After their long overnight drive to Lexington, Kentucky, the Kansas alumni’s best-ever run through The Basketball Tournament reached the end of the road at Historic Memorial Coliseum on Wednesday night. JHX Hoops, which according to the FS1 broadcast made it to town at 6 a.m. with a shootaround several hours later, fell 78-65 to Kentucky alumni team La Familia in the alumni bracket championship. The KU ...
Lost in the shuffle after a postgame fight overshadowed JHX Hoops’ 64-59 victory in Wichita on Tuesday: The Kansas alumni, having knocked out the defending champions, are now just two wins from a $2 million prize. With Zeke Mayo having posted 25 points in consecutive games, Frank Mason III recording three straight Elam Ending game-winners — the first player to do so in TBT since 2019 — and Washburn ...
WICHITA — A hotly contested quarterfinal match in The Basketball Tournament on Monday night at Charles Koch Arena was marred by a scuffle under the basket with two minutes and 43 seconds left in the first half, which left both the Kansas and Wichita State alumni teams with just six players. With the AfterShocks ahead 23-22, Rashard Kelly and JHX Hoops’ Mario Chalmers got into a battle for an offensive ...
Updated 5:36 p.m. Monday, July 27, 2026: Recent Kansas basketball guard Melvin Council Jr. is suing the NCAA in Douglas County in an attempt to become eligible for the 2026-27 men’s basketball season, according to court records reviewed by the Journal-World. Council spent two years at Monroe College, which is a junior college, before playing one at Wagner, one at St. Bonaventure and most recently one at ...
Updated 8:21 p.m. Tuesday, July 28, 2026: WICHITA — JHX Hoops beat the AfterShocks on Monday night at Charles Koch Arena, but you might not have known it from looking at the official The Basketball Tournament bracket in the tunnel beyond the Kansas alumni’s basket. The former Jayhawks never had the chance to slap their name next to La Familia’s in the alumni bracket final because shortly after the ...
In recruiting future Jayhawks, Kansas soccer coach Nate Lie doesn’t hesitate to mention how much it meant for the Algerian national team to use KU’s facilities at Rock Chalk Park this summer — how it validates their quality that they had the chance to play a role in a sporting event of global significance. But for Lie, what was perhaps even more striking about the World Cup was how the city of Lawrence ...