It’s far from a given and might not amount to anything, but the recruitment of Class of 2020 guard R.J. Hampton is a shining example of how things are never as bad as they might seem in recruiting because angles always exist and coaches never stop working. With the start of the spring signing period now one week away and the Kansas men’s basketball program sitting with just two players signed in its 2019 ...
Dubbed a one-and-done player and potential lottery pick when he signed with Kansas in November of 2017, freshman guard Quentin Grimes made that fate official on Wednesday, when he announced on Twitter that he was declaring for the 2019 NBA Draft. In a post that thanked his parents, the Kansas coaches, KU’s managers, academic advisors and training staff and, of course, the Jayhawk fans “for always bringing ...
http://www2.kusports.com/photos/2019/mar/21/329055/ Virginia’s thrilling, overtime victory over Texas Tech in Monday night’s national championship game officially brought the curtain down on another season of college basketball. I’m not sure we’ll ever get tired of telling the stories of the remarkable journey from first 1 seed to lose to a 16 one year and national champion the next, nor will we ever ...
Late in the Big 12 Conference basketball season, Kansas coach Bill Self provided an update on junior center Udoka Azubuike, who missed all but nine games of the 2018-19 season with a hand/wrist injury. In it, sometime in early March, Self explained that Azubuike still had a screw in his injured hand, was limited in the weight room, was forced to wear a cast for precautionary reasons and had not participated in ...
The list of available scholarships for Bill Self and the Kansas men’s basketball program grew to three on Monday morning, when KU junior Dedric Lawson officially announced his intention to declare for the NBA Draft. Lawson, a junior from Memphis who averaged 19 points and 10 rebounds while recording 22 double-doubles during his lone season with the Jayhawks, announced the move on Twitter, saying he had ...
The end, for Dedric Lawson, came sooner than he would have liked, but losing in the second round of the 2019 NCAA Tournament instead of leading the Jayhawks to a national title did nothing to take away from Lawson’s experience at Kansas. “KU was definitely the best experience I had in my collegiate career,” Lawson told the Journal-World during a Monday afternoon phone call from Los Angeles about five ...