Kansas’ 72-69 victory over North Carolina in Monday’s national title game delivered the Jayhawks their sixth national championship and moved the program to 2,357-877 all-time. For the first time in decades, the Jayhawks ended a college basketball season with the most wins of any program in NCAA history. KU reached the top of the list by winning 34 games this season, surpassing 2021 leader Kentucky by ...
New Orleans — Heads down, but far from out, the top-seeded Kansas men’s basketball team had plenty of ammunition to believe a comeback was possible when it went to the Superdome locker room down by 15 points to North Carolina in Monday night’s national title game. There was the Kansas State game back in January. There was the Miami win in the Elite Eight in Chicago. And, most importantly, there was still ...
New Orleans — Of all the motivating factors that led the 2021-22 Kansas men’s basketball team to the top of the college basketball world on Monday night, avenging the lost opportunity in 2020 sat near the top of the list. Throughout the week leading up to the Final Four — and, really, the entire NCAA Tournament — several Jayhawks emphasized how their run through this year’s postseason was as much ...
New Orleans — The Kansas men’s basketball program, and the brand new, national champions trophy they collected on Monday night, will host a welcome home party at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium at approximately 4:15 p.m. this afternoon. Gates to the stadium will open at 3 p.m. and fans will be encouraged to sit on the west side of the stadium. Parking lots around the stadium will open at 2 p.m. and ...
No. 1 Kansas Jayhawks (33-6) vs. No. 8 North Carolina Tar Heels (29-9) Time: 8:20 p.m., Monday, April 4, 2022 Location: Caesars Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana TV: TBS | Radio: IMG Jayhawk Radio Network Keys for Kansas 1. Empty the tank It’s a given that the Jayhawks are going to play hard in this one. North Carolina is going to play hard in this one, as well. You don’t reach the national ...
New Orleans — Throughout his 19 seasons in charge of the Kansas basketball program, KU coach Bill Self has always celebrated the fact that the school expects to win championships and that the opportunity to do it is always there. But it’s been 10 years since the Kansas Jayhawks have found themselves in this position — one win away from a national title. In those 10 years, the program, it’s players and ...