Fully focused on making his return to the court with the Kansas Jayhawks next season, KU junior Silvio De Sousa made a quick trip to New York City this week. The reason? To be there when his close friend and fellow countryman Bruno Fernando was drafted during Thursday night’s NBA Draft. The moment came early in the second round when the Philadelphia 76ers — yep, Joel Embiid’s squad; Kansas ties ...
Eudora — It’s become a bit of annual summer ritual for former Kansas guard Ben McLemore to return to Lawrence and put on a show at the Rock Chalk Roundball Classic. This time, however, McLemore had company. Although McLemore led all scorers with a whopping 42 points, it was former KU point guard Frank Mason III’s Crimson team that pulled out a 127-124 victory on Thursday night in front of a packed house ...
Eudora — The 50-plus former Kansas basketball players on hand might have carried the biggest names, but there was little doubt about to whom Thursday night belonged. That was the Starting Five at the 11th annual Rock Chalk Roundball Classic, a basketball fundraiser extravaganza put on by Brian Hanni to benefit five local families battling pediatric cancer. Shortly after all of the players and coaches were ...
NCAA rules prohibit college basketball coaches from watching their teams’ organized scrimmages in the summer, which was probably both good news and bad news for KU coach Bill Self this summer. Self left after introducing the players and interacting with the young campers, but no doubt if he’d stayed he would have seen a few things he loved and a few things he hated during Tuesday's first-team-to-80-wins ...
On the eve of draft night, former Kansas forward Dedric Lawson found himself in exactly the same position he had been in for the past several months. Projected as a possible late second-round pick in Thursday’s draft, — 6 p.m. on ESPN — Lawson and fellow-former Jayhawk Lagerald Vick are the only two recent KU players eligible for the 2019 NBA Draft and both are hoping to hear their names called at the ...
After an entire season of hearing how sped up he was on the floor, Kansas big man David McCormack has figured out how to slow down. Good thing, too, because McCormack now admits that all of the focus on his biggest freshman flaw got a little old. True to his personality and humble nature, though, the KU big man never viewed the criticism as a negative. “It was repetitive,” McCormack said with a laugh ...