A year ago, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self talked openly about being more motivated than ever before to lead a team and put all of his focus into coaching basketball as the NCAA’s case against the program swirled around him. While the NCAA case remains ongoing, Self has identified another element of KU’s current reality to rally around this year. “It’s been a different 18 months,” Self recently ...
http://www2.kusports.com/photos/2020/may/21/331143/ During a player-by-player rundown of the current Kansas basketball roster on the second episode of the online series “Grill with Bill,” Kansas coach Bill Self revealed that junior college transfer Tyon Grant-Foster has been dealing with a minor injury of late. “Tyon has had the hardest first month of anybody,” Self said during a conversation with ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program’s annual boot camp kicked off bright and early Monday morning, but new offseason rules surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic have created the potential for a slightly different look at this year’s conditioning session. With the NCAA recently granting a transitional period of up to 12 hours a week of player-coach interaction through Oct. 13, the Jayhawks have more time to ...
Jalon Daniels has taken a lot of snaps at quarterback during his life, but until Saturday night he had never called out the snap count or led an offense as a starter in college. As such, the true freshman from Lawndale, Calif., spent quite a bit of the spring and summer preparing for precisely that moment, as much as a leader as the player who throws the passes. “If you’re going to be the leader of the ...
Nineteen days before the official start of practices for the 2020-21 college basketball season, the NCAA has released its first set of COVID-19 testing guidelines for the sport. The NCAA is suggesting that all members of a college basketball program’s “inner bubble” — known as "tier 1" individuals — be tested three times per week on nonconsecutive days during the regular season and postseason ...
In a year when eliminating bowl games would be not only justifiable but also welcomed, the NCAA now sits on the brink of watering them down even further. The NCAA’s Division I Football Oversight Committee on Thursday [recommended waiving the requirements for bowl eligibility during the 2020 college football season.][1] Nothing will become official until the sport’s Division I Council, which meets in ...