As the identities of college basketball conferences continue to shift wildly from one season to the next, it’s pretty clear that the Big 12 Conference will still have a lot to say about the result of the 2024-25 men’s basketball season. Both CBS and ESPN have KU at No. 1 in early preseason rankings and three other Big 12 schools — Houston, Iowa State and Baylor — in the top seven. The league didn’t ...
Updated 12:38 p.m. Thursday: After taking the Kansas women's basketball team to its second NCAA Tournament appearance in three years, with a Women's National Invitation Tournament title in between, head coach Brandon Schneider has been rewarded with a contract extension. Schneider, who has led the program since the 2015-16 season, will now be under contract through 2027-28. "Coach Schneider continues to ...
Kansas guard Elmarko Jackson tore his patellar tendon and will need surgery and a year's worth of recovery, KU men's basketball coach Bill Self announced Wednesday afternoon. The injury occurred during a scrimmage at Self's youth camp on Tuesday afternoon at Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena when Jackson got hit and landed awkwardly while driving to the basket. “Yesterday, while working out in front of the ...
Updated 4:39 p.m. Wednesday: Elmarko Jackson's torn patellar tendon, which has a 12-month recovery time and so looks like it will likely end his 2024-25 season months before it was even slated to begin, has altered the roster-building calculus for the Kansas men's basketball team for the remainder of the offseason. Mississippi State transfer Shakeel Moore, a strong defender with years of power-conference ...
Just several hours after announcing Elmarko Jackson's likely season-ending injury, Kansas added more depth at the guard position by earning the commitment of Mississippi State transfer Shakeel Moore. Moore, who will be a fifth-year senior in his final year of eligibility, began his career with one season at NC State before spending three with the Bulldogs. Most recently, he averaged 7.9 points, 2.2 rebounds and ...
Topeka — With the arrival of Kansas' highly touted 2024 freshman class over the weekend has come at least one player who has a chance to contribute right away. Deshawn Warner, a four-star freshman from Arizona who arrives as one of the top 10 high school edge rushers in the country, has joined classmate and early enrollee Dakyus Brinkley at one of the Jayhawks' position groups with the least returning ...