WRITER: Matt Tait

Game day breakdown: No. 6 Kansas basketball at TCU

No. 6 Kansas Jayhawks (8-2 overall, 2-1 Big 12) vs. TCU Horned Frogs (9-2 overall, 2-1 Big 12) Time: 9 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021 Location: Schollmaier Arena, Fort Worth, 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. Just ...

No. 3 Kansas suffers lopsided 84-59 loss to No. 8 Texas, snaps 8-game win streak

What third-ranked Kansas lacked in the way of energy and emotion during its first game of 2021, No. 8 Texas more than made up for in rolling over the Jayhawks with style and a smile, 84-59 at Allen Fieldhouse. Saturday’s loss to the Longhorns snapped KU’s eight-game winning streak and ended a streak of 17 consecutive Big 12 victories for KU and 13 consecutive home victories. It also was just the 15th loss ...

Kansas basketball coach Bill Self says playing more 'turned up' falls on entire team

The Kansas Jayhawks have been saying all season that they would have to bring their own energy inside a mostly empty Allen Fieldhouse in order to create something that even comes close to resembling their regular home-court advantage. On Saturday, [in an 84-59 loss to No. 8 Texas,][1] the Jayhawks failed to do that and paid dearly for it. Of course, the way Kansas played combined with how hot the Longhorns ...

Notebook: Bryce Thompson out with back injury, Marcus Garrett's status also unknown ahead of trip to TCU

What Kansas basketball coach Bill Self called “a hard fall” kept freshman guard Bryce Thompson out of Saturday’s 84-59 loss to No. 8 Texas at Allen Fieldhouse. And Self said after the game that Thompson would not be back in time for KU’s Tuesday game at TCU. “We won't have him at TCU,” Self said of the freshman guard who has been KU’s sixth man most of the season. "And after that, who knows? We ...

Game day breakdown: No. 3 Kansas basketball vs. No. 8 Texas

No. 3 Kansas Jayhawks (8-1 overall, 2-0 Big 12) vs. No. 8 Texas Longhorns (7-1 overall, 1-0 Big 12) Time: 11 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021 Location: Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence, Kan. TV: ESPN2 | 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. ...

Self says Jayhawks free of COVID concerns as of Thursday, more testing to come

Kansas basketball coach Bill Self said Thursday that the initial COVID-19 tests taken by the Jayhawks after winter break revealed no issues, but he added that he was not ready to exhale just yet. “I think every coach in America is probably a little bit nervous right now,” Self said during a Zoom call with reporters. “Because if the Christmas vacation was negative for you from a COVID standpoint, we're ...