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Anthony Davis Aims to Treat National Championship Game Just Like Any Other

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

The biggest stage in college basketball is set for tonight when Kentucky will take on Kansas for the national championship. The nation's best player, however, is doing his best to treat it like any other game. Anthony Davis says he and the Wildcats are preaching that they need to simply ...

Kansas Big Man Jeff Withey Thinks Defense Will be Key Tonight, Expects to Guard Anthony Davis

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Despite a slew of upsets and surprises early in the NCAA tournament, two of the most successful programs in college basketball history are meeting for the national title tonight in New Orleans. Top-seeded Kentucky has enjoyed an easier ride to the final, which is why the Wildcats are an obvious ...

Danny Manning Explains Kansas’ Improbable Run to the Final Four

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

After losing three key players from last year’s team to the NBA, Kansas came into this season as a team unsure of what they had. In fact, this year’s squad looked like it was going to be one of the worst teams of the Bill Self era. However, all season ...

Thad Matta Takes Time to Reflect on Return Trip to the Final Four

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

When he helped lead Ohio State to his first Final Four in 2007, Thad Matta admits he took little time out to actually enjoy the success. The Buckeyes are back there in 2012 and have a date with Kansas on Saturday, but their head coach says he'll do things differently ...

Kansas State Coach Frank Martin Embraces Wildcats Role as Hunter and Spoiler

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

The youngest squad Frank Martin has coached at Kansas State is off to the NCAA Tournament for the third year in a row. But after pushing through to the Sweet 16 as a fifth seed in 2011, and making the Elite Eight as a second seed in 2010, K-State's road ...

Will the Big 12 Race be Decided by Either the Kansas Jayhawks or the Missouri Tigers?

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

Baylor certainly looked like a favorite to contend for the Big 12 men's basketball championship after cruising to 17 victories in a row out of the gate. However, the Bears lost their second straight game over the weekend, falling at home to Missouri. They've now lost to Kansas and Mizzou, ...

Bill Self’s Kansas Jayhawks Win Thanks to Spurts

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Bill Self doesn't mince words about his team's offensive production. He readily admits that the Kansas Jayhawks aren't going to look unbelievable offensively, and this is coming from a guy who watched his team put up 92 points on previously unbeaten Baylor this past week. What Self does see is a ...

Charlie Weis Has a Five-Year Plan for the Kansas Jayhawks

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Charlie Weis seems to have his whole tenure at Kansas mapped out already. The program hired the former Notre Dame head coach, who has bounced around the past few years between the college and professional ranks, to take over the Jayhawks' fledgling football program, a move that shocked the college ...

Bill Self: Kansas Basketball and the Big 12 Will Be Just Fine With or Without Missouri

Friday, October 7th, 2011

Since the beginning of this entire wild and crazy mess, all of the chatter surrounding the Big 12 Conference and possible realignment scenarios has been delineated by a strong sense of doom and gloom. Texas A&M was rumored to be heading to the SEC, which in turn might mean that ...

Bill Self on Big 12 Realignment: “Something positive could come out of it, but it’s nervous times.”

Friday, September 9th, 2011

There has been plenty of chatter over the past few weeks -- and years, really -- about possible realignment in college athletics and, specifically, the Big 12. With Texas A&M attempting to bolt for the Southeastern Conference, everyone is wondering what will happen next. But all that talk has surrounded ...