With the exhibition schedule tipping off next week and the regular season opener right around the corner, it’s time to dive into our “He Will, He Won’t, He Might” feature here at KUsports.com. Each season, for the past few years at least, I’ve throw together a quick look at each Kansas player and attempted to predict one thing he will do during the upcoming season, one thing he won’t do and one ...
If someone is going to end the Kansas men’s basketball team’s streak of consecutive Big 12 regular season titles at 14, they’re going to have to go through the conference’s preseason newcomer and freshman of the year to do it. That much was learned Wednesday morning, when the Big 12 released its all-conference preseason picks, as voted on by the Big 12’s coaches. Kansas forward Dedric Lawson, the ...
With closing arguments in the college basketball corruption trial slated for today and things landing in the hands of a jury later this week, it’s time to start sorting out what we know — and a lot of what we don’t know — in the wake of the past few weeks. The main questions are obvious and seem relevant to everyone associated with college basketball. **1. What is the NCAA going to do with the ...
He has yet to play an actual minute for the Kansas basketball program and no one knows whether he'll even start or just how significant his role will be. But the outlook inside the Kansas basketball offices is that freshman point guard has a chance to be a heck of a player. And on Monday, at least one national watch list took notice. Kansas freshman Devon Dotson on Monday became one of 20 collegiate players ...
There's been talk, from some college basketball coaches during the offseason and preseason, that Kansas guard Quentin Grimes could be the most talented all-around player in the country during the 2018-19 season. It remains to be seen if Grimes, a five-star freshman from The Woodlands, Texas, lives up to that kind of hype or even comes close to reaching that level. But the folks at the Jerry West Award ...
A lot has been said this offseason about the enormous potential possessed by Kansas junior Dedric Lawson, a 6-foot-9, multitalented transfer forward from Memphis who sat out last season and is eligible to play again when the games begin next month. From the double-double he averaged during his last season at Memphis to his size, passing ability, silky smooth prowess as a scorer and all things yet unseen, the ...