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 — 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 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 — 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 ...
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 ...
