For a coaching staff that features four assistants who have spent time at more than a dozen different Division I basketball programs, veteran KU assistant Norm Roberts’ memories of his first experience with KU’s Late Night in the Phog sure stand out. “I’m blown away by it every year,” said Roberts in a recent interview with the Journal-World. “But my first year, I just remember I kept saying, ‘Is ...
**Kansas City, Mo. —** With recruits flying in from all corners of the country for their weekend visits with the Kansas basketball program, KU coach Bill Self was at the Grand Ballroom at Bartle Hall on Thursday night to partake in the 11th annual Coaches vs. Cancer Season Tipoff reception. Self, who has long been a supporter of this cause and others like it, said he was happy to get a break from the early ...
While the featured recruiting event of the week arrives Friday, when the Kansas basketball program tips off the 34th annual Late Night in the Phog at Allen Fieldhouse and welcomes a dozen or so important recruits to town for the event, KU coach Bill Self was on the road recruiting on Tuesday. Self and KU assistant Jerrance Howard on Tuesday made a quick jaunt south to Little Elm, Texas, to visit Class of 2020 ...
Already mentioned as a potential Big 12 player of the year by his own coach and discussed as an almost-certain all-Big 12 first teamer before even having played a minute, the hype and expectations for Kansas junior Dedric Lawson have now reached All-American levels. Rob Dauster, of NBCsports.com, released his preseason All-American teams this morning. And guess who landed firmly on the first team? You got ...
The secret behind the Mitch Lightfoot locker room photo that surfaced following Tuesday’s final day of Kansas basketball boot camp has been revealed. Yes, Lightfoot, a junior who is preparing for his third Late Night on Friday, has gotten bigger — and at the same time leaner — through months of hard work and dedication in the weight room. Talking with reporters on Wednesday, Lightfoot said he’s up ...
You might have felt it sometime around mid- to late-afternoon on Wednesday. Something was different. Something was buzzing. Something was real. And it’s something that so many of you have been waiting months for, even counting down to ever since the 2017-18 Kansas basketball season ended at the Final Four in San Antonio. Yes, Wednesday marked the first official practice of the 2018-19 KU basketball ...