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Jayhawks will go as far as David McCormack can carry them this postseason

Twenty games into a strange, at times hard to watch, Kansas basketball season, a Big Monday victory over Oklahoma State shined a spotlight on David McCormack, as well as the entire KU team’s trajectory. As the regular season winds down and February soon turns into March, these Jayhawks will ...

Jayhawks going around in circles and running out of time

http://www2.kusports.com/photos/2021/feb/06/332002/ A top-five team a little more than a month ago, the Jayhawks now are going around in circles and about to lose their ranking altogether. Throughout a tumultuous start to 2021 for the Kansas basketball team, an early February trip to West ...

Playing through David McCormack isn’t so bad now that he’s improved as passer

When Bill Self said ahead of his Kansas basketball team’s rivalry game against Kansas State that the struggling Jayhawks may need to put an extra emphasis on throwing the ball inside and run the offense through David McCormack more often, some may have shuddered at the thought. That wasn’t ...

After rocky January, Jayhawks need Jalen Wilson to rediscover his ‘swagger’

Earlier in the season, Kansas redshirt freshman Jalen Wilson emerged as a welcome surprise for the Jayhawks. The type of player who produced so much more than was expected out of him that it looked like KU just might spend the whole year ranked in or just outside of the top five. Now coming ...

Jayhawks still searching for turning point after ugly win vs. TCU

Sure, Kansas put an end to its un-blue blood like three-game losing streak Thursday night against TCU. But what transpired at Allen Fieldhouse didn’t come close to resembling the type of turning point in the season the Jayhawks needed. Senior Marcus Garrett spoke earlier in the week of ...