KU Men’s Basketball

Preview: KU will try small ball against tall Cincinnati lineup

The Kansas men’s basketball team will enter the postseason looking completely unrecognizable. Under some circumstances that might be a boon to a team that lost an underwhelming three of its last four regular-season games and five of its last nine. But not quite as much when the reason for ...

Dickinson and McCullar will not play in Big 12 tournament, but plan on NCAA return

Hunter Dickinson and Kevin McCullar Jr. will not play in the Big 12 Conference basketball tournament, Kansas coach Bill Self said on his "Hawk Talk" radio show Monday night. However, Self said that the plan is for Dickinson, who dislocated his shoulder at Houston Saturday, and McCullar, who ...

KU starters earn wide-ranging Big 12 honors

Kansas center Hunter Dickinson and guard Kevin McCullar Jr. both earned first-team all-conference honors from the Big 12, the league announced Sunday night, as part of a diverse group of awards given to KU players. Dickinson, who transferred from Michigan to Kansas in the offseason, was also ...

Injuries cast pall over KU’s postseason prospects

Houston — Before Kansas took the floor for its matchup with Houston on Saturday, head coach Bill Self said on his ESPN+ pregame interview that he didn't know if Kevin McCullar Jr. would play due to his bone bruise, but that the ultimate goal was to have him healthy for the NCAA ...

Jayhawks dominated by No. 1 Houston

Houston — What Houston did to Kansas at the Fertitta Center Saturday is what the top-ranked Cougars have done to plenty of teams this season. It’s just not remotely how it went down when those two teams met back in February. A month earlier, at Allen Fieldhouse, the Jayhawks made 17 of ...

Preview: KU wraps up regular season at top-ranked Houston

Saturday’s Houston-Kansas clash to close the regular season still has some stakes, just not quite those that many envisioned when the Big 12 Conference pitted the two teams against each other back in September. Houston, the No. 1 team in the nation, has already locked up at least a share of ...