Men's Basketball

Preview: KU hopes to bond on extra-long road trip, beginning with game at Utah

After rekindling a rivalry with an old conference foe in Tuesday’s victory over Colorado, the Kansas men’s basketball team is now in uncharted territory as it travels to Utah for a five-day continuous swing featuring games against Utah and BYU. “I think this is great,” KU coach Bill ...

After NCAA’s blanket waiver, Coit eager to spend second season at KU

About two months after the NCAA issued a waiver allowing him and legions of similarly situated players another year of eligibility, Kansas guard David Coit said he would be eager to come back to the Jayhawks for the 2025-26 season. “When I came here in August, another year was something that ...

KU turns in uneven performance against Colorado

The Kansas men’s basketball team had its first chance on Tuesday night to demonstrate substantive progress in an oft-discussed area since the Jayhawks' loss to Kansas State: playing with consistent energy. So how did it go for KU with Colorado visiting Allen Fieldhouse? “I feel like as a ...

Notebook: Manning returns to Lawrence

Kansas basketball luminary Danny Manning returned to Allen Fieldhouse on Tuesday night as a member of the road team. Manning, KU’s all-time leading scorer and rebounder and the leader of the 1988 title team known as “Danny and the Miracles,” is in his first season as an assistant coach ...

Jayhawks fend off Colorado for 71-59 win

The last time the Colorado Buffaloes won in Lawrence, Tad Boyle was playing for Kansas. He’s now in his 15th year as the head coach at CU and they’re still waiting to win there again. Nothing was easy for 17th-ranked KU on Tuesday night at Allen Fieldhouse on either side of the ball, and ...

Jayhawks searching for answers after inconsistent stretch

Manhattan — The recurring issue of a lack of early-game energy sank the Kansas men’s basketball team once again in Saturday’s loss to Kansas State, as the Jayhawks lacked the defensive intensity that had just five days earlier pushed them to a big win over Iowa State. Senior forward KJ ...