KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As he does every year at Big 12 Basketball Media Day, supervisor of officials Curtis Shaw explained new rules interpretations, including this year's emphasis on enforcing traveling more strictly.Not surprisingly, it was West Virginia coach Bob Huggins who on Tuesday had the ...
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Kansas basketball coach Bill Self knows that sophomore center Udoka Azubuike is one of the most important players on this year’s team for what he brings to the table on both the offensive and defensive ends of the floor. Self also hopes the 2017-18 season is the last time ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Bill Self has gotten the call many times — too many for one to stick out among the rest.Within those experiences, though, he’s found one thing to be true. It isn’t the content of the call — “How can it be positive when somebody just breaks up with you?” Self ...
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Of all the reasons point guard Devonte’ Graham chose to return to Kansas for his senior season, KU coach Bill Self believes one might be getting overlooked.“He likes college,” Self said of Graham Tuesday afternoon at Big 12 media day at Sprint Center. “He also wants ...
There was one thing Kansas coach Bill Self liked most about his team’s 93-87 victory over Missouri during Sunday’s Showdown for Relief at Sprint Center. And it was not the final score or the $1.75 million dollars the two programs raised for hurricane relief. Instead, the veteran Kansas ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri coach Cuonzo Martin was pleased with just about every part of Sunday's exhibition."I don't know if you'll find a better venue than this one with the atmosphere and the energy behind it," he said after the 93-87 exhibition loss to the Jayhawks. "Again, it's a ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Now that the two old rivals have been seen on the same basketball court again, after a five-year hiatus from one of the best rivalries in college sports, the question on everyone’s mind after Sunday’s 93-87 exhibition victory by Kansas over Missouri at Sprint Center was ...
Kansas City, Mo. — With Border War bragging rights back on the line Sunday afternoon at Sprint Center, the plan all along for the Kansas men’s basketball team was to get the ball to 7-foot center Udoka Azubuike and let him dominate the paint.Had it worked for the entire afternoon, the ...
Kansas City, Mo. — The mere mention of the name Devonte’ Graham instantly brought a sigh, wide eyes, a side-to-side shake of the head and ultimately a smile from first-year Missouri basketball coach Cuonzo Martin.“One, he’s battle tested. When you’ve been in big games as a senior, ...
Kansas City, Mo. — So we meet again.A rivalry dating back to 1907 made its unofficial return Sunday afternoon, as the Kansas and Missouri basketball programs squared off in a charity exhibition to raise money for relief organizations.Though the stats and result won’t go in either team’s ...
Kansas Jayhawks vs. Missouri Tigers (exhibition)Time: 3 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 22 | Location: Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo. TV: $40 pay-per-view streaming at www.ShowdownForRelief.com | Radio: IMG Jayhawk Radio Network Log on to KUsports.com for our live game blog coverage and follow the ...
Kansas Athletics Inc. has enlisted an outside law firm to assist with an NCAA-mandated review of its men’s basketball program following a federal investigation that is rocking the sport.Working with the Overland Park-based law firm of Bond, Schoeneck & King — which has a ...
Kansas forward Billy Preston, equipped with a well-developed physique for a freshman at 6-foot-10, 240 pounds, readily acknowledges that his perimeter game is more developed at both ends than his post play.He also believes the crash course he takes in practice will benefit his paint ...
Kansas basketball officials announced Friday morning that this weekend's exhibition game against Missouri — 3 p.m. Sunday at Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo., — will in fact be televised after all.The cost for the telecast of the online stream of the event will be $40 and fans can sign up ...
You don’t have to look farther than Malik Newman’s head to discover the true magnitude of Sunday’s Showdown for Relief exhibition game between Border War rivals Kansas and Missouri at Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo. Sure, none of the players on either side have any direct connection to ...
Officials at KU said the option of televising Sunday’s Border War clash was still on the table and details were being examined to see if it was possible. As of 5 p.m. Thursday, no announcement had been made one way or the other. Initially, broadcasting the game on TV was kept out of the ...
History awaits. That's the message sent by the Big 12 men's basketball coaches on Thursday morning, when the conference revealed that Kansas was a unanimous selection to win its 14th consecutive Big 12 regular season title, breaking a tie with UCLA for the most all-time. KU received all nine ...
Don’t look for the animosity that might percolate in the Sprint Center seats Sunday during the Border War exhibition basketball game to be duplicated on the court.“I could tell you a lot about Mike,” Kansas freshman Billy Preston said of Michael Porter, Jr., Missouri’s freshman phenom. ...
The words of his former boss have echoed through the years for Dallas Skyline High basketball coach Paul Graham.“I learned from coach (Eddie) Sutton, ‘Don’t sell your soul for talent. It’s not right for you and it’s not right for the kids,’ ” Graham said of the coach he worked ...
The University of Kansas will conduct an internal review of its basketball program for possible rules violations after being instructed by the NCAA to do so, KU Athletic Director Sheahon Zenger said Monday.Zenger said that the NCAA is requiring all NCAA Division I institutions to conduct such a ...