College basketball soon could be taking a page out of the NBA’s return to play to jumpstart the 2020-21 season. According to a report from CBS Sports Insider Jon Rothstein, Orlando, Fla., is in line to be the host site for several early-season college tournaments, including the Champions Classic and Wooden Legacy tournaments that the Kansas men’s basketball team is scheduled to play in. Orlando, which ...
Twenty-three points and 367 yards, including just a field goal by halftime, was not exactly the offensive explosion Kansas football fans were expecting to see in the debut game of Offensive Coordinator Brent Dearmon’s first full season in charge of the Jayhawks’ offense. But as unimaginative and ho-hum as the KU offense looked for much of the game on Saturday night, there were a couple of reasons why. ...
One did not need to dissect the scene too intensely to see just how tough [Saturday’s 38-23 loss to Coastal Carolina][1] was on the Kansas Jayhawks. It sucked. It stung. And there was no doubting that these guys saw the 2020 season opener playing out differently than it did. But there was a strange sense of calm about the way they handled it. Well versed in dealing with disappointing outcomes, the four ...
The first snap of the 2020 Kansas football season was taken by KU senior Thomas MacVittie at 9:21 p.m. on Saturday night at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium and it led to a routine completion to Takulve Williams for no gain in KU's eventual 38-23 defeat to Coastal Carolina. Everything that led up to it, however, was anything but normal. And we’re not just talking about the roller-coaster summer during ...
Recent history indicates that the second year of a head football coach’s career at Kansas has been critical to his staying power. Turner Gill was fired after going 2-10 in his second season. Charlie Weis made it just four games into his third season after posting a 4-20 mark with two last-place Big 12 finishes during his first two years. And David Beaty made it through four seasons as a sort of dead man ...
There has been talk in the past about expanding the men’s basketball NCAA Tournament from 68 teams to 72, 96 or even 128. But if the ACC coaches get their way in 2020, those numbers will look tiny. According to multiple reports Wednesday morning from national college basketball writers across the country, the ACC coaches this week voted unanimously to propose a plan that allows all Division I men’s ...