Kansas forward David McCormack was voted by the conference’s coaches as the Big 12’s Most Improved Player for the 2020-21 season. McCormack is the second ever recipient of the newly created Big 12 postseason honor, and he was one of five Jayhawks to receive some love from the Big 12 coaches on Monday. A junior from Norfolk, Va., who has started 27 games for the 11th-ranked Jayhawks, McCormack led the Big ...
Oklahoma State’s 80-75 win over West Virginia on Saturday secured a second-place finish in the Big 12 Conference for the Kansas men’s basketball team. As a result, Kansas will be the No. 2 seed in next week’s Big 12 tournament at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Mo. Bill Self’s squad will play the winner of Wednesday’s 7-10 matchup between Oklahoma and Iowa State at 5:30 p.m. Thursday. The Jayhawks, ...
The strong showing by Kansas guard Dajuan Harris in the Jayhawks’ five-point win over UTEP on Thursday included a season-high 17 second-half minutes for the redshirt freshman from Columbia, Mo. Every one of them was important. Each one included Harris’ own brand of defensive intensity. And the feeling of being out there when it mattered most did wonders for KU’s backup point guard. “It makes my ...
For more than 25 minutes of Thursday’s 67-62 comeback victory over visiting UTEP, Kansas junior David McCormack was alarmingly quiet and more than a little off. But, as he has done throughout the season, McCormack never let himself get taken out of the game entirely, setting the stage for a huge stretch that helped KU find a way to win. Asked after the victory how he was able to stay patient after a ...
The Lawrence High boys basketball team’s attempt to make history came down to one final play on Friday night against Olathe West in the LHS gym. And it was the Lions’ best player, senior Zeke Mayo, whose defensive stop helped send Lawrence High to the Class 6A state tournament for a school-record seventh consecutive season after a 44-43 victory in the sub-state championship game. Mayo’s 19 points ...
Although he’s been back in the lineup for a few weeks, freshman guard Bryce Thompson has still been battling through his recovery from a broken finger that sidelined him earlier this season. On Wednesday, however, one day before the 13th-ranked Kansas men’s basketball team’s wild 67-62 victory over upset-minded UTEP at Allen Fieldhouse, Thompson said his right index finger was “around 97%” healed and ...