Perry Ellis will never get kicked out of a library, that’s for sure.“He is a whole different kind of quiet,” Kansas University basketball coach Bill Self said of the Jayhawks’ 6-foot-8, 225-pound sophomore forward from Wichita. “You could be in a room with Perry and neither person ...
Kansas University forward Perry Ellis had a close-up view as KU freshman teammate Wayne Selden drove baseline and put in a one-handed reverse jam during the adidas Nations camp last week in Los Angeles.The only problem? Ellis was playing for the other team.“You can’t really do anything ...
Kansas University sophomore forward Perry Ellis has hit the film room this offseason to improve his game.One of his main studies? Former Jayhawk Marcus Morris, whom Ellis watched quite a bit growing up.“I just really try to look what he does and see how he does it in the system,” Ellis ...
Kansas University sophomore forward Perry Ellis reminisced about his years in elementary school, Tuesday at Bill Self’s Basketball Camp in Horejsi Center.“I remember growing up trying to figure out what I wanted to do. When I was your age, I was better at track, actually,” the 6-foot-8, ...
Barb Parker, single mother of former Douglas County Jayhawks Special Olympics basketball team star Tony Parker, was eating dinner with her favorite player when the doorbell rang Sunday around 7 p.m.The young man at the door of her home in the Wichita suburb of Bel Aire, wondered if Tony, 27, ...
Kansas City, Mo. ? Sitting at the same Sprint Center locker he used in the Big 12 tournament, Kansas University senior center Jeff Withey thought back to a play during the regular season. He couldn’t remember the game. He just remembered not liking the play. Freshman teammate Perry Ellis ...
Box score• KU-ISUKansas City, Mo. ? Tenth-year Kansas basketball coach Bill Self didn’t aim all of his first-half fury at referees John Higgins and Terry Oglesby on the way to a 88-73 victory against Iowa State in a Big 12 tournament semifinal Friday night in the Sprint Center. He saved ...
Box score• KU-ISUKansas City, Mo. ? Giddy Kansas University basketball fans chanted, “Perry, Perry,” as the man of the hour — freshman forward Perry Ellis — completed an interview with ESPN’s Holly Rowe and jogged off the Sprint Center court following the Jayhawks’ 88-73 Big 12 ...
