BOULDER, Colo. — Melvin Council Jr. was just trying to get back on defense. The Jayhawks were clinging desperately to a one-point lead on Tuesday night against Colorado when Bryson Tiller slapped away a potential go-ahead putback by Alon Michaeli. The ball had caromed hard off the backboard to Council, who zoomed down the court in about four seconds and dropped in a layup over Isaiah Johnson to make it ...
Two days after he went to the hospital, causing him to miss KU’s road game at Colorado, head coach Bill Self said on his “Hawk Talk” radio show that he will be back in action coaching the team without limitations. “I could have coached today,” he said on the show on Wednesday night. “I could have coached last night, they just didn’t want me flying and being in altitude there. But certainly will be ...
Updated 8:56 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026: BOULDER, Colo. — Assistant coach Jacque Vaughn will serve as Kansas’ acting head coach for Tuesday night’s road matchup at Colorado, head coach Bill Self announced on Tuesday afternoon. Vaughn, a former All-American point guard for the Jayhawks in the 1990s, is in his first year on Self’s coaching staff. He has extensive head coaching experience in the NBA, ...
Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital on Monday and did not travel with the Jayhawks to their upcoming road game in Colorado, KU Athletics announced in a statement. The statement said Self “felt under the weather earlier today and, out of an abundance of caution, was taken to LMH Health where he received IV fluids." Self was previously hospitalized on March 8, ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team got its season back on the right track during a well-timed homestand with a pair of dominant wins, 84-63 against then-No. 2 Iowa State and 80-62 over Baylor. Now, back above .500 in what are still the early stages of Big 12 play, the newly 19th-ranked Jayhawks will look to extend their momentum beyond the confines of Allen Fieldhouse. “We haven’t taken our act on the ...
A new option has emerged in the competition to become Kansas’ day-one starter at quarterback for the 2026 season. Rice transfer Chase Jenkins committed to KU, he confirmed to the Journal-World on Sunday. Jenkins will be a redshirt junior with two years left to play. He fills the scholarship spot vacated by the departure of freshman David McComb, who transferred to Miami (Ohio). Jenkins now enters a room ...