Austin, Texas — Monday night’s 79-76 loss marked the final game Kansas will ever play at Texas’ Frank C. Erwin Center, with UT and Austin closer than ever to ushering in the era of the Moody Center. Opening for concerts as soon as April of this year, the Moody Center is a brand new, 15,000-seat area specifically designed for concerts that will also host UT men’s and women’s basketball games. The $338 ...
Kansas basketball fans soon will have a new way to add to their memorabilia collections. The University of Kansas men’s basketball program is joining the University of Kentucky in partnering with white-label NFT platform company Mercury to provide fans exclusive digital collectibles of their favorite KU players and coaches. Dubbed the “Rock Chalk” community and found online at RockChalk.io starting ...
Austin, Texas — Kansas basketball coach Bill Self’s pregame prediction that his team’s Big Monday battle with Texas would resemble “a rock fight” turned out to be undeniably true. All that was missing were the rocks. The absence of flying objects, however, did nothing to keep either side from scrapping and aching for a physical 40 minutes in a 79-76 win by No. 20 Texas over 8th-ranked KU. It marks ...
No. 8 Kansas Jayhawks (19-3 overall, 8-1 Big 12) vs. No. 20 Texas Longhorns (17-6 overall, 6-4 Big 12) Time: 8 p.m., Monday, Feb. 7, 2022 Location: Frank Erwin Center, Austin, Texas TV: ESPN | Radio: IMG Jayhawk Radio Network Keys for Kansas 1. Tap into past Texas Tech teams Although the Jayhawks coming to town has always seemed to fire up the Texas Longhorns and their fans, the 2021-22 season is new ...
Kansas senior Ochai Agbaji returned to action on Saturday after a one-game absence because of COVID-19, and KU’s leading scorer did not miss a beat. After taking his regular spot in the starting five of an 83-59 beatdown of No. 8 Baylor, Agbaji delivered 18 points on 5-of-11 shooting and added nine rebounds in 32 minutes. After testing positive for COVID-19 last weekend, Agbaji said he took a few days off ...
In the days leading up to the Jayhawks’ home showdown with Kentucky on Jan. 29, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self went out of his way to express how insignificant that game was in the big picture of KU’s season. Fast-forward one week, to Saturday’s 83-59 drubbing of No. 8 Baylor at Allen Fieldhouse, and it was easy to see that the Jayhawks’ loss to Kentucky meant a lot more than anyone could have ...