Manhattan — Kansas coach Bill Self has never been one to tell his players how to handle the league race. Sure, he wants them to pay attention to scouting reports and game plans and the concept of focusing on what they can control. But when it comes to off nights in their dorm rooms or study sessions with their laptops, Self doesn’t really mind if the Jayhawks focus their attention on the league standings or ...
Manhattan — It took four years for the Kansas State senior class to grab a win over in-state rival Kansas. But now that they have, the Wildcats have something much more valuable in their possession — a 2-game lead over the Jayhawks in the loss column in the Big 12 standings. That reality came to light Tuesday night inside wild and rocking Bramlage Coliseum, where the Wildcats raced out to a fast start, ...
It’s rare, on a team with a so many players who have been through the battles before, to have a freshman step up and lead them. And it’s almost unheard of for that to be the case when that freshman sat the first 15 games of the season and spent more time thinking about redshirting than contributing up to that point. But that very well might be what’s happening with this Kansas men’s basketball team. ...
For the second game in a row, and the first time on the road, Kansas sophomore Marcus Garrett is expected to be in street clothes when the 13th-ranked Jayhawks travel to Manhattan on Tuesday night to take on Kansas State. Garrett, who injured his left ankle during last Friday's afternoon practice ahead of KU's home game against Texas Tech, sat out of that one while wearing a walking boot on his left foot. ...
A bad day got worse for the Kansas men's basketball team on Friday. Around the same time that KU was learning about the NCAA's ruling that sophomore forward Silvio De Sousa had declared ineligible for the rest of 2018-19 and all of 2019-20, sophomore guard Marcus Garrett suffered ankle injury toward the end of Friday's practice. According to a report from The Athletic, Garrett was initially considered to ...
The questions lingered, doubt ran rampant and genuine concern to the point of full-fledged worrying was starting to cast its shadow on the entire Kansas basketball world. And then, the Jayhawks returned to the building they call home and calmed everyone’s biggest fears. Behind the strength of a first-half offensive onslaught that KU coach Bill Self called the best half of basketball they’ve played in a ...