A positive COVID-19 test within the University of Kansas men’s basketball program on Friday morning forced the Jayhawks to withdraw from the remainder of the Big 12 tournament. Kansas, seeded second in the tournament and ranked No. 11 in the Associated Press poll, was slated to face No. 3 seed and 13th-ranked Texas at 8:30 p.m. Friday night at T-Mobile Center in the Big 12 semifinals. A news release from ...
In a phone interview Friday afternoon, just hours after telling his team that Kansas had withdrawn from the Big 12 tournament because of a positive COVID-19 test within the program, KU coach Bill Self said the whole morning felt eerily similar to delivering the same news in 2020. “Last year was right around 11 o'clock,” Self began. “This year was right around 11 o'clock. Same hotel. But it wasn't the ...
The last time KU had an opening for an athletic director, I received a handful of calls from a few former KU football players touting Mike Harrity, then at Notre Dame, as a guy that Kansas should consider. Today, with KU's AD job open once again, the man who coached a lot of those players who called me is throwing his support behind Harrity, who is now a Deputy AD and COO at Army. Former KU football coach ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Kansas basketball coach Bill Self had a simple plan for how he would fill the fifth spot in KU’s starting lineup for Thursday’s 69-62 victory over No. 25 Oklahoma at T-Mobile Center. If Oklahoma started two big men, he was going with senior forward Mitch Lightfoot in place of junior David McCormack, who is out for the weekend because of COVID-19 protocols. If Oklahoma started with ...
Kansas City, Mo. — By virtue of his spot in the jump circle to open Thursday’s Big 12 quarterfinal contest with No. 25 Oklahoma, Kansas junior Ochai Agbaji was immediately thrust into the spotlight on Thursday night at T-Mobile Center. But it wasn’t until Agbaji’s red-hot stretch late in No. 11 KU’s 69-62 victory over the Sooners that he took over as the game’s most important player. Moments after ...
In 2018, four Big 12 football programs were searching for new head coaches at the same time. Kansas was one of them. The Jayhawks were the first to start looking and also became the first to make a hire, as Jeff Long snagged Les Miles in November of that year before KU’s 2018 season had officially even ended. Shortly after KU hired Miles, Texas Tech moved quickly to bring in Matt Wells to replace the ...