After four days of basketball-centric time in New York City last week, the Kansas men’s basketball team celebrated its NIT Season Tip-Off title with a little fun in the Big Apple. From the top of the Freedom Tower’s One World Observatory to the heart of Times Square, the Jayhawks soaked up a little life in the big city before returning home on Sunday afternoon. “First of all, it’s great to come to the ...
New York — Their pick-and-roll might not have been as vicious at 3 feet tall as it is today at 6-foot-9 and 6-foot-7. But Dedric and K.J. Lawson sure are glad to be back out on the court together making plays for their team. “That’s been our game our whole life,” Dedric said after he and his brother combined for 32 points and 19 rebounds in KU’s 87-81, overtime win over Tennessee on Friday night at ...
New York — It’s a top 5 showdown on Black Friday for the NIT Season Tip-Off title at Barclays Center. And Kansas coach Bill Self believes the game could be more important for his second-ranked Jayhawks than it is for No. 5 Tennessee. The reason? It has nothing to do with future seeding, fancy trophies or feel-good victories. Although the Jayhawks (4-0) would take a win in any of those categories, as ...
A little more than nine hours before No. 2 Kansas and No. 5 Tennessee got to work in the title game of the NIT Season Tip-Off at Barclays Center, the Jayhawks got a bit of bad news from the recruiting trail when four-star power forward Zeke Nnaji announced his commitment to Arizona. Nnaji, a 6-foot-10, 215-pound prospect from Hopkins High outside of Minneapolis, announced the news in the Hopkins gymnasium ...
Brooklyn, N.Y. — Kansas basketball coach Bill Self revealed before Friday’s game with No. 5 Tennessee that sophomore forward Marcus Garrett would not play because of what KU officials called, “concussion-like symptoms.” Garrett, who started the second half of KU’s win over Marquette on Wednesday in the NIT Season Tip-Off semifinals, was hit in the head late in the win over the Golden ...
Brooklyn, N.Y. — Kansas freshman Devon Dotson may not quite be worthy of mention in the same breath as former KU stars Frank Mason III and Devonte’ Graham just yet. But he’s gaining on it. And one of the big reasons he is stems from the fact that Dotson already appears to have learned a valuable lesson that served both Mason and Graham extremely well during the past couple of seasons — get the ball to ...