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 ...
The Bishop Seabury boys basketball team is headed to its first-ever state title game in its first year under head coach Trey Johnson. Center Chase Honarvar led the seventh-seeded Seahawks with 24 points as they played a transition-heavy, aggressive style of offense to take down No. 3 Quinter 73-45 in Colby on Friday night. They will face top-seeded Montezuma-South Gray in the 1A DI title game on Saturday. ...
New Kansas co-defensive coordinator D.K. McDonald is bringing proven NFL coaching experience to this year's defensive backs — but he's even helping out players from before he arrived in Lawrence, too. “I had a great conversation with Kenny Logan the other day," McDonald said Thursday. "He was just kind of picking my brain about what it takes to stay at that level and stick. And I gave him my number, I told ...
The Baldwin boys basketball team took advantage of a second straight trip to the 4A state playoffs and redeemed itself after last year’s overtime loss to rival Eudora. This time around, the fifth-seeded Bulldogs took on No. 4 Towanda-Circle on Thursday evening and used runs of 10 and nine straight points on either side of halftime to down the Thunderbirds, 63-53, at the Tony’s Pizza Events Center in ...