KU Men’s Basketball

Mass Street TBT team announces return, adds Frank Mason III

Updated 6:21 p.m. Tuesday A Kansas alumni team will be back competing in The Basketball Tournament for the second straight year. TBT announced on Tuesday morning that the Mass Street team will participate in the 64-team winner-take-all tournament, which has a prize of $1 million. Mass ...

Mykhailiuk becomes latest former Jayhawk to win NBA title

Svi Mykhailiuk won a title as a member of the Boston Celtics on Monday night, becoming the fourth former Jayhawk to become an NBA champion as a player in the last five years. Mykhailiuk, who played one minute and recorded one rebound in the Celtics' 106-88 series-clinching victory over the ...

Moore could be right addition at right time for Jayhawks

The Kansas men’s basketball team’s acquisition of Shakeel Moore did not arrive with the greatest fanfare. On3 ranked him as the 285th-best transfer in the portal. 247Sports gave him a comparatively generous ranking at 274th. For comparison, AJ Storr, arguably the jewel of the Jayhawks’ ...

Buford joins KU coaching staff as analyst

The Kansas men's basketball team is bringing back another familiar face to serve on its coaching staff. Chase Buford, who spent three seasons as a walk-on for Bill Self from 2007 to 2010, will now join Self as an analyst, KU announced Friday morning. Buford most recently served as the head ...

Charity, a proposal and NBA talent headline the 2024 Rock Chalk Roundball Classic

Very few basketball games are played to raise money for pediatric cancer treatment. Still fewer feature one assistant coach asking for another’s hand in marriage. Thursday night’s 16th annual edition of the Rock Chalk Roundball Classic, the charity game featuring former Kansas basketball ...

Former KU great Keith Langford reflects on a year of retirement

Keith Langford never had an issue with his identity being defined by his status as a basketball player. In his year of retirement since stepping away from a lengthy and decorated overseas professional career, though, Langford, 40, has swiftly developed a new identity: “glorified ...