Kansas coach Bill Self said last Thursday of Big 12 Conference men’s basketball, “I think we have as many pleasant surprises as probably any league in the country.” At the time of his statement, Oklahoma and newcomer BYU, picked to finish respectively 12th and 13th in the league, instead ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team benefited from a flagrant foul call against TCU in the final minute during its 83-81 win in Allen Fieldhouse. And while that call will certainly command much of the conversation following Saturday’s Big 12 opener, the sequence leading up to the foul was just ...
When former Kansas men's basketball coach Ted Owens gets together with his former players, he told the current KU team Friday, “Nobody remembers who the leading scorers were." Instead, they reflect on what they accomplished together. One of Owens’ greatest teams in 19 years at KU was ...
One of Kansas men’s basketball’s most impressive streaks is still alive. KU’s Hunter Dickinson laid the ball up and in from between two defenders with 3.4 seconds left, TCU’s Jameer Nelson Jr. came up short on a wild shot from beyond the arc as time expired and the Jayhawks won their ...
The Kansas Jayhawks began Big 12 play with a 83-81 win over the TCU Horned Frogs on Saturday afternoon at Allen Fieldhouse. No. 2 Kansas (13-1) has now won 33 consecutive conference openers dating back to the 1991-92 season. In a back-and-forth track meet of a game that featured 26 lead ...
TCU stormed into Lawrence last January, led for 39 minutes and left with its first-ever road victory at Allen Fieldhouse. It was an 83-60 “beatdown,” as Kansas coach Bill Self called it then, and one of KU’s worst home losses in recent history. “They came in here and got after us, I ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Kansas point guard Dajuan Harris Jr. said Saturday that he gets on KJ Adams Jr. even more about needing to rebound than KU coach Bill Self gets on Harris about needing to shoot. Considering how hot of a topic Harris’ shooting — or lack thereof — was in the early ...
