Matt Tait

It’s difficult to know exactly how close Kansas basketball coach Bill Self was to a return to the sideline and whether he really would have been able to join the Jayhawks in Las Vegas had they advanced to this week’s Sweet 16. But thanks to a pregame interview on ESPN+ with Greg Gurley ahead of […]

Another member of the 2022-23 Kansas men’s basketball team has entered the transfer portal, with Bobby Pettiford joining forward Cam Martin, who announced his plans to leave on Monday. A sophomore guard from Durham, North Carolina, Pettiford entered the portal on Wednesday and will be looking for a new team for the 2023-24 season. Pettiford […]

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 […]

Before we get too far into this, it’s worth reminding you that Kansas freshman Gradey Dick has been a projected lottery pick by multiple NBA mock drafts throughout the season and he was listed at No. 11 overall in Jonathan Givony’s latest mock draft for ESPN.com, dated March 9, 2023. So, the chances that we’ve […]

There are many reasons the Kansas women’s basketball team is still playing this postseason, but junior forward Chandler Prater is one of the biggest. “She plays her ass off all the time,” said KU coach Brandon Schneider after his team knocked off Nebraska 64-55 on Thursday night to advance to the final eight of the […]

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 […]

There’s still a long way to go in the quest to land former Michigan big man Hunter Dickinson, who recently became the hottest commodity in the transfer portal. And there certainly is no shortage of programs interested in adding the 7-foot-1, 255-pound center to their roster for the 2023-24 college hoops season. It appears that […]

The Kansas men’s basketball program picked up its first commitment from the transfer portal on Wednesday night, with Towson guard Nick Timberlake choosing the Jayhawks. The 6-foot-4, 205-pound senior combo guard announced his decision on his Instagram and Twitter pages, posting a photo of himself and his parents, with a second image of him in […]

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 […]