Against the backdrop of stories about ailing team chemistry and Bill Self talking about having to coach effort in February for the first time at Kansas, encouraging news broke on the recruiting front for the 13-time-defending Big 12 champion.Kansas landed a Kansas City recruit for the first ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self is smart enough to sense what's happening with KU's beloved fan base, even though he has spent very little time interacting with them of late and spends basically no time on social media sites and message boards where thousands of Jayhawk fans are happy to let ...
Unless and until the NCAA, its affiliated television networks and all media covering college basketball denounce and distance themselves from the dreaded Rating Percentage Index, or RPI, rankings, March Madness seeding won’t approach anything that resembles fair.The RPI places far too much ...
Asked for a “big picture” assessment of his Kansas basketball team following Saturday's disheartening, 80-64 loss at Baylor, KU coach Bill Self wasted no time getting to the point. “I don't think we're playing very well,” Self said. “We were obviously better three weeks ago than we're ...
If the 2018 NCAA Tournament began today, the Kansas Jayhawks would be a No. 2 seed in the West region. That was the message sent by this year's selection committee, which on Sunday revealed the top four seeds in each region, as things stand today, during an afternoon special on CBS Sports. The ...
Waco, Texas — You know it’s not your day when you can’t escape pregame warmups without an injury to a key player.It was not Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk’s day. Ditto for the Kansas basketball team, which lost at Baylor, 80-64, Saturday during an afternoon in which the Jayhawks couldn’t put ...
Waco, Texas — A quick glance up and down the box score following Saturday's 80-64 victory by Baylor over 10th-ranked Kansas at Ferrell Center revealed a fact that was probably obvious to anyone who watched the game.Outside of senior point guard Devonte' Graham, who played all 40 minutes for ...
Waco, Texas — If you were to pick a single play that summed up just how out of sorts the Kansas men's basketball team was on Saturday during an 80-64 loss to Baylor at Ferrell Center — and, if we're being honest, there were more than a dozen of them — it came early in the second half on, ...
A lackluster first half put the Kansas basketball team in a troublesome spot Saturday afternoon at Baylor, so much so that a second-half surge couldn’t save the Jayhawks in an 80-64 road loss.The Bears ended an 11-game losing streak versus KU by shooting 57 percent from the floor and turning ...
No. 10 Kansas Jayhawks (19-5 overall, 8-3 Big 12) vs. Baylor Bears (14-10 overall, 4-7 Big 12) Time: 1 p.m. | Location: Ferrell Center, Waco, Texas TV: CBS | Radio: IMG Jayhawk Radio Network Log on to KUsports.com for our live game blog coverage and follow the KUsports.com staff on Twitter: ...
The case of a former University of Kansas basketball player who was arrested last weekend on suspicion of distributing marijuana is still under investigation, the Kansas Highway Patrol said Friday.A report is expected to be forwarded soon to the Wabaunsee County District Attorney’s Office for ...
Already armed with a star-studded 2018 recruiting class ranked No. 3 in the nation by Rivals.com, the Kansas men's basketball program added to its haul on Thursday with a pledge from Oak Park High guard Ochai Agbaji, who orally committed to join the Jayhawks during a 2 p.m. ceremony at his ...
With his mother and grandmother sitting in the stands after making a last-minute decision to travel to Allen Fieldhouse for Tuesday's 71-64 Kansas victory, KU sophomore Mitch Lightfoot made sure the trip from Arizona was worth it.We'll call it The Great Gamble of 2018, when Kansas coach Bill ...
His body language at the top of the key said, “Please get in, please get in, please get in.”And, after what might have seemed like four or five, time-stands-still seconds, the ball finally obliged.On a night when nothing came easy for the 10th-ranked Jayhawks, Devonte' Graham's ...
TCU wasn’t about to let the Big 12’s most prolific 3-point shooter not named Trae Young shoot them out of the gym.Everywhere Svi Mykhailiuk went, underrated Horned Frogs senior Kenrich Williams shadowed him, determined not to let him get the ball, much less a good look at the rim. Teammates ...
Sophomore forward Mitch Lightfoot started the first game of his Kansas career on Tuesday night and helped the 10th-ranked Jayhawks win a battle over TCU, 71-64, at Allen Fieldhouse.The 6-foot-8, 210-pound forward from Gilbert, Ariz., was the only first-time starter on the floor for either team ...
No victory is guaranteed or a foregone conclusion this season in the Big 12 — not even inside Allen FIeldhouse.The Kansas basketball team survived a serious test from visiting TCU Tuesday night, though, 71-64.With Udoka Azubuike, Devonte’ Graham and new sixth man Lagerald Vick (30 ...
Kansas had started showing up as a No. 1 seed in various NCAA tournament projections until Oklahoma State knocked off the Jayhawks in Saturday's stunner.My first thought after seeing Kansas topple from a perch that seemed like a bit of a stretch anyway was that it increases the chances of KU ...
No. 10 Kansas Jayhawks (18-5 overall, 7-3 Big 12) vs. TCU Horned Frogs (16-7 overall, 4-6 Big 12) Time: 8 p.m. | Location: Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence, KansasTV: ESPN2 | Radio: IMG Jayhawk Radio Network Log on to KUsports.com for our live game blog coverage and follow the KUsports.com staff on ...
If you ever have wondered what the price is for a lackluster home loss by a program not used to dropping games in its home venue, you now have your answer.Kansas basketball coach Bill Self on Monday afternoon announced that sophomore forward Mitch Lightfoot would start Tuesday's game against ...