Tale of the Tait

What Kansas should be looking for in its next head football coach

Editor's Note: This blog was posted just a couple of hours before KU Athletic Director Jeff Long and Chancellor Douglas Girod [announced that Long was stepping down as KU's AD.][1] Anyone can make a coaching candidate list. And if you look right now you’ll find no fewer than 25 such ...

Projecting the 2021 Big 12 men’s basketball tournament

It's Big 12 tournament time and I know I don't even have to ask who's excited. We all are. And we should be. For a couple of reasons. In addition to finally getting the tournament back, which would be reason enough to celebrate, — remember, it was canceled because of COVID-19 ...

Jayhawks jump to No. 11 in final AP poll of 2020-21 regular season

The Kansas men's basketball team officially finished the regular season ranked No. 11 in the Associated Press Top 25 poll, which was released Monday. KU, which fell out of the poll altogether for the first time in 12 years a few weeks ago, is now just five spots behind the No. 6 spot ...

The Kansas basketball postseason résumé is starting to look pretty stout

Technically, the Kansas men’s basketball team still has one game left in its regular season — 7 p.m. Thursday vs. UTEP — before the do-or-die days of March arrive. But in the moments that followed [Saturday night’s massive, 71-58 win over No. 2 Baylor at Allen Fieldhouse][1] the ...