Salt Lake City — Nine hours before his team was slated to open the NCAA Tournament, Kansas coach Bill Self took to social media to issue a written statement criticizing what he described as a "false narrative" surrounding guard Kevin McCullar Jr.'s bone bruise, which will sideline McCullar for the rest of the season. Previously, upon arriving in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Self told reporters at the team ...
Salt Lake City — Thursday night’s game was far from the kind of blowout Bill Self’s Kansas basketball teams often produce in their March openers, but then again it hasn’t been a typical KU season. The fourth-seeded Jayhawks overcame 12 first-half turnovers against No. 13 Samford’s indefatigable press defense by shooting with pinpoint accuracy, and built a 22-point lead early in the second half. They ...
Salt Lake City — Throughout the latter part of Kansas’ schedule — as the Jayhawks have been debilitated by injuries to their two best players, and slipped in the Big 12 Conference as a result — coach Bill Self has been repeatedly stressing that they can play with anyone when they become “whole” again. As it turns out, they will not be whole for the remainder of the season. When Self revealed ...
The Kansas football staff wanted to foster an even more competitive environment over the course of the team’s unusually long eight-week offseason. So it started issuing citations to its players. On Feb. 28, early-enrollee freshman cornerback Jalen Todd posted on social media a picture of a tongue-in-cheek “speeding ticket” he had received from strength coach Matt Gildersleeve for running 21.03 miles per ...
Salt Lake City — The day the Kansas men’s basketball team got its NCAA Tournament assignment, head coach Bill Self answered a question about his team’s overall confidence shooting the ball in practice by honing in on one specific player. “I think that when we get Hunter (Dickinson) back, I think he automatically gives you confidence,” Self said Sunday. “He’s different that way, and he’ll give us ...
Updated 7:20 p.m. Tuesday: Salt Lake City — Kansas center Hunter Dickinson was named a second-team All-American by the Associated Press Tuesday morning, the organization announced. A transfer from Michigan, the senior served as one of the Big 12 Conference's leaders in scoring and rebounding all season, tallying an average of 18.0 points and 10.8 rebounds — the only player in the league averaging a ...