The Kansas men’s basketball program made the first cut for class of 2021 small forward Kendall Brown over the weekend. Brown, a senior-to-be at Sunrise Christian Academy in Bel Aire, is a five-star prospect and the No. 14-ranked player in the 2021 class, according to Rivals.com. He’s ...
By his own admission, former Eudora High standout Mitch Ballock nearly committed to play basketball at Kansas three different times. During his upcoming senior season at Creighton, Ballock will finally get his chance to play at Allen Fieldhouse. That matchup was made official on Wednesday, ...
It is unlikely to impact the Kansas men’s basketball program, but the NCAA on Wednesday announced it was pushing back the date for college basketball players to withdraw from the NBA draft and still return to school. The deadline for underclassmen who retained their college eligibility ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program’s [nonconference schedule was released Wednesday][1] and, as usual, it was packed with notable names and high-profile games. While that has become rather common around the program since head coach Bill Self's arrival in Lawrence 17 years ago, it has ...
The renewal of the series with bitter border rival Missouri highlights the 2020-21 slate of nonconference games for the Kansas men’s basketball program. The full nonconference schedule, released Wednesday afternoon, features the usual mix of games against some of the nation’s top programs ...
The ranking system that the NCAA uses to determine college basketball's best teams is simplifying its approach. According to an announcement from the NCAA earlier this week, the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) now will be based on just two metrics instead of five. Both will incorporate many of the ...
While talking with new Kansas basketball commitment Zach Clemence on Monday morning about his decision to pick KU, I asked him if his game compared to any player whom Kansas fans might know. “I don’t think it’s just one person,” he said. “I see it in multiple guys.” Fair enough. ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program landed an oral commitment from class of 2021 forward Zach Clemence on Monday morning. Clemence, a 6-foot-10, 205-pound athletic forward from Sunrise Christian Academy in Bel Aire, announced the news in an interview with Evan Daniels of 247Sports. He ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team is losing two All-Americans this offseason, but ESPN.com’s John Gasaway still believes the Jayhawks will have one of the best players in college basketball next season. Gone are Udoka Azubuike and Devon Dotson, heading to the NBA to see how and where they ...
Until Thursday, Silvio De Sousa and Billy Preston were publicly regarded as the only Jayhawks involved in the current NCAA allegations against the University of Kansas. But a section of the NCAA’s response, released by KU on Thursday, indicates that there may have been a third. A heavily ...
Story last updated at 7:28 p.m. Thursday The NCAA delivered a scathing response to the University of Kansas this week regarding alleged violations in its men’s basketball program, citing “egregious, severe” conduct and emphasizing KU’s “defiant posture” in the case. In a 92-page ...
The University of Kansas has received a response from NCAA enforcement staff in a case involving alleged rule violations by its men's basketball and football programs, the Journal-World has confirmed from a source close to the situation. It's unclear when exactly KU received the response — ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self has a simple way of sorting out the crowded house that exists in KU’s backcourt heading into the offseason. “The way we should look at it is to say they’re all guards,” Self told the Journal-World during a recent phone interview. In all, Kansas is ...
The deadline for the NCAA to respond to the University of Kansas in a case involving basketball- and football-related allegations came and went Tuesday with no word from either entity on whether the response had been received. The response from the NCAA enforcement staff is one of the final ...
KU recruiting target Tamar Bates, a standout senior-to-be at nearby Piper High outside of Kansas City, announced Tuesday that he will play his senior year at IMG Academy, one of the biggest stages in prep basketball. Bates, who is rated as a four-star prospect in the class of 2021 by ...
Season tickets for nearly 45% of the seats at men’s basketball games at Allen Fieldhouse will cost less under a new pricing model that starts next season. The change, announced by Kansas Athletics on Tuesday morning, will mark the first time since the 2008-09 season that KU has lowered the ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program officially hired Roy Williams to replace Larry Brown as head coach on July 8, 1988, and less than two months later Williams was sending staff members to Michael Jordan’s house in Chicago. A move like that might seem like a bit of flex. After all, the ...
The Pembroke Hill School athletic department announced Monday that former Kansas point guard Jeff Hawkins had been named the school's head varsity boys basketball coach. Hawkins had coached the eighth grade boys team at Pembroke Hill during the 2019-20 season. A native of Kansas City, Kan., ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program announced last week that incoming freshman Bryce Thompson will wear No. 24 with the Jayhawks. A single-digit wearer throughout his senior season at Booker T. Washington High in Tulsa, Okla., Thompson is making the move to double digits as a way to keep ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program has been busy passing out scholarship offers to players in the next two prep classes this week, according to several Twitter accounts. After receiving offers, many prospects typically post messages to their social media accounts, complete with photos of ...