Kansas University freshman center Joel Embiid “practiced full speed today,” coach Bill Self was happy to report Sunday.Embiid, who was slowed by knee and back injuries while playing just 18 minutes in Monday’s loss at Kansas State, was held out of Saturday’s win over TCU. He’s slated ...
Brannen Greene disagrees with those who say some of Kansas University’s first-year players, including center Joel Embiid, have hit the fabled “freshman wall.”“Joel has had a great freshman year. So has Wiggs (Andrew Wiggins), Wayne (Selden). All of us have had a pretty good freshman ...
Rest and rehab is ahead for Kansas University freshman Joel Embiid for at least the next couple days as the 7-footer recovers from an aching knee and sore back.“He definitely will not practice. The earliest he’d practice is Friday,” KU coach Bill Self said Tuesday night. “We don’t ...
It hasn’t taken Cameroon native Joel Embiid long to immerse himself in Kansas University’s basketball program.The 7-foot freshman — who in a recent interview discussed the exploits of Jayhawk legend Wilt Chamberlain — on Wednesday invoked the name of a certain school located 85 miles ...
There just wasn’t enough time for Joel Embiid to make the 7,000-mile trek from Kansas to Cameroon during the Kansas University basketball team’s four-day Christmas vacation.So the 7-foot freshman took advantage of the unusually quiet Jayhawker Towers while hanging out in Lawrence from Dec. ...
Perry Ellis OK after hard foulKU coach Bill Self on sophomore forward Perry EllisThe Keegan RatingsBox ScoreRight about the time the nasty weather hit Lawrence, Georgetown coach John Thompson III uttered words that should make us all shift our focus from the future to the present when ...
Bill Self has coached in games that featured terrific basketball players competing for and against him. Andrew Wiggins, not yet 19, already has played with and against remarkable talents. Still, Kansas University freshman center Joel Embiid does things on the basketball court that fill the two ...
Bill Self will have a blast holding up a mirror to his players by watching video of them, and he’ll use it to teach them how to move the ball better.Self’s Kansas University basketball team will improve through those sessions, but there is another issue every bit as important.Freshman ...
