Men's Basketball

ISU ends KU’s winning streak with 74-56 result

AMES, Iowa — A day on which both No. 9 Kansas and No. 5 Iowa State were wearing throwback uniforms seemed like an appropriate occasion for an old-fashioned rock fight. The Jayhawks and Cyclones delivered that style of play for about 13 minutes on Saturday afternoon at Hilton Coliseum — ...

Preview: KU headed to Hilton Coliseum for rematch with Cyclones

It’s becoming increasingly rare that a team gets a chance at revenge in the modern Big 12. As part of the league’s revamped 18-game schedule with 16 schools now in the conference, each team plays just three of its opponents twice and the other 12 once each. As Kansas heads down the ...

Self rebukes criticism of Peterson: ‘Not remotely true’

Kansas freshman guard Darryn Peterson has played in 13 of KU’s games this season, but he has missed 11 and been limited in the second halves of plenty more, for a host of different reasons. “He’s got a string of bad luck,” head coach Bill Self said. From his early-season hamstring ...

KU surges into Big 12 race, poised to grow beyond results of recent seasons

Kansas’ victory over No. 1 Arizona on Monday night will surely be remembered for years and decades to come. It was, after all, KU’s first-ever win over a top-ranked opponent in the 71-year history of Allen Fieldhouse — a new milestone in the so-called cathedral of college basketball. But ...

Why was Self so excited postgame? ‘We’re better than what we played’

Kansas’ win over No. 1 Arizona on Monday night, its first ever against a top-ranked team in Allen Fieldhouse in a showdown Bill Self called “as big a game that college basketball has had” this year, was so momentous an occasion as to inspire some admittedly uncharacteristic behavior from ...

Down goes No. 1: Ninth-ranked KU topples Arizona, 82-78

For the first time in Bill Self's 23-year tenure as head coach, a top-ranked opponent visited Lawrence. Something had to give, as Self, with an unbeaten record at Allen Fieldhouse in Big Monday games, ran into an Arizona team that had yet to lose all season. "We couldn’t lose this game," ...

KU, unbeaten No. 1 Arizona win to set up Big Monday showdown

The Kansas men’s basketball team emerged unscathed from Saturday afternoon’s game against Utah, having won 71-59, despite what head coach Bill Self said “wasn’t a great effort by any means.” “But we got through it, and now we’ll focus on Monday — which the guys, I think, were ...