Providence, R.I. — For the first time since 2006, the Kansas men’s basketball team has failed to advance out of the first round of the NCAA Tournament. As befit a team that entered the postseason as an uncharacteristically low No. 7 seed, the Jayhawks’ first-round foe wasn’t an opportunistic Bucknell or Bradley on this occasion but instead a highly talented, John Calipari-coached Arkansas. "This is the ...
Providence, R.I. — Escaping the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament has become an increasingly difficult task for the Kansas men's basketball team in recent years. Since 2018, the Jayhawks have done so just once — and it resulted in a national title. This year, after a lackluster regular season that resulted in a No. 7 seed, the Jayhawks have earned themselves a harder road out of their tournament-opening ...
Providence, R.I. — Some of the loudest cheers in Allen Fieldhouse — and in college basketball arenas across the country — rain down in the final minutes of blowout home wins. Crowds get reinvigorated when fans see their favorite walk-ons come to the scorer’s table to enter the game and, better yet, leave their mark on the final box score. On Feb. 22, forward Dillon Wilhite, a nonscholarship player from ...
Providence, R.I. — Kansas fifth-year center Hunter Dickinson was named a third-team All-American by the Associated Press, the organization announced on Tuesday. “I think it’s great," KU coach Bill Self said upon the Jayhawks' arrival in Providence on Tuesday evening. "You know, he’s had a really solid year. It probably hasn’t been the year that potentially he could have, in large part because our ...
Providence, R.I. — Kansas guard Shakeel Moore was planning to make himself available to play for the Jayhawks in their Big 12 tournament quarterfinal matchup against Arizona, but didn't end up getting into the game. "(If) you put him in against Arizona and the game doesn’t go well, you may have lost him for the season just by putting him in there," KU coach Bill Self said on Tuesday of his fifth-year senior ...
The current iteration of the Big 12 features 16 teams, yet one-eighth of the players at the league-wide Big 12 Pro Day event, which begins on Tuesday at Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, Texas, come from the Kansas football program. That’s a testament to the sheer size of the Jayhawks’ outgoing senior class and the proportion of those players attempting to take advantage of this chance to pursue their ...