The Kansas defense has some holes this offseason, and the team is getting creative in order to fill them. Craig Young, a converted safety who served as something between a safety and a linebacker in the hybrid “Hawk” role for KU’s defense, has graduated. But over the weekend, redshirt senior safety Marvin Grant discussed his ongoing process of adaptation into a new role with some more linebacker-like ...
Salt Lake City — An excellent shooting performance gave Kansas a one-point halftime lead and plenty of hope Saturday afternoon against Gonzaga. But the offensive outburst was a mirage. After shooting 50% from the field in the first half and, more remarkably, 7-for-11 from deep — the most 3s KU had made in a game, let alone a half, since January — the Jayhawks regressed hard, shooting 28% and 18% after ...
Salt Lake City — Before Kansas even started its run in the NCAA Tournament, head coach Bill Self gave a glimpse into how he viewed the Jayhawks' up-and-down campaign when he was asked what he considered the most challenging part of the season. "I would say really probably not knowing day to day what your hand is," he replied, back on Wednesday. "You go into a practice and you say that we're going to practice ...
Salt Lake City — Sixth-year senior guard Nick Timberlake got the start for Kansas Thursday night in place of Kevin McCullar Jr. It marked his sixth start of the season, all since McCullar began dealing with a bone bruise to his knee. Timberlake was the standard replacement for McCullar for much of February. KU coach Bill Self said Tuesday upon arriving in Salt Lake City that freshman guard Elmarko Jackson had ...
Salt Lake City — At a team outing last Saturday, Kansas coach Bill Self told NCAA Tournament debutant and sixth-year senior Nick Timberlake, as Self later relayed to the media, that Timberlake had a chance not to just to play in the postseason for the first time, but create a “lasting memory.” Timberlake started his tournament run with what was certainly one of his best performances of the year Thursday ...
Salt Lake City — After a high-scoring first-round game against Samford that was so frenetic, so unrelenting, that Kansas coach Bill Self said postgame he had never been in another one like it, the Jayhawks have to turn around and battle for their tournament lives with a rest period of about 38 hours. “I can’t get into CBS business or truTV or TBS or whatever, but that seems like it’s (a) pretty quick ...