WRITER: Matt Tait

Game day: No. 5 Kansas basketball vs. No. 23 Oklahoma

No. 5 Kansas Jayhawks (11-1) vs. No. 23 Oklahoma Sooners (11-1) Time: 8 p.m. | Location: Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence, Kansas TV: ESPN2 | 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 @mctait @bentonasmith & ...

Notebook: Jayhawks begin quest for 15th straight Big 12 title with win over Sooners

With Wednesday’s 70-63 victory at Allen Fieldhouse, the games are underway and the race is on, as No. 5 Kansas — and three other Big 12 teams that won on Wednesday night — took an early lead in the chase for the 2019 Big 12 Conference crown. While 17 games and a ton of grinding remains in the weeks ahead, KU coach Bill Self recently was asked what he thought it would take to win the Big 12 this ...

No. 5 Kansas overcomes slow starts in both halves to take down No. 23 Oklahoma

Say this for the fifth-ranked Kansas men’s basketball team: It sure does know how to make things hard on itself. The latest example of this reality, call it unnecessary complexity, came Wednesday night at Allen Fieldhouse, where the Jayhawks struggled through sleepy starts to both halves, but still held off No. 23 Oklahoma, 70-63, in the Big 12 opener for both teams. If you were to judge this one by the ...

The 10 most-talked-about KU basketball games of 2018

The past 12 months provided no shortage of memorable and exciting games throughout the University of Kansas sports calendar. From high-stakes postseason affairs to epic regular season showdowns, the Kansas basketball team was involved in a bunch of games during 2018 that will be talked about for years. Before the Jayhawks get going with another round of memories in 2019 — fifth-ranked Kansas opens Big ...

Kansas point guard Devon Dotson named Big 12 newcomer of the week

KU point guard Devon Dotson on Monday earned Big 12 Newcomer of the Week honors for his role in the Jayhawks’ runaway win over Eastern Michigan last Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse. Dotson, who has started all 12 KU games this season and is averaging 31.5 minutes per game, was 5-of-7 shooting with four assists, three steals, one blocked shot and three rebounds in the 87-63 in over the Eagles. The Charlotte ...

Individual honors, postseason success highlight Top 10 KU sports stories of 2018

Another year has come and gone for Kansas athletics and, like so many years before it, 2018 offered a wide range of good moments and bad ones, memorable names and faces, and a few accomplishments that will live in KU’s history books forever. When reflecting back on the past 12 months of happenings for the Jayhawks, it’s mostly highlights that come to mind. And the following list provides a quick glimpse ...