Kansas basketball coach Bill Self has talked often already this conference season about the razor-thin margin between teams in the Big 12 winning games and teams in the Big 12 losing them. On Tuesday night, Self and the 2nd-ranked Jayhawks wound up on the right side of the blade, unleashing a wild comeback in the final five minutes to top Oklahoma, 79-75 at Allen Fieldhouse. After trailing 71-61 with around ...
Already celebrated with a spot in the Hall of Fame and a whole bunch of college basketball victories, Kansas coach Bill Self has spent the past few seasons showing a willingness to adjust that wasn’t always there. A few recent KU teams have shot more 3-pointers than teams in the past and others have used four-guard lineups more than ever before. But none of those have been the poster child for Self’s ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team moved into the No. 2 spot and received 22 first-place votes in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 poll, released Monday. Kansas (14-1 overall, 3-0 Big 12) trailed No. 1 Houston in the voting by just 17 points, and the Cougars (16-1) picked up 34 first-place votes. Purdue, which had been the nation’s No. 1 team before a loss to Rutgers last week, came in third and ...
Morgantown, W.V. — Wins on the road in the Big 12 Conference are precious and the 3rd-ranked Kansas men’s basketball team already has two of them this season. In two tries, no less. KU’s dominance over West Virginia in Saturday’s 76-62 win at WVU Coliseum, which followed a dog-fight victory at Texas Tech four days earlier, moved the Jayhawks to 3-0 in Big 12 play, which puts them in a three-way tie ...
Morgantown, W.V. — With a little more than five seconds to play in the first half of Saturday’s 76-62 Kansas victory at West Virginia, the WVU Mountaineer mascot fired the famed musket while play was still live. The moment — call it a Mountaineer misfire — was the perfect way to sum up Saturday’s game, which featured all kinds of West Virginia miscues and missed shots and No. 3 Kansas taking ...
Saturday’s 4 p.m. tipoff between the Kansas women’s basketball team and perennial powerhouse Baylor will mark the first game between ranked women’s teams at Allen Fieldhouse in 10 years. Coincidentally, the last time it happened featured top-ranked Baylor and No. 17 Kansas on Jan. 13, 2013. The Bears won that won in a rout, 82-60, behind 33 points and seven rebounds from Britney Griner. There is no ...