Being honored and praised for one’s individual play on a national stage 10 times during a three-week stretch can temporarily alter the focus of even the most die-hard team-first athletes.But not Kansas senior Frank Mason III.The Petersburg, Va., native who leaves Kansas as the No. 6 scorer in ...
Kansas senior Frank Mason III on Friday night completed the national player of the year sweep in Los Angeles, hopping on stage one final time at the annual College Basketball Awards to collect the 2017 John R. Wooden Award.Friday’s ceremony, shown live on ESPN2, capped a whirlwind stretch of ...
Bill Self Sr. remembers the first time he realized his son was destined to do big things in the game of basketball.After years of watching current Kansas basketball coach Bill Self both play and aspire to coach the game he loved, the elder Self was there, front and center for every game, when ...
Former Kansas basketball player and assistant coach Brett Ballard is coming home. After leaving Kansas following the 2009-10 season to take over as the head coach at Baker University, Ballard spent five seasons working on Danny Manning’s staffs at Tulsa and Wake Forest. With both him and his ...
If 6-foot-10 forward Carlton Bragg Jr., a former McDonald’s All-American from Cleveland who delivered a mixed bag of results during his first two seasons as a Jayhawk, is going to realize his full potential, it won’t be at Kansas. KU coach Bill Self on Thursday announced in a press release ...
In the business of college sports, no matter where they are working, athletic directors know when they get started the likelihood is high they one day will have to hire and fire a few coaches along the way. At a place like Kansas, where the basketball program doubles as a religion and is ...
He played in the Final Four for Kansas, worked 20 years for Converse, coached AAU basketball and has a son who played at Kansas.Roger Morningstar has known generations of college basketball coaches and he doesn’t stop at saying Bill Self is the best basketball coach he’s ever seen, although ...
Kansas freshman Udoka Azubuike, who suffered a season-ending injury to his left wrist last December, took another step toward recovery on Tuesday.“Udoka had surgery today to remove the hardware, the screw, and it went well,” KU coach Bill Self told the Journal-World Tuesday night. “He’s ...
Just eight days after undergoing arthroscopic surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee, Tyshawn Taylor played 33 minutes for Kansas in a loss to Davidson in December of his senior season. That requires exceptional toughness, so nobody can question the degree of that trait in ...
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is named after Kansas’ first and only losing coach, James Naismith. KU’s winningest coach, Phog Allen (590 victories), was a member of the first Hall of Fame class of inductees in 1959.And Bill Self became on Saturday the third consecutive ...
Make it two for two for Kansas senior Frank Mason III, both in big time player of the year awards and on a sunny Sunday in the desert. The KU point guard, who led the Jayhawks to a 31-5 record and 13th consecutive Big 12 title this season, on Sunday morning was named the 2017 recipient of The ...
Now that it’s official and Bill Self is a Hall of Famer, joining the previous two Kansas basketball coaches, it’s time to glimpse deep into the future to imagine two of the most pressure-packed jobs in all of sports: Kansas athletic director and next Kansas basketball coach.The heat on the ...
Saturday morning at a ceremony in the desert not far from the site of this year’s Final Four, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame officially confirmed something that Kansas basketball fans have believed for years. Bill Self is a Hall of Famer. Self, 54, on Saturday was announced as ...
Danny Manning is laying waste to the widely held belief that great basketball players don’t make good coaches. In Manning’s second year as a head coach, Tulsa ended a 10-year NCAA tournament drought. In his third season at Wake Forest, the school ended a six-year tourney drought.Lynette ...
He played for Larry Brown at Kansas, was coached by John Thompson on the U.S. Olympic team and has been in contact with more than a dozen other Hall of Fame coaches during his playing and coaching career.So when former Kansas standout and assistant coach Danny Manning says that KU coach Bill ...
Make it two days in a row of making history for Kansas senior Frank Mason III, who on Friday was named the winner of this year's Oscar Robertson Trophy given out annually to college basketball's player of the year by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association. One day after becoming the first KU ...
Coaching at a junior college known at the time as West Ark, Doc Sadler remembers the day he met Bill Self, then an Oklahoma State assistant coach watching a game at Connors State on a 1989 recruiting trip.“He told me this one time, and I’ve never forgotten it: ‘It’s a great job, but ...
Frank Mason became on Thursday the 51st college basketball player named Player of the Year by the Associated Press, which has handed out the award 57 times.A check of the records shows that the first 50 recipients all went on to play in the NBA with varying degrees of success. All 50 were NBA ...
Already honored as the top player in college basketball during the 2016-17 season by several national publications, Kansas senior Frank Mason III on Thursday picked up one of the big boys. Just after 3 p.m., The Associated Press revealed that Mason, who became the first player in Big 12 history ...
Chicago ? A loud contingent of Kansas fans were in the United Center on Wednesday night for the 40th annual McDonald’s All-America game, cheering on future Jayhawk forward Billy Preston. The highly touted prospect did not disappoint them.Preston, playing for the West team, scored his team’s ...