The final pin of her prep career came Thursday in Park City, where Free State High senior Madyson Gray rolled to her third consecutive girls state wrestling title and finished with a career record of 95-0. She shared the moment with her father, Darin Gray, the FSHS head coach, and several members of the Free State boys team who made the trip over early to support their old friend. The boys will wrestle ...
With fifth-ranked Kansas slated to play four games in an eight-day stretch starting Saturday, KU forward David McCormack’s sore right foot has garnered a little extra attention in the past few days, Kansas coach Bill Self said Thursday. “From what he told me, he aggravated it at the very beginning of the game,” Self said of KU’s win over Kansas State on Tuesday. “He looked like an old man as far as ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self said Thursday that he exchanged text messages with former Jayhawk Svi Mykhailiuk Thursday morning and learned that Mykhailiuk’s parents were safe in their home country of Ukraine. Mykhailiuk’s country has been under attack for the past day or so following a Russian invasion that has drawn attention in all corners of the world. Self did not know any more about the status ...
Look at the statistics and they’ll show you that No. 5 Kansas is one of the best transition teams in all of college basketball. The Jayhawks, at 121, rank third nationally in KenPom.com’s offensive efficiency rating metric (points scored per 100 possessions) and a huge chunk of that number comes from how often and how successful the Jayhawks score in transition. Ask the Jayhawks themselves where they ...
With the 2022 NCAA Tournament roughly three weeks away, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self and Kansas State coach Bruce Weber explained before Tuesday’s 102-83 Kansas win at Allen Fieldhouse why they believed the Big 12 Conference was deserving of as many bids as any conference in the country. “Saying five or six in this league (are deserving of an NCAA Tournament berth) would be penalizing a league that has ...
Kansas State coach Bruce Weber said Monday that the Wildcats needed Tuesday’s Sunflower Showdown to be played in the 60s in order for K-State to have a chance to win. By halftime, fifth-ranked Kansas needed just seven points to get there. The Jayhawks scored many more than that in the second half, while punishing their in-state rivals 102-83 at Allen Fieldhouse. KU’s 53 first-half points marked a new ...