No Kansas University student athlete ever met Phog Allen’s ultimate standard for excellence better than Howard Engleman, the multi-faceted former basketball All-American who died Wednesday at age 91.Allen, the Jayhawk coaching immortal, often was asked to name his top players. His answer ...

Lots of attention is flowing toward Conner Teahan as the 6-foot-5 Kansas University basketball reserve tries to make the football team as a quarterback, a position where he earned district honors at Kansas City’s Rockhurst High.Not likely he’ll make the final cut for the top three, but you ...

Two technical aspects of college basketball keep bugging me as speculation broadens about next season and how Kansas fits into the 2011 Big 12 picture.One item goes clear back to the Kansas-Missouri game at Columbia on March 6. KU’s Marcus Morris had a violent cranial collision with an ...

Butler’s emergence as 2010 NCAA basketball champion would be one of the greatest underdog stories in college history, maybe sports in general. Go Bulldogs!But in all the rehashing of previous triumphs by surprise winners, there is a tendency to overlook the 1961 and 1963 stunners by ...

Kansas University basketball fans increasingly have embraced the school’s brilliant history. By now some are even conversant with the marvelous records and players of the 1930s before there was an NCAA Tournament to stir the pot and create bracket mania.Kansas State needs to get the same ...

As the Kansas University basketball team begins stalking another NCAA title, it needs to copycat this:Jan. 2, 2010, Philadelphia — Kansas 84, Temple 52.That was no weakling the Jayhawks rag-dolled that day. The Owls went on to win the Atlantic 10 title, capture a No. 5 NCAA Tournament seeding ...

In all the glitter, glamour and eulogizing during college basketball tournaments and NCAA March Madness, some of the seamier aspects of competing teams in the Big Show get swept under the rug. All you have to do is scan the footnotes of the brackets since 1961 to realize the rather rampant ...

Talk about assets — this Kansas basketball team is loaded with them as it begins a realistic quest for another NCAA title.The Jayhawks don’t have to beat Missouri Saturday ... they don’t have to win even one game in the Big 12 tournament ... they, at least for a while, don’t need ...