Fighting to stay in the top four in its own league is a rarity for a Bill Self-coached Kansas team. Self quite famously led the Jayhawks to 17 regular-season Big 12 Conference titles (one was vacated by October’s Independent Accountability Resolution Process ruling). Until Tuesday night, ...
After the Kansas men’s basketball team knocked off Oklahoma on the road and Texas at home without the injured Kevin McCullar Jr., it started to seem like its blowout loss at Texas Tech on Feb. 12 in his absence was an outlier. But Tuesday night’s home defeat to BYU saw the Jayhawks ...
Kansas’ Kevin McCullar Jr. missed his second straight game due to injury and fifth of the last seven on Tuesday night, but the graduate senior has still found ways to make himself useful from the bench. “He’s kind of become an assistant coach,” KU coach Bill Self said this week, “and ...
Kansas coach Bill Self was eerily prescient when he spoke to the media Monday ahead of Tuesday night’s matchup with BYU. “The other day (against Texas) we made three 3s and played really well,” Self said. “If they make 13 3s they’ve already outscored you (by) 30 points from the ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team is now facing a future without potentially its best all-around player. On Saturday night, that future looked brighter than expected. Playing without do-everything super-senior guard Kevin McCullar Jr. for the fourth time in seven games — but this time on a ...
The Big 12’s Most Improved Player award has only been around for a handful of years, but Kansas coach Bill Self has already resigned himself to the fact that KJ Adams Jr. is unlikely to claim the honor for the second consecutive year. That was a notion he disagreed with following KU’s 86-67 ...
