Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self is acutely aware of his position in the hierarchy of the university’s longest-tenured athletic leaders. The recent retirement of 27-year volleyball coach Ray Bechard moves him up a spot, but as he is quick to note, he still hasn’t been at it quite as long as venerable track coach Stanley Redwine, who started at KU in 2001. “And I’m not going to catch Stanley, I ...
Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self said on Monday that wings Rylan Griffen and AJ Storr were becoming more comfortable, and had a chance for significant improvement during the next phase of the Jayhawks' season. Then, in a pregame interview posted on KU's social media on Tuesday before KU faced West Virginia, Self even added that Storr had looked “about as good as anybody we’ve had” since the ...
West Virginia was missing two of its top three scorers due to injury and didn’t make it to Lawrence until the wee hours of the morning, but you wouldn’t have known it from the way the Mountaineers opened Tuesday afternoon’s game at Kansas. Down Tucker DeVries and Amani Hansberry, WVU needed its peripheral players to step up, and the likes of Eduardo Andre and Sencire Harris punished the Jayhawks ...
Updated 2:27 p.m. Monday, Dec. 30: Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self has already indicated that the Big 12’s 20-game conference schedule, to which he had on several occasions expressed his opposition, might not stick around very long. “Next year, if I’m not mistaken, we play, what is it, three teams twice?” Self said on Dec. 19. “Because we’re going from 20 to 18, is that what it is next ...
Rylan Griffen came home for the holidays with a battle wound. After hitting heads with one of Brown's players during the second half of Kansas’ win over the Bears on Dec. 22, Griffen saw the effects of the collision for days afterward — or was unable to see, as it turned out. “I had a black eye for like two days,” he said on Monday. “I actually couldn’t see out of it for, like, really until ...
The Kansas football team completed a quartet of transfer wide receivers on Monday, earning the commitment of former Columbia wideout Bryson Canty. Canty will be in his final year of eligibility after playing four seasons at the Ivy League school, including one campaign, 2023, in which he missed the vast majority due to injury and redshirted. In 2024 he helped the Lions win their first Ivy League football title ...