Men's Basketball

Preview: KU’s difficult final stretch begins at home against Texas Tech

Back-to-back losses on a disastrous road trip in mid-February sent the Kansas men’s basketball team plummeting in national rankings, but the Jayhawks’ much-discussed “new season” mentality in the days since has earned them a pair of wins against Oklahoma State and Colorado. “I’ve ...

Newly rebranded KU alumni team to co-host TBT regional in Kansas City

Updated 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025: This summer’s Kansas alumni team in The Basketball Tournament will have the opportunity to play even closer to home than its predecessors. TBT announced on Tuesday morning that this year’s KU team — newly rebranded as JHX (pronounced ...

Dickinson’s 32 points lead KU to hard-fought win in Colorado

Boulder, Colo. — On a day when Kansas could count on very little on the offensive end, it could at least rely on its old standby, center Hunter Dickinson. Dickinson scored a season-high 32 points on 13-for-18 shooting and grabbed 13 rebounds, closing out Colorado with several key buckets ...

Jayhawks have renewed confidence, but so should next foe Colorado

When Kansas beat Colorado 71-59 at Allen Fieldhouse on Feb. 11, KU coach Bill Self said a CU player told him in the postgame handshake line, “See you in two weeks.” Just under two weeks later, both teams have rapidly arrived at Monday’s rematch, and it finds them in dramatically ...

KU gets back on track by blowing out OSU 96-64

On the day Kansas retired Naismith Hall of Famer Dutch Lonborg’s jersey, Lynn Lonborg Loveland told reporters a story from her grandfather’s coaching career. One day Lonborg’s charges escaped a dramatic game with a triple-overtime victory, and Loveland asked her grandfather what he had ...

Preview: KU looks to start with clean slate against OSU

Kansas center Hunter Dickinson correctly predicted after the Jayhawks’ 91-57 loss at BYU on Tuesday that KU was about to receive widespread criticism from fans and national media. After four days of hearing that criticism — head coach Bill Self said there could be an opportunity to “pull ...