Chicago — The long history between Kansas and Villanova will be rekindled on Saturday when they meet in the Final Four. The teams have played eight times since the Jayhawks hired Bill Self as their coach prior to the 2003-04 and the Wildcats have won five of them. That includes a lopsided victory in the Final Four in 2018, the last time Kansas reached that stage. Kansas, the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region, ...
Chicago — The top-seeded Kansas men's basketball team's run in the NCAA Tournament continues Sunday when it faces No. 10 seed Miami in the Elite Eight at United Center in Chicago. Kansas defeated No. 4 seed Providence 66-61 on Friday behind fifth-year senior guard Remy Martin, who scored 23 points, and redshirt sophomore forward Jalen Wilson, who had 16 points and 11 rebounds. Miami advanced to the Elite ...
Chicago — Ochai Agbaji has been thinking recently about the run the Kansas men's basketball team should have made two years ago, when the Big 12 and NCAA tournaments were canceled at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and he and his teammates were stripped of a chance at winning a national championship. "This run is for them," he said. The Jayhawks were the unanimous top-ranked team in the country then, 28-3 ...
Chicago — Providence coach Ed Cooley bristled Thursday when he was asked about rarely getting a chance to face the most storied programs in college basketball. The Friars, the No. 4 seed in the Midwest Regional, will play top-seeded Kansas for the first time when the teams meet in the regional semifinals on Friday. "The reason we don't play the blue bloods is because they don't want to come to the Dunkin' ...
Chicago — When Charlie Moore decided to transfer from Kansas to DePaul following the 2018-19 season, he wanted to have a chance to play in front of his family and be closer to home. But when DePaul fired coach Dave Leitao a year ago, Moore spoke to his father, Curtis, who suggested he use his final year of college eligibility to play somewhere that would make him happy. He chose Miami, and as a sixth-year ...
Sam Burt hears the age jokes. Grandpa. Uncle. He was even introduced prior to Thursday's press conference as a "super-super senior." "You don't have to say that," Burt said, smiling and laughing. Yet Burt knows that with age comes experience, and that's something the Kansas football team's defensive tackle has in abundance. Burt took advantage of the extra year of eligibility granted by the NCAA at the ...