After making practically every 3-pointer they attempted in the second half, the Kansas alumni missed the ones that mattered most. Frank Mason III, Dedric Lawson and Lagerald Vick (twice) each missed potential game-winning 3-point attempts with Mass Street stuck at 81 facing a target score of 84 in the Elam Ending on Wednesday night. Instead, D’Shawn Schwartz became the hero for Team Colorado, which vanquished ...
Former Kansas guard Jalen Wilson used his 2023 stint in the Summer League to show he belonged in the NBA, and he served well as a role player for the Brooklyn Nets during the ensuing season. Returning to Las Vegas this time around, he took his production one step further. The NBA announced Monday evening that Wilson received the title of Summer League MVP. In five games with the Nets, with a 3-2 record, he ...
With two victories under its belt, the Basketball Tournament’s Kansas alumni team is halfway to the Final Four in Philadelphia, and the path there just got a lot clearer. The top-seeded teams in Wichita (the Wichita State alumni AfterShocks) and in Houston (the North Texas alumni Bleed Green) each lost to No. 5 seeds. In theory, that should make things easier for both remaining No. 2 seeds in their portion of ...
Kansas women's golf coach Lindsay Kuhle received a three-year contract extension on Monday, after her second and third seasons leading the Jayhawks featured the first back-to-back NCAA regional appearances in program history. In a press release announcing the move, Kuhle expressed her gratitude to athletic director Travis Goff and sport administrator Nicole Corcoran. "Our past and current players have fully ...
As difficult as Mass Street made its second-round matchup in the Basketball Tournament look for much of Monday night, it made the Elam Ending look just as easy. Lagerald Vick hit a pair of 3-pointers and Sam Cunliffe added one more, all in a row. Vick’s second was the game-winner as the Kansas alumni team took down Florida TNT 76-59 at Charles Koch Arena. Mass Street allowed a whopping 15 offensive rebounds ...
Training camps are getting started around the NFL, and that means some of the most important weeks of several former Jayhawks’ football careers. NFL Draft selections Austin Booker (fifth round, Chicago Bears) and Dominick Puni (third round, San Francisco 49ers) face somewhat lower stakes, given that their new teams have more invested in their development. For undrafted free agents Jason Bean, Kenny Logan Jr., ...