The Kansas men’s basketball team enters the final week of the 2019-20 regular season as the unanimous No. 1 team in college basketball. One week after sharing first-place votes with Baylor in the Associated Press Top 25 poll (62-2), the Jayhawks picked up all 64 votes for the No. 1 spot in this week’s poll and Baylor fell from No. 2 to No. 4 following a weekend loss to TCU. Gonzaga moved into the No. 2 ...
Kansas point guard Devon Dotson on Monday was announced as one of five finalists for the Bob Cousy Award, given annually to college basketball’s best point guard. Dotson, who leads the Big 12 in scoring at 18.2 points per game, is joined on the list of finalists by Duke’s Tre Jones, Oregon’s Payton Pritchard, Marquette’s Markus Howard and San Diego State’s Malachi Flynn. “The point guards on this ...
Udoka Azubuike’s status for the final home game of his college career is in jeopardy, Kansas coach Bill Self said Sunday. Azubuike, who rolled his right ankle during Saturday’s 62-58 victory over Kansas State in Manhattan is listed as “questionable” for the top-ranked Jayhawks’ home finale against TCU on Wednesday night at Allen Fieldhouse. “Hopefully he’ll be able to play Wednesday,” Self ...
Add Christian Braun’s name to the list of native Kansans who have made their mark on the Sunflower Showdown. Facing the Wildcats for just the second time in his career, the freshman from Burlington put up modest numbers while making a major impact in top-ranked Kansas’ 62-58 road win over Kansas State. “I thought Christian played great,” KU coach Bill Self said Saturday. “Christian was real ...
Manhattan — Kansas coach Bill Self said Saturday that he expected senior center Udoka Azubuike to be “fine” following an ankle injury during Saturday’s 62-58 win over Kansas State at Bramlage Coliseum. “The way he laid on the ground initially, amputation may have been a viable course of action,” Self said after top-ranked KU’s 26th victory of the season. “But he came back, and we probably ...
Manhattan — There was no ugly ending this time between top-ranked Kansas and Kansas State, just an ugly game that came before it. In Saturday’s rematch of a Kansas win in January in Lawrence that ended with a brawl between the two Sunflower State rivals, poor offensive performances underscored KU’s 62-58 victory. But the Jayhawks made enough plays on both ends in the final five minutes to survive a scare ...