Given the way he started the season, exploding onto the college basketball scene as one of the country’s top breakout players, Jalen Wilson’s past two games have not exactly lived up to the standard he set for himself. In a [close-call KU win over Oklahoma][1] at home last weekend and ...
Even after Oklahoma State tied the game with a late and somewhat unlikely 3-pointer by junior guard Isaac Likekele on Tuesday night, Kansas coach Bill Self believed his team was in prime position to win. The fact that they didn’t, [and instead came home with a 75-70 loss,][1] was the result ...
The top six spots in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 stayed the same, with Kansas (10-2 overall, 4-1 Big 12) again landing at No. 6 behind Gonzaga, Baylor, Villanova, Texas and Iowa. The Jayhawks’ spot in the AP Top 25 extends their NCAA record to 228 consecutive weeks in the poll and ...
College basketball games are 40 minutes long and, with very few exceptions, are rarely played to perfection. Misreads, missteps and missed assignments are a part of every game and they often determine the outcome. Every once in a while, within those imperfect games, there exist possessions ...
Evidently, dunking a basketball can be contagious. After recording just 16 dunks through their first 10 games of the season, the sixth-ranked Kansas Jayhawks recorded a whopping total of seven in [Tuesday night’s runaway win at TCU.][1] While the dunks were worth 14 points in a game the ...
A whirlwind few days for Ochai Agbaji culminated Tuesday night with the Kansas junior dropping 19 points to help [No. 6 Kansas sprint past TCU, 93-64,][1] in Fort Worth, Texas. In the roughly 72 hours that followed Saturday’s home loss to Texas, Agbaji twice encountered situations that ...
Kansas freshman Dajuan Harris knew well in advance of [Tuesday’s 93-64 victory at TCU][1] that senior Marcus Garrett might be out because of a head injury and that he might be asked to step up in Garrett’s absence. And he played like he was perfectly comfortable with that being the case. ...
The Kansas Jayhawks have been saying all season that they would have to bring their own energy inside a mostly empty Allen Fieldhouse in order to create something that even comes close to resembling their regular home-court advantage. On Saturday, [in an 84-59 loss to No. 8 Texas,][1] the ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program made the latest cut for five-star, Class of 2022 guard Gradey Dick, who narrowed his list to a final eight earlier this week. Joining KU on the list of programs still alive for the services of Rivals.com’s No. 37-ranked player in the 2022 class are: ...
Everybody seems to have an opinion on why the College Football Playoff got it wrong this year or why the system is broken. I just have a question: What’s new? Sure, there have been seasons when it has been much more clear who the four best teams in college football have been. But there ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program picked up its first commitment from the Class of 2022 on Saturday evening, when four-star guard Kyle Cuffe Jr. picked the Jayhawks. There’s been talk about Cuffe Jr. reclassifying into the 2021 class and joining the Jayhawks next season. But nothing ...
Although both players have been a little slow out of the gate, Kansas coach Bill Self said Tuesday that he believes sophomore Tristan Enaruna and junior newcomer Tyon Grant-Foster could wind up being two of KU’s best players by season’s end. “I think two of our best players in February ...
You won’t find many bigger fans of looking in advance at the start of the Kansas men’s basketball team’s Big 12 schedule than me. And I was at it again earlier this week, before KU closed out its non-conference slate with wins over Creighton and Omaha at Allen Fieldhouse. Conference ...
Mere minutes before news broke that the Duke men’s basketball program was cancelling the rest of its non-conference schedule in the wake of Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski’s recent questions about whether it was wise to be playing basketball, Kansas coach Bill Self explained why he thought it ...
With junior forward David McCormack struggling for the second game in a row, sixth-ranked Kansas went to a five-guard lineup early in the second half against Saint Joseph’s on Friday in Fort Myers, Fla. And the Jayhawks never went back. After the game — [a 94-72 Kansas victory][1] that ...
The rosters are a little different and we don’t yet know how talented the two teams actually are or where they’ll end up in March. But there’s little denying that just the sound of “Kansas vs. Gonzaga” has a pretty NCAA Tournament-type ring to it. Depending on when you're reading ...
With the season opener against top-ranked Gonzaga now less than a week away, all signs continue to point to the Kansas men’s basketball team being on pace to open the 2020-21 as scheduled — or is it rescheduled? — in Fort Myers, Fla., on Thanksgiving. But it’s what happens after that ...
It’s easy to listen to Kansas basketball coach Bill Self talk about Devon Dotson not getting drafted being a good thing and question if Self is being real or trying to put the best possible spin on a tough situation. But [Dotson’s ultimate landing spot with Chicago][1] as an undrafted ...
Nothing about Wednesday night's NBA draft went the way former Kansas point guard expected it to go. But after working with his agent and family [to find the best landing spot after unexpectedly going undrafted,][1] Dotson took to Twitter on Thursday night to show that he was doing just fine. ...
With family members surrounding him inside the Sunrise Christian Academy gymnasium, four-star Class of 2021 forward Zach Clemence made his commitment to Kansas official on Saturday morning by signing his national letter of intent. "This day has been great so far," Clemence told Jacob ...