A week after raising its offense to an elite level to defeat the vaunted Houston defense, the Kansas men’s basketball team faced the inverse task against Baylor Saturday night. It had to tighten up on defense to quiet one of the most formidable groups of shooters in the nation — and, as it turned out, ended up needing to do so missing two players from its rotation. With Kevin McCullar Jr. out due to injury ...
On the plus side for Kansas, head coach Bill Self thinks his team’s preparation for Baylor could apply well for the game against Texas Tech on Monday, too. “That may be something good from a scouting-report standpoint, that we can still probably not have to change a ton in a very short amount of time,” Self said after the 64-61 victory over the Bears. On the other hand, Self also wasn’t happy with how ...
Figuring out its road issues will have to wait as the Kansas men’s basketball team comes home to host Baylor on Saturday. As is often the case, the Jayhawks have looked their best this year at Allen Fieldhouse, most recently when they dominated then-No. 4 Houston last weekend in a 78-65 victory as it seemed like practically everything went right. Then the home-road disparities were laid bare as KU lost to ...
As Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self noted Thursday, college athletics is certainly not the first industry to ever endure a significant transformation. “This isn’t the way the pharmaceutical business was seven years ago,” Self said. “Or this isn’t the way the trucking business was five years ago … We all go through changes, and right now, we’re just in a change.” But college basketball ...
For the second year in a row, ESPN has brought its “College GameDay” crew to Lawrence for a Kansas-Baylor matchup in the mid-February thick of the Big 12 Conference schedule. That battle pits what analyst Jay Bilas, the three-decade fixture of ESPN’s college basketball coverage, called a “gold standard nationally” in No. 4 KU against a quality team that has recently put itself “in the same ...
The minimal contributions of the Kansas men’s basketball bench this season have already been well documented. KU ranked 335th in the nation in bench scoring as of Thursday morning, as it has gotten less than 13 points per game from its reserves this year, and if that number seems somehow high it’s because the Jayhawks have only averaged 8.4 since beginning Big 12 Conference play. While KU coach Bill Self ...