Tucker Vang will join the Kansas men’s basketball team as a walk-on, KU coach Bill Self announced Monday. The guard will be entering his junior year at KU and will start practicing with the Jayhawks when the fall 2016 semester begins in August.“Tucker has been around the program for a year, ...
Tucker Vang, who practiced daily against the Kansas University women’s basketball players last season as a member of what’s known as the “Dream Team” now will live a dream as an official member of the men’s squad.Vang, a 6-foot-1 junior out of Goddard High, has been added to the ...
Some highlights of a phone conversation with former Mississippi State guard Malik Newman, who on Friday chose KU as his transfer destination over Western Kentucky, Oregon, North Carolina State and Miami. …• On choosing KU the second time around: "I feel like a lot of the arrows were ...
Kansas University's Bill Self applauds the NCAA for letting its basketball coaches hold official workouts with their players while summer school is in session."I think it's very important," Self said Wednesday morning on the Big 12 summer coaches teleconference. "I think it's a great rule ...
Former Kansas University guard Brannen Greene, who was not selected in the 2016 NBA Draft, will play for the Memphis Grizzlies summer league team.A representative of Excel Sports Management confirmed the news to the Journal-World today.Former KU forward Jamari Traylor, who also was not taken in ...
Former Kansas University forward Perry Ellis, whose name was not called in Thursday's NBA Draft, will play for the Dallas Mavericks summer league team, Ellis' mom confirmed on Friday night.The Mavericks will compete in the Orlando summer league July 2-8 and Las Vegas summer league July 8-18. It ...
Former Kansas University forward Cheick Diallo, who was generally regarded as a first-round NBA Draft pick in most mock drafts, wound up a second-round pick of the Los Angeles Clippers, then was shipped to the New Orleans Pelicans on Thursday night.The 6-foot-9 Mali native was selected No. 33 ...
Former Duke University point guard Derryck Thornton has decided to continue his basketball career at USC.Thornton, a 6-foot-2 freshman who recently revealed plans to leave the Durham, N.C., school after one season, on Friday chose the Trojans over Kansas University, Washington and ...
