Amid all the entertainment, pageantry and general silliness of Friday's Late Night in the Phog, Kansas basketball coaches Bill Self and Brandon Schneider provided some serious, relevant insights about their teams for the upcoming season. Between their broadcast appearances during their teams' scrimmages and their postgame press conferences, they shed some important light on player personnel. Here's more detail ...
Kansas City, Mo. — After sustaining four one-score losses during its five-game losing streak, the Kansas football team found an innovative solution to its recurring problem: building bigger leads. KU scored the first three touchdowns of the game on Saturday against Houston and, despite a problematic stretch late in the second quarter, managed to keep the Cougars at bay throughout to earn its first conference ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Kansas owed some portion of its attendance figure at GEHA Field Arrowhead Stadium on Saturday to the friends and family of the opposing head coach. “I’m worried about tickets this week,” Houston coach Willie Fritz joked, later adding, “I’ll be helping them out with the crowd a little bit.” Fritz made those sorts of comments because he was expecting plenty of friends and family ...
Updated 12:46 p.m. Monday, Oct. 21: Kansas City, Mo. — By the time head coach Lance Leipold addressed the media in his game-week press conference last Monday, cornerback Cobee Bryant hadn’t taken any team reps since suffering an injury at Arizona State more than a week earlier, and his status for Houston was “highly questionable.” For Bryant, it felt like it was never truly in question. “I wanted to ...
Kansas head coach Lance Leipold frequently takes care to emphasize that his team does not change its approach based on results. At a certain point, the result of a game, good or bad, can’t affect the next one. “Things that you do don’t change based on wins and losses,” he said on Monday. “To me, that’s knee-jerk reactions to how you’re going to go about it.” The Jayhawks have approached the ...
Late Night in the Phog is inevitably new to a few first-time Kansas Jayhawks every year, and they get to take in the pageantry that begins every year of KU basketball. “This has always been one of the highlights of each and every team, of each and every year,” KU men’s basketball coach Bill Self said during the event. “We have the best tipoff in all of college basketball right here in Lawrence, ...