The 2024-25 Kansas Jayhawks made six or fewer 3-pointers in 15 of their 34 games. KU overhauled its roster in the offseason, and it could not have been clearer on Friday night, when top freshman recruit Darryn Peterson made six 3s — on his own — in the first half of the Jayhawks’ ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team continued its recent success on the recruiting trail with the commitment of Luke Barnett on Friday afternoon. Barnett, a 6-foot-4, 180-pound shooting guard who attends athletic powerhouse Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, California, announced his decision ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Kansas coach Bill Self is fond of saying that freshman guard Darryn Peterson is able to see the game in slow motion. It’s an attribute Self usually associates with veteran players, but one that Peterson has cultivated at a young age. “To be 18 and be able to slow the ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Kansas coach Bill Self still has a lot left to learn about his 2025-26 team, but he has a lineup in mind for Friday’s road exhibition game at Louisville. The Jayhawks’ first five at the KFC Yum! Center — ”as of today,” Self said on Wednesday at Big 12 media days ...
Kansas guard Elmarko Jackson had a lot of confidence heading into last year’s men’s basketball season after coming off a season in which he played over 18 minutes per game. Then came the knee injury, a tear of his patellar tendon in his left knee, during the KU basketball camp scrimmage in ...
A few months before arriving on campus at Kansas, freshman guard Darryn Peterson said he was most excited to play with his center Flory Bidunga. Now, just weeks away from the regular season, Bidunga and Peterson are building chemistry and a two-man game that the Jayhawks can rely on throughout ...
Nginyu Ngala had two choices: either begin his professional career overseas or head south to the United States. With three years at Dalhousie and one at Laurentian under his belt — in the Canadian U Sports competition, which gives players five years to play — Ngala was pretty sure he would ...
Friday night’s men’s basketball portion of Late Night in the Phog featured an extended riff on the reality show “Love Island" that culminated in Kansas coach Bill Self selecting not just one of his players but all 16 — the entire team. “I love this team,” he said in the skit. In a ...
