At a recent press conference, after Kansas football moved each of its first two games of 2023, at home against Missouri State and Illinois, to Fridays, Kansas football coach Lance Leipold predicted further growth in this domain. “In today’s world of where it’s going in TV contracts and that, you’re starting to see it: Friday night college games are going to be (happening) more and more frequently,” he ...
Kansas' homegrown star will begin his professional basketball career in an entirely different country. Wichita native Gradey Dick, the latest KU freshman to jump straight to the NBA, went No. 13 overall to the Toronto Raptors at Thursday night's NBA Draft in Brooklyn as the penultimate pick in the lottery. Dick sported a red-sequined, "Wizard of Oz"-inspired suit as his draft-night attire Thursday, and it ...
The third time through the draft was the charm for Jalen Wilson. He went somewhat later than expected, but the former Kansas forward from Denton, Texas, heard his name called at No. 51 in Brooklyn, New York, late Thursday night. He walked across the stage in the very arena where he'll have a chance to play as a member of the Brooklyn Nets. Wilson had previously entered and withdrawn from the draft in both 2021 ...
Bill Self has seen his fair share of NBA drafts. A whole 20, to be exact, and that’s just since he came to Kansas. He’s watched 27 of his players get drafted — one year two twins went back-to-back, one year a record-tying five players got picked from the same team, a few years none got selected at all and one time Andrew Wiggins and Joel Embiid both went off the board in the top three picks. “That ...
The last Kansas alumni team to compete in The Basketball Tournament got bounced in the first round, but TBT showed plenty of faith in this year's offering when it awarded the Mass Street squad a No. 1 seed in the Wichita Regional. TBT is an open-entry summer basketball tournament that features 64 teams competing for a million-dollar prize. The majority of teams comprise alumni of particular schools, but many ...
Topeka — Watching Kevin McCullar Jr. help out with Brett Ballard's youth basketball camp at Washburn Wednesday — doling out high-fives, joining with Hunter Dickinson to take on some kids two-on-four in a shooting drill — it's hard not to think of where else he could have been the night before the NBA draft. McCullar went through the detailed process of extricating himself from Kansas and declaring for the ...