KU Men’s Basketball

KU men’s basketball slated for home-and-home series with North Carolina

A national championship rematch is headed to Lawrence in 2024 — and to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the following year. Kansas Athletics announced Monday morning that its basketball team will take on North Carolina in a home-and-home series, set to be contested at Allen Fieldhouse on Nov. 8, ...

Mass Street’s TBT run concludes with third-round loss

Heartfire seized control in the second quarter and never relinquished it. The veteran squad, coached by longtime NBA player and ESPN analyst LaPhonso Ellis and making a repeat run through The Basketball Tournament, shook off an early slump to score 10 straight points in the second quarter as ...

Mass Street escapes Mizzou alumni 69-65 in unconventional Border War

Thomas Robinson did it, again. The All-American forward and NBA lottery pick nailed the game-winning basket for Mass Street, a team of mostly Kansas alumni, in a 69-65 victory over the Show Me Squad, Missouri’s alumni team, in the second round of The Basketball Tournament on Saturday in ...

KU men’s basketball could go several directions in addressing deficient depth

With Marcus Adams Jr.’s departure, the Kansas men's basketball roster is now as thin as it has been at any point this summer, and it’s almost August. No need to panic — the Jayhawks’ remaining group of scholarship players still has a case to be the best in the country — but 10 ...

Mass Street will need to step it up against Mizzou alumni squad

It's in July, it's in Wichita and the players are just a bit older, to put it generously. Ultimately, it's still Kansas vs. Missouri. The top-seeded Mass Street and No. 4 Show Me Squad alumni teams, after surviving scares Wednesday night against lower-seeded foes (a much larger scare in Mass ...

Langford, Robinson lead Mass Street to TBT comeback

Wichita — Mass Street nearly ended up a footnote in a Cinderella story. Instead, its opponent We Are D3 became one in Keith Langford’s story. The 39-year-old former Kansas guard, who had positioned The Basketball Tournament as his swan song to professional basketball, willed the KU alumni ...