Salt Lake City — After a high-scoring first-round game against Samford that was so frenetic, so unrelenting, that Kansas coach Bill Self said postgame he had never been in another one like it, the Jayhawks have to turn around and battle for their tournament lives with a rest period of about ...

Salt Lake City — On Thursday night, Kansas' injured guard Kevin McCullar Jr. experienced his first KU game since head coach Bill Self announced in a social media post that McCullar would serve as a sort of assistant coach during the NCAA Tournament. McCullar, speaking to the media for the ...

Salt Lake City — At a team outing last Saturday, Kansas coach Bill Self told NCAA Tournament debutant and sixth-year senior Nick Timberlake, as Self later relayed to the media, that Timberlake had a chance not to just to play in the postseason for the first time, but create a “lasting ...

Salt Lake City — Sixth-year senior guard Nick Timberlake got the start for Kansas Thursday night in place of Kevin McCullar Jr. It marked his sixth start of the season, all since McCullar began dealing with a bone bruise to his knee. Timberlake was the standard replacement for McCullar for ...

Salt Lake City — Thursday night’s game was far from the kind of blowout Bill Self’s Kansas basketball teams often produce in their March openers, but then again it hasn’t been a typical KU season. The fourth-seeded Jayhawks overcame 12 first-half turnovers against No. 13 Samford’s ...