Although things did not go well for his team on the floor during Saturday’s 72-58 loss to No. 2 Kansas, Colorado coach Tad Boyle’s return to his alma mater was still something to remember. “Having spent four of my formative years at KU, playing in Allen Fieldhouse, it is special, there’s no doubt,” Boyle said of his third trip (0-3) to Lawrence as CU’s head coach. “And what makes it special is the ...
Saturday’s opponent might have entered Allen Fieldhouse representing a new conference and with a shiny Top 25 ranking next to its name. But, in many ways, it was still the same old result between Kansas and Colorado. Facing the second-ranked Jayhawks on their home floor for just the second time since leaving the Big 12 Conference for the Pac-12 in 2011, No. 20 Colorado was overwhelmed by the size, speed, ...
When Kansas coach Bill Self and Colorado coach Tad Boyle locked horns as players with the Jayhawks and Oklahoma State Cowboys in the early 1980s, the two guards were a natural matchup. “I was the only guy he could guard,” Boyle joked during a Thursday phone interview with the Journal-World from his office in Boulder, Colo. “And he was the only guy I could guard.” Put another way by Self: “Tad and I ...
Although there were signs of life in a couple of games leading up to Maui, Kansas junior Silvio De Sousa found himself back on the bench, struggling with confidence during the Jayhawks’ most recent games. De Sousa, who played a combined 32 minutes in the two KU victories leading up to last week’s Maui Invitational, played exactly half that many minutes in the Jayhawks’ three victories in Maui. Eleven ...
Before the 2019 Kansas football season began, I took a stab at a couple of different viewpoints on what was to come. The first belonged to the optimist and was a look ahead at KU’s first season under Les Miles from the perspective of those who believed there were plenty of reasons to be hopeful. The second belonged to the pessimist and was just the opposite. Now that the run is over and Miles and the ...
In the moments following KU’s Maui Invitational title game victory over Dayton, Kansas coach Bill Self mentioned that the 1-2 punch of Devon Dotson and Udoka Azubuike may be the best the program has had in a while. Whether that’s true or not is largely a matter of opinion and also depends on your definition of a 1-2 punch. For instance, Devonte’ Graham and Frank Mason were a heck of a 1-2 punch for ...