Heartfire seized control in the second quarter and never relinquished it. The veteran squad, coached by longtime NBA player and ESPN analyst LaPhonso Ellis and making a repeat run through The Basketball Tournament, shook off an early slump to score 10 straight points in the second quarter as part of a 20-6 streak. Mass Street never got within five points for the remainder of the game, and the depleted Kansas ...
It's hard to overstate the sheer amount of exposure that Kansas football players got last Wednesday at Big 12 Conference Media Days. After most of them spent about eight or nine minutes each with local KU reporters in the early afternoon, they returned later on for breakout sessions that lasted about as long as any writers from the 14 different Big 12 markets wanted to talk. In and around those two windows, ...
With Marcus Adams Jr.’s departure, the Kansas men's basketball roster is now as thin as it has been at any point this summer, and it’s almost August. No need to panic — the Jayhawks’ remaining group of scholarship players still has a case to be the best in the country — but 10 scholarship athletes don’t provide much protection against a possible injury, especially when one, Zach Clemence, is ...
It's in July, it's in Wichita and the players are just a bit older, to put it generously. Ultimately, it's still Kansas vs. Missouri. The top-seeded Mass Street and No. 4 Show Me Squad alumni teams, after surviving scares Wednesday night against lower-seeded foes (a much larger scare in Mass Street's case), will meet in the second round of The Basketball Tournament in Wichita Saturday afternoon in a rather ...
Lew Perkins, a longtime basketball coach and athletics administrator who served as the University of Kansas' athletic director from 2003 to 2010, died Tuesday of side effects related to Parkinson's disease, his daughter Holly confirmed to the Journal-World Wednesday night. He was 78. Perkins' tenure at KU included a 2008 peak for two of the school's most prominent athletic programs, as the football team won ...
If Jalen Wilson's draft position — second round, 51st overall — made it an uphill battle for him to carve out time on the Brooklyn Nets' roster, he's already done plenty to offset those unfavorable circumstances. The Nets fell a few points short of a trip to the NBA Summer League finals when they lost to the eventual champion Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday. But the rookie from Kansas was a bright spot ...