SAN DIEGO — The fourth-seeded Kansas men’s basketball team escaped No. 13 seed Cal Baptist in the Lancers’ NCAA Tournament debut, as the Jayhawks earned a 68-60 win at Viejas Arena to advance to the Round of 32. “They say survive and advance," KU coach Bill Self said. "And that's what ...
SAN DIEGO — Though they had not previously been acquainted, Jamari McDowell became very familiar with the small Alabama-based Christian university Samford very quickly in March 2024 when the Bulldogs pressed relentlessly and made the Jayhawks work for 40 minutes to earn a 93-89 NCAA ...
SAN DIEGO — Kansas had an unusually accomplished water boy at Sunday’s practice back in Lawrence. Fifth-year senior guard Melvin Council Jr., given an unexpected day off by head coach Bill Self, found other ways to make himself useful: besides handing out water, of course, he was ...
SAN DIEGO — As Kansas coach Bill Self recalls, it seemed great in theory for the Jayhawks to get to play the first weekend of the 2009 NCAA Tournament in center Cole Aldrich’s home state of Minnesota. “Until we played … North Dakota State and then they had 20,000 people at the game, or ...
SAN DIEGO — It has been far from a guarantee in recent seasons, and even throughout Bill Self’s 23-year tenure as head coach, that a Kansas men’s basketball team arrives for its first NCAA Tournament weekend ready to play at full strength. Two years ago on a Salt Lake City side street, ...