Stillwater, Okla. — Following Saturday’s wild, come-from-behind 72-67 win over Oklahoma State at Gallagher-Iba Arena, Mitch Lightfoot’s eyes lit up with that “You must be crazy” look when asked if he and the Jayhawks planned to watch Big 12 basketball the rest of the day. “Oh yeah, we’ll watch them for sure,” said Lightfoot of Saturday games between Baylor-Kansas State and TCU-Texas Tech that ...
Everything you need to know about Mitch Lightfoot’s monster night that fueled Monday’s 64-49 Kansas victory over Kansas State at Allen Fieldhouse first surfaced weeks ago, long after the old building had emptied out and far away from any television cameras or reporters’ microphones. For a few weeks in January, following one single-digit minute outing after the next, Lightfoot spent the moments ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team’s hope of extending its streak of 14 consecutive Big 12 titles to 15 in the next couple of weeks is alive and well. And it’s all because of a man named Mitch Lightfoot. Monday night, during one of the biggest late-season conference games the Jayhawks have played during the 14-plus years of the streak, a 4-minute stretch from one of the Jayhawks’ most experienced players ...
It begins, in its infant stages, each summer, when the new freshmen basketball players first report to KU for summer workouts. And it gains steam each day, week, month and year from there. They’ve attached a slogan to it — no pressure, no diamonds — and its intensity hits everyone from the seldom-used, four- and five-year program guys to the 5-star, one-and-done types. No matter how talented a Kansas ...
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Lubbock, Texas — It took Kansas sophomore Marcus Garrett just eight seconds to get back into the scoring column following a five-game absence because of a high ankle sprain. Garrett, who checked into Saturday’s 91-62 loss at Texas Tech at the 14:49 mark of the first half, scored on the Jayhawks’ first possession, coming free underneath after some confusion by the Texas Tech defense left him wide open for ...