Entering the NCAA Tournament without their best rebounder, Jalen Wilson, and not expecting a whole lot from their top big man, David McCormack, the Jayhawks have a rebounding problem on their hands at quite an inconvenient time. At full strength, No. 3 seed Kansas wouldn’t have to devote an inordinate amount of attention to the battle of the boards against No. 14 Eastern Washington. But with Bill Self ...
Players on the Kansas football team will have to wait an extra week before they get to start spring practices. KU announced Thursday that the first day of the spring schedule had been pushed back to March 30, seven days later than previously planned. The delay is intended to give KU more time to hire a new athletic director and allow that person to evaluate the program more thoroughly, interim athletic ...
Bill Young, who served as the Kansas football team’s defensive coordinator when the Jayhawks made three postseason appearances and won the Orange Bowl, died Thursday at age 74. Young was hired as Kansas’ defensive coordinator in 2002 and left after the Orange Bowl victory in 2008. Through the years he also worked as defensive coordinator at Tulsa, Arizona State, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Southern Cal, Miami ...
A loss from three months ago still doesn’t sit quite right with Eastern Washington basketball coach Shantay Legans. And the lessons the Eagles learned from it might turn out to be useful as they try to knock Kansas out in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The 3-point defeat at Arizona in the first week of December didn’t wreck the Eagles. But Legans blamed himself after Eastern Washington came up ...
Undefeated and NCAA Tournament favorite Gonzaga isn’t the only successful college basketball program operating out of eastern Washington. There’s also, well, Eastern Washington. While the Zags have become a March Madness regular and a powerhouse program, EWU, located in Cheney, Wash., just earned its third tournament invite in program history. The Eagles’ star big man, Big Sky MVP Tanner Groves, was ...
So much has transpired since Kansas last played a basketball game that it’s almost easy to forget the Jayhawks are entering the NCAA Tournament with a newfound super-sub in point guard Dajuan Harris. As recently as mid-February, the redshirt freshman played a limited role at best, and on the season Harris logged single-digit minutes in nine of KU’s games. But just as the Jayhawks began laying the groundwork ...