It was billed as the day Kansas basketball coach Bill Self would go “Over the Edge” and rappel down a seven-story downtown Lawrence building for charity. Instead, the KU coach will watch staff members Kurtis Townsend and Jeremy Case scale down the 888 Lofts building in his place. The KU basketball program on Friday announced that Self’s recovery from “a minor hernia repair” would keep the KU coach ...
Frustrations from KU fans unable to see the six men’s basketball games broadcast only by Jayhawk TV during recent years are now a thing of the past. Thanks to a new agreement between KU and its media partners, which includes an expanded lineup of Spectrum Sports, Cox Cable, KMCI, MidCo Sports Network and ESPN, the blackout associated with those six early season, men’s basketball games has been ...
A couple of months ago, when KU junior Udoka Azubuike announced he would return for his junior season at Kansas instead of trying to make it in the NBA, the first thing that popped into my head was where Azubuike stood in KU’s record books in a few key areas. Granted, because he missed all but 11 games of his freshman season and also missed time during his sophomore season, Azubuike has not exactly played ...
College basketball is changing the system it uses to evaluate the strength of its teams for inclusion and seeding in the NCAA Tournament. But, according to KU administrator Larry Keating, who, for years, has been heavily involved in making the schedule for the KU men’s basketball program, the new system does not figure to have much of an impact on KU. “Overall, I think the whole concept of this new system ...
The original announcement was supposed to come three weeks ago, [but then Tre Mann reopened his recruitment.][1] Now, the four-star point guard from The Villages, Fla., is in the process of setting up official visits and Kansas remains on his list. Mann, a 6-foot-4, 170-pound point guard who had previously narrowed his choices down to a final three of Kansas, Florida and Tennessee, has put North Carolina ...
The gang’s all here and the Kansas men’s basketball team is officially ready to begin preparations for the 2018-19 season, which officially opens in just 39 days. That date — Sept. 28 — marks the arrival of Late Night in the Phog, KU’s first official practice of the season, with KU’s first exhibition game of the 2018-19 season (Oct. 25 vs. Emporia State) coming less than a month after that. ...