With the Kansas men’s basketball team now in the full swing of another season and the KU football coaching search ongoing, there was no shortage of topics to discuss during this week’s appearance on Rock Chalk Sports Talk with Nick Schwerdt on KLWN.
Included among them:
• Lagerald Vicks’ 32-point explosion in KU’s home-opening win over Vermont on Monday night at Allen Fieldhouse.
• Where that performance ranked among the all-time offensive games during the Bill Self era.
• What playing 30 minutes (or more) per game means for Udoka Azubuike and Kansas.
• And, whether the Jayhawks will alter their strategy of playing through Azubuike every trip down on offense.
• More Les Miles talk
• And our predictions for whether an announcement on a new KU football coach comes in under or over 6.5 days.
A native of Colorado, Matt moved to Lawrence in 1988 and has been in town ever since. He graduated from Lawrence High in 1996 and the University of Kansas in 2000 with a degree in Journalism. After covering KU sports for the University Daily Kansan and Rivals.com, Matt joined the World Company (and later Ogden Publications) in 2001 and has held several positions with the paper and KUsports.com in the past 20+ years. He became the Journal-World Sports Editor in 2018. Throughout his career, Matt has won several local and national awards from both the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Kansas Press Association. In 2021, he was named the Kansas Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. Matt lives in Lawrence with his wife, Allison, and two daughters, Kate and Molly. When he's not covering KU sports, he likes to spend his time playing basketball and golf, listening to and writing music and traveling the world with friends and family.
