A source with knowledge of Issac "Mackey" McBride's recruiting plans told KUsports.com on Monday afternoon that the four-star prospect from Little Rock, Ark., will make an announcement regarding his college choice at 5 p.m. Monday. McBride, a 6-foot, 180-pound, rising guard who exploded onto the recruiting scene with a strong summer, is ranked No. 109 in the 2019 class by Rivals.com. He has a final three of ...
Late Night strikes again. The Kansas men’s basketball team on Monday picked up its second commitment from the Class of 2019, when Issac “Mackey” McBride announced just after 5 p.m. he would join the Jayhawks. McBride, a four-star point guard from Little Rock, Ark., chose Kansas over finalists Auburn and Virginia and did so on the heels of a thrilling weekend visit to KU for Late Night in the ...
The official Late Night box score featured just two free-throw attempts. And only one of them was actually shot. But, boy, were those two free-throw tallies pretty notable. The reason? They came from Kansas center Udoka Azubuike, who misfired on his only free-throw attempt and was given credit for a make on the other in order to keep the flow of the 20-minute scrimmage going. Despite the miss and the ...
Late Night is not the place to make concrete judgements or outrageous claims about the basketball portion of the evening. Take, for instance, the Late Night performance of former Jayhawk Carlton Bragg Jr., in 2016. In 18 minutes of that scrimmage — a 48-all tie — Bragg stole the show, offensively, by knocking in 8 of 11 shots and dropping 18 points in 17 minutes. KU coach Bill Self — seemingly always ...
The first wave started trickling in late Thursday night and they will continue to make their way to town throughout the day Friday. It might not be signing day — or even a signing period — but in the world of college basketball recruiting, today is about as big as it gets for the Kansas men’s basketball program. A dozen or so prospects from the next three recruiting classes will be at Late Night ...
Let the record show that the first basket of the Late Night scrimmage on a team loaded with McDonald’s All-Americans and high-profile players came from a freshman guard, who, until April, was not even ranked in the Top 150 by Rivals.com. Oh, and sophomore K.J. Lawson, who led all 15 Jayhawks who played with 11 points on 4-of-6 shooting, was not even one of the first 10 players on the floor. “The reason he ...