Replacing a 7-foot, three-year starter with a fresh-out-of-his redshirt 6-5 guard in the middle of a season isn’t a tradeoff any college basketball coach would seek out. Not even Kansas mastermind Bill Self. Even so, as fortifying as size, experience and undeniable talent can be for a team’s success, it’s sometimes easy to overlook how less tangible factors, such as the energetic style of one role ...
If Bill Self has to ditch the Kansas basketball team’s four-guard lineup, and the head coach puts two bigs on the floor versus Baylor on Saturday afternoon, Self will do so somewhat begrudgingly and not because he’s enthusiastic about a return to a traditional look. Asked following the Jayhawks’ home victory over TCU what he thought about a nearly six-minute stretch in the second half, when Dedric Lawson ...
Waco, Texas — In the midst of his ongoing evolution to become the total basketball player that Kansas needs him to be, Dedric Lawson made some headway in a bit of uncharted territory Saturday afternoon at the Ferrell Center. A redshirt junior, Lawson has proven time and again that he can score from most spots on the floor, drive and spin his way to easy baskets, and attack the glass as well as any big man in ...
As new Kansas football coach Les Miles looks to fill the recently vacated offensive coordinator spot on his full-time coaching staff, Miles announced Friday the hiring of a pair of support staffers who used to work for SEC programs. Dave Shumate was named KU football’s director of player personnel, and Devin Ducote will serve as the program’s senior analyst for special teams. Shumate joined the Jayhawks ...
It took Les Miles roughly two weeks to search for and hire an offensive coordinator after becoming the head football coach at the University of Kansas. Now Miles will have to do it all over again, a little more than five weeks after landing on Chip Lindsey. As previous reports indicated would be the case, Lindsey officially left behind his new position as O.C. and quarterbacks coach with the Jayhawks on ...
In the first couple games of his Big 12 career, University of Kansas forward Dedric Lawson quickly discovered that his name and game were no secret to opponents. Lawson may have spent his first two college seasons at Memphis and last year as a redshirt, but even before his debut season began at KU coaching staffs around the Big 12 were bracing themselves for his arrival and trying to figure out ways to defend ...