On the day Kansas retired Naismith Hall of Famer Dutch Lonborg’s jersey, Lynn Lonborg Loveland told reporters a story from her grandfather’s coaching career. One day Lonborg’s charges escaped a dramatic game with a triple-overtime victory, and Loveland asked her grandfather what he had told his players to help them get through it. Lonborg’s response: “I said, ‘Team, I’m out of options. Just go ...
When Kansas beat Colorado 71-59 at Allen Fieldhouse on Feb. 11, KU coach Bill Self said a CU player told him in the postgame handshake line, “See you in two weeks.” Just under two weeks later, both teams have rapidly arrived at Monday’s rematch, and it finds them in dramatically different places than when they met not that long ago. A 96-64 victory over Oklahoma State has reinvigorated KU after it faced ...
Kansas center Hunter Dickinson correctly predicted after the Jayhawks’ 91-57 loss at BYU on Tuesday that KU was about to receive widespread criticism from fans and national media. After four days of hearing that criticism — head coach Bill Self said there could be an opportunity to “pull everybody together” with an us-against-the-world mentality — the Jayhawks have no option but to return to the floor ...
Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self on Friday afternoon pushed back on some aspects of a report from the Tulsa World that suggested he “seriously considered” an offer to become the head coach at Oklahoma State last March. Self said he has spoken to OSU every time there has been an opening in their head coaching position since Eddie Sutton left in 2006, “not necessarily about hiring me but about — ...
Kansas volleyball coach Matt Ulmer isn’t new to replacing accomplished veterans. Seven experienced players, including six starters, turned pro following his 2023 season at Oregon, in which the Ducks had gone on an Elite Eight run. “It was just like total turnover on the roster, as far as what you saw on the court, but we had a lot of really good young talent that just hadn’t had their chance yet,” ...
In the two decades before he came to Kansas, D.K. McDonald learned from a slew of accomplished defensive coaches. He began his coaching career at the Division II level and worked under Lou Tepper, who had been a coordinator at Colorado and Illinois; in his days on Matt Campbell’s staffs at Toledo and Iowa State, he worked for well-regarded Jon Heacock; when he started with the Philadelphia Eagles their DC was ...