Back in March, in the aftermath of the shocking cancelation of the 2020 postseason, the conversation around Kansas basketball quickly shifted to the 2020-21 season.
No matter how a season ends, talk about the season ahead always seems to surface. One of the most popular topics that is always ...
As the Kansas basketball team strives in the months ahead to replicate the kind of success it had in the pandemic shortened 2019-20 season, the path to victories — and the math to get there — will look different.
More likely than not, the Jayhawks will take an egalitarian approach to ...
The Kansas men's basketball team is no closer to setting its rotation for the upcoming season today than it was when practices first began a few weeks ago, but that's not because KU coach Bill Self is without options.
“It's a different guy every day right now,” Self said during a Zoom ...
National reports of Indianapolis as the site for KU's Champions Classic game with Kentucky, slated for Dec. 1 on KU's official schedule, surfaced Thursday, but there still has been no official announcement confirming that.
“I do believe that the game is going to happen,” Kansas coach ...
Thrown into the mix a season ago as a true freshman, but only occasionally and rarely with any consistency, Tristan Enaruna appeared in 30 games for the 2019-20 Jayhawks.
The Jayhawks are hoping that that experience, though limited, was enough to springboard the 6-foot-8 sophomore into an ...
As crowd sizes have shrunk, the financial losses at Kansas Athletics Inc. have grown to the point that leaders were told Wednesday to expect about a $10.4 million loss for the current fiscal year.
The department will use a portion of a $20 million line of credit to cover the unexpected losses ...
Kansas fans have grown accustomed to seeing the men's basketball schedule play out as one of the most difficult in the country year after year.
But according to the initial 2020-21 KenPom.com rankings, which were released late Tuesday night, the upcoming season could present the Jayhawks with ...
With so much depth and versatility on his roster and no real hurry to determine who will play where and how often, Kansas coach Bill Self recently had an epiphany about redshirt freshman guard Dajuan Harris.
“I don't want to ever say that somebody can't be a starter,” Self said last week ...
Make it two watch lists in two days for the Kansas men's basketball program, which learned on Tuesday that junior guard Ochai Agbaji had been added to the Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Award watch list.
Agbaji joins senior point guard Marcus Garrett — named Monday to the Bob Cousy ...
Marcus Garrett's list of preseason honors grew by one on Monday, with the Bob Cousy Award naming the Kansas senior to their preseason watch list.
Garrett, who last week was named to the preseason all-Big 12 team, is the reigning Naismith Defensive Player of the Year and the Jayhawks' top ...
The 2020 NBA draft is now just a couple of weeks away and no one should be surprised if former Jayhawks Devon Dotson and Udoka Azubuike go higher than previously expected.
That's not to say that either former KU All-American is headed for the draft lottery, or even a cushy spot in the middle ...
I’d like to introduce you to KU’s mystery man for the 2020-21 season.
You know his name. You’ve even seen him play. But, yet, you still don’t quite know what to make of him heading into his second season with the program.
The reason? He didn’t exactly play in his first season, ...
Former Oklahoma basketball coach Billy Tubbs, one of the most popular villains of the 1980s in the world of Kansas basketball, died Sunday at age 85.
Tubbs, whose fast-paced, in-your-face brand of basketball made opponents squirm and OU fans squeal with delight during his time with the ...
Although there still is no official word on the season-opening event that would pit Kansas against Gonzaga and Saint Joseph’s in late November in Fort Myers, Fla., Kansas coach Bill Self said Friday that he and Gonzaga coach Mark Few were “committed to playing each other.”
“So ...
Add Kansas basketball coach Bill Self to the list of people in the area who are in full support of Kansas City, Mo., making a push to become the temporary home of the Toronto Raptors.
Self was asked on Friday about the Raptors’ potential need to relocate for the 2020-21 NBA season because ...
It’s easy to remember the big game Christian Braun had against Kansas State last season and to think of that as the highlight of his freshman year.
But to do that would be underselling the impact Braun made during his first season with the Jayhawks. Particularly during the Big 12 portion of ...
For the first time in 10 years, a program other than Kansas has been picked to win the Big 12 men’s basketball title in 2020-21.
The Baylor Bears, many people’s preseason pick to be the No. 1 team in the country, edged out KU at the top of the Big 12 coaches poll on Thursday, picking up ...
Allen Fieldhouse and other venues around the country will be mostly empty throughout the 2020-21 college basketball season, but Kansas coach Bill Self and his players have chosen not to dwell on the negative entering what promises to be the strangest season of their lives.
Earlier this week, ...
The identity of the fourth team headed to Florida over Thanksgiving surfaced on Wednesday morning, [one day after news broke about a potential four-team event in Fort Myers, Fla., featuring Kansas, Auburn and Gonzaga.][1]
According to CBS Sports college hoops analyst Matt Norlander, Saint ...
Already known as one of the best defenders in the conference and the country, Kansas guard Marcus Garrett on Wednesday was honored for the potential of his all-around game.
The 6-foot-5 senior from Dallas was a unanimous selection as one of six players named to the Big 12’s preseason ...