KU Men’s Basketball

KU men’s basketball ranked No. 19 in preseason AP poll

After two straight years of opening the season No. 1 in the country, the Kansas men's basketball team will start its 2025-26 campaign at quite a different position. The Jayhawks received a No. 19 ranking in the preseason edition of the AP Top 25 poll, which was released on Monday morning. ...

Three games to circle on the KU men’s basketball conference schedule

The Big 12 men’s basketball schedule is two weeks old, and now Kansas has some sense of the trials it will need to endure as it angles for a return to league-title contention. The schedule as written features no shortage of twists and turns: a rare Friday night matchup against Baylor, a ...

Four-star center Adkins commits to KU, continuing Jayhawks’ recruiting run

The Kansas men’s basketball team secured its fourth commitment in the span of about a week when center Davion Adkins announced on Sunday that he will join the Jayhawks next season. Adkins follows point guard Taylen Kinney and small forward Trent Perry in pledging his services to KU’s 2026 ...

2027 five-star Bardwell commits to Jayhawks

A busy week for Kansas men’s basketball recruiting continued with the Jayhawks’ first addition in the 2027 recruiting class. High school junior Javon Bardwell on Friday announced his commitment to KU. He is a five-star prospect who ranks No. 26 in the 247Sports Composite rankings for his ...

Perry commits to KU men’s basketball’s class of 2026

Four-star small forward Trent Perry, from Link Academy in Branson, Missouri, announced his commitment to Kansas’ class of 2026 on Wednesday afternoon. Perry revealed his decision to choose the Jayhawks over Maryland and TCU as part of a CBS Sports livestream. He attributed his choice to ...

Kinney announces commitment to KU’s class of 2026

The Kansas men’s basketball team has its first commitment in the high school recruiting class of 2026.af Taylen Kinney, of Newport, Kentucky, announced on a CBS Sports livestream on Sunday that he will join KU next season. The 6-foot-3, 188-pound guard, as he was recently measured at the ...