KU Men’s Basketball

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Stokes named Big 12’s top freshman; KU picked 3rd

In keeping with his No. 1 ranking in the recruiting class of 2026, Kansas men’s basketball freshman Tyran Stokes was named the Big 12’s preseason freshman of the year in a poll of league coaches released on Thursday morning. Stokes, a 6-foot-8 freshman from Louisville, Kentucky, attended ...

KU to host Pitt State for exhibition in new version of Late Night

Late Night in the Phog, the traditional season-opening event for Kansas basketball, is at this point a bit removed from its period of greatest prominence. The event was thriving, as KU coach Bill Self recalled over the summer, when he first arrived in the early 2000s. Even a decade later KU ...

Dawes could help space KU’s frontcourt

One of the big questions surrounding this year’s Kansas team, especially since the return of Tre White, is how much time the 6-foot-9, 225-pound Keanu Dawes will spend playing power forward and how much he’ll be at center. “I like it everywhere, honestly,” Dawes said, “as long as ...

What’s it like welcoming back Council and White? Jayhawks explain

Kansas wing Kohl Rosario was getting accustomed to his teammates referring to him as “the senior” or “the old man of the group” — a bit of a stretch for a sophomore, not to mention one who had reclassified to join the Jayhawks in the summer of 2025 in the first place. But it made at ...

Evaluating Council’s return and its potential impact on the KU roster

As Kansas coach Bill Self put it last week before cementing Melvin Council Jr.’s return to Lawrence, the addition of one more player beyond Tre White — occupying the Jayhawks’ 15th roster spot — could yield “a crowded house in many ways.” But, he added, “Whatever makes the team ...