If everything had gone according to plan, it would be hard to talk yourself into the idea that this Kansas team could beat this year’s Baylor team anywhere, including at Allen Fieldhouse. As it turns out, though, the Jayhawks just might be catching BU at an opportune time for an upset. Few ...
Kansas seniors Mitch Lightfoot and Chris Teahan announced Friday that they are planning to take advantage of the NCAA’s waiver for an extra year of eligibility and will return to KU for the 2021-22 season. In the news release announcing their return, KU revealed that fellow-senior Marcus ...
Turns out the top four teams left out of March Madness won't have their bubbles burst quite yet. Under a contingency plan released Thursday by the Division I basketball committees, those four at-large teams that don't make the original field in the men's and women's NCAA tournaments will be ...
The reigning Naismith Defensive Player of the Year is in the running to win the award again in 2021. Kansas senior Marcus Garrett on Thursday was named one of 10 finalists for this year’s award, given annually to the best defender in college basketball by the Atlanta Tip-Off Club. Garrett ...
The Kansas men's basketball season will end up with 27 regular season games after all. KU on Thursday announced that the 17th-ranked Jayhawks (17-8 overall, 11-6 Big 12) will welcome the University of Texas at El Paso to Lawrence next Thursday for the final regular season game of the 2020-21 ...
According to reports from multiple recruiting outlets including JayhawkSlant.com and Tipton Edits, ESPN five-star Class of 2022 wing Gradey Dick is planning to announce his college decision sometime next week. A 6-foot-7, 200-pound do-everything player from Wichita, Dick is in his first ...
Most years, fans of Big 12 Conference basketball can look at how the seedings may shake out for the conference tournament and breakdown matchups and the possible paths to a Big 12 tourney crown for four or five different teams. This year, however, Kansas coach Bill Self believes all of that ...
Former University of Kansas basketball player Silvio De Sousa has applied to go on diversion for a charge of aggravated battery, his attorney Hatem Chahine said Wednesday. De Sousa appeared in Douglas County District Court on Wednesday with Chahine through an online video conference. Chahine ...
As pivotal a role as David McCormack has played in Kansas turning its season around, the time has come for the Jayhawks’ veteran big to make one last step in his progression and put his inconsistencies behind him. Lapses in judgement and execution from McCormack cost KU in what could’ve ...
As a college basketball coach who has won a heck of lot more games than he’s lost during his coaching career, Kansas’ Bill Self lives in the village made up of people who hate to lose. But Self has been around long enough to know that sometimes it’s when you win and how you win that ...
Standings and schedule are current as of 6 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. Sorted by win-loss percentage. Big 12 Men's Basketball Standings TeamBig 12Overall Baylor10-018-0 West Virginia9-416-6 Kansas11-617-8 Oklahoma9-514-6 Texas8-514-6 Oklahoma St.8-615-6 Texas ...
How former Kansas Jayhawks fared in NBA games played Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. --- Joel Embiid (Phi) W, 109-102 at Tor 18 points (3-13 FG, 1-1 3PG, 11-12 FT), 12 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal, 1 block, 6 turnovers in 35 minutes. --- Josh Jackson (Det) W, 105-93 at Orl 18 ...
Kansas coach Bill Self has said repeatedly in the past couple of weeks that in order to win the Jayhawks were going to have to play games in the 60s. On Tuesday night in Austin, Texas, No. 14 Texas needed overtime to climb above the 70-point mark and that was enough for the Longhorns to knock ...
The Big 12 Conference on Tuesday afternoon announced 12 make-up games for next week, starting Monday with a game between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State and running through Saturday. The games became necessary because of COVID-19 disruptions throughout the regular season. As a result, not all ...
Standings and schedule are current as of 6 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. Sorted by win-loss percentage. Big 12 Men's Basketball Standings TeamBig 12Overall Baylor9-017-0 Oklahoma9-414-5 Kansas11-517-7 West Virginia8-415-6 Texas7-513-6 Oklahoma St.8-615-6 Texas ...
How former Kansas Jayhawks fared in NBA games played Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. --- Devonte' Graham (Cha) L, 110-132 at Uta Did not play (injury). --- Ben McLemore (Hou) L, 100-120 vs. Chi 0 points (0-5 FG, 0-5 3PG), 2 rebounds, 1 assist in 11 minutes. --- Markieff ...
Most of the men’s basketball teams in the Big 12 will be making up missed games next week. Not Kansas. The Jayhawks proved to be the only program in the league fortunate enough amid a season marred by COVID protocols and even severe weather postponements to enter this week having already ...
No. 17 Kansas Jayhawks (17-7 overall, 11-5 Big 12) vs. No. 14 Texas Longhorns (13-6 overall, 7-5 Big 12) Time: 8 p.m. Location: Frank Erwin Center, Austin, Texas TV: ESPN | Radio: IMG Jayhawk Radio Network Log on to KUsports.com for our live game blog coverage and follow the ...
Kansas coach Bill Self said Monday during his regularly scheduled press conference that the Jayhawks are still debating whether to add another opponent next week during the team’s 11-day layoff between Saturday’s regular season finale against Baylor and the start of the Big 12 tournament. ...
Riding a five-game winning streak into the final week of the regular season, the Kansas men’s basketball team jumped six spots to No. 17 in this week’s Associated Press Top 25. KU (17-7 overall, 11-5 Big 12) is ranked just ahead of No. 18 Texas Tech, which the Jayhawks knocked off, 67-61 ...