One of the hardest things to do in sports is to play hard in a game they tell you doesn’t matter. Monday night at Allen Fieldhouse, it was clear that no one told the Kansas women’s basketball team that the WNIT didn’t matter, and the Jayhawks rolled past Missouri, 75-47 in the second ...
I’ve covered Kansas basketball for a long time and seen all kinds of teams and outcomes. But I can’t recall any team that overcame quite as much as the 2022-23 squad, which saw its season come to an end in heartbreaking fashion Saturday night in Des Moines, Iowa. A damn good Arkansas ...
Des Moines, Iowa — The general consensus of opinion among the Jayhawks is that the biggest difference between the way assistant coach Norm Roberts manages a game on the bench and the way head coach Bill Self does it is that Self is much louder and Roberts is much calmer. On Thursday ...
There’s been a fair amount of outrage tossed toward the NCAA Tournament selection committee in the aftermath of the committee’s decision to seed Houston above Kansas in the upcoming Big Dance. Understandably so. The committee got that one wrong. Kansas had by far the better resumé — ...
Regular season polls might not mean much in the big picture of who cuts down the nets in April, but this season, more than ever, they were a great indicator of just how wide open the race for the national title really is. Forget about the No. 1 spot changing hands as often as it did. There ...
You’ve watched the games, followed the scores, tracked the race and seen the slugfest that the Big 12 Conference became this basketball season. Now, you’ve been tasked with predicting how the conference tournament will play out. Good luck. One of the easiest ways to start this ...