For a team that left the Battle 4 Atlantis floor bouncing and beaming with joy on Thursday night, Friday’s 64-50 loss to No. 22 Tennessee was not the encore the third-ranked Jayhawks had in mind.
And it wasn’t particularly close.
Playing without its top two point guards for most of the night, a group that Kansas coach Bill Self called “a tired team,” never led and watched the Volunteers (5-1) ...
Kansas sophomore Bobby Pettiford’s wild put-back of a deep 3-point miss with 0.2 seconds to play in overtime, helped No. 3 Kansas survive a scare from Wisconsin, 69-68 in the semifinals of the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament on Thursday.
While the rebound and scoop shot that won the game set off a celebration that featured Kansas fans chanting his name, neither Pettiford nor Kansas coach Bill Self left the gym ...
After weeks of hearing Kansas football coach Lance Leipold and his wife tell anyone who would listen that they were happy in Lawrence and planned to be at the University of Kansas for a long time, KU officials announced a new contract agreement between KU and Leipold on Wednesday afternoon.
Details of the new contract have not yet been released, but the agreement is expected to be a long and lucrative deal ...
It’s not common for Kansas basketball coach Bill Self to hop out of bed for a 7 a.m. wake-up call the way he did on Wednesday, just a few hours before his team’s 80-74 win over North Carolina State in the opening round of the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas.
And the reason for Self’s rise-and-shine mindset was simple. It had been three weeks since he had been on the sideline coaching his team ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self said the time he spent away from the Jayhawks to serve a four-game suspension gave him a better understanding of what it’s like to be a fan.
He didn’t much like it.
“The first two games were actually OK,” Self said Tuesday of KU’s easy wins over Omaha and North Dakota State. “(Watching) Duke and Southern Utah, I didn’t feel quite as comfortable as I did the ...
Story updated at 8:19 p.m. Tuesday
Kansas football coach Lance Leipold has agreed to a contract extension that is expected to keep him in Lawrence for the long haul, a source with knowledge of the conversations between KU and Leipold told the Journal-World on Tuesday night.
ESPN’s Pete Thamel was the first to report Tuesday’s contract news, noting that KU and Leipold have agreed to terms on a new contract ...
