What Kansas and its fans consider a rough patch is evidently different than at other basketball programs, many of which would be delighted to receive a No. 7 seed in the NCAA Tournament, as KU did in 2025 in the worst season of Bill Self’s tenure as head coach. That’s not to say that other ...
SAN DIEGO — The college career of the player Bill Self called the best he had ever recruited at Kansas ended with a futile half-jump. Twenty-two feet away from the hoop into which St. John’s point guard Dylan Darling was about to deposit the basketball for a game-winning layup, there stood ...
SAN DIEGO — What happened on the dais in the media tent just outside Viejas Arena on Sunday afternoon ensured that any assessment of the upcoming Kansas men’s basketball offseason must come with a very big asterisk. In stating after KU’s loss to St. John’s that he hasn’t decided yet ...
SAN DIEGO — Of all the despondent Jayhawks in their locker room at Viejas Arena on Sunday evening, perhaps no one was taking the loss to St. John’s as hard in the minutes afterward as Elmarko Jackson. The redshirt sophomore guard, subbed in for Kohl Rosario with six seconds remaining, had ...
SAN DIEGO — Moments after the conclusion of his 23rd season at Kansas, head coach Bill Self said he has not decided about whether he will return for a 24th. “I'll get back and get with family and visit and see what's going on,” Self said after KU’s 67-65 loss to St. John’s on Sunday ...
SAN DIEGO — On a day when it committed 16 sloppy turnovers and let modest but unspectacular 3-point shooting team St. John’s convert 11 3s on a season-high 35 attempts, Kansas still found a way to give itself a chance in the final minutes. Darryn Peterson evened the score with two free ...
SAN DIEGO — The player most familiar with Kansas on the St. John’s roster is quite clearly Zuby Ejiofor. That’s not a surprise. Ejiofor played for the Jayhawks as a freshman during the 2022-23 season, transferred out in search of greater opportunities elsewhere and has since blossomed ...
