I’ve covered Kansas basketball for a long time and seen all kinds of teams and outcomes.
But I can’t recall any team that overcame quite as much as the 2022-23 squad, which saw its season come to an end in heartbreaking fashion Saturday night in Des Moines, Iowa.
A damn good Arkansas team delivered the final blow to a team that took punch after punch all season and kept standing.
Having to face the ...
Recent Kansas basketball commitment Marcus Adams Jr. announced Sunday that he will reclassify into the 2023 class and join the Jayhawks this summer in time for the 2023-24 season.
That was presented as a possibility — perhaps even the most likely outcome — when Adams committed to Kansas earlier this month, and he told multiple recruiting services on Sunday that he was ready to make the jump.
The ...
Des Moines, Iowa — The top-seeded Kansas men's basketball team will be without head coach Bill Self for a fifth consecutive game when it takes on No. 8 seed Arkansas in today's second round.
KU officially ruled Self out for the contest just after 10 a.m. on Saturday. Assistant coach Norm Roberts will continue to serve as the team's acting head coach in Self's absence.
The Jayhawks (28-7) and Razorbacks ...
Des Moines, Iowa — Kansas point guard Dajuan Harris Jr. gutted out all 20 minutes in the second half on a bad right ankle to try to lead the Jayhawks to second-round NCAA Tournament win over Arkansas but came up just short, falling 72-71 to end the season.
Harris, who has had ankle and foot injuries throughout the season was injured late in the first half when he landed on the legs of a photographer out of ...
Des Moines, Iowa — For a team that tied its entire identity to pulling out tough games no matter how dire the circumstances, the final scenes of a wild and crazy 2022-23 Kansas basketball season looked odd.
It also seemed fitting.
If this ride was going to end, this was probably the way it was always destined to be.
Standing at the free throw line down by a pair with three seconds to go in their season, ...
Des Moines, Iowa — For the eighth day in a nine-day span, the health and availability of head coach Bill Self was a popular topic on Friday at Wells Fargo Arena.
While the top-seeded Jayhawks were busy discussing their preparation for Saturday’s clash with No. 8 seed Arkansas — 4:15 p.m. tipoff on CBS — several of them were asked if there was any new news on Self’s status.
The short answer was no. ...
