Men's Basketball

Former Jayhawk Turgeon hired at Kansas City

Mark Turgeon has been hired as the head coach at Kansas City, the school announced on Sunday morning. The move brings the former Kansas player and assistant coach, a Topeka native, back close to his home state as the leader of the Roos. It will be Turgeon's first job in coaching since he ...

After draining win over BYU, KU prepares for quick turnaround

Kansas needed every ounce of energy it could possibly muster to take down No. 13 BYU 90-82 on Saturday afternoon. The problem was that it had already expended a great deal of its energy reserves in the first half before a rocking Allen Fieldhouse crowd — as good an atmosphere as head coach ...

KU withstands comeback attempt to beat BYU, 90-82

A game billed all week as a showdown between the potential top two picks in the 2026 NBA Draft delivered plenty of professional-caliber moments from Kansas’ Darryn Peterson — and not quite as many from BYU’s AJ Dybantsa — in the first half as the Jayhawks jumped ahead by 20 points at ...

Watch: ‘College GameDay’ personalities look ahead to KU-BYU broadcast

ESPN's "College GameDay" pregame show will broadcast live from Allen Fieldhouse at 10 a.m. on Saturday, ahead of tipoff between No. 14 Kansas and No. 13 BYU at 3:30 p.m. "GameDay" personalities Andraya Carter and Seth Greenberg spoke to reporters on Friday afternoon to preview the matchup, ...

KU joins CBS Sports Classic event; first game is next season against Ohio State

The Kansas men’s basketball program has signed on to take part in the CBS Sports Classic beginning next season and through at least the 2029-30 season, it was announced on Wednesday. The event is a Champions Classic-like doubleheader of high-level teams with rotating locations that from 2014 ...

KU-BYU matchup provides rare look at potential top 2 picks in 2026 NBA Draft

Any team with a remote chance of obtaining a high NBA Draft pick — which, given the way the draft lottery works, the several months left in the NBA season and the possibility of trades, could be just about any team — would do well to have its scouting department represented in Lawrence on ...