Larry Brown’s staff at Kansas branched out into the professional and college ranks, winning five NBA championships and three NCAA titles. The roll call of full time assistants, graduate assistants, players who became coaches and administrators — all the way down to a one-year observer — reads like a who’s-who of hoopage.
After a long hiatus, the program known for Billy Mills, Al Oerter, Jim Ryan and Glenn Cunningham is a power again. The women are ranked No. 1 and the men are in the top 25 heading into the NCAA championships next week.
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self officially filled one opening on his staff on Friday, just as another job had become vacant.
Lawrence Free State senior safety Joe Dineen, Kansas’ latest football committment, grew up a KU fan in a Jayhawk family. His grandfather, Ron Oelschlaeger, was a running back at Kansas in the early 1960s. And his mother, Jodi, played volleyball at KU.
Chris Martin, a junior defensive end on the Kansas football team, was arrested Wednesday in connection with a May 13 armed robbery in southwest Lawrence.
Southern Methodist assistant Jerrance Howard is in position to join Bill Self’s staff at Kansas, filling the vacancy created when former assistant Joe Dooley took the head coaching job at Florida Gulf Coast on April 17. Kansas coach Bill Self told The Star on Wednesday that he was still in talks with Howard about the position.
Top high school basketball recruit and incoming Kansas freshman Andrew Wiggins, who lived with a host family in Huntington, W.Va., while finishing high school, wrote an open letter to the community that thanked his coaches, classmates, host family and even the janitor.
But more than a year after being dismissed from the KU football team by new coach Charlie Weis, Blue Springs running back Darrian Miller will get a second chance to make things right with the Jayhawks. Miller is returning to the KU program and will suit up this fall as a redshirt sophomore, Weis announced on Tuesday.
Jayhawks would have received an automatic berth to NCAA Tournament with win. With the loss, their chances of receiving an at-large bid are slim.
Matt Oberste homered and drove in four runs, Max White scored twice and Oklahoma beat Kansas 7-2 on Sunday to win its first Big 12 tournament championship in 16 years.
Starting pitcher Kahana baffles the Horned Frogs to pick up a 4-0 win. Jayhawks can get an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament with a victory over Oklahoma on Sunday.
An NCAA Tournament loss to Michigan left coach Bill Self dejected. But after signing two top recruits in May, the Kansas Jayhawks are back “in the game” again.
No. 6 seed Kansas downed the No. 2 seed Oklahoma State Cowboys 5-3 Friday for their second straight victory at the Big 12 Tournament. They are one win away from playing for an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament.
Earlier this week, Kansas football coach Charlie Weis concluded what was supposed to be an eight-city spring preview tour. Weis also addressed a number of issues regarding his program. Those included the expected renovation at Memorial Stadium, with the removal of the track in the near future; in-state recruiting; and the perception of Kansas football after his first year on the job.
No. 6 seed Kansas snapped a six-game losing streak by winning its Big 12 tournament opener 7-2 over No. 3 West Virginia.
Sprinter Paris Daniels, a Missouri girl raised in St. Louis, is leading a women’s track renaissance at KU.
In the aftermath of an NCAA Tournament meltdown, and the loss of five starters from a Sweet 16 team, KU basketball coach Bill Self added the final pieces to what could be considered his finest recruiting class in Lawrence. Here’s what Andrew Wiggins, Tarik Black and the rest of the class bring to the Jayhawks and a stab at a starting lineup for next season.
KU football coach Charlie Weis announced the addition of Nick Harwell, a transfer from Miami (Ohio) who was the nation’s second-leading receiver in 2011. But Harwell was dismissed from the school following a March arrest stemming from a dispute with his girlfriend. It’s unclear if Harwell will be able to play right away for KU this fall.
Son of Royals’ first-base coach is the most dependable defender in a resurgent KU program. But a six-game losing streak has put all of KU’s hope of getting into the NCAA Tournament on a good showing in Oklahoma City.
It’s been decades since a true shooting guard went No. 1 overall in the NBA Draft. And Ben McLemore is trying to become the first Jayhawk to go first overall since Danny Manning in 1988. But does McLemore have a chance?
Kansas’ basketball team has added another big body to a burgeoning roster overhaul. Former Memphis forward Tarik Black has signed a grant-in-aid agreement to play basketball at Kansas, the school announced Tuesday.
Kansas coach Bill Self grew up just north of Oklahoma City, attending high school in the suburban enclave of Edmond, Okla. So on Monday afternoon, as a mile-wide tornado ripped through the area and flattened parts of Moore, a southern suburb, Self’s mind turned toward his home state.
Former Kansas player Toben Opurum signed a contract with the Chiefs on Friday as an undrafted rookie.
Former KU guard Ben McLemore spoke Thursday to Sports Illustrated and Campusinsiders.com at the NBA Combine in Chicago about AAU coach Darius Cobb’s revelation that he accepted $10,000 in cash payments to steer McLemore toward Rodney Blackstock, a middleman with connections to agents and financial advisers in Los Angeles.
Close to 150 Jayhawks supporters filled the Wichita Marriott banquet hall for Thursday’s luncheon in conjunction with the 2013 Kansas Football Preview Party. But while KU football coach Charlie Weis said it was exciting to see fans energized about the future, he added the team must do its part by delivering results.
Andrew Wiggins, the consensus No. 1 college basketball recruit in the country, announced Tuesday morning he will attend Kansas, picking the Jayhawks over three other finalists, Kentucky, Florida State and North Carolina.
Think about what KU basketball coach Bill Self pulled off Tuesday in landing consensus No. 1 recruit Andrew Wiggins. The 6-foot-7 Canadian star had long been linked with Florida State (where his parents played basketball) and Kentucky (where John Calipari collects five-star recruits like garden gnomes). Those schools have been in on him for years, building relationships and dreams long before Wiggins became the presumed No. 1 pick in the 2014 NBA Draft.
When word came that Kansas was the college choice of Andrew Wiggins, the 6-foot-7 forward from Huntington Prep in West Virginia who is considered the nation’s top college basketball prospect, Jayhawks coach Bill Self had scored the biggest recruiting victory of his decade-long KU tenure. But Wiggins also ranks among some of the biggest gets in KU history.
It’s not often that a highly recruited high school football player cancels a campus visit to Michigan and then commits to Kansas. But that’s what Kyron Watson, a 6-foot, 226-pound linebacker, did on Tuesday.
Former Kansas basketball player Zach Peters will get a fresh start at Arizona. Peters, 6-foot-9 forward, made his transfer public on Sunday after leaving Kansas last fall while dealing with health issues during his freshman season.
