Former Kansas University point guard Naadir Tharpe was back in Lawrence this weekend to help out former KU teammate Ben McLemore at his Sir McLemore Summer Slam event, held Saturday at the Community Building.Tharpe, who left KU this spring with the intent to transfer after three seasons with ...
Former Kansas University point guard Naadir Tharpe isn't transferring to a new college basketball program. CBSsports.com's Jon Rothstein reported Wednesday Tharpe, who left KU in May, after the conclusion of his junior season, will give the NBA D-League a shot."I didn't want to sit out," Tharpe ...
Providence and UMass have emerged as possible transfer destinations of former Kansas University point guard Naadir Tharpe.CBSsports.com’s Jeff Borzello tweeted on Tuesday that the 5-foot-11 Worcester, Massachusetts, native is being pursued by both schools. Playing overseas also was listed as ...
Interviewing him for three years, I never once heard Naadir Tharpe say, “At this juncture.” But there it was in the press release announcing his transfer, so he absolutely, 100 percent must have said it. Not only that, Tharpe used the phrase “Due to extenuating circumstances” for what I ...
Kansas University junior Naadir Tharpe — who was on top of the college basketball world after being named national player of the week Jan. 21 after scoring 44 points in victories over Iowa State and Oklahoma State, and at rock bottom after a risqué photo surfaced on Twitter nine weeks later ...
Kansas University junior point guard Naadir Tharpe will not return for his senior season, he and head coach Bill Self announced on Thursday.“Naadir and I have talked numerous times since he’s been here about his role and about his situation back home with his daughter,” Self said. ...
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 ...
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 ...
