New Orleans — Kansas junior guard Christian Braun said the first days at the Final Four have "all been really fun" as the Jayhawks settle in to prepare for their national semifinal game against Villanova on Saturday. It's the first Final Four appearance for the Jayhawks since 2018 and the fourth under coach Bill Self, who is in his 19th season as their coach. The team arrived in New Orleans on Wednesday ...
New Orleans — Collin Gillespie had done his homework, but he wasn't prepared for the test that followed. It was May 2019, and Gillespie, Villanova's hard-nosed, sharpshooting point guard, was asked by the coaching staff to challenge a prospective recruit to a shooting contest. Gillespie went to his computer and watched the highlights of that player, Caleb Daniels, a New Orleans native who was visiting ...
After four years, the Kansas men's basketball team is back in the Final Four — and it will face the same opponent, Villanova, it faced the last time. It goes without saying that it's hoping for a result on Saturday in New Orleans that's different from the 95-79 loss in 2018. "It's like it's written," Kansas sixth-year senior center Mitch Lightfoot said Tuesday. "We played them in the Final Four and lost in ...
Kansas football coach Lance Leipold said Tuesday that defensive tackle Caleb Sampson, who has an injured right ankle, has been shut down for the rest of spring practice. Sampson, who will be a fifth-year senior in the fall, started 10 of 12 games for the Jayhawks last season and had 24 tackles, including 3.5 for a loss and one sack. He was standing on the sideline with the aid of crutches during Tuesday's ...
Chicago — David McCormack swung his left arm outward, then his right, then screamed to release all of the fury that had been bottled up and burning inside him. McCormack isn't one to offer an outburst, but Sunday wasn't just any game. The senior forward finished with 15 points, including the two that led to his emotional explosion, as well as four rebounds and an all-Midwest Region team selection to power ...
Chicago — Kansas coach Bill Self said Friday that he was confident Ochai Agbaji would soon get back to his scoring ways and that "the lid will come off eventually." It didn't take long. Agbaji, a finalist for the major national player of the year awards, had his best performance of the postseason in Kansas' 76-50 victory over Miami on Sunday in the Elite Eight as he finished with a team-high 18 points, five ...