Frank Mason

Drive to win: Motivated Mason hits game-winner in camp scrimmage

Box scoreRed Team (84)Frank Mason 20, Conner Frankamp 20, Perry Ellis 16, Elijah Johnson 12, Cliff Alexander 8, Wayne Selden 4, Landen Lucas 4, Aaron Miles 0, Evan Manning 0.Blue Team (83)Brannen Greene 21, Tyrel Reed 16, Kelly Oubre 14, Jamari Traylor 11, Brady Morningstar 9, Devonté Graham ...

Flippin’ Frank Mason wows campers with gymnastics

Bill Self knows how to wake up his young basketball campers during any lulls in the action: Self, Kansas University’s 12th-year coach, asks sophomore guard Frank Mason to perform a gymnastics routine.“I can tell they love it. It’s exciting to them. They just like it a lot,” said Mason, ...

Column: Tharpe’s time as KU’s starting point guard may be over

Point guard is basketball’s version of football’s quarterback in ways that extend beyond job duties. Things go wrong and it’s almost always the quarterback’s fault. Nobody in sports has a bigger, shallower fan base than the backup quarterback.The past two years, the Kansas University ...

Column: Kansas guards’ defense subpar

Every time Kansas University men’s basketball coach Bill Self talks about the defensive role of one of his point guards, I flash back to a bloody scene from “The Godfather.”The character who plays a movie producer urged by the Godfather to cast Johnny Fontane in the lead role of one of ...

Artist Trey Songz shows up to support pal Frank Mason

Singer, songwriter, rapper and actor Trey Songz, who is used to performing under pressure, had some words of advice for buddy Frank Mason before Wednesday’s Kansas University-Iowa State basketball game in Allen Fieldhouse.“He told me to enjoy myself, play my game and not overdo it,” Mason ...

Bill Self enthused by Frank Mason’s defense vs. Bears

Frank Mason certainly gave Kansas University’s basketball team an offensive boost off the bench in Monday’s 78-68 victory over Baylor.The 5-foot-11 freshman’s nine points off 4-of-5 shooting and six assists against one turnover helped the Jayhawks ultimately conquer the Bears’ zone ...

Column: Like predecessors, Mason should grow out of inconsistency, into talent

Gainesville, Fla. ? Nobody can make a freshman point guard play like a rookie quite like a polished senior backed by a frenzied crowd in a building where only a few feet separate the spectators from the participants.Frank Mason, Kansas University’s super fast, ultra competitive freshman from ...

Frank Mason to open at point guard for Jayhawks

Kansas University basketball coach Bill Self, who has used the same starting lineup the past six games, will alter the opening five Saturday at Colorado.Self says he has decided to go with freshman Frank Mason at the point-guard position in the 2:15 p.m. game in place of junior Naadir Tharpe, ...