Throughout the season, Kansas women's basketball coach Brandon Schneider wanted his players to do what they could to celebrate the little victories they earned along the way. They saved their greatest celebration for Sunday night, when the Jayhawks qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the first time in nine years. As a No. 8 seed, they'll face No. 9 seed Georgia Tech in Palo Alto, California, at 6:30 p.m. on ...
FORT WORTH, Texas — Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self said Tuesday that sixth-year senior center Mitch Lightfoot is still aiming to play in the first-round NCAA Tournament game against Texas Southern or Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Thursday despite a sprained left knee. Lightfoot injured the knee with 7:26 remaining in the 74-65 victory over Texas Tech in the Big 12 championship game on Saturday. ...
The Kansas women's basketball team loves to play defense. So does Georgia Tech, its first-round NCAA Tournament opponent. That should make for a much more controlled game on Friday than the Jayhawks' last, an 80-possession-per-team sprint in the Big 12 quarterfinals against Oklahoma. Plus, the Yellow Jackets run one of the slowest offenses in Division I with an average of just 65.5 possessions per 40 minutes, ...
The Kansas men's basketball team will face a dilemma before it even begins play in the NCAA Tournament. It doesn't know who its first-round opponent will be. The Jayhawks, the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region, will face the winner of the First Four game between Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, the Southland champion, and Texas Southern, the SWAC champion. That game will be played Thursday in Fort Worth, ...
The Kansas women's basketball team has returned to the NCAA Tournament after nine years. The Jayhawks (20-9) were selected Sunday night to compete in the 68-team event and will play as the No. 8 seed in the Spokane Region. They will face No. 9 seed Georgia Tech (21-10) on Friday at 6:30 p.m. CT in Palo Alto, California, and should they win that game, they will face the winner of the game between No. 1 seed ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ochai Agbaji was named the Big 12 tournament's most outstanding player after he scored 16 points and had seven rebounds in the top-seeded Kansas men's basketball team's 74-65 victory over third-seeded Texas Tech on Saturday at T-Mobile Center. Agbaji, a senior guard who was playing in his hometown, averaged 18.7 points and 4.3 rebounds and shot 47.6% (20-for-42) in the three-game ...