Topeka — During a question-and-answer session with a wide-eyed bunch of Washburn University basketball campers on Wednesday afternoon at Lee Arena, Kansas forward Silvio De Sousa was asked one simple question: What emoji do you use the most? De Sousa’s answer was fitting. “I like the smiley face,” the 6-foot-9 junior from Angola said with a grin. That emoji, at times, and De Sousa’s general ...
College basketball is going international. Wednesday afternoon, the NCAA’s Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved a set of proposed rule changes including moving the college 3-point line back to the international distance of 22 feet, 1.75 inches. The new distance, which replaces the old line which sat at 20 feet, 9 inches, will be effective for the 2019-20 season for all Division I programs. Because of ...
Three years ago, the first time Kansas catcher Jaxx Groshans caught hard-throwing freshman righty Ryan Zeferjahn, he was more than a little apprehensive and made sure to identify a good place to duck and cover. “Zef was the one kid I hated to catch in bullpens,” Groshans recalled recently, sharing the story of watching the KU ace drill a batting dummy in the head with the very first pitch he saw him throw. ...
According to a source close to the program, Kansas guard Garrett Luinstra is planning to transfer this offseason. Luinstra, a walk-on from Free State High who played 11 minutes in 10 games during his freshman season with the Jayhawks, has officially entered the transfer portal and will spend the next couple of weeks searching for a new school. Luinstra came to KU after averaging 19 points per game and earning ...
Kansas senior Udoka Azubuike, who missed all but nine games of the 2018-19 season because of the second significant wrist injury of his career, has been cleared to return to basketball activities. Azubuike, who suffered the injury to his right wrist during a practice just before the start of Big 12 play last December — shortly after returning from an ankle sprain that also forced him to miss a few ...
A return trip to Maui, a meeting with perennial power Duke in the Big Apple and December visits to Northern California and Philadelphia highlight the nonconference portion of the 2019-20 Kansas men’s basketball schedule. Those games, along with the rest of the nonconference schedule, which was released Monday morning, once again have Kansas set up well to face one of the toughest college basketball slates in ...