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 ...
Kansas City, Mo. — The Kansas men’s basketball team found out — as the college basketball adage goes — just how hard it is to beat the same opponent three times. KU appeared set to coast to victory in its first game of the Big 12 tournament against UCF on Wednesday night when it took a 61-48 lead on a 3-pointer by AJ Storr with just under 14 minutes remaining. The No. 14 seed Knights, who had just ...
Kansas tight end DeShawn Hanika's teammates have given him plenty of grief about his status as the oldest one on the team. Hanika, 25, has been on the receiving end of nicknames like “grandpa,” “old-timer” and his personal favorite, “The Godfather.” He gets it from his fellow tight ends, from quarterbacks, from wide receivers, and even from the KU defense: “When we’re going 11-on-11, they love ...
Kansas senior Lauren Clark had already been named the Big 12 Conference's golfer of the month after winning the PDI Intercollegiate in Orlando, Florida, and the Wisconsin Westbrook Invitational in Peoria, Arizona, over the course of February. She did one better on Tuesday, finishing off her third straight individual victory by carding a 6-under 66 to finish 12-under at the Yale Invitational West in La Quinta, ...
The sixth-seeded Kansas men's basketball team will face No. 14 UCF on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. to open the Big 12 tournament, after the Knights knocked off No. 11 Utah 87-72 on Tuesday night at the T-Mobile Center. Forward Keyshawn Hall, the Big 12's leading scorer, led UCF with 23 points against the Utes, while guard Darius Johnson added 20 more. The Knights, who improved to 17-15 on the year and beat Utah for ...
Kansas center Hunter Dickinson on Monday afternoon received first-team All-Big 12 honors from a poll of the league's head coaches, making him one of three Jayhawks to earn some kind of distinction. This is the second straight year Dickinson has been named to the first team. This season, the fifth-year senior center, who is coming off a 33-point career-high showing in his final game at Allen Fieldhouse, has ...