No. 8 Kansas Jayhawks (7-1) vs. Missouri Tigers (5-4) Time: 2:15 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 Location: Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence, Kansas TV: ESPN | Radio: IMG Jayhawk Radio Network Keys for Kansas 1. Keep emotions in check For years, Kansas players and coaches have talked about how the rocking Allen Fieldhouse atmosphere can also play a role in firing up the opponent. Sure, the deafening roar and ...
The best way many Kansas fans have been able to describe what was missing with Missouri out of their lives for the past nine years was to compare the relationship between the two bitter rivals to that of siblings. Several attendees at Bill Self’s “Hawk Talk” radio show on Wednesday night, and a couple of local bar owners, said this weekend’s renewal of the rivalry with KU’s longtime border rival ...
With the first official basketball game against Missouri in more than 3,500 days now just hours away, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self was asked on Thursday why the game is finally being played again. His answer was short and sweet. “Time’s passed," he said. By now, Missouri’s well-known exit from the Big 12 Conference to the SEC and the impact it had on one of the best rivalries in all of college ...
In late August, following the Kansas volleyball program’s season-opening loss to Loyola Marymount at Purdue, Kansas coach Ray Bechard ran into setter Camryn Turner and her parents outside of the team hotel and had a brief conversation that proved to be prophetic. Turner, a freshman from Topeka, did not play a single point during the first college volleyball match of the season, and the family, though ...
Kansas City, Mo. — No matter what goes right, what goes wrong or how any of it looks, the eighth-ranked Kansas basketball program seems to know it’s in good hands when Ochai Agbaji and Christian Braun are on the floor. That was the case again on Tuesday night at T-Mobile Center, where Agbaji and Braun combined to score 43 points on 18 of 25 shooting and Kansas bludgeoned visiting UTEP 78-52. “Obviously, ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Moments after scoring 20 points in a blowout win over UTEP at T-Mobile Center on Tuesday night, Kansas junior Christian Braun painted a crystal-clear picture of how quickly the Jayhawks had moved on from UTEP to Saturday’s looming showdown with Missouri. “I think the first thing everybody said when we got in the tunnel was, ‘Who we got next’,” Braun said Tuesday. “I was looking ...