KU Men’s Basketball

What we learned from KU’s trip to Puerto Rico

The Jayhawks are back from Puerto Rico, and they have left us with three games of exhibition basketball in which the level of competition varied widely from moment to moment, let alone from game to game. The performance of the Puerto Rico Select team last Thursday existed on a different plane ...

KU falls to Bahamas in rematch, 87-81

Given another chance at the Kansas men's basketball team Monday in Puerto Rico, the Bahamian national team accomplished what it could not two days earlier and finished off the Jayhawks. With KU trailing 82-80 in the final minutes, Hunter Dickinson and Kevin McCullar Jr. misfired once apiece ...

KU men’s basketball holds off spirited Bahamian national team, 92-87

The Bahamas national team had just one of its NBA stars available Saturday night, and only for half the game at that, but still managed to give Kansas one of its biggest exhibition tests in recent history. Seven-year NBA veteran Buddy Hield lit up the Jayhawks for 18 points in just 16 ...

KU men’s basketball adds forward Johnny Furphy for upcoming season

Updated 5:10 p.m. Thursday: After nearly a month of reported mutual interest between the Kansas men's basketball program and Johnny Furphy, the Australian standout has committed to KU and will play for the Jayhawks this upcoming season, the school announced Thursday night. The news was first ...

Sadler returns to KU men’s basketball staff

A familiar face has rejoined Kansas men’s basketball ahead of the 2023-24 campaign. Doc Sadler, a longtime head coach at Arkansas-Fort Smith, UTEP, Nebraska and then Southern Miss, who spent the 2012-13 season as KU’s director of basketball operations, has been hired on again as an ...