If injured junior Udoka Azubuike returns to action on Saturday, when the fifth-ranked Kansas basketball team hosts Eastern Michigan to close out the calendar year, he won’t be playing at 100 percent. KU coach Bill Self said on Thursday — during a break in the holiday kids clinic that attracted more than 500 young hoopers — that Azubuike was still recovering from the right ankle sprain that cost him most ...
For the second offseason in a row, after singing the praises of former KU transfer Malik Newman a year earlier, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self spent a fair amount of time talking up Memphis transfer Dedric Lawson in the months leading up to the 2018-19 season. So far, Lawson sure is making his head coach look like a genius for it. “I knew he would be good,” Self said Thursday. “I probably didn’t ...
The holiday break for Kansas basketball brings the perfect opportunity to take a closer look at the resume the Jayhawks have built through the first 11 games of the 2018-19 season. No, we’re not talking Bracketology yet, although the Jayhawks were pegged as a No. 1 seed in Joe Lundardi’s most recent Bracketology update, where they’re slated to face the winner of the play-in game between No. 16 seeds ...
With the fifth-ranked Kansas men’s basketball team now less than a week away from the actual start of its run toward a 15th consecutive Big 12 title, the conference’s list of true challengers has basically been divided right down the middle. Four teams look like real threats, four teams are currently struggling and one team — Kansas State — is split down the middle as a sort of unknown because of an ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self has not been shy about his criticism of his team’s post defense throughout the nonconference portion of KU’s 2018-19 season. What once was thought to be a strength of this Kansas team — an abundance of big bodies in the front court — has disappeared and left the fifth-ranked Jayhawks a little lighter than they expected to be in the post. With sophomore forward Silvio ...
When Devonte’ Graham walked off the floor at the 2018 Final Four for the last time, Kansas coach Bill Self knew in that moment — even if he wasn’t thinking about it at the time — that he would have to rely on somebody new to handle point guard duties for the Jayhawks during the 2018-19 season. What Self did not know then, however, was that, in such a short amount of time, he would develop such a ...