WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Mbiya headed for portal, per reports

The Kansas frontcourt will undergo a comprehensive revamp this offseason, as reserve center Paul Mbiya is set to enter the transfer portal, according to multiple reports on Monday morning. When the portal opens on Tuesday, Mbiya will be departing alongside forwards Flory Bidunga, who also plans to test the NBA waters, and Bryson Tiller. After joining KU as a late addition over the summer of 2025 — he had ...

Tiller will enter transfer portal

Kansas forward Bryson Tiller will enter the transfer portal, his agency Seros Partners confirmed to the Journal-World on Monday morning. Tiller is set to leave the Jayhawks after a season and a half. The 6-foot-11 forward from Atlanta out of Overtime Elite enrolled early at KU in the winter of 2025 when he was rehabbing a long-term ankle injury, then broke out at the start of the 2025-26 season to become a ...

Jackson headed for portal after 3 seasons at KU

Multi-year players are increasingly elusive in modern college basketball, and guard Elmarko Jackson stayed at Kansas over the course of two separate offseasons. But he will head elsewhere for his final two years of eligibility, according to multiple reports on Monday afternoon. Jackson is set to enter the transfer portal, which opens on Tuesday. “Yes, it’s true,” Jackson told Shay Wildeboor of ...

Two KU women's basketball guards will enter portal

Kansas women’s basketball guards Laia Conesa and Keeley Parks are entering the transfer portal. Conesa went into the portal on Monday, a KU Athletics spokesperson confirmed. The 5-foot-11 guard from Barcelona, Spain, averaged 3.7 points, 3.0 rebounds and 2.1 assists in 20.0 minutes per game as a junior with the Jayhawks. She played in all 36 of KU’s games and started five. Conesa had taken on a somewhat ...

What we learned from the first three episodes of Paramount's KU basketball documentary

The third episode of Paramount+ documentary series “Made for March” concludes with Kansas coach Bill Self sitting around a table at Johnny’s Tavern with several of his key players, discussing the importance of getting the Jayhawks aligned heading into the final stretch of the season. The depiction of that final stretch — which, spoiler alert, ended in anticlimactic fashion for KU with a second-round ...

Documentary series featuring KU basketball premieres on Saturday

After rebuffing various inquiries over the years to let a documentary-style series film his Kansas basketball program, KU coach Bill Self allowed Paramount Sports Entertainment and Religion of Sports to take a peek behind the curtain. Their crew spent much of the season filming the 2025-26 men’s basketball team at KU, along with Michigan, and both teams will be featured as part of the four-part Paramount+ ...