in Cincinnati offensive coordinator and tight ends coach Mike Denbrock, the prospects of luring him away to Lawrence never escalated. Tom Loy of 247 Sports, who reported KU had targeted Denbrock amid its search to replace short-lived OC ...
Down in Florida this week for Saturday’s East-West Shrine Game, Lawrence native and recent University of Kansas graduate Joe Dineen learned the Senior CLASS Award named him a first-team all-American. Dineen, a five-year member of the Jayhawks’ football program and an all-Big 12 linebacker, was one of five FBS players in the country given first-team distinction by the Senior CLASS Award, which focuses on the ...
Bill Self could not care much less about how many electrifying highlights his players deliver during any given game. Dunks and layups, after all, carry the same 2-point value on the scoreboard. Be that as it may, the Kansas basketball coach has, on his own accord, referenced the slams — or lack thereof — from his Jayhawks following two of their past three games. After KU defeated TCU at Allen Fieldhouse ...