Washburn basketball coach Brett Ballard has known about Thursday’s exhibition clash with his alma mater for about 18 months, but he and his former boss have hardly talked about it. “We banter and talk about a lot of different stuff, but this hasn’t come up much,” said Ballard, the former KU walk-on who also worked on KU coach Bill Self’s staff for seven years after graduating in 2003. “To be ...
Kansas Jayhawks (0-0) vs. Washburn Ichabods (0-0) Time: 7 p.m. | Location: Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence, Kansas TV: Jayhawk TV/ESPN+ | Radio: IMG Jayhawk Radio Network Log on to KUsports.com for our live game blog coverage and follow the KUsports.com staff on Twitter: @KUSports @mctait @TomKeeganLJW @bentonasmith & @SJacksonLJW Keys for Kansas 1. Take care of the basketball In their season debut, the ...
Time for another freshman edition of He Will, He Won’t, He Might 2018 and this time we’re looking at high-profile newcomer Quentin Grimes. Grimes, the top-rated prospect in the Jayhawks’ 2018 recruiting class who hails from The Woodlands, Texas, is one of the most versatile players on the team and the possibilities are borderline endless for the type of impact he can have this season. Need a physical ...
Tuesday afternoon, seven months after Villanova ended the Kansas basketball program’s 2017-18 season with a 95-79 victory at the Final Four in San Antonio, the Wildcats beat the Jayhawks again. Five-star prospect Jeremiah Robinson-Earl, a 6-foot-9, 235-pound power forward from IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., who played his first three years of high school basketball at nearby Bishop Miege, orally committed ...
Kansas basketball fans wondering about the status of sophomore forward Silvio De Sousa can expect to see the KU big man in street clothes again on Thursday night, when the Jayhawks welcome Washburn to Allen Fieldhouse for their second and final exhibition tune-up of the 2018-19 season. KU coach Bill Self briefly addressed De Sousa during his first Hawk Talk radio show of the season on Tuesday night, saying ...
During Thursday’s exhibition opener against Emporia State, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self went with two freshmen starters in his backcourt instead of a couple of sophomores with starting experience. While the reason behind starting Devon Dotson and Quentin Grimes had something to do with the steady play of the two highly touted guards, another factor was the way the rotation shook out behind them. ...