Though he only logged 19 minutes in his return to the Kansas lineup Thursday night, freshman Bryce Thompson played a starring role in making basketball look easy again for the Jayhawks in a 97-64 dismantling of Iowa State. With Thompson out due to a broken right finger since Jan. 12, KU ...
Twenty games into a strange, at times hard to watch, Kansas basketball season, a Big Monday victory over Oklahoma State shined a spotlight on David McCormack, as well as the entire KU team’s trajectory. As the regular season winds down and February soon turns into March, these Jayhawks ...
A top-five team a little more than a month ago, before they lost their way, the Jayhawks are going around in circles and about to lose their ranking altogether. Throughout a tumultuous start to 2021 for the Kansas basketball team, an early February trip to West Virginia began to look ...
When Bill Self said ahead of his Kansas basketball team’s rivalry game against Kansas State that the struggling Jayhawks may need to put an extra emphasis on throwing the ball inside and run the offense through David McCormack more often, some may have shuddered at the thought. That ...
Earlier in the season, Kansas redshirt freshman Jalen Wilson emerged as a welcome surprise for the Jayhawks. The type of player who produced so much more than was expected out of him that it looked like KU just might spend the whole year ranked in or just outside of the top five. Now ...
Sure, Kansas put an end to its un-blue blood like three-game losing streak Thursday night against TCU. But what transpired at Allen Fieldhouse didn’t come close to resembling the type of turning point in the season the Jayhawks needed. Senior Marcus Garrett spoke earlier in the week of ...
Bill Self will still stare down and/or bark at a player who just blew a defensive assignment in transition in the heat of a game. But the Kansas basketball coach finds himself becoming less stern in his overall approach during his 18th season with the Jayhawks. In normal, non-pandemic ...
With his Kansas basketball team coming off an unusual stretch of three losses in a row, head coach Bill Self openly suggested it might be time to “stir it up and try something different.” The Jayhawks’ starting five is so solidified 15 games into the season that Self isn’t going ...
