The Kansas men’s basketball team, for the eighth consecutive year, is the preseason pick of the Big 12 coaches to win the 2018-19 Big 12 title. The Jayhawks were a unanimous selection, receiving all nine available votes from the Big 12’s head coaches. Coaches cannot vote for their own team and Kansas coach Bill Self indicated last month at a Coaches vs. Cancer fundraiser in Kansas City, Mo., that he voted ...
After learning that he had earned a preseason all-Big 12 honorable mention nod from the league's coaches earlier this week, Kansas center Udoka Azubuike found his name as one of 20 on the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year Award watchlist, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced Friday. The Abdul-Jabbar rounds out the preseason Naismith Starting 5 awards recently released by the Hall of ...
As the 2018-19 college basketball season draws closer, prognostications, bold picks and preseason rankings start flooding the internet. Whether you’re talking about preseason rankings, player of the year candidates or any number of players or teams who could surprise this season, pretty much everything you want, and then some, is out there for folks to digest. For fans of Kansas basketball, that means ...
Yesterday we took a look at Kansas senior Lagerald Vick’s He Will, He Won’t, He Might predictions and today we’re going to move on down the seniority chart to the junior class. Mitch Lightfoot, Udoka Azubuike and Dedric Lawson are this year’s juniors, providing support for Vick in the way of both leadership and production on the floor. While Azubuike and Lawson are both likely starters and figure to ...
While the future of college basketball recruiting as we know it may be changing as a result of what comes from the three-week federal trial in New York City, the NBA’s G League on Thursday announced a move that could change things even quicker. Beginning with the 2019-20 season, the NBA’s minor league system formerly known as the D League, will offer “Select Contracts” worth $125,000 annually to a ...
Another day, another Kansas basketball player added to a preseason watchlist. One day after learning he had been named the preseason newcomer of the year by the Big 12 Conference men’s basketball coaches, KU junior Dedric Lawson found himself on a list of 20 players in the running for the Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year Award. The annual honor, now in its fifth year, recognizes the top power forward ...