As the Big Ten prepares to become a 16-team, coast-to-coast superconference with the additions of USC and UCLA in 2024, it is ending a 40-year relationship with ESPN and moving toward partnerships with two new networks. Two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on ...
When news broke this week that [ESPN had turned down a massive rights package offered by the Big Ten Conference — $380 million per year for seven years —][1] my thoughts immediately turned to the Big 12. Without the Big Ten in the mix for the first time in nearly 40 years, ESPN is going ...
A couple of weeks after making the decision to return to Kansas for his redshirt junior season, KU’s Jalen Wilson noted that the freshman class the Jayhawks will go to battle with during the 2022-23 season reminded him a lot of the group he came in with as a freshman in 2019-20. “Just ...
I have yet to see [new KU commitment Chris Johnson][1] play basketball in person, but watching his highlight clips showed me everything I needed to know. Johnson is the guard version of current Kansas forward Jalen Wilson. Big, physical, tough and fearless, Johnson plays a brand of ...
Long before new Kansas basketball commitment Chris Johnson could drive, former Texas Longhorns star T.J. Ford would pick him up and take him to whatever gym he needed to go to. The two are from the same neighborhood in the Houston area, and Ford, who has long been a basketball mentor for ...
The University of Kansas men’s basketball program landed its first oral commitment in the 2023 recruiting class on Tuesday evening, when four-star prospect Chris Johnson announced his plans to attend KU. Ranked No. 33 overall in his class by the 247 Sports composite rankings, Johnson, of ...