Four months into his new role as the head football coach at Baker University, Jason Thoren is exactly where he believes he belongs. Sliding into the head coach’s office to replace former Baker coach Mike Grossner, Thoren acknowledges that there are a few differences about his new job and the one he did under Grossner for the past 15 years. But it’s still the same game. Coaching football is coaching ...
Former Kansas guard Quentin Grimes has found a new home. The one-time 5-star prospect who started all 36 games for the Jayhawks during his freshman season in 2018-19 announced on Twitter Thursday that he was transferring to the University of Houston to continue his playing career. The UH campus is roughly an hour away from Grimes’ home in The Woodlands, Texas. Grimes, who declared for the 2019 NBA draft ...
Now that the Kansas men’s basketball program has figured out a way to fill up its 2019 recruiting class, the KU coaches can spend their time focusing on what comes next. Although the big-picture answer to that question remains up in the air, the more immediate focus is clear. And it started Thursday, when Kansas welcomed Class of 2020 guard Bryce Thompson to town for an unofficial visit. Thompson, a 5-star ...
Within minutes of suffering a season-ending loss to Auburn in this year’s NCAA Tournament, then-Kansas freshman Ochai Agbaji immediately began looking forward. “This is going to be in my back pocket and my last few performances are going to be in my back pocket, too, how I kind of disappeared late in the season,” Agbaji said in the Kansas locker room in Salt Lake City, still allowing the loss to sink in. ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program on Thursday afternoon announced Friday, Oct. 4 as the date for this year’s Late Night in the Phog at Allen Fieldhouse. This year’s event will be the 35th annual Late Night extravaganza that annually kicks off another season of Kansas basketball. As usual, Late Night in the Phog will feature music by the KU pep band, routines from KU’s spirit squad and dance teams, ...
Former Kansas guard Lagerald Vick is getting his shot in the NBA. Vick, who had an up-and-down, four-year career at KU, both on and off the court, has agreed to join the Houston Rockets’ Summer League squad, according to a report from Ian Begley, who covers the Knicks, Nets and NBA for SNY TV in New York. Undrafted in last week’s draft, Vick, who graduated from KU in May, earned the opportunity with the ...