SAN DIEGO — It took an additional year, but Kansas and St. John’s are set to meet in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
A year after KU’s first-round exit with a loss to Arkansas in Providence, Rhode Island, deprived the 2025 postseason of a battle between legendary head coaches Bill Self and Rick Pitino — not to mention a potential revenge game for former Jayhawk forward and St. John’s star ...
SAN DIEGO — It took just two weeks for one of Kansas head coach Bill Self’s senior-day proclamations to bear fruit.
After freshman forward Paul Mbiya threw down a couple of dunks on March 7 in the Jayhawks’ dominant home win over Kansas State, Self declared that Mbiya — the 7-foot “Big Paul” with a 7-foot-8-wingspan — had been “no question our most improved guy, just in the last three or four ...
SAN DIEGO — In the process of carrying Kansas to a too-close-for-comfort victory over Cal Baptist on Friday night at Viejas Arena, freshman guard Darryn Peterson set some records.
His 28 points, which he earned on 11-for-24 shooting with four 3s, were the most ever scored by a KU freshman in the NCAA Tournament under head coach Bill Self; they were also the most by a KU freshman in a tournament debut.
“I ...
SAN DIEGO — The player most familiar with Kansas on the St. John’s roster is quite clearly Zuby Ejiofor.
That’s not a surprise. Ejiofor played for the Jayhawks as a freshman during the 2022-23 season, transferred out in search of greater opportunities elsewhere and has since blossomed into arguably the top player in the Big East Conference.
But when it comes to knowing KU well, Dillon Mitchell might be a ...
SAN DIEGO — Though they had not previously been acquainted, Jamari McDowell became very familiar with the small Alabama-based Christian university Samford very quickly in March 2024 when the Bulldogs pressed relentlessly and made the Jayhawks work for 40 minutes to earn a 93-89 NCAA Tournament victory in Salt Lake City.
“How intense, and how much joy they played with, it was amazing,” McDowell recalled on ...
