Already recognized as two of the top players in the Big 12 Conference, Kansas players Udoka Azubuike and Devon Dotson were honored on a national level on Tuesday. The two KU starters were among the 21 players who received votes for the Associated Press' preseason All-American team, released by the AP on Tuesday. The votes were made by the same 65-member media panel that picked Kansas as the No. 3 team in the ...
Bill Self’s Kansas basketball team will open the regular season ranked No. 3 in The Associated Press poll. The preseason poll, released Monday morning, features four of the biggest names in college basketball in the top five, with Michigan State on top, followed by Kentucky, Kansas and Duke. Louisville sits in the fifth spot, and the rest of the top 10 includes perennial winners Florida, Maryland, Gonzaga, ...
The Border War is back. Officially called The Border Showdown these days, the annual clash between longtime and bitter rivals Kansas and Missouri will return to the men’s basketball schedule beginning with the 2020-21 season. KU officials on Monday night announced the creation of a six-game series between the Jayhawks and Tigers that will begin next season and feature two games at Sprint Center in Kansas ...
Moral victories suck. By definition, they’re a cold, empty reminder that the one reason all teams suit up did not happen. But that doesn’t mean they’re totally worthless. KU’s 50-48 loss at Texas on Saturday night in Austin, Texas, was all the adjectives you could possibly imagine and then some. Maddening and exciting. Heartbreaking and gut-wrenching. Wild and crazy. Tough to swallow. ...
Earlier this week, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self said he expected senior center Udoka Azubuike to be the best big man in the country. Evidently, Self's not alone. For the second season in a row, Azubuike on Friday was named one of 20 watch list candidates for the 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year Award by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. It marked the third preseason honor ...
One day after naming Kansas center Udoka Azubuike as the top player in the Big 12 Conference, the league’s coaches pegged Azubuike’s team as the one to beat during the 2019-20 season. Kansas, which features two preseason all-Big 12 picks in Azubuike and sophomore point guard Devon Dotson, received eight of the nine available first-place votes in the coaches poll that was released Thursday morning, with ...