In the span of four days this week, four players who helped make up the Kansas men’s basketball team’s bench during the 2022-23 season made the decision to enter the transfer portal instead of returning to Kansas for another season. There could be more where that came from, but, either ...
Before we get too far into this, it’s worth reminding you that Kansas freshman Gradey Dick has been a projected lottery pick by multiple NBA mock drafts throughout the season and he was listed at No. 11 overall in Jonathan Givony’s latest mock draft for ESPN.com, dated March 9, 2023. So, ...
I’ve covered Kansas basketball for a long time and seen all kinds of teams and outcomes. But I can’t recall any team that overcame quite as much as the 2022-23 squad, which saw its season come to an end in heartbreaking fashion Saturday night in Des Moines, Iowa. A damn good Arkansas ...
Des Moines, Iowa — The general consensus of opinion among the Jayhawks is that the biggest difference between the way assistant coach Norm Roberts manages a game on the bench and the way head coach Bill Self does it is that Self is much louder and Roberts is much calmer. On Thursday ...
Des Moines, Iowa — Kansas freshman Gradey Dick is one swish away from breaking the program’s all-time record for most 3-pointers by a freshman in a single season, and he’ll get his next crack at setting the mark at 1 p.m. Thursday against Howard in the opening round of the NCAA ...
There’s been a fair amount of outrage tossed toward the NCAA Tournament selection committee in the aftermath of the committee’s decision to seed Houston above Kansas in the upcoming Big Dance. Understandably so. The committee got that one wrong. Kansas had by far the better resumé — ...
Acting Kansas basketball coach Norm Roberts said Kevin McCullar Jr. would play in today’s Big 12 title game against Texas, “if he’s OK.” KU junior Jalen Wilson, a longtime friend of McCullar’s who has posted two double-doubles in two games at the Big 12 tournament so far, jokingly ...
Kansas City, Mo. — There’s never really a right time to hear that someone — anyone — has been admitted to the hospital for a potentially scary situation that could affect their long-term health. But for those of us in the storytelling business, Thursday was, in a way, the right day ...
