Class of 2020 guard R.J. Hampton, a 6-4, 170-pound combo guard from Little Elm, Texas, told 247 Sports recruiting analyst Evan Daniels on Friday that, after considering reclassifying into the 2019 class, he planned to remain in the 2020 class. “A lot of factors led to it,” Hampton told Daniels. “There was a lot of stuff that weighed into it.” One thing might be Hampton’s enjoyment of the recruiting ...
ESPN draft guru Jonathan Givony released his most recent 2019 NBA mock draft on Wednesday morning and it featured a couple of notable names for Kansas fans. Even though the 2019 NBA Draft is still 10 months away, it’s worth tracking these sorts of things now so we’ll know how certain players rise and fall during the course of the fast-approaching 2018-19 season. It did not take long for the first ...
*Earlier this week, Journal-World sports editor Tom Keegan officially made his win/loss prediction for the 2018 Kansas football team, [picking the Jayhawks to finish David Beaty's fourth season with a 3-9 record.][1] Clearly, that's not the only possibility for the Jayhawks, who, with a veteran group mixed with some new faces, could finish with more or certainly even fewer victories than the three Keegan's ...
On pages 42 and 43 of the 2009-10 Kansas basketball media guide sit a couple of small glimpses into the academic career of former KU point guard Sherron Collins. On page 42, under the section called “The Collins File,” it lists Collins’ favorite subject as English. On page 43, under the section titled “Off the Court,” it lists the major of Sherron Marlon Collins as African and African American ...
Even if their squad is on it, it’s hard for a college coaching staff to get too excited when a prospect they covet trims his list to a final 12. So many teams remain, so much work still to do, the finish line is still so far away. But in the case of a player like Class of 2019 point guard Cole Anthony, who did just that late Monday, there’s plenty of reason to be pumped up. Anthony, who is ranked No. 2 ...
The on-again-off-again recruitment of The Villages, Fla., point guard Tre Mann appears to have come to a close. According to a Tuesday evening Tweet from his own account, Mann has orally committed to Florida, picking the Gators over Kansas, North Carolina and Tennessee and eliminating the need for planned visits with the KU coaching staff in the coming weeks. "I'm 100 percent committed to the University of ...
One of the top-ranked prep basketball players in the Class of 2019 has scheduled an official visit to Kansas for Late Night the weekend of Sept. 28. And, according to his mother, James Wiseman’s trip to Lawrence is not just a formality. Speaking with 247 Sports recruiting analyst Evan Daniels this week, Wiseman’s mother, Donzaleigh Artis, classified her son’s recruitment as “wide open.” ...
Class of 2019 forward Jeremiah Robinson-Earl will officially visit Kansas during the weekend of Sept. 28 for Late Night in the Phog, his mother, Katie Robinson, told KUsports.com. Robinson-Earl, who transferred to IMG Academy for his senior year, named his top five schools earlier this month, with Villanova, North Carolina, Notre Dame and Arizona joining Kansas on his list. Robinson-Earl has long been one of ...
Last week, we learned that [longtime KU commitment Markese Jacobs, a point guard in the Class of 2019 ranked No. 92 overall by Rivals.com, was reopening his recruitment][1] and likely headed toward not becoming a Jayhawk. To most who follow recruiting closely, including our own KUsports.com recruiting insider Matt Scott, the news came as little surprise. After all, Jacobs — 5-foot-11, 170 pounds — ...
His goal, these days, is to emerge victorious at least twice a year in his matchups with his alma mater. But that did not stop Oklahoma State University’s Alumni Association from honoring Bill Self as Distinguished Alumni Award recipients for 2018. Self, along with six other OSU alums, will be recognized at a public reception at the ConocoPhillips OSU Alumni Center on Sept. 14 and again during an on-field ...
Hernia surgery kept Kansas coach Bill Self mostly away from his team during the Jayhawks’ first week on campus. But before he went into the operating room last Thursday, Self saw enough to know where the 2018-19 team stood entering the start of the fall semester. “You know, our conditioning’s awful, which you would anticipate it being,” Self began. “And I’ve said hundreds of times already, and ...
Seated seven stories down, near the corner of Ninth and New Hampshire streets, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self craned his neck to watch assistant coach Kurtis Townsend and former KU basketball players Jeremy Case and Jeff Hawkins rappel down the 888 Lofts building for Saturday’s “Over The Edge” charity event. Originally slated to be the one in the harness, Self was forced to miss the event, a ...
The opponent was revealed a couple of weeks ago, but we now know the tip-off time for KU’s first game in the Big Apple this November. Kansas and Marquette will square off at approximately 6 p.m. on Nov. 21 in the second of two games played at Barclays Center that day as part of this year’s NIT Season Tip-Off event in Brooklyn, N.Y. Louisville and Tennessee will face each other at 4 p.m. Nov. 21, in the ...
According to a Friday afternoon report from 247 Sports recruiting analyst Evan Daniels, the lone player committed to Kansas in the Class of 2019 is now uncommitted. Markese Jacobs, a Chicago senior ranked No. 92 in the class by Rivals.com, told Daniels that he was reopening his recruitment and still considering Kansas. Jacobs, 5-foot-11, 170 pounds, committed to Kansas shortly after making an unofficial ...
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. ...