Kansas basketball coach Bill Self said Thursday that he did not have “anything new to report on that at all,” when asked about the eligibility status of sophomore forward Silvio De Sousa. De Sousa, who remains sidelined at KU’s discretion pending the outcome of an NCAA investigation into his eligibility, has not played at all this season — including exhibition games — and is awaiting the results of a ...
The Kansas basketball program’s annual boot camp routinely takes place in September, shortly after the players report to campus and a new school year officially begins. But earlier this week, thanks to a lackluster effort by the second-ranked Jayhawks during a regularly scheduled Tuesday practice, a mini-boot camp broke out during an evening session scheduled at the last minute by KU coach Bill Self. “It ...
After blistering the nets by making 15 of 20 3-point shots in back-to-back home victories that resulted in new career-highs, Kansas senior Lagerald Vick opened each of KU’s games in Brooklyn, N.Y., by lighting it up from the outside as well. In the NIT Season Tip-Off semifinal against Marquette, Vick hit his first three before cooling off, temporarily pushing the astronomical figure to 18 of his last 23 ...
The list of former LSU Tigers who played for Les Miles and were drafted into the NFL is roughly as long as the number of junior college transfers the Kansas football program brought in during the past 10 years, hoping against hope that the juco route would be the elixir that cured KU’s woes. Can you imagine if Miles flips the script? OK, OK. Predicting that Miles will put a bunch of current and future ...
Last week, on his final “Les Is More” podcast with his daughter, Smacker, for The Players Tribune, new Kansas football coach Les Miles caught people’s attention with one simple sentence: “I think we will win in the first year.” Bold plans for a bold man. But while some Kansas fans — those no doubt still shaking from the joy of luring a man of Miles’ stature to town in the first place — ...
After his 21-point, 6-of-10 from 3-point-range shooting performance against Michigan State in Kansas’ season-opening victory at the Champions Classic in Indianapolis, a lot of the talk surrounding freshman Quentin Grimes’ delightful debut centered on the fact that the shooting guard played with a free mind and just let it fly. In the three weeks since that night, the Grimes glider has been grounded due to ...