Fort Worth, Texas — Very little has come easy for the 14th-ranked Kansas basketball team since Big 12 Conference play began back in early January. And that theme continued Monday night at Schollmaier Arena, where the Jayhawks and TCU Horned Frogs needed overtime to settle KU’s latest road challenge, an 82-77 win by Kansas on a wild night for both teams. The victory improved the Jayhawks to 2-6 in true road ...
Fort Worth, Texas — Vernon Turner remembers, four or five years ago, when KU sophomore Marcus Garrett, then a freshman at Skyline High in Dallas, would warm up with the Skyline freshman team and scare the dickens out of the opponent on just about every occasion. “He was dunking, doing 360s, tearing it up and nobody wanted any part of him,” Turner said before Monday’s game at TCU’s Schollmaier Arena, ...
No. 13 Kansas Jayhawks (17-6 overall, 6-4 Big 12) vs. Oklahoma State Cowboys (9-13 overall, 2-7 Big 12) Time: 11 a.m. | Location: Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence, Kansas TV: ESPN | Radio: IMG Jayhawk Radio Network Not going to be home for the game? Sign up for ESPN+ and watch your Hawks on the go. Log on to KUsports.com for our live game blog coverage and follow the KUsports.com staff on Twitter: @KUSports ...
Allen Fieldhouse is loud. Mitch Lightfoot is louder. And both with his play and an audible Ric Flair-esque scream that somehow could be heard over the roar of the Allen Fieldhouse crowd as he walked to the bench for a timeout midway through Saturday’s second half, Lightfoot helped lead No. 13 Kansas to another much-needed 84-72 victory over Oklahoma State. “He was phenomenal,” OSU coach Mike Boynton ...
Midway through the first half of Saturday’s 84-72 victory over Oklahoma State, the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee was busy revealing its early glance at where things stand today, with Selection Sunday now 5 weeks away. Entering Saturday, the 13th-ranked Jayhawks, according to the committee, were a 3 seed, on the same line as Purdue, Houston and Marquette. Committee chair Bernard Muir, of Stanford, ...
Kansas sophomore Marcus Garrett will miss his third consecutive game because of the high ankle sprain he suffered a week ago. KU coach Bill Self confirmed Garrett’s status in a meeting with reporters before Friday’s practice. “Marcus will be out tomorrow,” Self said. “So we’re going to be down, at least some men. But we’ve still got to go out and play and just step up and play better than ...