KU Men’s Basketball

WVU beats No. 7 KU on game-winning free throw in final seconds of league opener

West Virginia was missing two of its top three scorers due to injury and didn’t make it to Lawrence until the wee hours of the morning, but you wouldn’t have known it from the way the Mountaineers opened Tuesday afternoon’s game at Kansas. Down Tucker DeVries and Amani Hansberry, WVU ...

KU basketball coaches praise Bechard’s impact on program, department

Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self is acutely aware of his position in the hierarchy of the university’s longest-tenured athletic leaders. The recent retirement of 27-year volleyball coach Ray Bechard moves him up a spot, but as he is quick to note, he still hasn’t been at it quite ...

Griffen feeling comfortable at key time as KU enters conference play

Rylan Griffen came home for the holidays with a battle wound. After hitting heads with one of Brown's players during the second half of Kansas’ win over the Bears on Dec. 22, Griffen saw the effects of the collision for days afterward — or was unable to see, as it turned out. “I had a ...

Preview: KU begins Big 12 grind at home against West Virginia

Updated 2:27 p.m. Monday, Dec. 30: Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self has already indicated that the Big 12’s 20-game conference schedule, to which he had on several occasions expressed his opposition, might not stick around very long. “Next year, if I’m not mistaken, we play, what ...

Year in review, Part 3: A look ahead to 2025

The next year is shaping up to feature some of the most dramatic changes in college sports history, at least since the equally monumental shifts that took place four years earlier. Not long after rule changes first allowed college athletes to take financial advantage of their name, image and ...