There's a new date to circle on the college athletics calendar for the 2020-21 academic year — Nov. 3, 2020. On Friday afternoon, the NCAA released a statement encouraging its member schools to designate Election Day in November as “a day off from athletics activity so athletes can vote ...
Under normal circumstances, former Kansas basketball All-Americans Udoka Azubuike and Devon Dotson would be closing in on one of the biggest days of their lives. The NBA’s pre-draft combine would be behind them, the interviews over and individual workouts nearing their end. Instead, ...
Less than a month out from officially joining the Jayhawks, class of 2020 Kansas signee Tyon Grant-Foster already is eyeing some big things for his first season with the program. The 6-foot-7 guard shared a few of them on Tuesday evening, during an Instagram Live interview with Mark Gunnels, ...
ESPN’s recent Michael Jordan documentary “The Last Dance” revived arguments among fans about who the greatest basketball player of all time really was — and one of the greats who often shows up in those conversations went to Kansas. Wilt Chamberlain’s college career was certainly ...
Story updated at 3:51 p.m. Tuesday: A group of about 30 protesters marched through the neighborhood of University of Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self Monday evening in a demonstration against inequities and racial disparities in college athletics. Organizer Mazzy Martinez, a rising ...
The University of Kansas agreed with the NCAA on Monday that allegations against its men's basketball program should be sent to an independent panel — but it wants the less severe allegations involving its football program to go through the NCAA's traditional process instead. KU concurred ...
The first official punishment for a program tied up in the FBI’s investigation into corruption in college basketball recruiting [was handed out on Friday,][1] but it’s still too early to know if anything can be learned about KU’s case from the news. Oklahoma State University’s men’s ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self is not too worried about what the COVID-19 pandemic has done to KU’s recruiting efforts during the last couple of months. The way Self sees it, he and his coaching staff are not the only ones dealing with travel restrictions, a prolonged dead period and the ...
The board of directors for Kansas Athletics, Inc. on Wednesday approved an operating budget for the coming fiscal year roughly $5.1 million smaller than the current operating budget as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to present officials with a myriad financial unknowns. In Fiscal Year 2021, ...
The happy-go-lucky forward from Richmond, Calif., is headed to the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame. Former KU forward Drew Gooden, who helped lead the Jayhawks to the 2002 Final Four while earning consensus first-team All-American honors that same season, is one of 10 members of the 2020 class who ...
The University of Kansas athletic department overcame an unusual spring to set a department record with a combined 3.43 grade-point average, KU announced Wednesday. According to a news release, all 14 of KU’s varsity programs posted a GPA of 3.0 or better “for the first time since GPAs ...
College basketball’s decision to move the 3-point line back 16.75 inches for the 2019-20 season had a minimal impact on KU’s overall 3-point shooting. While the Jayhawks’ team 3-point percentage dropped from 35% in 2018-19 to 34.4% last season, their place in the national rankings ...
It wasn’t exactly the kind of bump that KU junior Ochai Agbaji saw during his recruitment — [from unranked into the Top 150][1] — but Class of 2021 Kansas commitment Zach Clemence did jump a couple of spots in the updated Rivals.com rankings. Projected as a 4-star prospect ranked No. 31 ...
In the end, it looks like the Kansas men’s basketball program’s offseason will wind up being delayed by about a month. In response to the Big 12 Conference’s Monday release of its complete return-to-campus guidelines, KU coach Bill Self told the Journal-World that he was targeting a ...
No one knows yet exactly what role or how much playing time incoming freshman Latrell Jossell will get for the Jayhawks during the 2020-21 season. But you can’t say the young man is not going for it. Jossell recently became the final member of KU’s 2020 recruiting class to reveal his ...
Amid the nationwide protests against racism and police brutality that were sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, University of Kansas athletics leaders and several other sports figures with KU ties are speaking out. In a joint statement issued Saturday by the athletic ...
A new NCAA document gave universities and conferences across the country some more guidance Friday on how to prepare for the return of college athletics, advising them to create COVID-19 task forces and to formulate plans for what to do if an athlete gets sick. The 3,200-word report was ...
KU has lost a ruling in its NCAA infractions case related to evidence involving its former football coach, and the ruling ultimately may play a role in the higher-stakes case against the men’s basketball program. Depositions from University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long and two ...
Cue the virtual visits and keep those cellphones charged. It’s going to be a quiet summer on the in-person college athletics recruiting front. That much was learned this week, when the NCAA’s Division I Council Coordination Committee announced that the current recruiting dead period had ...
University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long on Wednesday announced staffwide furloughs and pay cuts for all Kansas Athletics employees, including coaches, from June 1 through the end of 2020. An email sent to KU’s donors on Wednesday afternoon outlined four tiers of the department’s ...