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 ...
Salt Lake City — Kansas’ backup center Parker Braun, a former Santa Clara Bronco, had the pleasure of watching from afar as his alma mater defeated Gonzaga earlier this season. “Obviously still love the coaches and the program there, had a great time there, got my degree from there, so it was fun to see them finally climb that mountain,” Braun said Friday. “Finally” because Santa Clara had ...
Salt Lake City — Nine hours before his team was slated to open the NCAA Tournament, Kansas coach Bill Self took to social media to issue a written statement criticizing what he described as a "false narrative" surrounding guard Kevin McCullar Jr.'s bone bruise, which will sideline McCullar for the rest of the season. Previously, upon arriving in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Self told reporters at the team ...
Salt Lake City — Thursday night’s game was far from the kind of blowout Bill Self’s Kansas basketball teams often produce in their March openers, but then again it hasn’t been a typical KU season. The fourth-seeded Jayhawks overcame 12 first-half turnovers against No. 13 Samford’s indefatigable press defense by shooting with pinpoint accuracy, and built a 22-point lead early in the second half. They ...
Salt Lake City — Throughout the latter part of Kansas’ schedule — as the Jayhawks have been debilitated by injuries to their two best players, and slipped in the Big 12 Conference as a result — coach Bill Self has been repeatedly stressing that they can play with anyone when they become “whole” again. As it turns out, they will not be whole for the remainder of the season. When Self revealed ...
The Kansas football staff wanted to foster an even more competitive environment over the course of the team’s unusually long eight-week offseason. So it started issuing citations to its players. On Feb. 28, early-enrollee freshman cornerback Jalen Todd posted on social media a picture of a tongue-in-cheek “speeding ticket” he had received from strength coach Matt Gildersleeve for running 21.03 miles per ...