SAN DIEGO — The fourth-seeded Kansas men’s basketball team escaped No. 13 seed Cal Baptist in the Lancers’ NCAA Tournament debut, as the Jayhawks earned a 68-60 win at Viejas Arena to advance to the Round of 32. “They say survive and advance," KU coach Bill Self said. "And that's what we did. I actually thought we were pretty darn good for about 25 minutes, and then went stale for about eight and then ...
SAN DIEGO — As Kansas coach Bill Self recalls, it seemed great in theory for the Jayhawks to get to play the first weekend of the 2009 NCAA Tournament in center Cole Aldrich’s home state of Minnesota. “Until we played … North Dakota State and then they had 20,000 people at the game, or 15,000 people (at the Metrodome),” Self said. KU managed to escape that first-round battle with the Bison, who were ...
SAN DIEGO — Kansas had an unusually accomplished water boy at Sunday’s practice back in Lawrence. Fifth-year senior guard Melvin Council Jr., given an unexpected day off by head coach Bill Self, found other ways to make himself useful: besides handing out water, of course, he was “rebounding, clapping, keeping the energy alive and stuff like that,” he said on Thursday. As Self explained on Sunday, he ...
SAN DIEGO — It has been far from a guarantee in recent seasons, and even throughout Bill Self’s 23-year tenure as head coach, that a Kansas men’s basketball team arrives for its first NCAA Tournament weekend ready to play at full strength. Two years ago on a Salt Lake City side street, Self ruled out Kevin McCullar Jr. for the duration of the postseason; last season when he spoke in a hotel lobby in ...
Like so many young players, Jayden Dawson became more of a focal point each successive year he played for Eric Behrens at Omaha Central High School. He could always shoot it, and he always had the right attitude — humble, quiet, still easygoing and friendly, as Behrens described him. It was the rest of his game that needed work, and Dawson was willing to put it in. “He was pretty slender early on,” ...
Updated 10:35 a.m. Wednesday, March 18, 2026: Former Kansas player and assistant coach Jerod Haase has been hired as the head coach at UNC Greensboro, the school announced on Wednesday morning. "My family and I are thrilled to join the Greensboro community," Haase said in a press release. "In the new era of college athletics, I still believe it is possible to win games, yet not compromise education and ...