By his own admission, former Eudora High standout Mitch Ballock nearly committed to play basketball at Kansas three different times.
During his upcoming senior season at Creighton, Ballock will finally get his chance to play at Allen Fieldhouse.
That matchup was made official on Wednesday, when KU released the nonconference portion of its 2020-21 men’s basketball schedule.
On Dec. 3, Ballock, his Bluejays ...
It is unlikely to impact the Kansas men’s basketball program, but the NCAA on Wednesday announced it was pushing back the date for college basketball players to withdraw from the NBA draft and still return to school.
The deadline for underclassmen who retained their college eligibility to pull their names from the NBA draft pool was scheduled for June 3.
A new deadline has not yet been set.
“Out of ...
Former Kansas football coach Pepper Rodgers, who led the Jayhawks to the 1969 Orange Bowl, died Thursday at age 88, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times.
Born Franklin Cullen Rodgers on Oct. 8, 1931 in Atlanta, the former KU coach died after being taken off life support following a fall in his home last weekend that led to a stroke and heart attack, Ben Bolch of the Los Angeles Times reported. ...
Although he has gotten used to it by now, Kansas football coach Les Miles’ first attempt to coach his team in a virtual setting this spring proved to be a challenge.
“It was the dangedest thing,” Miles said during a recent phone interview with the Journal-World. “The first time I’m watching this (video chat), I want to go grab a guy and talk to him. And I get up and I go, ‘I’m not going to grab ...
The renewal of the series with bitter border rival Missouri highlights the 2020-21 slate of nonconference games for the Kansas men’s basketball program.
The full nonconference schedule, released Wednesday afternoon, features the usual mix of games against some of the nation’s top programs and promises to keep KU positioned near the top of the strength of schedule rankings.
“Once again we will have one ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program’s [nonconference schedule was released Wednesday][1] and, as usual, it was packed with notable names and high-profile games.
While that has become rather common around the program since head coach Bill Self's arrival in Lawrence 17 years ago, it has resulted in KU routinely playing one of the toughest schedules in the nation year in and year out.
Whether all of the ...
