Matt Tait

With daylight savings, March Madness and warmer weather all on the horizon, it definitely feels like spring is making its way to Lawrence. On Tuesday, you can add another indicator to that list — the start of spring practices for the Kansas football program. Just eight weeks removed from playing in its first bowl game […]

1 – Jalen Wilson – It wasn’t a great shooting night for Wilson, who hit just 6 of 16 shots in the hard-fought Senior Night win over Texas Tech. But he more than made up for it by flat-out competing. Wilson drove hard to the rim over and over during the final 30 or so […]

Acting Kansas basketball coach Norm Roberts said Kevin McCullar Jr. would play in today’s Big 12 title game against Texas, “if he’s OK.” KU junior Jalen Wilson, a longtime friend of McCullar’s who has posted two double-doubles in two games at the Big 12 tournament so far, jokingly added that McCullar did not have his […]

Another year, another NCAA Tournament appearance for the Kansas men’s basketball program, which extended its NCAA record of consecutive trips to the Big Dance to 33 this season. That’s 14 years under former KU coach Roy Williams and the last 19 under current coach Bill Self. It’s also six seasons longer than North Carolina’s 27-year […]

Des Moines, Iowa — As the point guard and one of the leaders of the Kansas basketball program, KU’s Dajuan Harris Jr. has an important role no matter who he’s facing or when the game takes place. That certainly will be the case in the top-seeded Jayhawks’ first-round NCAA Tournament matchup with No. 16 seed […]

Des Moines, Iowa — For the eighth day in a nine-day span, the health and availability of head coach Bill Self was a popular topic on Friday at Wells Fargo Arena. While the top-seeded Jayhawks were busy discussing their preparation for Saturday’s clash with No. 8 seed Arkansas — 4:15 p.m. tipoff on CBS — […]

Kansas forward Zach Clemence has joined teammates Cam Martin and Bobby Pettiford in entering the transfer portal, a source confirmed to the Journal-World on Wednesday afternoon. All three players just finished their second seasons with the Jayhawks and all three will be looking for new teams next season. Clemence’s departure is one that almost no […]

The public concern for Kansas basketball coach Bill Self makes total sense. Not only do countless KU fans love and admire the Jayhawks’ Hall of Fame head coach, but his personality and charisma have created a connection to the KU fan base that makes him feel like family to many people. And if you had […]

Representatives of the Kansas men’s basketball program and Kansas Athletics last week participated in a long-awaited hearing with the Independent Accountability Resolutions Process regarding the NCAA’s infractions case against KU, according to a report from SI.com. The hearing has been viewed by many as the last major hurdle in reaching a resolution in KU’s case. […]

Eighteen years ago, when former Journal-World Sports Editor Tom Keegan showed up to work for his first day on the job in Lawrence, I fired off an email that would change the next two decades of my life. In it, I explained to Keegan who I was, why I was emailing him and how, for […]