[Sidelined for last Friday's showdown with No. 5 Tennessee in the title game of the NIT Season Tip-Off in Brooklyn, N.Y.,][1] Kansas sophomore Marcus Garrett is on his way back. But he’s not there yet. Speaking to a live audience during Tuesday’s “Hawk Talk” radio show at Johnny's West in Lawrence, KU coach Bill Self provided an update on Garrett’s status after the Dallas native was held out of ...
Looking for a Monday morning jolt to shake them out of their Thanksgiving food hangovers and the start to another full work week, Kansas Basketball fans may well have started counting down the minutes and hours until the newest AP poll gets released. That will come in a couple of hours and we’ll know then whether two Top 10 victories in their first five games will return KU to the No. 1 ranking or if yet ...
For the second time during this young college basketball season, the Kansas men’s basketball program was jumped in the Associated Press poll without losing. This time, however, the Jayhawks (5-0) did not fall, rather they stayed in the same spot they were in a week ago, despite No. 1 Duke losing. Kansas, which won the NIT Season Tip-Off in Brooklyn last week, stayed at No. 2 in the AP Top 25 but watched ...
The Kansas men's basketball team may have held on to the No. 2 spot in this week’s Associated Press poll, voted on by various media members who cover college basketball, but the Jayhawks could not crack the Top 10 in the first ever NET Rankings, released Monday by the NCAA. New to college basketball this year as a replacement for the RPI system that long has shaped the way teams are added to the postseason ...
After posting a pair of double-doubles in New York last week, Kansas junior Dedric Lawson earned Big 12 player of the week honors for the second time this season, the Big 12 announced Monday. Lawson, who also received the honor back in Week 1 after recording a double-double in KU’s season-opening victory over Michigan State at the Champions Classic, averaged 25 points and 12.5 rebounds during KU’s NIT ...
It’s hard to believe that just a week ago we were all digesting the news that Les Miles was the new Kansas football coach. Now, after the season football finale against Texas and an impressive week of basketball in the Big Apple, the whole idea that Miles is KU’s football coach seems to be commonly accepted and embraced both here in Lawrence and across the country. Crazy how fast things can change. ...