Stanford, Calif. — The road sure is a lot friendlier when it sounds like home. With a couple of thousand blue shirts, relentless Rock Chalk roars and even a replica “Beware of the Phog” banner filling Maples Pavilion on Sunday afternoon, fifth-ranked Kansas bounced back from last weekend’s road loss at Villanova with a convincing 72-56 victory over Stanford on the Stanford campus. With Stanford ...
Stanford, Calif. — Kansas basketball coach Bill Self entered Sunday’s 72-56 win at Stanford with one major goal in mind — don’t let last season’s road struggles carry over into the current season. After years of winning the Big 12 Conference on the strength of its road record, the Kansas men’s basketball team struggled to a 3-8 mark in true road games a season ago. And given the fact that KU ...
Stanford, Calif. — The KU men’s basketball team’s charter plane lost an engine shortly after taking off Sunday evening, forcing the flight to return to the airport in California, KU officials said. “Upon our return flight home from San Jose (International Airport), roughly 20 minutes into the flight, one of the engines failed,” KU said in a statement. “The pilot immediately contacted the San Jose ...
Kansas junior Marcus Garrett said Friday he did not think the ankle injury he suffered in KU’s loss to Villanova last Saturday would keep him out of Sunday’s game at Stanford. “It’s feeling better and, yeah, I do expect to play,” Garrett told reporters before KU’s holiday clinic at Allen Fieldhouse on Friday. Kansas coach Bill Self, who turned 57 on Friday, confirmed Garrett’s hunch a few ...
Kansas women’s basketball coach Brandon Schneider has been waiting for his roster to be made up entirely of players he recruited for five seasons. But the reason that’s so important to KU’s fifth-year coach, who last weekend won the 450th game of his coaching career (39 of them at KU), goes beyond plugging the right pieces into the right system. “Now that we’ve recruited all of them, I can coach ...
Last Saturday’s 1-point loss to Villanova in Philadelphia cost the Kansas men’s basketball team four spots in the latest Associated Press rankings. For the second time this season, the Jayhawks fell to No. 5 in the AP Top 25 following a loss. The first time came after the season opener, when Kansas dropped from third to fifth following a 2-point loss to Duke in the Champions Classic in New York. And this ...