Kansas has received a No. 4 seed in the East region of the NCAA Tournament and will open its March Madness run against No. 13 seed Cal Baptist on Friday in San Diego. The game will take place at Viejas Arena, the home of San Diego State, at 8:45 p.m. Central time. It will be televised on CBS. The Jayhawks and Lancers are paired with No. 5 seed St. John’s, the Big East tournament champion, and No. 12 seed ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas coach Bill Self said on Thursday that he wasn’t trying to be negative when describing Bryson Tiller’s performance against TCU as “not a physical game at all by him.” He said Tiller would be better the following day against Houston. But when the first half against the Cougars rolled around on Friday night, the freshman from Atlanta managed just two points on 1-for-5 shooting ...
After Kansas’ grim 69-47 loss to Houston on Friday night at the T-Mobile Center, KU coach Bill Self took a bit of a clean-slate approach when he said that after Sunday, no one will remember what took place at the Big 12 tournament. “I would love to have played longer, I would have loved to have been more competitive tonight, and everything,” he said, “but the reality of it is, on Sunday is a new day ...
The Kansas indoor track and field team has its first national champion since 2019. Junior Ashton Barkdull cleared a personal-best 5.80 meters in the pole vault at the indoor championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Friday, on his way to a first-place finish. Barkdull and Texas A&M’s Aleksandr Solovev each missed on three attempts at 5.85 meters, which meant that the title came down to how the two ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas’ win over TCU on Thursday night was hardly a masterpiece. But what it can be for the Jayhawks in the very near future, as they turn their attention to Houston on Friday, is a “stepping stone,” as senior forward Tre White put it. “Houston kind of plays a similar way, creating havoc on defense, push it down your throat on offense, strong, tough, aggressive, and that was kind ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When Kansas went into halftime down eight points to Houston on Friday, it was 4-for-15 on shots within the arc. That included 1-for-2 on layups and 2-for-2 on dunks, meaning that on shots from anywhere between the arc and the basket, the Jayhawks had gone 1-for-11. Somehow, it all got worse in the second half. KU missed its first 16 overall shots after the break and finished with a total ...