Morgantown, W.Va. — Nothing will be as challenging as the third day in Honolulu. Back before Thanksgiving, the Kansas men's basketball team had to come back 13 hours after suffering its first loss of the season against Marquette — an unthinkably short turnaround — and face another formidable opponent in Tennessee. KU passed that test with flying colors, concluding the Maui Invitational on a high note ...
As Kansas coach Bill Self learned during his postgame press conference Tuesday following a road win at Oklahoma State, Stillwater has not been the toughest conference road destination of his KU career from a statistical standpoint. In fact, a few degrees worse than KU’s prior 9-8 mark in Stillwater under Self — now 10-8, after Tuesday’s dominant 90-66 victory — is its 4-6 performance in Morgantown, West ...
The Feb. 26, 1932, edition of the Lawrence Journal-World left little doubt: Kansas basketball would be “without the services” of star center Bill “Skinny” Johnson in the following day’s conference finale against Oklahoma. He and his brother Kenneth, also a teammate, had been called two days earlier to return to Oklahoma City following the death of their father, Swan, and were going to miss a game ...
Stillwater, Okla. — The Kansas men’s basketball team earned a convincing 90-66 road win Tuesday night and watched one of its young players continue to blossom along the way. Australian freshman Johnny Furphy matched his career high in scoring, 15 points, with his third 3 of the game by the 17-minute mark, using a mixture of the long-distance shooting he’s shown in spurts throughout the year and the ...
Stillwater, Okla. — All season, the Kansas men's basketball team has been hoping that point guard Dajuan Harris Jr. will shoot more on offense and that a solid fifth option will emerge in the starting lineup. Both came to fruition at once Tuesday night at Gallagher-Iba Arena. Harris took his fair share of chances, both in the halfcourt and in transition, and finished with 11 points on an efficient 4-for-6 ...
Kansas’ next foe may not reside in the upper echelon of the Big 12 Conference — at least, three games in, it’s the only team without a league win — but that doesn’t mean the Jayhawks will breeze past Oklahoma State. “All road games are hard, regardless of records or anything like that,” KU coach Bill Self said. This year’s Jayhawks learned that the hard way when they gave UCF its first-ever Big ...