Kansas guard Ochai Agbaji has decided to return to KU for his senior season after spending the last several weeks testing his NBA draft status, “Jayhawk Nation, I’m coming back," Agbaji said in a Tuesday afternoon news release announcing his return. Agbaji's decision to withdraw his name from the 2021 NBA draft pool cleared the way for him to return to a Kansas roster that is projected by many to be a ...
The final piece of the Kansas basketball roster for the 2021-22 season is now in place, as Arizona State point guard Remy Martin has withdrawn his name from the NBA draft pool and will attend Kansas. CBS Sports Insider Jon Rothstein was the first to report the news on Tuesday afternoon. News of Martin’s decision surfaced roughly six hours after KU senior Ochai Agbaji announced similar plans to return to KU ...
From a distance, former Kansas football coach Glen Mason has watched six different KU athletic directors hire seven different head football coaches since he left Lawrence in 1996. And until this year, not one of them reached out to him before making a hire. As one of two KU coaches in the past five decades who enjoyed prolonged success with the program, Mason always thought contacting him would make sense. ...
As the Kansas men’s basketball program full of new faces reaches the end of June, head coach Bill Self believes the team may actually be a little ahead of schedule compared to a season ago. A big reason for that is the fact that the pandemic kept the Jayhawks from being on campus for the entirety of the summer of 2020. This summer, it’s been back to normal, with most of KU’s players reporting to campus ...
The Kansas volleyball team was picked to finish fourth in the preseason Big 12 volleyball poll this week, three spots behind perennial power Texas and just a few points behind Sunflower State rival Kansas State. The Longhorns were the unanimous pick to win the conference, picking up 64 points and all eight available first-place votes in the nine-team league. Coaches are not allowed to vote for their own team. ...
If there were any questions about whether players from the Kansas City-based MOKAN AAU program can make it at basketball’s highest level, the 2021 NBA playoffs appear to have answered them. This year’s playoffs featured eight former MOKAN standouts, and one of them, Atlanta Hawks guard Trae Young, is still alive and tearing up the league. After leading the fifth-seeded Hawks to series victories over New ...