A couple of weeks after making the decision to return to Kansas for his redshirt junior season, KU’s Jalen Wilson noted that the freshman class the Jayhawks will go to battle with during the 2022-23 season reminded him a lot of the group he came in with as a freshman in 2019-20.
“Just long wings that can do different things and are really versatile,” he said. “I see really good things ahead.”
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I have yet to see [new KU commitment Chris Johnson][1] play basketball in person, but watching his highlight clips showed me everything I needed to know.
Johnson is the guard version of current Kansas forward Jalen Wilson.
Big, physical, tough and fearless, Johnson plays a brand of basketball that is similar to the way Wilson plays. Give him another couple inches and 30 pounds and you might think you’re ...
Long before new Kansas basketball commitment Chris Johnson could drive, former Texas Longhorns star T.J. Ford would pick him up and take him to whatever gym he needed to go to.
The two are from the same neighborhood in the Houston area, and Ford, who has long been a basketball mentor for young hoopers in his home state through his T.J. Ford Basketball Academy, always wanted to make sure he did whatever he ...
For months, Kansas football strength coach Matt Gildersleeve pushed the Jayhawks to dig deep for every rep, throw up as much weight as they could and sculpt their bodies into athletic specimens.
So it goes during the college football offseason.
With that being the goal of the past eight months, however, Gildersleeve recently decided that the Jayhawks could use a little reminder about what they’re here ...
The University of Kansas men’s basketball program landed its first oral commitment in the 2023 recruiting class on Tuesday evening, when four-star prospect Chris Johnson announced his plans to attend KU.
Ranked No. 33 overall in his class by the 247 Sports composite rankings, Johnson, of Montverde Academy in Florida, made his announcement in front of a group of friends, family members and supporters. ...
The Big 12 Conference on Monday announced a two-year extension of its college basketball clash with the BIG EAST.
The scheduling alliance, dubbed the Big 12-BIG EAST Battle, has been in effect since the 2019-20 season and now will run through the 2024-25 season.
Both conferences have added schools since the initial agreement was signed and, as a result, the extension also will increase the number of games ...
