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Bill Self on 'embarrassment' of Kansas-Kansas State brawl: 'Ridiculous' it happened in the stands
Punishments are expected to be handed down Wednesday for players involved in melee, which occurred in final seconds of Kansas-Kansas State. → Read More
Marcus Garrett 3s power KU basketball to 86-56 exhibition victory over Fort Hays State
LAWRENCE — On a new-look Kansas basketball team chock-full of first-time faces, a new look from a returning Jayhawk could provide as big a boost as any this season.If nothing else, Marcus Garrett at least showcased Thursday night that he’s brought the tools that have made him one of Bill Self’s favorite players back to the dance for his junior campaign.Garrett, who filled in for hobbled… → Read More
KU basketball's Udoka Azubuike named Big 12 preseason player of the year
LAWRENCE — The Big 12’s men’s basketball coaches expect big things from Kansas’ biggest weapon.Senior center Udoka Azubuike was named the conference’s preseason player of the year and joined Jayhawk teammate Devon Dotson as a first-team all-league selection, the Big 12 announced Wednesday. The 7-foot, 270-pounder out of Delta, Nigeria, is the ninth KU player to earn the preseason player of the… → Read More
'Big Fella' back: Udoka Azubuike returning to KU basketball for senior season
LAWRENCE — Udoka Azubuike waited until the 11th hour — and then some — but the Kansas basketball center has announced his long-awaited decision.The “Big Fella” is returning for a senior season.Azubuike on Monday afternoon announced he will delay his professional future for one more year in order to return for a final campaign with the Jayhawks, KU coach Bill Self said in a news release. Azubuike… → Read More
Bill Self kills rumors of NBA departure: 'I'll be the coach here at Kansas next year'
LAWRENCE — Bill Self left no gray area, no wiggle room, and no ambiguity regarding his future.Speaking Tuesday night after Kansas basketball’s season-ending banquet, Self put to rest rumors that his career trajectory will soon take the Hall of Fame head coach to a setting outside Lawrence.“As soon as the NBA rumors came out, I went to our administration and said, ‘Hey, just so you know, I’m not… → Read More
Heartbroken Dedric Lawson, other KU basketball players face tough offseason decisions
SALT LAKE CITY — Mitch Lightfoot was probably never going to give a perfect answer in this setting. Few, if any, can.What happened midway through → Read More
Inexperienced KU basketball smothers Northeastern 87-53 in tourney opener
SALT LAKE CITY — Bill Self may have left a hand print on Quentin Grimes’ backside.Grimes, the Kansas basketball freshman guard, had just committed a mental lapse on a switch during the first half of Thursday’s first-round NCAA Tournament game against Northeastern at Vivint Smart Home Arena — the fourth-seeded Jayhawks had recently changed personnel, and by the time Grimes realized his squad was… → Read More
A decade has passed since KU basketball last faced this NCAA Tournament obstacle
LAWRENCE — Dedric Lawson needed a second to process the news. A teammate did a double take.Lawson and his fellow Kansas basketball players → Read More
'Hawks glad for Midwest bracket
LAWRENCE — Kansas basketball’s road to a potential Final Four will begin in Salt Lake City.Regardless of what happens there, though, the Jayhawks will be coming home for the second weekend.KU earned the No. 4 seed in the Midwest Regional, revealed during Sunday night’s NCAA Tournament selection show. The Jayhawks (25-9) will battle No. 13 seed Northeastern (23-10) in an opening-round matchup at… → Read More
KU battles past Texas, 65-57
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — There are plenty of trophies in Bill Self’s office, but there is no time machine.Still, if a visitor from the far-off future of, say, late Thursday evening would have come to the Kansas basketball coach ahead of his team’s clash with Texas in a Big 12 Tournament quarterfinal at Sprint Center and spoiled the big-picture details of the result, the Hall of Famer probably would… → Read More
Why the 'fun starts now' for KU basketball at the Big 12 Tournament
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas basketball needed a new mantra.Breaking the huddle after a Wednesday afternoon practice at Sprint Center in advance of the Big 12 Tournament, the No. 17-ranked Jayhawks (23-8) were, for the first time in 15 years, unable to as a group holler the oft-heard departing words — “Big 12 champs.” Seeded third, KU last week saw its national record-breaking streak of 14 straight… → Read More
The Streak is over: KU basketball eliminated from Big 12 race after 81-68 defeat at OU
NORMAN, Okla. — The Streak is over.If Kansas basketball has anything close to a repeat performance of Tuesday night’s effort at Oklahoma in the NCAA Tournament, so too will be the Jayhawks’ season.KU fell 81-68 to the Sooners at Lloyd Noble Center, coming out flat on both ends of the court en route to a 19-point first-half deficit from which the nation’s No. 13-ranked team could never truly… → Read More
KU basketball senses urgency ahead of must-win showdown versus K-State
By Matt GallowayLUBBOCK, Texas — In the immediate aftermath of a defeat far uglier than Kansas basketball is accustomed to, at least one Jayhawk → Read More
Lagerald Vick taking indefinite leave of absence from KU basketball
LAWRENCE — The hits keep on coming for Kansas basketball. The program on Thursday night announced an indefinite leave of absence for starting guard → Read More
K-STATEMENT
MANHATTAN — The simplest message can often times be the most biting.Some Kansas State basketball fans chose to reference in-state rival Kansas’ apparel provider — “Adidas wants a refund,” one sign read. Others prodded the Jayhawks for a perceived role in the ongoing college basketball corruption scandal, with KU coach Bill Self’s face plastered on a faux $100 bill distributed within the Wildcat… → Read More
Seeing Red: Emotional Kansas basketball routs Texas Tech, 79-63
LAWRENCE — Texas Tech coach Chris Beard entered Allen Fieldhouse with eyes wide open.Facing a reeling Kansas basketball squad stung by both the → Read More
Offensively challenged KU tumbles
AUSTIN, Texas — Approximately two hours after Lagerald Vick ended one of dozens of poor Kansas basketball possessions and only moments after the final buzzer sounded on the Jayhawks’ latest face-plant, the team’s lone senior offered a blunt assessment.“We walked in the locker room and Lagerald said, ‘We suck on the road. We’ve just got to do something different,’ ” recalled junior forward Dedric… → Read More
Top-ranked KU basketball rides biggest statistical shortcoming to 74-71 win over No. 17 Villanova
LAWRENCE — In order to remain undefeated, retain its No. 1 national ranking and earn a small, small measure of revenge for a great deal of recent → Read More