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Peterson powers through early struggles for late-game heroics

LUBBOCK, Texas — Kansas guard Darryn Peterson will be the first to tell you that he had a bad game on Monday night at Texas Tech. Or at least he did for the first 38 1/2 minutes at United Supermarkets Arena. “Shots weren’t really going in,” he said. “They guarded me kind of well. I ...

Peterson nails back-to-back 3s to stun Red Raiders as KU wins 64-61

LUBBOCK, Texas — Kansas guard Darryn Peterson was 3-for-12 from the field and had been largely invisible in the latter stages of the game when he hit back-to-back 3-pointers to put KU ahead with 44 seconds remaining. The Jayhawks’ star took the air out of United Supermarkets Arena, Tyeree ...

Future Jayhawks selected for McDonald’s All-American Game

The Kansas men’s and women’s basketball teams each had one signee named to the rosters for the McDonald’s All-American Game on Monday afternoon. The event, which features the best high school basketball players in the nation, will take place on March 31 at Desert Diamond Arena in ...

Former Jayhawk Turgeon hired at Kansas City

Mark Turgeon has been hired as the head coach at Kansas City, the school announced on Sunday morning. The move brings the former Kansas player and assistant coach, a Topeka native, back close to his home state as the leader of the Roos. It will be Turgeon's first job in coaching since he ...

After draining win over BYU, KU prepares for quick turnaround

Kansas needed every ounce of energy it could possibly muster to take down No. 13 BYU 90-82 on Saturday afternoon. The problem was that it had already expended a great deal of its energy reserves in the first half before a rocking Allen Fieldhouse crowd — as good an atmosphere as head coach ...