As a college basketball coach who has won a heck of lot more games than he’s lost during his coaching career, Kansas’ Bill Self lives in the village made up of people who hate to lose. But Self has been around long enough to know that sometimes it’s when you win and how you win that matters as much as if you win. It was that perspective that kept him from leaving Austin, Texas, on Tuesday night ...
The beginning of each half proved problematic for the Kansas women’s basketball team during a 61-52 home loss to Texas on Wednesday night. A 17-5 hole to open the game, which turned into a 22-7 deficit before the Jayhawks knew it, set the tone for the night at Allen Fieldhouse. The loss, KU’s fifth in a row, dropped the Jayhawks to 7-14 overall and 3-12 in the Big 12 and featured UT outscoring KU 34-15 ...
Most years, fans of Big 12 Conference basketball can look at how the seedings may shake out for the conference tournament and breakdown matchups and the possible paths to a Big 12 tourney crown for four or five different teams. This year, however, Kansas coach Bill Self believes all of that can be thrown out the window. “The Big 12 seedings are not going to be real,” Self said following [his team’s ...
Kansas coach Bill Self has said repeatedly in the past couple of weeks that in order to win the Jayhawks were going to have to play games in the 60s. On Tuesday night in Austin, Texas, No. 14 Texas needed overtime to climb above the 70-point mark and that was enough for the Longhorns to knock off 17th-ranked Kansas 75-72 at Frank Erwin Center. The loss snapped KU’s five-game winning streak and made Shaka ...
The Big 12 Conference on Tuesday afternoon announced 12 make-up games for next week, starting Monday with a game between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State and running through Saturday. The games became necessary because of COVID-19 disruptions throughout the regular season. As a result, not all 10 teams will play all 18 games this season, a fact that Kansas coach Bill Self was more than willing to live ...
No. 17 Kansas Jayhawks (17-7 overall, 11-5 Big 12) vs. No. 14 Texas Longhorns (13-6 overall, 7-5 Big 12) Time: 8 p.m. Location: Frank Erwin Center, Austin, Texas TV: ESPN | Radio: IMG Jayhawk Radio Network Log on to KUsports.com for our live game blog coverage and follow the KUsports.com staff on Twitter: @KUSports @mctait @bentonasmith & @SJacksonLJW Keys for Kansas 1. It’s a pride game The ...