After 45 years in coaching, the last 10 coming as the head basketball coach at Oklahoma, Sooners coach Lon Kruger is retiring at the age of 68. Oklahoma announced the news on Thursday afternoon and the school’s athletic department has planned a press conference for 9:45 a.m. Friday. The Silver Lake, Kan., native who spent time at Kansas State (1986-90), Florida (1990-96), Illinois (1996-2000) and UNLV ...
On national search firm TurnkeyZRG’s website, the listing for the University of Kansas’ open athletic director position has an instruction for applicants in bold type: “Contacting the University of Kansas will delay your consideration.” In other words, applicants need to go through the search firm, not through KU. That should make it clear that Turnkey will have a significant impact on who KU ...
Still smarting from his team’s [85-51, season-ending loss to sixth-seeded USC on Monday night][1] in Indianapolis, Kansas coach Bill Self talked about the Trojans the way dozens of past KU opponents had always talked about the Jayhawks. Too big. Too long. Too athletic. Too talented. It didn’t help that KU’s second-round NCAA Tournament loss at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse was the product of a perfect ...
As is the case every offseason, the Kansas men’s basketball roster figures to get a facelift in the coming months. Decisions are made, players come and go, and the 2021-22 team, which still should have a ton of familiar faces, suddenly looks different than the roster that had its season end in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Monday night in Indianapolis. It’s still too early to predict what ...
Indianapolis — The reality of what was coming showed on Kansas senior Marcus Garrett’s face throughout [Monday’s 85-51 loss to sixth-seeded USC][1] at Hinkle Fieldhouse. A flinch here. A grimace there, both admissions of frustration without the utterance of a single word. But as long as there was still time on the clock, there also was still work to be done, so Garrett never let the sadness hit him. ...
Indianapolis — The Journal-World learned Monday morning that Kansas freshman Jalen Wilson landed in Indianapolis a little after 9:30 a.m. local time, roughly 12 hours before tipoff of 3rd-seeded KU’s Monday night game with No. 6 seed USC at Hinkle Fieldhouse. Wilson, who missed KU’s opening-round NCAA Tournament win over Eastern Washington on Saturday, is expected to play in Round 2 against the Trojans. ...