Kansas center Hunter Dickinson and guard Kevin McCullar Jr. both earned first-team all-conference honors from the Big 12, the league announced Sunday night, as part of a diverse group of awards given to KU players. Dickinson, who transferred from Michigan to Kansas in the offseason, was also honored with the title of Big 12 newcomer of the year and a spot on the all-newcomer team. He has established himself as ...
Houston — What Houston did to Kansas at the Fertitta Center Saturday is what the top-ranked Cougars have done to plenty of teams this season. It’s just not remotely how it went down when those two teams met back in February. A month earlier, at Allen Fieldhouse, the Jayhawks made 17 of their 25 first-half shots and built a lead the Cougars couldn’t surmount. In Saturday’s rematch in Houston, they hit ...
Bishop Seabury made it as far as it has ever gotten in boys basketball, but couldn’t secure one last win. The Seahawks fell 76-63 to top-seeded Montezuma-South Gray on Saturday afternoon in the 1A DI state title game in Colby. Joseph Dyck and Gavin Wahl each scored 26 points for the Rebels, who pulled away from the Seahawks in the fourth quarter after possessing just a one-point lead at halftime. Seabury ...
Houston — Before Kansas took the floor for its matchup with Houston on Saturday, head coach Bill Self said on his ESPN+ pregame interview that he didn't know if Kevin McCullar Jr. would play due to his bone bruise, but that the ultimate goal was to have him healthy for the NCAA Tournament. "You want to play him now, but I also know that we're going to need him in rhythm in two weeks," Self said. That goal ...
Saturday’s Houston-Kansas clash to close the regular season still has some stakes, just not quite those that many envisioned when the Big 12 Conference pitted the two teams against each other back in September. Houston, the No. 1 team in the nation, has already locked up at least a share of the league title in its first season since moving from the American Athletic Conference. The Cougars could have had sole ...
When Kansas coach Lance Leipold recently described the circumstances of former offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki’s departure, he pointed out that he and Kotelnicki had realized they'd been working together for 10 years — “Shoot, that’s almost three times as (long as) most marriages,” as he put it. “He had said for him to continue that maybe looking and working under a different head coach and ...