[Tuesday night’s 92-87 Kansas victory over Michigan State at the Champions Classic][1] in Indianapolis evened KU coach Bill Self’s career record against MSU coach Tom Izzo at 7-7. But there’s so much more to Self’s latest accomplishment than just moving his win total vs. Izzo from six to seven. Self now has winning streaks alive and well against four of the five other active college basketball ...
The Bankers Life Fieldhouse public address announcer, who routinely referred to Kansas junior Udoka Azubuike as “Udoka Azu-boo-koo” throughout the first half of [KU’s 92-87 victory over No. 10 Michigan State,][1] was not the only one who elected to call the KU big man by a name other than his own on Tuesday night. Michigan State coach Tom Izzo also joined in the fun. Asked after the loss to the ...
Indianapolis – Kansas freshman Devon Dotson had a simple way of explaining how he and fellow freshman Quentin Grimes exploded onto the college basketball scene during Tuesday’s 92-87 victory by top-ranked Kansas over No. 10 Michigan State at the Champions Classic in Bankers Life Fieldhouse. “I mean, it’s winning time,” Dotson said with a sly grin. That it was, and few players contributed to KU’s ...
Indianapolis — It took until a Big 12 Conference game after the first of the year last season for Kansas coach Bill Self to be faced with the kind of dilemma he saw in Game 1 of the 2018-19 season on Tuesday night. With No. 1 Kansas clinging to a single-digit lead that was dwindling against No. 10 Michigan State in the Champions Classic at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, the Spartans purposely started fouling Kansas ...
Kansas freshman Ochai Agbaji’s first taste of the Champions Classic will have to wait a year. In fact, it looks like it will be another 12 months before Agbaji actually suits up for the Jayhawks. Kansas coach Bill Self on Monday afternoon told the Journal-World that the freshman guard will redshirt the 2018-19 season. Agbaji, a 6-foot-5, 210-pound athlete from Oak Park High in Kansas City, Mo., signed with ...
Indianapolis — To this point in his college career, the biggest stage on which Kansas junior Dedric Lawson has found himself playing came during his freshman season at Memphis, when the Tigers faced UConn in the championship game of the American Athletic Conference tournament. Well, that or Late Night, of course. That all figures to change Tuesday night, when fans of four of the biggest programs in college ...