Fort Worth, Texas — For the past couple of weeks, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self has talked — marveled even — about how much faster senior Remy Martin has looked now that he’s healthy again. On Thursday night, during an 83-56 first-round NCAA Tournament victory over...
Fort Worth, Texas — Kansas fans have been known to keep a close eye on the wins race at the top of the college basketball period between their Jayhawks and the Kentucky Wildcats. But after 2nd-seeded Kentucky lost in overtime to No. 15 seed St. Peter’s on Thursday —...
FORT WORTH, Tex — No. 1 seed Kansas advanced in the NCAA Tournament on Thursday night with a dominant 83-56 win over Texas Southern. The Jayhawks only led the Tigers by two points at the first media timeout. But a 34-14 run over 10 minutes allowed KU to pull away. From there, the Jayhawks never looked back on their way to a blowout victory. Up next is a game against Creighton on Saturday.
FORT WORTH, Texas – No. 1 seed Kansas (29-6) will face No. 9 seed Creighton (23-11) in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Saturday, March 19 at 1:40 p.m. CST from Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas on CBS. Kansas recently won its 15th-straight NCAA Tournament first-round...
The No. 6-ranked Kansas Jayhawks, who tied Baylor for the Big 12 regular-season title, completed a three-game sweep of West Virginia, TCU and Texas Tech on Saturday to win the league’s postseason tournament at T-Mobile Center. David McCormack scored 18 points and grabbed 11 rebounds while four other Jayhawks...
Kansas basketball took care of business on Thursday in the Big 12 Tournament. Its reward? A matchup with TCU in the quarterfinals. The Jayhawks and Horned Frogs square off on Friday at 6 p.m. CT. The game will be televised on ESPN2, and fans can stream using the Watch ESPN app.
Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self began with the slightest of pauses, and then his eyes veered toward the sky. He had prepared for this question, and it looked as though he wanted to choose his words carefully. His counterpart certainly had. Twenty hours earlier, sitting on this same...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- West Virginia coach Bob Huggins was ejected from the Mountaineers' quarterfinal game against No. 6 Kansas in the Big 12 tournament after he was given two technical fouls in quick succession by referee Doug Sirmons. The Mountaineers were trailing 19-4 and had missed 16 of their...
In true spoiled fashion, the Kansas basketball team has provided another memorable season for the Jayhawk faithful. The Jayhawks captured their 20th Big 12 regular season title and just last weekend secured their 12th Big 12 Tournament title in school history – both are easily the most of any team in the conference.
Before handing the microphone over to David McCormack for his senior speech, Kansas coach Bill Self said one final compliment to make sure everyone at Allen Fieldhouse heard it. “David McCormack put us on his back,” Self said following KU’s 70-63 overtime victory over Texas, “and won us this championship...
When/where: 7 p.m. Central time Saturday at WVU Coliseum, Morgantown, West Virginia. TV/radio: ESPN; WHB (810 AM) About No. 6 Kansas (21-4, 10-2 Big 12): KU leads the all-time series versus the Mountaineers 16-6. KU’s Bill Self and West Virginia’s Bob Huggins have coached in each of those games. … KU, which went 1-1 versus West Virginia in 2020-21, has won six of the last seven and 10 of the last 12 in the series. … KU is 3-6 at WVU Coliseum with two wins in the last four tries in Morgantown, West Virginia. The Jayhawks dropped last year’s game at WVU, 91-79. … KU needed overtime to beat WVU in Lawrence in the 2014-15 and 2016-17 campaigns. … The Jayhawks defeated WVU, 85-59, on Jan. 15 at Allen Fieldhouse. Jalen Wilson scored 23 points with eight rebounds and five assists. Ochai Agbaji had 20 points and seven boards and David McCormack 19 points and 15 boards. Malik Curry came off the bench to score 23 for WVU. KU had 23 assists to WVU’s five. … KU has won 21 games for the 33rd consecutive season, a streak which started in 1989-90, and is the longest active streak in NCAA Division I men’s basketball. ... KU has 10 league wins for the 28th consecutive season, a streak which started in 1994-95 and is the longest active streak in Div. I hoops. ... Self is 750-227 all-time, including 543-122 while at Kansas. ... Kansas is 17-1 when leading at the half. ... KU has secured 10+ offensive rebounds in 15 games. ... Agbaji has 1,398 career points which puts him at 27th on the all-time KU scoring list. His 217 career three-point field goals have him at seventh on the all-time KU list.. ... Christian Braun has scored in double figures in 23 of 25 games.
The Kansas men’s basketball team earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA’s bracket reveal on Saturday, earning the fourth of the top seeds. KU was placed in the East (Philadelphia) region for the exercise, joining No. 2 seed Kentucky, 3 seed Villanova and fourth-seeded Wisconsin there. Gonzaga...
Gonzaga received the top overall seed for the NCAA tournament, with Arizona, Kansas and defending champion Baylor joining the Zags as No. 1s. The March Madness bracket came out Sunday for a tournament that begins with early-round games Tuesday and concludes with the Final Four in New Orleans on April 2. The championship game is April 4.
