The Kansas men’s basketball team didn’t dazzle from the field Friday night quite like it had in its season opener — that would have been a high bar to clear — but at least it got its shots off the ground early on. Its foe, Manhattan College, had nine shots blocked in the first half by six separate Jayhawks, allowing KU to equal its second-highest quantity of blocks in a half since the program started ...
One mid-major men’s basketball program has already experienced a first-time visit to Allen Fieldhouse this season. “I think we were just intimidated by the atmosphere, and boy is it an atmosphere,” North Carolina Central coach LeVelle Moton said after his team lost to Kansas 99-56 on Monday. “We just got shell-shocked. I could look on their faces and tell, like, scouting reports and X’s and O’s at ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team has officially signed its three current recruits for the class of 2024 — Flory Bidunga, Rakease Passmore and Labaron Philon — who comprise what both 247Sports and Rivals rank as the No. 4 class in the country. Bidunga, a 6-foot-9 five-star center from Kokomo, Indiana, was the consensus top player at his position in the nation available for 2024, and previously announced ...
Oklahoma State moved to No. 2 in this week’s Big 12 Conference power rankings, the Cowboys’ high point of the season, after its Bedlam victory over Oklahoma. The Cowboys positioned themselves for a possible spot in the Big 12 championship game in Arlington with a 27-24 win over the Sooners in what is expected to be the final meeting between the longtime rivals for the foreseeable future. Texas, which ...
The Kansas football team had recaptured the momentum and a 10-point lead Saturday with Jason Bean’s 80-yard bomb to Lawrence Arnold, but it wasn’t out of the woods yet. Iowa State promptly marched into the KU red zone thanks to a pass interference penalty and a deep pass. The Cyclones only stalled when Caleb Taylor got involved. The Jayhawks’ reserve defensive tackle, thrust into extended duty on the ...
Kansas athletic director Travis Goff announced the signing of Bill Self’s amended lifetime contract Tuesday after, to hear Self and Goff tell it, about seven months of both substantive discussions and legal formalities. “When numerous attorneys are involved,” Self said wryly Wednesday, “sometimes things don’t move as quick as what they normally wish they could in some ways.” But with the university ...