Back in his hometown of Peoria, Ill., for a charity golf event this week, Kansas basketball assistant Jerrance Howard was in Chicago over the weekend and he caught up with a couple of Jayhawks past and present. As luck would have it, the two were actually working out together, making it even ...
For years, the Rock Chalk Roundball Classic was a fun summer event that brought together a bunch of former KU basketball players for a night of highlights. Today, the Roundball Classic has become a powerhouse, three-day fundraiser for a great cause — helping area families that are fighting ...
It may have taken a while for the Kansas men’s basketball program to fill its 2019 recruiting class, but the Jayhawks are off to headstart in the Class of 2022. Tre White, a top-talent guard at Washington High in Milwaukee, on Sunday orally committed to Kansas, a move that was confirmed on ...
http://www2.kusports.com/photos/2019/feb/11/328705/ There are far easier paths to an NBA career than the one Dedric Lawson must now traverse. No one expected the offensively gifted forward who spent his redshirt junior season at Kansas leading the Big 12 in scoring and rebounding to become a ...
Throughout his life, former Kansas point guard Frank Mason has overcome a number of different obstacles and been on a mission to prove his doubters wrong. Even with two years of NBA experience under his belt, that mission continues today as Mason prepares to enter his third season as a ...
Fully focused on making his return to the court with the Kansas Jayhawks next season, KU junior Silvio De Sousa made a quick trip to New York City this week. The reason? To be there when his close friend and fellow countryman Bruno Fernando was drafted during Thursday night’s NBA Draft. ...
Former Kansas forward Dedric Lawson, a 6-foot-9 junior from Memphis who left school a year early to pursue his NBA dreams, went undrafted during Thursday’s NBA Draft in Brooklyn, N.Y. But it did not take him long to catch on with a team. Just minutes after the draft wrapped around 11:30 ...
Eudora — The 50-plus former Kansas basketball players on hand might have carried the biggest names, but there was little doubt about to whom Thursday night belonged. That was the Starting Five at the 11th annual Rock Chalk Roundball Classic, a basketball fundraiser extravaganza put on by ...
Eudora — It’s become a bit of annual summer ritual for former Kansas guard Ben McLemore to return to Lawrence and put on a show at the Rock Chalk Roundball Classic. This time, however, McLemore had company. Although McLemore led all scorers with a whopping 42 points, it was former KU ...
The top official at the University of Kansas, like everyone else, is waiting to see whether the KU athletics program will receive allegations of major recruiting violations. KU Chancellor Douglas Girod told the Journal-World Wednesday at a Kansas Board of Regents meeting in Topeka that the ...
On the eve of draft night, former Kansas forward Dedric Lawson found himself in exactly the same position he had been in for the past several months. Projected as a possible late second-round pick in Thursday’s draft, — 6 p.m. on ESPN — Lawson and fellow-former Jayhawk Lagerald Vick are ...
NCAA rules prohibit college basketball coaches from watching their teams’ organized scrimmages in the summer, which was probably both good news and bad news for KU coach Bill Self this summer. Self left after introducing the players and interacting with the young campers, but no doubt if ...
A battle of potential game winners between the old and the new highlighted Tuesday’s team scrimmage at Bill Self Basketball Camp. And the advantage went to the veteran. Back in town after yet another successful stint of basketball overseas, Tyshawn Taylor hit a 17-foot, step-back jumper ...
Cleared to play basketball again just a few weeks back, University of Kansas center Udoka Azubuike isn’t quite back to his rim wrecking ways. That’s not to say one of the leading candidates for Big 12 Player of the Year next season has much to worry about regarding his future on the court. ...
For a brief period of time this spring, shortly before he was scheduled to pack up and move to Lawrence to embark upon his college basketball career at Kansas, Issac McBride found himself at least a little preoccupied with the future of another Jayhawk. While working diligently with his ...
After an entire season of hearing how sped up he was on the floor, Kansas big man David McCormack has figured out how to slow down. Good thing, too, because McCormack now admits that all of the focus on his biggest freshman flaw got a little old. True to his personality and humble nature, ...
KU forward Mitch Lightfoot is back for his final run with Kansas basketball, and, for the second year in a row, questions have surfaced about whether Lightfoot might redshirt the upcoming season. “It’s something we can think about,” said Lightfoot on Monday, his eyes conveying a sense of ...
Not one of the four four-star freshmen on the 2019-20 roster screams guaranteed NBA lottery pick at this point, the earliest stage, of each of their college basketball careers at the University of Kansas. Yet not one of them has failed to impress their new teammates and coaches in one fashion ...
Kansas head coach Bill Self has played a couple rounds with pro golfer Gary Woodland, but the very first hole is still a vivid memory for the Hall of Fame coach. It was the first hole at the Lawrence Country Club, which is approximately a 365-yard par-4. Woodland, who played golf at KU from ...
Count Kansas basketball coach Bill Self in the group of people unsure of whether KU will be one of the programs receiving a Notice of Allegations from the NCAA later this summer. Speaking with reporters at Monday’s Bill Self Basketball Camp, Self offered his input on last week’s report ...