Kansas City, Mo. — The Kansas men’s basketball team’s senior-night victory over Arizona on Saturday was a shining example of center Hunter Dickinson’s potential, a sparkling display of post offense on one of the best nights of his career, and an answered challenge from head coach Bill Self that demonstrated Dickinson could will the Jayhawks to victory against high-level competition. Dickinson’s ...
The Haskell women’s basketball team’s postseason run came to an end on Friday night with a 95-80 loss to top-seeded Dordt at De Witt Gymnasium in Sioux Center, Iowa. The Fighting Indians, who had earned a spot in the NAIA’s postseason championship as a No. 16 seed by winning the Continental Athletic Conference tournament on March 2, led at the end of the first quarter but eventually fell victim to ...
Kansas City, Mo. — For better or worse, Kansas looked like a totally different team on offense on Thursday night. The Jayhawks briefly morphed into an outside shooting powerhouse, with guard Zeke Mayo connecting on his first four 3s of the second half to help KU overtake No. 3 seed Arizona in the Big 12 tournament quarterfinals. KU attempted nearly as many 3s (31) as 2s (33) on the night and made 14 3s to ...
The six spring practices the Kansas football team has staged thus far have featured an atmosphere of competition that strength coach Matt Gildersleeve has called “revitalizing” and “reinvigorating.” That’s not only because KU brought in upwards of 20 transfers to fill the void left by an accomplished senior class, but because the new blood has sparked something among the Jayhawks who stuck around ...
Kansas City, Mo. — On a night when Kansas coach Bill Self described his team’s intensity as “awful” and the Jayhawks gave up 94 points, combining with their own 98 against UCF for the highest-scoring game in Big 12 tournament history, they might have had some use for fifth-year guard Shakeel Moore. Moore is both generally known for his dogged, high-energy defense and had received specific credit on Jan. ...
Another men’s basketball program with plenty of history is starting to gain traction as a potential NCAA Tournament opponent for Kansas. In recent updates to his bracket projections, including Wednesday’s, CBS Sports’ Jerry Palm has positioned KU as a No. 7 seed in Cleveland, a popular destination for the Jayhawks in recent days — and somewhere they have never before played — facing off against ...