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Bill Self And The Top Seeded Jayhawks Face A Tough Test In The Loaded Midwest Region

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Let the Madness begin! The NCAA Tournament field is set and your number one overall seed is the Kansas Jayhawks, who kept their momentum going on Saturday with a win over Kansas State in the Big 12 Championship Game.  The Jayhawks begin their quest to make the Final Four with ...

Bill Self has a “Good Team, but not a Great Team”

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

For those of us who did not pay too much attention to college basketball before 1988, it's easy to take the Kansas Jayhawks for granted in March. Under Roy Williams, the program was known for its great talent and the regular-season success that preceded its tournament collapse. The Jayhawks had ...

Jocques Crawford on Mark Mangino: “He made me get to the point where I just didn’t have any love for the game anymore.”

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Former Kansas football players are speaking out about the treatment they received from Kansas head coach, Mark Mangino. The allegations are both physical and verbal abuse. Are these kids just being soft? Some might ,but there is a fine line between being scolded and abused. I myself played football and ...

Mark Mangino Trying To Manage Lofty Expecations In Lawrence: ‘You have to look at each and every game as they come up and find a way to win them.’

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

The 2008 season for the Kansas Jayhawks football team did not quite live up to expectations. It was an okay season. But with a veteran defense and an offense that had shown tremendous promise in 2007, Kansas had higher aspirations than merely a 7-4 regular season record and a ho-hum ...

Bill Self Just Wins Games. It’s What He Does

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

I wrote it last month, last week, and I'll do the same once more - Bill Self, despite his setbacks several years in early rounds of the tournament, is truly one of the best coaches in America, if not the best. All he does is win, no matter where he ...

NCAA Tournament Midwest Region Interviews

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Take a listen to interviews from Midwest Region coaches in this year's NCAA Men's College Basketball Tournament.  This is one tough region, with the defending champion Kansas Jayhawks occupying the third seed, a dangerous and perhaps peaking USC team all the way down at #10, and perennially tough March teams ...

Never Count Out Bill Self Coached Teams

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Not too many people gave the Kansas Jayhawks much of a shot at following up their NCAA Championship with a legitimate shot at winning it all again this year. Too many guys lost to graduation or the Association. But here the Jayhawks are in early March with yet another Big ...