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6Sports video: Freshmen stepping up for Kansas women
It’s becoming abundantly clear that the best four players on the KU women’s basketball team are all freshmen.
6Sports video: Finals week gives KU men needed break, practice
It’s a scheduling hole in December that every team in college basketball has to deal with. Simply put, it’s finals week at the University of Kansas.
Practice habits hold key to KU future
Self will use 10-day break as evaluation session to find right players for success
Bill Self, who has not been satisfied by his Kansas University basketball players’ practice habits, soon may see a dramatic increase in intensity at workouts. The Jayhawk coach is using a 10-day stretch between the Toledo and Winston-Salem State games as an evaluation session of sorts.
The 2006 Woody Awards: Early returns
No bowl means no awards delay
Behold the annual postseason awards for Kansas University’s football team. This year’s honors are passed out a little earlier, because KU’s season ended a little earlier. A 6-6 record wasn’t enough to earn a bowl bid, so the Jayhawks are instead left accepting trophies that don’t exist from the Journal-World.
Kansas 11th in new AP poll
UCLA, Pittsburgh hold steady in top two slots
There wasn’t much change at the top of the Associated Press Top 25 poll this week.
Ducks prove they belong in poll with convincing home victory
Bryce Taylor scored 21 points to lead No. 22 Oregon to a 92-64 victory over Bethune-Cookman on Monday night.
Keegan: Keegan: KU overrated after shaky start
Obviously, it’s not where a team is ranked during the season that matters, it’s where it’s seeded come tournament time. Still, as long as a Top 25 is released on a weekly basis, it would be nice for teams to earn their rankings by performance on the court, rather than on reputation.
KU football lands two players
Kansas University’s football team snagged two more commitments stemming from last weekend’s official visits - both highly rated prospects out of Texas.