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SportsBeat KC: Making sense of KU’s response to NCAA, and Roos women make history

The Kansas City Roos women’s basketball team won the Western Athletic Conference regular-season title on Thursday, March 5, 2020 and celebrated the program’s first league title.
The Kansas City Roos women’s basketball team won the Western Athletic Conference regular-season title on Thursday, March 5, 2020 and celebrated the program’s first league title. bkerkhoff@kcstar.com

Kansas issued its response to the NCAA’s Notice of Allegations issued in September, and it was forceful. No spirit of cooperation here. KU will fight each of the five Level I allegations against its men’s basketball program, including head coach Bill Self and assistant Kurtis Townsend. KU beat writer Jesse Newell helps us make sense of the Kansas response on this episode of the SportsBeat KC podcast.

Also, the KC Roos women’s basketball program made history Thursday night. The team headed by third-year coach Jacie Hoyt won to clinch the outright Western Athletic Conference championship. It’s first league title for either Roos basketball program since joining a conference in 1994. We hear from Hoyt and players Awal Ajak and Ericka Mattingly.

Story links:

KU, Self respond to NCAA allegations: “Misguided, unprecedented, and meritless”

Sam Mellinger: KU basketball vs. the NCAA: a bloody war with no winners

Kansas City Roos women’s basketball team envisioned a conference championship, then won it

This story was originally published March 6, 2020 at 3:40 PM with the headline "SportsBeat KC: Making sense of KU’s response to NCAA, and Roos women make history."

Blair Kerkhoff
The Kansas City Star
Blair Kerkhoff has covered sports for The Kansas City Star since 1989. He was elected to the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 2023.
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