Morgantown, W.Va. — Just after Wednesday’s 58-49 KU victory over West Virginia, Kansas coach Bill Self announced that freshman Jalen Wilson would sit out the remainder of the 2019-20 season. “He’s officially going to redshirt,” Self said of the 6-foot-8, 210-pound forward from Denton, Texas. “We talked about that (Tuesday). He’s still not healthy.” There had been some hope that Wilson would be ...
Morgantown, W.Va. — After years of experiencing late-game collapses in gruesome battles at WVU Coliseum, the Kansas men’s basketball team now knows how it feels to turn the other direction on those “country roads” for which West Virginia is famous. There still were plenty of gruesome moments in the Jayhawks’ 58-49 victory Wednesday night. But none of them came at the end, when third-ranked Kansas ...
No. 3 Kansas Jayhawks (20-3 overall, 9-1 Big 12) vs. No. 14 West Virginia Mountaineers (18-5 overall, 6-4 Big 12) Time: 6 p.m. | Location: WVU Coliseum, Morgantown, W.Va. TV: Big 12 Now/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 & @ByBradenShaw Keys for ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program on Monday announced plans to retire the jersey of former KU standout Marcus Morris during a ceremony on Feb. 17 when Kansas plays Iowa State at Allen Fieldhouse. In doing so, the Jayhawks, for the first time in history, will essentially be honoring two players with one jersey. “We knew when Marcus left school in 2011 that his jersey would be retired,” KU head coach ...
The top two teams in the Big 12 Conference held onto their spots at the top of the Associated Press men’s college basketball poll this week, with Baylor remaining No. 1 and Kansas sticking at No. 3. Gonzaga also stayed put at No. 2, marking the fourth week in a row that the top three in the AP Top 25 remained unchanged. Kansas held onto its spot with wins over Texas and TCU last week. The Jayhawks used a ...
Fort Worth, Texas — Having been a part of the last 469 victories in what is now a 700-win career for Bill Self, Kansas assistant Kurtis Townsend could only smile for his boss following the Jayhawks’ 60-46 win over TCU on Saturday. “To me, it means a lot just to be by his side for as many as I have,” Townsend told the Journal-World following Self’s 700th win on Saturday. “A guy like me, (I’m) just ...