Waco, Texas — Kansas coach Bill Self acted as though he had found an easy explanation for KU’s struggles in the final 20 minutes on Saturday afternoon. “I honestly believe the oranges that we ate at halftime that Baylor provided (were) probably the reason why we sucked the second half,” he deadpanned in his postgame press conference. Later, asked about giving up 60 points to Baylor in that half as KU ...
After preventing its conference season from going off the rails with a narrow victory over UCF on Tuesday, the Kansas men’s basketball team has an opportunity to round into form when it travels to face Baylor on Saturday at 3 p.m. The Jayhawks will be looking for their first victory in Waco, Texas, since 2020 after four straight losses between the old Ferrell Center and new Foster Pavilion. They’ve had ...
After the Kansas men’s basketball team suffered a blowout loss at Houston on March 9 in its final regular-season game of the 2023-24 season, KU head coach Bill Self said he regretted having super-senior Kevin McCullar Jr. play in the game. McCullar had been dealing off and on for the prior two months with a bone bruise to his knee that kept him out of action frequently and hampered him when he was able to ...
Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald has said that the baseball world took notice of his program’s strong showing in the Big 12 tournament last May, and of the slew of Jayhawks selected in the MLB Draft following the season. At first it was difficult for Fitzgerald himself to reflect on the season in quite the same fashion, after the way KU had given up its lead over conference champion Oklahoma with a trip ...
Lawrence native and former All-American linebacker Joe Dineen Jr. is headed back to Kansas to serve as a defensive analyst for the KU football program, the Journal-World has confirmed. Dineen spent the past two years as the outside linebackers coach at Purdue, where he worked under a fellow former Jayhawk linebacker in Kevin Kane. He had come with Kane from Illinois and previously SMU. On the field, Dineen ...
The first Kansas men’s basketball game without Dajuan Harris Jr. in the lineup since March 7, 2020, featured some never-before-seen sets of five Jayhawks. As KU coach Bill Self searched for answers, there were groups without point guards. There were groups with three big men. One lineup late in the first half even fulfilled both those constraints. Two constants amid much of the turnover were Hunter Dickinson ...