Chicago — Freshman Jamari McDowell had played, in all, under 14 minutes of college basketball when he checked in Tuesday night at the United Center. He increased that career total by about 25% when he played the final 3:46 against No. 17 Kentucky, having spent nearly an entire game on the bench before getting thrown into the Champions Classic at the Chicago Bulls’ arena in a hotly contested battle of two ...
Watch the first defensive snap of any Kansas football game from the Lance Leipold era and you’ll almost invariably see Nos. 1 and 30 anchoring the defense. Safety Kenny Logan Jr. has started in 33 of Leipold’s 35 games at KU; linebacker Rich Miller has started 32. Both are fifth-year seniors, longtime fixtures and consistent contributors who either (in Logan’s case) saw what KU football was like before ...
Chicago — Kentucky was missing three seven-footers, two injured and one not yet eligible, in the paint, and that disparity was apparent from the opening minutes Tuesday night at the United Center, as Hunter Dickinson scored practically at will — at least, whenever he was able to snag the ball in the paint. The Wildcats got better at denying entry passes to Dickinson as the night went on, though, and their ...
KJ Adams Jr. and Dajuan Harris Jr. remember their first experiences at the Champions Classic, the annual event that features rotating matchups between powerhouse programs Duke, Kansas, Kentucky and Michigan State. For Harris, one of the most experienced players on the KU roster, it came in an iteration of the competition pushed back to December 2020 due to COVID-19. For Adams, taking the floor against Michigan ...
Kansas' quarterback situation may have seemed dire after Jason Bean missed nearly three full quarters of Saturday's home loss to Texas Tech with a head injury, but KU coach Lance Leipold suggested Monday that Bean has a chance to make a swift return against Kansas State. “My latest is I’m very optimistic that he’ll be playing on Saturday," said Leipold, who also noted that Bean did not take part in ...
Kansas fans don’t usually find themselves at odds with Patrick Mahomes, but Saturday was a rare exception. The Kansas City Chiefs’ star quarterback — who played his college ball at Texas Tech, KU’s opponent Saturday — was spotted in the suites near the press box at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, and his wife Brittany posted an Instagram story of Mahomes and daughter Sterling taking in the game a ...