Kansas point guard Dajuan Harris’ August exhibition trip to Spain has been called off after the U.S. State Department added the country to its “Do Not Travel” list over concerns about COVID-19. According to an email from Luke MacDougall, assistant director of operations and media services for USA East Coast Basketball, the organization decided to cancel the trip after making a call to the Centers for ...
For former Kansas basketball standout Marcus Garrett, years of dreaming and imagining life as a professional basketball player have come down to a single night. Thursday night, when the 2021 NBA draft plays out in Brooklyn, N.Y., Garrett and a host of other NBA hopefuls will find out if they are among the 60 players selected in the two-round draft that begins at 7 p.m. on ABC and ESPN. Hearing his name ...
As the future of the Big 12 Conference hangs in the balance, one thing is clear: The University of Kansas will need approval from the Kansas Board of Regents to make any type of move regarding its conference affiliation. That fact is spelled out in black and white in the Board of Regents’ bylaws and policies online. With Oklahoma and Texas formally requesting invitations to the SEC on Tuesday, the future ...
Transfer point guard Remy Martin arrived in Lawrence on Friday, bringing the number of 2021-22 Kansas men’s basketball players on campus to 100%. The highly touted transfer from Arizona State was listed by some as the nation’s most talented player to change schools this offseason. He committed to KU on May 17 and announced that he was pulling his name from the NBA draft pool on July 6. KU shared some ...
It may — and may not — still be a little premature to look at possible landing spots for Kansas in the event that Oklahoma and Texas leave the Big 12 Conference for the SEC. But the timeline that has been reported and the mere fact that this is even being discussed in the first place make it a worthwhile endeavor. So here it goes. The way I see it, if (when?) OU and UT leave the conference, KU would ...
Remember when the most important thing on new Kansas Athletic Director Travis Goff’s to-do list was to make sure he got the football hire right? Well, the first-year AD got all of 78 days to enjoy the work he did on that front. And we don’t even truly know how that’s going to turn out yet. But now, before new KU football coach Lance Leipold can even conduct his first official practice, it’s on to ...