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KU women to play in WNIT
The Kansas University women’s basketball team, which finished the 2007-08 regular season and league tournament with an overall record of 16-15 overall (4-12 Big 12), will host a second-round WNIT game next Monday in Allen Fieldhouse.
6Sports video: Lady Firebird orally commits to OSU
The Oklahoma State women’s basketball team will add a Lawrence produce in 2010: Free State High sophomore Ashli Hill is verbally committed to the Cowgirls.
6Sports video: Hawks to face Big Sky champs
The real season begins for Kansas: Thursday morning the Jayhawks begin their quest to the big dance against Big Sky champions Portland State.
6Sports video: KU rallies after rocky first half
Let’s relive Sunday afternoon at the Sprint Center in Kansas City: 19,000 fans looked on as Kansas and Texas swapped leads 14 times and tied six others. Kevin Romary has more.
Office pool tidbits
It happens every year. You pore over your brackets, determined that this will be the year you win the company pool. And every year you end up watching Bill in accounting gloat as he claims another improbable win.
KU fans say team’s No. 1 seed expected, earned
After defeating Texas in the Big 12 Tournament championship game, the Kansas University men’s basketball team waited on the floor of the Sprint Center in Kansas City to learn its fate in the NCAA Tournament.
Next opponent ‘just excited to be in’
Big Sky champs practice after selection
Portland State’s men’s basketball team gathered in a local restaurant on Sunday to watch the NCAA Tournament selection show. About halfway through, the Vikings learned they were a No. 16 seed and would play Kansas University on Thursday in Omaha, Neb. So how did they celebrate? They finished up, headed back to campus and conducted a practice.
Kansas basketball notebook
Brandon Rush (most outstanding player) and Mario Chalmers were KU’s representatives on the all-tournament team.
Three-peat
Kansas wins 'a heck of a basketball game'
Bill Self stood off to the side and watched with pride as his Big 12 champions played with, and posed with, the league tournament title trophy high atop a podium Sunday afternoon at Sprint Center.
Keegan: Keegan: Jayhawks, Longhorns show few weaknesses
Texas could make it all the way to the Alamodome, play as well as it did Sunday afternoon in the Sprint Center and win the national title with a performance of that caliber.
No. 1 no big deal
KU coach, players not satisfied with top seed
Kansas University’s basketball players put down their forks, knives and paper plates momentarily, clapping their hands in approval Sunday afternoon after learning via CBS-TV they’d been granted a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Not many selection surprises
The inexact science of putting together the NCAA Tournament bracket turned out to be pretty exact this time around.
Jayhawks notch 11-3 victory over La. Tech
Eight Jayhawks combined for 12 hits as the Kansas softball team defeated Louisiana Tech, 11-3, in five innings Sunday during the final contest of the Kansas Invitational.
KU tennis falls to MU
Kansas University lost the doubles point, rebounded to take the first three matches in singles, but ultimately fell to Missouri, 4-3, in a Big 12 Conferent tennis dual on Sunday.
KU baseball stuns Longhorns
Sam Freeman pitched six strong innings to pick up his third victory of the season, while senior Ryne Price had a two-run single in the seventh inning as Kansas stunned the 10th-ranked Longhorns, 7-2, Sunday afternoon at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.
Carolina claims ACC title
Wisconsin cruises past Illinois
One by one, North Carolina’s players climbed onto the platform to snip a piece of the net to celebrate their Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championship. There were plenty of smiles and laughter, yet the victory party seemed somehow subdued.
‘Horns ‘left it out on the court’
It’s hard to keep up with a team raining three-pointers like Kansas University’s men’s basketball team was Sunday. But Texas coach Rick Barnes doesn’t think the Jayhawks’ 15 threes were the reason Texas lost, 84-74, in the Big 12 tournament final at the Sprint Center.
Former KU A.D. has split interest
Twelve and 13 years ago, a nation of college basketball fans watched former Kansas University athletic director Bob Frederick get grilled about the NCAA Tournament selection committee’s decisions. Frederick served as chairman of the committee then and called the experience, “probably the most rewarding and best time I had professionally.”
Quick look: analyzing brackets
Looking at the four regions of the NCAA Tournament
Commentary: Same ol’ political quagmire with NCAA
The NCAA ramped up a public relations campaign over the past few weeks in order to convince people that politics and television money play no part in the selection process for the men’s basketball tournament.