It may have taken a while for the Kansas men’s basketball program to fill its 2019 recruiting class, but the Jayhawks are off to headstart in the Class of 2022. Tre White, a top-talent guard at Washington High in Milwaukee, on Sunday orally committed to Kansas, a move that was confirmed on ...
Former Kansas forward Dedric Lawson, a 6-foot-9 junior from Memphis who left school a year early to pursue his NBA dreams, went undrafted during Thursday’s NBA Draft in Brooklyn, N.Y. But it did not take him long to catch on with a team. Just minutes after the draft wrapped around 11:30 ...
Fully focused on making his return to the court with the Kansas Jayhawks next season, KU junior Silvio De Sousa made a quick trip to New York City this week. The reason? To be there when his close friend and fellow countryman Bruno Fernando was drafted during Thursday night’s NBA Draft. ...
NCAA rules prohibit college basketball coaches from watching their teams’ organized scrimmages in the summer, which was probably both good news and bad news for KU coach Bill Self this summer. Self left after introducing the players and interacting with the young campers, but no doubt if ...
It takes a lot to move the sports needle in basketball-crazed Lawrence, Kansas. But former KU golfer Gary Woodland did just that over the weekend. All that was missing was the sound of honking horns downtown and on campus. Just like one of those weekends in March when the Jayhawks are ...
All of the recent talk about the Kansas basketball program not landing a Top 40 recruit in the 2019 recruiting class made me curious about which past class the current one most favorably compares to. The classes in 2008 and 2011 immediately came to mind. While both of those classes ...
The jersey numbers are out for the five newcomers who have joined the Kansas basketball roster this offseason. And while there’s no telling exactly what their futures hold, this group, at least as of today, appears to be a group that Kansas fans should expect to see around for a while. Of ...
He called his shot several days ago and backed it up on Wednesday, [shortly after 4-star wing Jalen Wilson committed to Kansas.][1] The 2019-20 Jayhawks are the No. 1 team in all the land in the preseason according to national college hoops analyst Jeff Goodman, of watchstadium.com, who ...
It was just one scrimmage with no real strategy or sets being run, but it still seemed worthwhile to track the 3-point shooting of the Kansas men’s basketball team during Tuesday’s camp scrimmage at Allen Fieldhouse. In all, the Jayhawks shot 16 of 48 from 3-point range in the untimed, ...
It’s been a wild ride for Kansas basketball fans who have been tracking the Jayhawks’ efforts in the 2019 recruiting class. From the days of banking on 5-star prospects like Jeremiah Robinson-Earl and Matt Hurt coming to town to the whiffs and near-misses that surrounded both, it’s been ...
It’s time for another high-profile announcement from the Class of 2019. And this time, most of the national recruiting analysts believe things will end well for the Kansas men’s basketball program. Per his Twitter account, [4-star wing Jalen Wilson,][1] a 6-foot-8, 210-pound prospect ...
With 4-star prospect Jalen Wilson now having completed his visits to Kansas and North Carolina, it’s time to move into the waiting phase of the talented wing’s recruitment. The former Michigan signee and native Texan, who recently received his release from Michigan after former Wolverines ...
**Topeka —** [The college basketball 3-point line is moving back at the Division I men’s level during the 2019-20 season][1] and the Kansas Jayhawks aren’t too worried about it. That was the vibe given off by four current Jayhawks who were at Washburn University working former KU ...
Two members of the 2008 national championship team rounded out the Elijah Johnson project known as Self Made, an all-Kansas alumni team hoping to participate in this summer’s event known as The Basketball Tournament. Darrell Arthur and Darnell Jackson were announced late last week as the ...
It’s been a big week for former Kansas basketball greats and Halls of Fame, with Nick Collison and Perry Ellis both receiving career honors in the past seven days. Last weekend was Ellis’ turn, as the former KU forward and native Kansan was inducted into the Kansas State High School ...
As if Kansas point guard Devon Dotson has not had enough to think about during the past few weeks, now the sophomore-to-be appears to be contemplating a number change. A day after announcing his decision to return to KU for Year 2 instead of opting for the uncertainty of the NBA Draft, Dotson ...
Barring something unforeseen happening on the recruiting trail in the next couple of weeks — and let’s face it, absolutely nothing would surprise me the way things have gone this offseason — the Kansas men’s basketball team is moving toward the 2019-20 season facing the prospects of ...
Through its “Next Stars” program, [which now has a 5-star face in former KU target R.J. Hampton,][1] Australia’s National Basketball League is making its move toward international relevance. But the goal of the league is not to replace the NBA, rather to help it. So said NBL ...
R.J. Hampton he is not, but another Texas-based basketball player elected to join the Kansas men’s basketball program over the weekend. According to a Tweet from the Northfield Mount Hermon team website, Michael Jankovich, the son of former Bill Self assistant and current SMU head coach Tim ...
Five-star prospect R.J. Hampton, the No. 6-ranked player in Rivals.com's 2019 rankings and a top Kansas target, announced on Twitter on Friday afternoon that he had picked a date to reveal his college decision. "The time has come," Hampton Tweeted. "Watch Get Up ESPN on Tuesday, May 28. I ...