Kansas Jayhawks Rumors & News
Kansas is NCAA Tournament top seed
Kansas City Star — Kansas is the overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
2 hours agoJason Whitlock: Kansas too good to lose
Kansas City Star — You tell me how the Kansas Jayhawks don’t win the national championship. Seriously, I’m not even sure an injury to Sherron Collins or Cole Aldrich could derail these Jayhawks.
20 hours agoBig 12 championship notebook
Kansas City Star — <strong><span class="subhead">First half</span></strong> •<strong>Key play:</strong> Kansas’ Brady Morningstar dished to Marcus Morris for a layup that gave the Jayhawks a 27-22 lead.
20 hours agoLife is good for Henry family
Kansas City Star — Carl Henry stood and let his long arms stretch as high as they could go. All around him and throughout the Sprint Center, Kansas fans clapped and screamed with the intensity of knowing, beyond any doubt, the Big 12 tournament was theirs. It was a pretty good moment to be the parent of a pair of Kansas basketball players — star freshman Xavier Henry and his older brother C.J.
20 hours agoKU faces down Texas A&M 79-66
Kansas City Star — The tendency would be to pair Kansas’ two Big 12 tournament victories together and point out a trend. In the Jayhawks’ win on Thursday over Texas Tech, they were lacking in effort early. On Friday night, the No. 1 team in the land trailed Texas A&M by three at halftime. But KU coach Bill Self wanted to make a distinction between the two wins that put the Jayhawks in the Big 12 tournament championship game against Kansas State at 5 p.m. today at the Sprint Center.
March 12, 2010KU notebook
Kansas City Star — <strong><span class="subhead">First half</span></strong> •<strong>Key play:</strong> A Brady Morningstar up-and-under layup pulled the Jayhawks within 38-35 at halftime.
March 12, 2010Kansas pulls ahead to beat Texas A&M 79-66
Kansas City Star — Trailing 8 minutes, 50 seconds left, the top-ranked and top-seeded Jayhawks embarked on a 16-0 run over the next 4:27 and put away a feisty Texas A&M team, 79-66.
March 12, 2010KU 2K: Coaching got Jayhawks to milestone
Kansas City Star — LAWRENCE | He fed passes to Clyde Lovellette, coached Wilt Chamberlain, cheered for Danny Manning, counseled Roy Williams and today at age 83, Jerry Waugh takes in Bill Self’s practices — when he’s not coaching the Lawrence Free State girls C-team. He knows where the most prominent basketball bodies in Lawrence are buried: James Naismith rests in Lawrence Memorial Park on the south side of 15th Street, and Phog Allen in Oak Hills on the north side.
March 12, 2010KU's Davis breaks out in first-round loss to Cowgirls
Kansas City Star — The importance of Kansas freshman forward Carolyn Davis was never more evident than Thursday night, but the Jayhawks could not follow her lead to a victory in the first round of the Big 12 women’s tournament inside Municipal Auditorium. Kansas fell to Oklahoma State 76-69, losing its sixth straight game. And while the Jayhawks, the tournament’s 10th seed, now hope for a berth to the WNIT, the seventh-seeded Oklahoma State Cowgirls will move on to face second-seeded Iowa State at 5 p.m. today.
March 12, 2010
- Texas Tech basketball selected to NIT Texas College Blog | Dallas Morning News Texas Tech basketball has made the postseason for the first time since 2007. The Red Raiders (17-15, 4-12 in Big 12 play) were selected to participate in the National Invitation Tournament Sunday and will face Seton Hall in the first round as the No. 5 seed at 8 p.m. central time Tuesday on ESPN2. Seton Hall (19-12), a Big East Conference team from New Jersey, is a No. 4 seed and will host the game on their home floor at the 18,500-seat Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. The winner of the game will face No. 1-seeded Arizona State or No. 8-seeded Jacksonville. If both Texas Tech and Arizona Stat...
- K-State grabs No. 2 seed in West Kansas City Star MANHATTAN | Kansas State was slotted as a No.2 seed in the West region of the NCAA Tournament. Its first-round game will be Thursday against No. 15 seed North Texas in Oklahoma City.
- Missouri is No. 10 seed in East Kansas City Star COLUMBIA | Missouri's presence in the NCAA Tournament for a second straight March may say more about the Tigers than last season's run to the Elite Eight and a school-record 31 victories.
- Bowers Has Torn Ligaments In Wrist Tiger Tracker | St. Louis Post-Dispatch Although he plans to keep playing, starting with Mizzou’s NCAA Tournament opener against Clemson on Friday, the wrist injury suffered by MU junior forward Laurence Bowers is more severe than previously had been known. Bowers said Sunday evening that…
- Women's basketball: No. 12 Oklahoma 74, No. 20 Oklahoma State 69 Dallas Morning News
- Baylor gets Sam Houston State in first round of tournament Texas College Blog | Dallas Morning News No. 3 seed Baylor will face No. 14-seeded Sam Houston State in its first round game in New Orleans, La. Times will be announced later Sunday. Baylor (25-7) is one of the hotter teams representing the Big 12 Conference in the NCAA Tournament. The Bears went 11-5 in conference play, 7-1 at home and 4-4 on the road. From there, Baylor got to the quarterfinal round of the Big 12 tournament before losing 82-75 to Kansas State -- a No. 2 seed. The SHSU Bearkats (25-7) automatically qualified for the tournament by winning the Southland Conference tournament. SHSU played tough against Kentucky early i...
- Five players drafted by Edwards will be crucial to Chiefs in 2010 Kansas City Star Since their arrival a year ago, Scott Pioli and Todd Haley have been all about remaking the Chiefs in their own image. Pioli and Haley had little use for players like Tony Gonzalez, Larry Johnson, Bernard Pollard, Tyler Thigpen, Tank Tyler and Turk McBride, all of whom were seen as building blocks by the previous coach, Herm Edwards.
- Day in camp: A's 10, Royals 3 Kansas City Star GAME SUMMARY
- A's rough up Davies in 10-3 victory over Royals, but Tejeda shows improvement Kansas City Star The muddled competition for the final slot in the Royals' rotation crystallized somewhat Sunday afternoon when Robinson Tejeda delivered 2 1/3 shutout innings after another rough outing by Kyle Davies.
- Royals' Ankiel to be out for a week because of sore right ankle Kansas City Star PHOENIX | The sore right ankle bothering outfielder Rick Ankiel is now sufficiently troubling to the Royals that he isn't expected to play for a week.
- Soria already seeing benefits from spending winter in Kansas City Kansas City Star Joakim Soria is the other sure thing who needs to be a sure thing if the Royals are to climb back toward relevancy this season in the American League Central Division.
- Royals overcome early deficit in 12-3 victory over Angels Kansas City Star SURPRISE, Ariz. | Mitch Maier and Chris Getz hit two-run homers in the fifth inning this afternoon that ignited the Royals to a 12-3 victory over the Los Angeles Angels at Surprise Stadium.