Julian Wright's career at KU

Dynamic duo

Jayhawks Rush, Wright co-players of year

In studying Kansas University’s star-studded men’s basketball roster, Big 12 Conference coaches simply couldn’t decide which player was best.

Self says Wright tops list

Coach: Sophomore had impressive summer

If an award were handed out to the Kansas University men’s basketball player who had the most productive offseason, it’d go to : envelope please : Julian Wright.

Mario Chalmers, who thrived at the off guard position, and Julian Wright, who held his own as an undersized power forward last season, expanded their games earlier this month serving as camp counselors at the Adidas Super 64 and Nike camps.

Wright starts, finishes

Freshman's passing, dunking dandy

Not all zone-busters roam outside the three-point semicircle waiting for the ball to be swung back around to them for open shots.

Wright named Rookie of the Week

Wright becomes third KU player to win honor

Junior P.J. Tucker (Texas) and freshman Julian Wright (Kansas) have been named Phillips 66 Big 12 Conference Player and Rookie of the Week for games of Feb. 20-26 in voting by a panel of media covering the conference. Tucker wins player honors for the sixth time in his career, tying the Big 12 record. Wright is the third KU freshman to win rookie accolades in 2005-06.

Keegan: Keegan: Wright just gets better

As a rule, the last thing you’d want a grade school boy to do is absorb words of wisdom from a whack job like Dennis Rodman. Next thing you know, he’ll be wearing dresses and carving messages into his pink hair.

Wright right from start for KU

The second start of Julian Wright’s college basketball career went much better than his first.

Wright the writer

KU freshman Julian Wright has so much creative energy, it spills off the basketball court and onto paper -- as poetry

Julian Wright’s creativity does not stop on the basketball court. In fact, it’s not even the place his imagination began.

Keegan: Keegan: Wright puts on a show

The impatience within us all wanted Kansas University’s four freshmen to be sensational right away. Look at it this way: If that unrealistic expectation had been fulfilled, we would have been denied the pleasure of watching them get better.

Keegan: Keegan: Kansas’ Wright will thrill

Sometimes a basketball coach will say something that sticks in your head forever. In this case, the coach was Lute Olson, and the words were spoken from a podium in Maui, Hawaii.

Wright has all the right moves

Since logging three minutes against the Wolf Pack on Dec. 1, Julian Wright has done little to disappoint KU fans. The freshman forward led the Jayhawks in scoring 14 points against Western Illinois. He scored a team-high 13 points against Saint Joseph’s and he tossed in 11 points and grabbed six rebounds against California.

Big 12 coaches tap Jayhawk preseason freshman of the year

Julian Wright is delighted the Big 12 Conference’s basketball coaches Monday tapped him preseason freshman of the year.