Fayetteville, Ark. — The central concept of this year’s Kansas men’s basketball team was that it would bear no resemblance to the depleted and ineffective squad the Jayhawks trotted out at the end of last season. By stocking up on 3-point shooting, added athleticism and most of all considerable depth, KU would shield itself from ever fielding that sort of group again, and producing the unfavorable results ...
For the second year in a row, the Kansas men’s basketball team will test its mettle in a hostile road environment long before the games start to count. KU heads down to Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Friday night to battle with the new-look Razorbacks in a charity exhibition benefiting mental health organizations. As much attention as the Jayhawks received over the course of the spring and summer as they reeled ...
Kansas City, Mo. — The choice to install then-freshman S’Mya Nichols as Kansas’ primary offensive decision-maker — one that in many ways revitalized KU’s 2023-24 season and helped get the Jayhawks to the NCAA Tournament — did not occur in a vacuum. Moving Nichols into that role inevitably resulted in more time spent off the ball for the longtime point guard Wyvette Mayberry. With her and Nichols ...
Kansas rose two spots after earning its first conference victory over Houston, but TCU made the biggest move in this week's Big 12 power rankings, climbing from 14th to ninth after beating Utah. After a two-week reprieve, Houston sank back to last among the 16 teams. Meanwhile, Iowa State and BYU remained Nos. 1 and 2 for the fourth consecutive week. Iowa State received 10 of a possible 16 first-place votes ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Plenty of questions still remain to be addressed about how the Kansas men's basketball team will line up with its slew of newcomers, and those questions will not necessarily get resolved on Friday. The Jayhawks will not have their full complement of athletes and could be down as many as three of their 12 healthy scholarship players for Friday's charity exhibition game at Arkansas, head ...
Allen Ragland, the head men’s basketball coach at Atlantic Cape Community College, once got a call from campus security at 2 a.m. They told him one of his players, David Coit, had broken into the gym, trying to work out. Later, after Coit had parlayed his NJCAA Division III first-team All-American showing at Atlantic Cape into a Division I scholarship at Northern Illinois, Ragland remembered hearing from NIU ...