Kansas City, Mo. — Kansas point guard Dajuan Harris Jr. said Saturday that he gets on KJ Adams Jr. about needing to rebound even more than KU coach Bill Self gets on Harris about needing to shoot. Considering how hot of a topic Harris’ shooting — or lack thereof — was in the early weeks of the season, that says a lot. Both Harris and Adams did plenty to quell complaints Saturday, as Harris drained a ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team has one last tune-up before conference play, and this one is three decades in the making. For the first time since January of 1993, the Jayhawks will take on in-state foe Wichita State during the regular season. The Shockers, who just lost to Kansas State at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City on Dec. 21, will now face KU at that same venue on Saturday at 3 p.m. The Jayhawks ...
Phoenix — Luke Grimm initially celebrated his third touchdown Tuesday night, the dagger in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl, by running across the end zone holding up three fingers. Appropriate, if a bit predictable. Then, just as he slowed to a stop and was joined by his fellow two starting receivers Lawrence Arnold and Quentin Skinner, he switched to another gesture: a sort of Spider-Man “thwip.” The three ...
Kansas' Hunter Dickinson said that once upon a time, he used to find it flattering when he would get double-teamed earlier in his career. “Now it kind of gets a little annoying," the 7-foot-2 center said Thursday. "You get so used to it, it’s kind of expected. Like I’m almost shocked if I get a one-on-one.” The experience is nothing new for Dickinson; as his coach Bill Self noted, he's probably been ...
One of the great pleasures of journalism is depicting people via their own words. The following array of quotations aims to provide a frank, sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant look at the most significant events in Kansas sports over the course of the last year, in the words of those who experienced them. Many more nearly made the cut — Bill Self’s “chicken finger sandwich” after a loss in Ames, ...
Phoenix — Kansas running back and Lawrence native Devin Neal just closed the curtain on a 1,280-yard, 16-touchdown junior campaign, but he may have an encore performance still to come. ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported just over an hour prior to kickoff of Tuesday night’s Guaranteed Rate Bowl that Neal had told the KU coaching staff he intends to return for the 2024 season. Neal ran 20 times for 71 yards and a ...