When Kansas coach Lance Leipold recently described the circumstances of former offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki’s departure, he pointed out that he and Kotelnicki had realized they'd been working together for 10 years — “Shoot, that’s almost three times as (long as) most marriages,” as he put it. “He had said for him to continue that maybe looking and working under a different head coach and ...
The Bishop Seabury boys basketball team is headed to its first-ever state title game in its first year under head coach Trey Johnson. Center Chase Honarvar led the seventh-seeded Seahawks with 24 points as they played a transition-heavy, aggressive style of offense to take down No. 3 Quinter 73-45 in Colby on Friday night. They will face top-seeded Montezuma-South Gray in the 1A DI title game on Saturday. ...
New Kansas co-defensive coordinator D.K. McDonald is bringing proven NFL coaching experience to this year's defensive backs — but he's even helping out players from before he arrived in Lawrence, too. “I had a great conversation with Kenny Logan the other day," McDonald said Thursday. "He was just kind of picking my brain about what it takes to stay at that level and stick. And I gave him my number, I told ...
The Baldwin boys basketball team took advantage of a second straight trip to the 4A state playoffs and redeemed itself after last year’s overtime loss to rival Eudora. This time around, the fifth-seeded Bulldogs took on No. 4 Towanda-Circle on Thursday evening and used runs of 10 and nine straight points on either side of halftime to down the Thunderbirds, 63-53, at the Tony’s Pizza Events Center in ...
Kansas coach Bill Self has a good record of making 3-pointer-related predictions recently. Before KU lost to BYU last week, he had foretold the exact amount of 3s each team could potentially make — three for the Jayhawks and 13 for the Cougars — in his press conference the previous day, and turned out to be exactly correct. He thought he had hit on a happier prediction Tuesday night when senior guard Nick ...
For a moment following his senior night Tuesday, Kansas center Hunter Dickinson looked ready to deliver some big news. “I already have a decision to make,” he told reporters postgame, as he paused for dramatic effect and looked earnestly at teammates Kevin McCullar Jr. and Nick Timberlake. Then he turned back to the gathered media with a grin and said “Nah, I’m just playing with y’all.” It was an ...