WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Council suing NCAA in attempt to become eligible for 2026-27 season

Updated 5:36 p.m. Monday, July 27, 2026: Recent Kansas basketball guard Melvin Council Jr. is suing the NCAA in Douglas County in an attempt to become eligible for the 2026-27 men’s basketball season, according to court records reviewed by the Journal-World. Council spent two years at Monroe College, which is a junior college, before playing one at Wagner, one at St. Bonaventure and most recently one at ...

After skirmish results in numerous ejections, Mayo, Mason lift JHX Hoops to victory in Wichita

WICHITA — A hotly contested quarterfinal match in The Basketball Tournament on Monday night at Charles Koch Arena was marred by a scuffle under the basket with two minutes and 43 seconds left in the first half, which left both the Kansas and Wichita State alumni teams with just six players. With the AfterShocks ahead 23-22, Rashard Kelly and JHX Hoops’ Mario Chalmers got into a battle for an offensive ...

What happened after JHX Hoops' TBT win on Monday?

Updated 8:21 p.m. Tuesday, July 28, 2026: WICHITA — JHX Hoops beat the AfterShocks on Monday night at Charles Koch Arena, but you might not have known it from looking at the official The Basketball Tournament bracket in the tunnel beyond the Kansas alumni’s basket. The former Jayhawks never had the chance to slap their name next to La Familia’s in the alumni bracket final because shortly after the ...

JHX Hoops in new territory with upcoming quarterfinal matchup against defending champs

MANHATTAN — It took years of trial and error for Sherron Collins, Tyshawn Taylor and the rest of the Kansas alumni team to crack the code on the Elam Ending. The Basketball Tournament’s unusual final stanza, in which the fourth-quarter clock stops inside of four minutes and both teams play to a target score set at eight points above the score of the team that currently leads, was not kind to the KU alumni ...

KU soccer notebook: Jayhawks hope to harness local enthusiasm after World Cup

In recruiting future Jayhawks, Kansas soccer coach Nate Lie doesn’t hesitate to mention how much it meant for the Algerian national team to use KU’s facilities at Rock Chalk Park this summer — how it validates their quality that they had the chance to play a role in a sporting event of global significance. But for Lie, what was perhaps even more striking about the World Cup was how the city of Lawrence ...

JHX Hoops rallies once again to advance past Purple Reign, 62-55

MANHATTAN — In the wake of Kansas alumni team JHX Hoops’ comeback victory in Topeka to force a decisive third game against Kansas State’s Purple Reign, JHX head coach Sherron Collins and general manager Tyshawn Taylor had emphasized how important it would be for their team to get off to a fast start at Bramlage Coliseum on Friday night. Instead, the KU alumni fell behind 12-0 and once again had to dig ...