The Big 12 Conference loses eight cumulative national baseball titles when Oklahoma and Texas officially depart the league at the conclusion of Sunday. It gains nine back in return, though, by admitting Arizona and Arizona State from the Pac-12 Conference. Together with Utah, a program coming off one of its best seasons of the millennium, the Territorial Cup rivals will ensure additional competition for ...
Former Kansas wing Johnny Furphy will have to shake a lot of hands when he first meets the Indiana Pacers' staff. The Pacers didn't bring him in for a pre-draft workout, general manager Chad Buchanan told reporters after the draft concluded Thursday, in part because he was projected to go higher than he ultimately did, which was in the second round at No. 35 overall. Indiana, after all, did not have a ...
With a new-look 16-team league and 20-game conference schedule in place, Kansas basketball learned on Thursday morning whom it will have to play and where. The exact details on when each Big 12 Conference game will take place will likely not be available until late September, although CBS Sports has reported that the conference schedule as a whole will begin on Dec. 30 and 31. But the KU men's basketball team ...
Former Kansas wing Johnny Furphy was acquired by the Indiana Pacers with the No. 35 pick in the second round of the 2024 NBA Draft on Thursday afternoon, bringing his slide to an end after he was not chosen on Wednesday. “Last night was a very tough and humbling night for Johnny,” KU head coach Bill Self said in a press release. “The anticipation of being in the Green Room and the assurance that he and ...
The bracket for The Basketball Tournament was revealed Wednesday morning, and the Mass St. team of Kansas alumni has earned a No. 2 seed and will take on seventh-seeded Ram Up in the first round. Ram Up is a team of Colorado State alumni that has suffered first-round losses in each of its two TBT runs, whereas Mass St. went 2-1 in its lone appearance last summer. The game will take place at 7 p.m. on July 20 ...
Former Kansas wing Johnny Furphy suffered an unwanted draft-day surprise on Wednesday night as he went unselected in the first round of the 2024 NBA Draft. That defied the expectations of the vast majority of experts who had produced mock drafts in the lead-up to the event, as well as those of Furphy’s own KU coach Bill Self, who had said back in May that he expected Furphy to go in the first round. Furphy ...