Waco, Texas — As soon as it got Kevin McCullar Jr. back from his bone bruise — much sooner than many had anticipated — the Kansas men's basketball team encountered a different injury issue Saturday at Baylor. Backup center Parker Braun limped off the court as KU entered the under-8 ...
Waco, Texas — Chalk up another road loss for a Kansas squad that has become all too familiar with them this season. Just days after head coach Bill Self called Kevin McCullar Jr.’s status for the remainder of the season into question, McCullar returned to the Jayhawks’ starting lineup ...
Fighting to stay in the top four in its own league is a rarity for a Bill Self-coached Kansas team. Self quite famously led the Jayhawks to 17 regular-season Big 12 Conference titles (one was vacated by October’s Independent Accountability Resolution Process ruling). Until Tuesday night, ...
After the Kansas men’s basketball team knocked off Oklahoma on the road and Texas at home without the injured Kevin McCullar Jr., it started to seem like its blowout loss at Texas Tech on Feb. 12 in his absence was an outlier. But Tuesday night’s home defeat to BYU saw the Jayhawks ...
Kansas’ Kevin McCullar Jr. missed his second straight game due to injury and fifth of the last seven on Tuesday night, but the graduate senior has still found ways to make himself useful from the bench. “He’s kind of become an assistant coach,” KU coach Bill Self said this week, “and ...
Kansas coach Bill Self was eerily prescient when he spoke to the media Monday ahead of Tuesday night’s matchup with BYU. “The other day (against Texas) we made three 3s and played really well,” Self said. “If they make 13 3s they’ve already outscored you (by) 30 points from the ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team is now facing a future without potentially its best all-around player. On Saturday night, that future looked brighter than expected. Playing without do-everything super-senior guard Kevin McCullar Jr. for the fourth time in seven games — but this time on a ...
