When his name first surfaced in the transfer portal, SMU guard Kendric Davis’ popularity sky-rocketed at college basketball programs across the country. Including Kansas. Monday night, Kansas fans found out that their dream of adding the reigning American Athletic Conference player of the year to the defending champs’ roster for the 2022-23 season was at least a real possibility. KU made Davis’ list ...
Lawrence Country Club golf pro Chris Thompson played 96 holes at six different courses in just under 11 hours on Monday, all of them to raise money for the two-year-old Kaw Valley Junior Golf Foundation. When asked what got him interested in the marathon afternoon on his day off, Thompson borrowed a line from famed college football coach Mike Leach. “When it comes to breakfast, the chicken’s involved, ...
North Carolina big man Armando Bacot’s decision to return to UNC for his senior season was way more than a victory for the Tar Heels. It also represented a huge win for the name, image and likeness movement in college athletics. There’s no telling what kind of benefits NIL will bring to Bacot during the next year. But given the fact that he’s a well-known and noticeable player who just took his team to ...
For years, decades even, Kansas basketball fans have celebrated the national title run by Danny and the Miracles and the national-title saving shot known as Mario’s Miracle. Both feats, in 1988 and 2008, respectively, identified a single player who played the biggest role in KU winning it all. With Manning’s squad, the national player of the year was Mr. Everything for those Jayhawks, leading the team in ...
Now that the trophies have been handed out and the postseason banquet is in the bag, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self is planning to meet with each member of his roster for what basically will be exit interviews for the 2021-22 season. Self said at Thursday’s postseason banquet that he already had informal conversations with Ochai Agbaji, Christian Braun, David McCormack and Jalen Wilson about their ...
While his immediate future is up in the air, Kansas forward David McCormack is looking at his decision to turn pro or return to KU for one more season as “a bonus.” Brought about by the extra year of eligibility given to all college athletes who played during the 2019-20 school year that was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, McCormack’s potential return is something he never thought he would ...