Tarik Black, a six-foot nine-inch forward for the Memphis Tigers, will transfer to the University of Kansas. Before accepting an offer from the Jayhawks the junior took visits to Georgetown, Oregon and Duke while also speaking with coaches from Ohio State and San Diego State according to zagsblog.com. Black averaged 8.1 points and 4.8 rebounds [...]
ARLINGTON, Texas — When it came down to it, when the Jayhawks had their last shot to perform a miracle and send Cowboys Stadium into a crimson and blue frenzy, Kansas coach Bill Self put it to a vote. The Jayhawks had been in this situation plenty of times before: late in the game, clock [...]
Kansas played the no. 4 seed University of Michigan Wolverines inside the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Texas Friday night Mar. 29. Freshman guard Ben McLemore lead the Jayhawks with 20 total points, followed by senior guard Travis Releford with 16 followed closed behind by with senior guard Elijah Johnson with 13 total points. Kansas was [...]
Who do those smug bastards from Florida Gulf Coast think they are? Just look at them. They’re smiling, laughing, having a good time and making a mockery of the NCAA Tournament. And what right do they have? The No. 15-seed Eagles lost 10 games this season. Hell, they lost to the Lipscomb Bison twice. They [...]
ARLINGTON, Texas — Like it or not, we’re in a new era of NCAA Tournament basketball. This is the age of bigger stadiums, more fans and more money. This is the age of playing a Regional Final at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, where the famous video board has another, “smaller,” video board hanging below [...]
Arlington, Texas — There’s no question that Michigan has dedicated a lot of time to figuring out how to get around Kansas center Jeff Withey. Heck, any team that didn’t certainly wouldn’t be playing in the Sweet Sixteen. But with the Wolverines’ players, you get the feeling there isn’t much else to worry about inside. [...]
ARLINGTON, Texas — Of ESPN.com’s 13 featured college basketball writers, only three of them picked Kansas to represent the South region in the Final Four. Five writers selected teams from the South region that didn’t survive the NCAA Tournament’s first weekend. As of Thursday evening, the nation was split 50-50 on NCAA.com’s poll about whether [...]
ARLINGTON, Texas – It’s only natural that a team becomes a national darling when it’s the first No. 15 seed in a 75-year-old tournament to reach the Sweet 16. Florida’s junior center Patric Young understands why Florida Gulf Coast, the upstart program the Gators will face at 10:07 Friday night, is receiving perhaps the most [...]
Kansas practices on the court inside the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX Thursday afternoon Mar. 28. Kansas is scheduled to play the no. 4 seed Michigan Friday afternoon at 6:37PM CST.
Basketball is a team game, that is obvious when watching but easy to forget when something goes wrong. Quickly, a team game can turn into a solo in which the spotlight shines brightest on the player who makes a mistake. Maybe he missed the shot or he committed the ominous foul. But this year Kansas [...]
How long does it take to get over a breakup? Six months? One year? Five years? For some Kansas fans, not even ten years has been enough. When current North Carolina coach Roy Williams left the program in 2003, the heart got ripped out of Jayhawk Nation. The breakup was public, and it was nasty. [...]
Kansas is playing its best half of the postseason. Jeff Withey is dunking and blocking. Naadir Tharpe is making step-back threes. Travis Releford is making spine-twisting layups. And Ben McLemore is on the bench, cheering them on. This was the scene in the second half Sunday at the Sprint Center, as the Jayhawks beat North [...]
The shine returned to the Kansas offense during the second half of Sunday’s game against North Carolina. Transition dunks, 3-pointers on the secondary break and dominant post-play from their big men helped the Jayhawks outscore the Tar Heels 49-28 in the deciding half, including a 33-10 run during the half’s first 11 minutes. Senior guard [...]
There’s something that felt strangely right about Jeff Withey’s performance against North Carolina. This is the Withey that promised Kansas coach Bill Self that he wouldn’t be a failure upon arriving in Lawrence. This is the comfortable Withey, the natural-looking Withey, and perhaps the easiest to spot, the hungry Withey. This Withey is an offensive [...]
Kansas City, Mo. — History tends to repeat itself. Not all the time, but with the Kansas’ coaching it’s a good bet. More than anything, Kansas coach Bill Self relies on his four seniors, and that’s exactly what the team needed at the Sprint Center on Sunday. Still it took a bad first half of [...]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — There were no rousing halftime speeches. No venom spewed from his mouth, nor did he express disbelief at his team’s miserable 25 percent shooting in the first half. Instead, Bill Self told his team to talk among themselves at halftime and walked out of the locker room. When he was gone, [...]
