Houston coach Kelvin Sampson, in praising his team’s maturity after it beat Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday night, uttered one of his typical aphorisms: “There’s a 94-foot slab of rectangular wood we play on. What goes on outside that is not in our control.” While Sampson may ...
Disaster struck twice for Kansas on Saturday night. Once in regulation and once in the first overtime period, the Jayhawks held six-point leads late against higher-ranked Houston. In the second half, they allowed back-to-back floaters by Milos Uzan, committed a five-second violation on the ...
After his team came into Lawrence and found itself on the receiving end of arguably Kansas’ best performance of the 2023-24 season, Houston coach Kelvin Sampson said it was “sacrilege” for KU to be the underdog in any game, especially at Allen Fieldhouse. “You challenge the Jayhawk ...
Fort Worth, Texas — Early-enrolling freshman forward Bryson Tiller’s transition to Kansas has been a smooth one in virtually every way — with one exception. “It’s great,” he told broadcaster Brian Hanni on KU’s pregame radio show on Wednesday. “I’m really loving it up here. ...
Fort Worth, Texas — Kansas coach Bill Self doesn’t think his team has dramatically improved over the last couple months. In November, he said, the Jayhawks were playing with a better pace. They also had a defensive edge at first, before they “went soft,” and they’ve had to fight to ...
Updated 10:21 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 23: Fort Worth, Texas — The crowd at Schollmaier Arena was energetic as it had been all Wednesday night, fired up by TCU’s renewed on-court vigor, until a pair of much-maligned Jayhawks combined to put Kansas back in front midway through the second ...
Jonathan Phog “JP” Bemberger, who had spent more than four years as an honorary member of the Kansas men’s basketball team while battling cancer, has died. He was 20. KU announced the news on social media Tuesday night. “Our beloved teammate, JP, has passed away,” read a post on ...
