As you might have guessed, Kansas basketball dominated the list of KUsports.com’s Top 10 most clicked on stories of 2013.
But it wasn’t just game stories and features that made Jayhawk fans smile during the past 12 months. A deeper look at the list indicates that newsy recruiting stories maintained their place at the top of the food chain when it comes to what KU hoops fans crave.
Half of the Top 10 had a recruiting flavor and more than half of the Top 20 traffic getters had to do with recruiting targets or those players after their arrival in town.
One of the biggest surprises in looking back at the traffic from the past 365 days was the fact that the Rio Adams saga — should I stay or should I go – produced four of the top 20 most read stories on our site. As a whole, that one topic was responsible for more than 82,000 pageviews. Seems strange for a guy who scored just 27 points in 24 games during his lone year at Kansas and now isn’t playing Div. I ball at all.
But the appeal of the unknown is strong and few things show that like the following list. Enjoy the trip down Memory Lane and, rest assured, there’ll be more where this came from in 2014.
Happy New Year, everyone!
1 – Wiggins chooses Kansas — May 14, 2013 — 36,660 pageviews
2 – Kelly Oubre commits to KU — Oct. 8, 2013 — 30,725
3 – Ben McLemore declares for NBA draft — April 9, 2013 — 25,232
4 – Tarik Black transferring to KU — May 20, 2013 — 24,513
5 – Jayhawks flocked to Elijah Johnson in victorious locker room — Feb. 28, 2013 — 24,405
Jayhawks flocked to Elijah Johnson in victorious locker room
6 – Current, former KU football players among 3 arrested in connection with home invasion — May 29, 2013 — 23,968
Current, former KU football players among three arrested in connection with home invasion
7 – KU freshman Rio Adams to transfer — April 2, 2013 — 23,823
8 – 6-foot-10 Arkansas transfer Hunter Mickelson picks KU — April 25, 2013 — 22,493
9 – Andrew Wiggins’ acrobatic dunk highlights KU’s exhibition win over Pitt State — Oct. 29, 2013 — 22,004
Andrew Wiggins’ acrobatic dunk highlights KU’s exhibition win over Pitt State
10 – KU earns No. 1 seed in South region — March 17, 2013 — 21,865
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The best of the rest…
No. 11. Self downplays animated Cyclones fan, Feb. 26 — 21,492
No. 12. Rio Adams might stay, April 5 — 21,335
No. 13. Cliff Alexander picks Kansas, Nov. 15 — 21,042
No. 14. Julius Randle chooses UK, March 20 — 19,242
No. 15. Andrew Wiggins arrives on campus, June 15 — 18,673
No. 16. Dooley hired at FGCU, April 17 — 18,083
No. 17. Wiggins makes season debut, Oct. 28 — 17,523
No. 18. KU hoops releases non-conference schedule, May 2 — 17,216
No. 19. Kansas recruiting targets’ tweets positive, Oct. 20 — 17,154
No. 20. Opinion: KU makes it hard for recruit Julius Randle to say no, Feb. 17 — 17,148
