After a breakthrough 2022-23 campaign that earned him plaudits and an award nod as the Big 12 Conference's most improved player, Kansas junior KJ Adams Jr. is looking to take another step forward next season. The 6-foot-7 Adams played primarily as an undersized center last year, averaging more than 10 points and four rebounds in the process, and so did most of his work near the rim. But with the arrival of ...
If you view a college athletic conference primarily as a bundle of brand equity and disparate assets to be auctioned off to the highest media-rights bidder, you probably love the direction the current conference-realignment cycle seems to be headed. If you place a certain emphasis on regional cohesiveness and historic rivalries, as I do, you may find yourself a little bit perturbed by the suggestion — ...
Already no stranger to playing in far-flung locales, the Kansas men's and women's basketball teams will participate in an international doubleheader much closer to home next year. The Big 12 Conference and Kansas Athletics announced Thursday morning that both KU teams will play against Houston at Arena CDMX in Mexico City in December 2024 part of an initiative known as Big 12 Mexico, which Commissioner Brett ...
In what Kansas Athletics is touting as the school's first weeknight ESPN football game in 28 years, KU will face Illinois at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 8 on ESPN2, the school announced Thursday. “We look forward to showcasing a program on an unrivaled trajectory to a national audience against a high-quality opponent," KU athletic director Travis Goff said in a news release. "This is a testament to a new era ...
The two most exhilarating moments of Thursday night’s Rock Chalk Roundball Classic at Free State High School came immediately before and after the final whistle. First, four of the six beneficiaries of the charity basketball game — the 15th annual installment of the event, founded by Kansas broadcaster Brian Hanni, which raises money for children with cancer — were able to run gleefully through a tunnel ...
On a day when Bill Self Basketball Camp attendees were oohing and aahing at every Hunter Dickinson pull-up 3 or Arterio Morris dunk, a much less recent addition to Kansas men's basketball stole the show. Ben McLemore, a onetime redshirt-freshman standout for the Jayhawks during the 2012-13 season who spent nearly a decade in the NBA, returned to Allen Fieldhouse and connected on seven 3-pointers during a KU ...