Two members of the 2008 national championship team rounded out the Elijah Johnson project known as Self Made, an all-Kansas alumni team hoping to participate in this summer’s event known as The Basketball Tournament. Darrell Arthur and Darnell Jackson were announced late last week as the final former Jayhawks on the squad, bringing the roster total to nine. “I’m very excited to be a part of the 2019 TBT ...
The first two rounds and 78 picks of the 2019 Major League Baseball Draft are slated for Monday night and there’s a strong chance that a Jayhawk will be included. Junior pitcher Ryan Zeferjahn, a Topeka native and the team’s ace during the 2019 season, is projected by most draft analysts to be selected in the first two rounds of this year’s draft. If he is, Zeferjahn, a 6-foot-5, hard-throwing, ...
In many ways, June is the midpoint of the wait between Kansas basketball seasons. April and May are gone but July and August are still ahead and must be crossed off before diehard fans of the Jayhawks can even begin to get excited about the start of another KU basketball season. But that does not mean that June is devoid of KU hoops action in Lawrence. In fact, June has become one of the hottest months for ...
It’s been a big week for former Kansas basketball greats and Halls of Fame, with Nick Collison and Perry Ellis both receiving career honors in the past seven days. Last weekend was Ellis’ turn, as the former KU forward and native Kansan was inducted into the Kansas State High School Activities Association Hall of Fame during a ceremony at the state track meet in Wichita. Ellis, who hails from Wichita, ...
Ten spots are spoken for, three scholarships remain and the Kansas men’s basketball program is moving full speed ahead toward finalizing its roster for the 2019-20 season. One day after learning that star point guard Devon Dotson was returning to KU for his sophomore season and fellow freshman Quentin Grimes was transferring to continue his career elsewhere, Kansas prepared to welcome 4-star prospect Jalen ...
As if Kansas point guard Devon Dotson has not had enough to think about during the past few weeks, now the sophomore-to-be appears to be contemplating a number change. A day after announcing his decision to return to KU for Year 2 instead of opting for the uncertainty of the NBA Draft, Dotson took to Twitter and posted a poll that simply had two numbers listed — #1 and #11. Dotson, of course, wore No. 11 as ...