During the past two seasons, the Kansas men’s basketball program and its adoring fan base witnessed two of the best individual seasons ever turned in by KU guards. In 2016-17, Frank Mason III rumbled his way to consensus national player of the year honors and became the first player in Big 12 history to average 20 points and five assists in a single season. Asked to walk in those dinosaur-sized footprints, ...
[According to a report from Yahoo! Sports,][1] former KU center Joel Embiid on Wednesday is poised to finalize a lucrative endorsement deal with Under Armour. The No. 3 overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, who missed his first two professional seasons because of injury, has been a rising star — both on and off the court — during recent years. His play has put him the conversation as one of the top centers ...
One look at his 5-foot-11, 180-pound frame is all it takes to determine that Kansas sophomore Charlie Moore is a serious contender to fill the shoes vacated by Frank Mason III and Devonte’ Graham as the KU point guard. But don’t let the Cal transfer’s size lock you in to thinking that point guard is the only position Moore can play. “The thing about Charlie that people might not understand is people ...
One class of 2019 prospect was in Lawrence on an official visit. Another top KU target opened up about his recruitment at a USA Basketball event in Colorado Springs. And yet another hinted about making a commitment this fall instead of waiting until the spring. It was that kind of weekend on the action-packed recruiting trail for the Kansas men’s basketball program, which welcomed four-star Minnesota forward ...
Sunday’s straight-set victory, 6-3, 6-2, over No. 17 Stanford in the championship doubles match of the Riviera ITA Women’s All-American Championships capped a wild week of five victories in four days for KU seniors Nina Khmelnitckaia and Janet Koch. It also sent the two home from Pacific Palisades, Calif., as the first-ever KU champions of a tournament that KU coach Todd Chapman calls “the toughest ...
For seven days in September, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self watched a cast of newcomers and returning players run through everything boot camp had to offer without blinking. That, Self will tell you, is rare. Most years, there’s at least some kind of hiccup or adversity that adds to the challenge of what already is a tough and trying couple of weeks for the Jayhawks. But this year, according to Self ...