What Kansas and its fans consider a rough patch is evidently different than at other basketball programs, many of which would be delighted to receive a No. 7 seed in the NCAA Tournament, as KU did in 2025 in the worst season of Bill Self’s tenure as head coach. That’s not to say that other ...
SAN DIEGO — The college career of the player Bill Self called the best he had ever recruited at Kansas ended with a futile half-jump. Twenty-two feet away from the hoop into which St. John’s point guard Dylan Darling was about to deposit the basketball for a game-winning layup, there stood ...
SAN DIEGO — What happened on the dais in the media tent just outside Viejas Arena on Sunday afternoon ensured that any assessment of the upcoming Kansas men’s basketball offseason must come with a very big asterisk. In stating after KU’s loss to St. John’s that he hasn’t decided yet ...
Jamari McDowell has by any metric exceeded expectations this season. The offseason acquisitions of players like reclassifying freshman wing Kohl Rosario and Loyola-Chicago transfer guard Jayden Dawson seemed poised to push McDowell far down the rotation, especially because both those players ...
Updated 1:53 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, 2026: STILLWATER, Okla. — Kansas coach Bill Self has spoken at length this season — even at his team’s happiest moments, like after KU beat No. 1 Arizona on Feb. 9 — about how he believes his team can reach another level of play when it has all its ...
Plenty of the offseason discussion of the Kansas football team, especially before the Jayhawks have taken the field for spring practices, will inevitably center on the Jayhawks’ numerous and in many cases quite promising transfer-portal additions. That’s natural considering how much KU had ...