The Kansas men’s basketball program picked up another commitment in the 2021 recruiting class on Friday night, when four-star forward KJ Adams picked the Jayhawks. A 6-foot-6, 220-pound power forward from Westlake High in Austin, Texas, Adams picked Kansas from a final 10 that included ...
It took less than 30 seconds of KU’s second game of the 2019-20 season for freshman Jalen Wilson’s focus for Year 1 to shift from finding a way to get minutes to finding a way to get healthy. And Wilson, who is expected to return to KU’s campus this weekend for COVID-19 testing and ...
Four-star forward and current Kansas basketball target KJ Adams is expected to announce his college of choice at 6 p.m. on Friday evening, according to 247 Sports recruiting analyst Brian Snow. A 6-foot-6, 220-pound power forward from Westlake High in Austin, Texas, Adams narrowed his list to ...
Sophomore walk-on Elijah Elliott is officially leaving the Kansas basketball program. The news of Elliott's decision to transfer comes one month after Kansas coach [Bill Self told the Journal-World Elliott had entered his name into the transfer portal][1] and was made official through a news ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self will be the voice behind some of the most famous words in racing on Saturday at Kansas Speedway. Self, now in his 18th season at KU, will serve as the virtual Grand Marshal ahead of Saturday’s 4 p.m. Kansas Lottery 250 NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Kansas ...
**Editor's Note:** *Here's the latest installment in our series of updates on former KU players in the NBA. After the league was shutdown in March because of the COVID-19 pandemic, 22 teams and several KU players made their way to Orlando to prepare for the resumption of the 2019-20 season ...
Four-star Class of 2021 shooting guard Matthew Cleveland has pegged 2 p.m. Tuesday as the date to announce his college choice. The 6-foot-6, 190-pound guard from Pace Academy in Atlanta is ranked No. 25 in the 2021 class by Rivals.com. He narrowed his choices to a final five of Kansas, ...
University of Kansas men’s basketball assistant Norm Roberts recently landed on a short list of the top aides in the Big 12 Conference. [Roberts ranked fourth on the list that was recently released by Stadium’s Jeff Goodman,][1] who has covered college basketball on the national level ...
Updated at 10:24 p.m. Thursday The NCAA handed down its latest guidelines for playing through a pandemic while also sounding an alarm: The prospect of having a fall semester with football and other sports is looking grim. If the games can go on, the NCAA says college athletes should be ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program is pushing its return-to-campus date back for the second time in three weeks in response to the recent rise in COVID-19 cases, KU coach Bill Self told the Journal-World on Wednesday. The Jayhawks now are aiming to return on Aug. 2, Self said. That date is ...
Class of 2021 point guard Nolan Hickman appears to be nearing a decision about his college future. The 76th-ranked player in the senior class recently told JayhawkSlant.com’s Shay Wildeboor that he was getting close to making a decision but that he still did not know when he would make an ...
Kentucky’s John Calipari, University of Kansas coach Bill Self and more than 30 other college basketball coaches have announced the creation of a minority leadership initiative that carries the name of KU pioneer John McLendon. In partnership with the John McLendon Foundation, the new ...
On Friday, former University of Kansas golf standout Gary Woodland was in danger of missing the cut for a second consecutive tournament on the PGA Tour. By early Sunday afternoon, Woodland was in the clubhouse with a Top 5 finish and one of the best weekends of his 2020 season. Woodland ...
Four former Kansas basketball standouts will be among the 30 players participating in a pay-per-view basketball event in Las Vegas later this month. KU national champions Mario Chalmers, Darnell Jackson and Brandon Rush, along with former NBA lottery pick Julian Wright, are all on different ...
It remains to be seen if the 2020-21 college basketball season will be played as currently scheduled. But if it is, Bill Self’s Jayhawks will have a new venue on their slate — sort of. In the aftermath of its recent merger with Sprint, T-Mobile announced this week that the venue known ...
Even if no games were played, Wednesday was one of the biggest, most eventful days in college sports I can remember. First, Stanford announced it was cutting 11 of its 36 varsity sports, a scary move for the rest of college athletics that could be the beginning of a nationwide trend. “If ...
The University of Kansas may soon be facing its first scheduling conflict from the COVID-19 pandemic. According to reports, the Ivy League decided on Wednesday that all of its fall sports seasons had been canceled and that the league’s winter sports seasons would not begin until after Jan. ...
Lawrence High senior Devin Neal had a feeling that the Kansas football program would get good news last weekend, when four-star wide receiver Keon Coleman committed. But Neal made sure to check in with Coleman before the announcement anyway. During the past couple of weeks, the two future ...
The only thing sports leaders should be promoting for fans right now is big-screen televisions, because the only way sports will have a chance to resume is if teams stay isolated and fans stay home. Even without fans, it’s far from a guarantee that things will go smoothly enough to actually ...
The Kansas men's basketball team will be welcoming a handful of new faces and seeking to replace popular starters Devon Dotson and Udoka Azubuike in the upcoming season, but coach Bill Self is hardly concerned with roles and minutes right now. “As far as tinkering and stuff, it’s hard for ...