Ames, Iowa — The stage was set for a Dedric Lawson takeover. The Jayhawks would have to play without 7-footer Udoka Azubuike in their first Big 12 road game of the season, inside one of the best environments the conference has to offer. Lawson, a 6-foot-9 redshirt junior forward from Memphis, Tenn., had carried the offensive load before. And Saturday at Iowa State, a virtuoso performance from the most fluid ...
Udoka Azubuike, considered a notorious misser of free throws by some, has not lost the trust of his Kansas basketball teammates when he steps to the foul line. How could that be, with the burly center connecting on a lowly 34.4 percent of his freebies so far this season? The man who starts next to Azubuike in KU’s frontcourt, Dedric Lawson, explained following KU’s victory over No. 23 Oklahoma that the ...
http://www2.kusports.com/photos/2019/jan/02/328216/ Thirteen games into the season the Kansas basketball team still hasn’t come close to reaching its ceiling, particularly on offense. The latest evidence of how much better the No. 5 Jayhawks (12-1) could become over the course of the next couple of months materialized during the second half of their Big 12 opener versus No. 23 Oklahoma. KU’s two most ...
Yet another college football season came and went at the University of Kansas in 2018 without the downtrodden program putting an upper echelon Big 12 passing attack on the field. It was Peyton Bender’s second and final year with the Jayhawks, and when it ended, the senior quarterback spoke of the team’s lofty preseason aspirations to put KU’s 3-9 finish in context. “Coming into the season, we had goals ...
In his brief time as the wide receivers coach at the University of Kansas, Emmett Jones has been active on the recruiting front, telling prospects about the program now being run by head coach Les Miles. So how does Jones sell players on the idea of joining the Jayhawks? Let him stop you right there. “I never call it a sales pitch. I like to just speak the truth,” Jones said recently, during an interview ...
Big 12 basketball victories are never guaranteed — even for the league’s perennial champion Kansas Jayhawks when they’re playing inside Allen Fieldhouse. Conference battles in this league typically trend toward less difficult only if a coach can utilize a group of veterans with the Big 12 scars to prove their collective value. Bill Self’s supply of those types of Jayhawks was slim, though, Wednesday ...