Kansas basketball coach Bill Self and freshman guard Ben McLemore will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Allen Fieldhouse. McLemore is likely to announce whether he will declare for the NBA Draft
Kansas freshman guard Rio Adams is leaving the program after one season.
Ben McLemore began the season as an unknown quantity, a partial academic qualifier who was forced to sit out the 2011-12 season. More than five months later, McLemore, a redshirt freshman guard, is now Kansas’ all-time freshman scoring leader and a member of The Associated Press second-team All-America squad.
For the second year in a row, the Kansas women’s basketball team put together a Cinderella-like run in the NCAA tournament.
Notre Dame women’s basketball coach Muffet McGraw said she knows Kansas’ Sweet 16 run in the NCAA Tournament has been good for a college game that suffers from underexposure and a lack of upsets.
In the sudden aftermath of more NCAA Tournament heartache, Kansas coach Bill Self offered an honest assessment of his team’s late-game collapse against No. 4 seed Michigan.
By the end, they were all holding on, wishing for more time, wondering how it had all ended like this.
The weight of unfulfilled expectations came crashing down on Kansas senior Elijah Johnson in the tunnels at Cowboys Stadium, a short walk from where his career came to an end with an 87-85 overtime loss to Michigan on Friday in the NCAA South Regional semifinals.
Any conversation about Ben McLemore must now begin with the obvious question — was Friday night’s 87-85 overtime loss to Michigan the final game in a Kansas uniform?
Elijah Johnson’s best moment of an otherwise miserable game came with 6 minutes, 50 seconds left in regulation, a three-pointer from the left side that gave Kansas a 68-54 lead, its largest of the game.
Michigan 87, Kansas 85, OT
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On Thursday afternoon, amidst the movement and chaos of media day at the NCAA South Regional site at Cowboys Stadium, Kansas senior Travis Releford was asked to describe the Jayhawks’ defense.
The Big 12 Conference isn’t calling this a test run for when it hosts the men’s NCAA Final Four next year in the same location – at Cowboys Stadium – but that’s what this weekend’s South Regional amounts to.
The compliments were flying at Michigan’s Trey Burke from all directions Thursday. People telling him he is great. People telling him he is the best point guard in America.
Michigan has tried to sharpen its focus on defense over the course of the season, and that was evident as the Wolverines’ backcourt talked about what they needed to do to stop Kansas’ guard-heavy lineup.
It’s gotta be the fro, right? This must be some Sampson-esque story about the power of some delicately sculpted follicles and the basketball skills that come from them.
Kansas found itself in one of the many, expansive locker rooms in the bowels of Cowboys Stadium and the players approached their new surroundings in different ways.
The old-school manual said he was committing a coaching sin, and Bill Self knew this.
Ben McLemore, you’re confusing me.
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