The Newell Post

How high could KU go?

If No. 15 Kansas can defeat No. 8 Missouri on Sunday at Allen Fieldhouse, it will be in place for a huge jump in the rankings. Assuming the Jayhawks beat the Tigers, half of the teams in front of the Jayhawks in the ESPN/USA Today rankings will have lost this week. Take a look: No. 1 ...

These Jayhawks don’t have short shorts, but they shoot like it …

Note: No Kansas players were talked to or jinxed by the creation of this blog post. One of the most maddening things to see as a basketball fan is missed free throws. Just think about Christian Moody against Missouri, or Kansas against Syracuse in ...

Cookie says he’s ready for KU fans

Nebraska guard Cookie Miller says he's ready to take the ribbing he's sure to get from Kansas fans in Saturday's game at Allen Fieldhouse.If you remember, in the teams' first matchup, Miller had to be separated from KU's Mario Little after the two battled for a loose ...

Picking the perfect bracket for KU

What would the perfect bracket for Kansas look like? It’s a question I pondered while looking at the latest Bracketology on ESPN. As you may or may not know, the Jayhawks were projected as a No. 3 seed in the West regional. If all the seeds held correctly (and KU continued winning), the ...

Jayhawks hurt by something they can’t control

Missouri’s Keith Ramsey hit three of four free throws against Kansas.That might not sound like an earth-shattering revelation, but it’s probably the reason the Tigers defeated the Jayhawks on Monday.Coming into the game, Ramsey was 8-for-29 from the free-throw line, which comes out to an ...

The new world of college football recruiting …

What if I told you that ESPN interviewed me last week to become a permanent member of the TV show Around the Horn? Would you think of me as a better journalist? OK, so the previous scenario did not happen. But something like it is happening in football recruiting across the country.And I'm not ...

Ranking comes at bad time for KU

Kansas picked a bad time to return to the rankings.If you haven’t heard yet, the Jayhawks are back in the rankings, as high as No. 21 in the AP poll.I know what you’re going to say: There’s never a bad time to be ranked. You always want your program receiving national attention for its ...