Former Lawrence High standout Zeke Mayo’s first season of college basketball will continue into the NCAA Tournament. Mayo’s South Dakota State Jackrabbits earned the automatic bid from the Summit League by topping North Dakota State in this week’s conference tournament title game, 75-69 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Mayo scored 12 points in 37 minutes and hit a key runner late in the game to give the ...
Kansas City, Mo. — For a full 40 minutes on Saturday night, the sixth-ranked Kansas men’s basketball team pushed and pounded a physically imposing Texas Tech team for every inch it got during a 74-65 win in the Big 12 championship game. And for the next 40 minutes, the Jayhawks were too happy to feel a single one of the bumps and bruises they collected during the hard-fought game that validated their ...
Kansas City, Mo. — In the moment, Kansas senior Mitch Lightfoot’s face left little doubt as to how he felt about teammate Ochai Agbaji’s gravity-defying, one-hand slam that served as the exclamation point on sixth-ranked Kansas’ 75-62 Big 12 semifinal win over TCU. With his eyes wide and mouth agape, Lightfoot, like thousands of other basketball fans inside T-Mobile Center on Friday night, clearly ...
Kansas City, Mo. — As he walked off the T-Mobile Center on Thursday afternoon floor after being ejected 10 minutes into an 87-63 loss to top-seeded Kansas, West Virginia coach Bob Huggins perfectly summed up the day in four words. “We have no chance,” cameras captured Huggins saying as he retired to the back for the day. While Huggins’ claim likely was in reference to what he believed was an uneven ...
Kansas City, Mo. — After what wound up being his final game as the head coach at Kansas State, now former-K-State coach Bruce Weber shared with the media on Wednesday that he had been growing his hair out as a protest of sorts and only planned to cut it when the college basketball programs tied up in the FBI’s investigation into corruption in college basketball were punished. Thursday morning, Kansas State ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self said Tuesday that he was looking forward to this year’s Big 12 tournament in Kansas City, Missouri, as much as he has looked forward to any of them during his 19 years in charge of the program. Part of that comes from the fact that the sixth-ranked Jayhawks (25-6) have not been able to enjoy the environment for a couple of years. Last season, KU won its opening game in a ...