The NBA season drew to a close on Sunday with the Oklahoma City Thunder’s victory in Game 7 of the NBA Finals, the franchise’s first-ever title in its current incarnation. By finishing off the Indiana Pacers, the Thunder prevented rookie Johnny Furphy from becoming the fifth Jayhawk in the ...
New Kansas assistant coach Jacque Vaughn’s contract will pay him a base salary of $360,000 per year over the course of two seasons with the program. The contract was released to the Journal-World on Wednesday afternoon in response to a Kansas Open Records Act request. KU announced the ...
Nolen Ellison, a former Kansas men’s basketball player who went on to a lengthy career as an education official, died on Thursday. He was 83. KU Athletics announced the news in a press release on Tuesday, citing information from the Ellison family. Ellison, a native of Kansas City, Kansas, ...
The Kansas men’s basketball roster, newly refreshed though it may be, will still almost certainly look quite different when the season tips off at Allen Fieldhouse on Nov. 3. KU has made a habit in recent years of adding players as late as August, such as the likes of Johnny Furphy and David ...
Kansas men's and women's basketball both learned their conference opponents and venues for the second year of the 16-team iteration of the Big 12 on Thursday. On the men's side this season, each team in the Big 12 will play 18 conference games: home-and-home series against three opponents, ...
Not much of Kansas’ nonconference men’s basketball schedule came as a surprise. The vast majority of the Jayhawks’ prominent matchups had been previously reported, including the cornerstone of the home schedule — UConn — mere hours before KU officially announced the slate, and games ...