Travis Goff, a 2002 graduate of the University of Kansas and a native of Dodge City, has been named the school’s new athletic director, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod announced on Monday afternoon. Goff becomes the fifth AD hired by Kansas since the late Bob Frederick retired in 2001. “It truly is an honor and a privilege to steward the next chapter of Kansas Athletics, and I am extremely grateful to ...
Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self has signed what was described by KU as "a lifetime contract" to remain the head coach of the Jayhawks, the school announced Friday morning. According to a news release put out by Kansas Athletics at 10 a.m. Friday, Self's current contract, which was to expire after the end of the 2021-22 season, has been replaced by a rolling five-year contract worth $5.41 million per ...
North Carolina basketball announced Thursday morning that longtime coach Roy Williams, who spent 15 seasons at Kansas prior to UNC, was retiring after 33 years as a college head coach. Williams, who replaced Larry Brown at KU in 1988, led the Jayhawks to 418 victories, four Final Fours and two appearances in the national championship game. The 70-year-old North Carolina native left KU for his alma mater in ...
After being entrusted as the caretaker of blue blood basketball programs Kansas and North Carolina for the past 33 years, Roy Williams announced his retirement from coaching on Thursday at a news conference in Chapel Hill, N.C. The 70-year-old Williams, who opened the ceremony with tears in his eyes, said simply that he felt he was “no longer the right man for the job.” Williams pointed to his ...
For the third consecutive day, a member of the 2020-21 Kansas men’s basketball team added his name to the transfer portal on Wednesday. Freshman forward Gethro Muscadin becomes the latest Jayhawk to decide to head elsewhere, joining wings Tyon Grant-Foster and Tristan Enaruna who put their names in the portal earlier this week. “We recruited Gethro to come in and be a contributor for us over time,” ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self told the Journal-World that junior forward David McCormack had surgery Wednesday to repair a broken bone in his foot. McCormack, who finished second on the team in scoring at 13.4 points per game this season, is expected to be out for 12 weeks and will return to basketball activities sometime this summer. Self said McCormack played the final five games of the 2020-21 season ...