Category: Kansas Jayhawks
Thursday, March 28th, 2013
The Sweet 16 is not at a loss for great matchups, and one of those will come Friday night when top-seeded Kansas takes on No. 4 seed Michigan. Bill Self's success at Kansas is well-documented, while the Wolverines have what Self calls perhaps the best guard-line in the country, starting ...
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Friday, March 22nd, 2013
Five years ago the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers were one of the Cinderellas of the Big Dance. Today, they'll attempt to become the first No. 16 seed to beat a No. 1. Kansas coach Bill Self says Western Kentucky isn't the typical 16-seed, but his Jayhawks cruised to the Big 12 ...
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Friday, March 22nd, 2013
North Carolina will need to get by Villanova and before Roy Williams would face his former team in Kansas--assuming the Jayhawks win as a No. 1 seed--and Williams isn't looking ahead. That said, if the reunion does happen, Williams says it won't be easy. He also says in this interview ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2013
In 2010, North Carolina head coach Roy Williams was caught in a talent-gap. He was about to depart the Tyler Hansbrough era and he was awaiting the arrival of future lottery picks Kendall Marshall and Harrison Barnes. Now, he finds himself in that same gap after losing four players, including ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2013
The Kansas Jayhawks opened up league play Wednesday night with a 97-89 win over Iowa State. All eyes are on the No. 6-ranked Jayhawks in the Big 12 as they defend eight straight regular-season championships.
Bill Self embraces the pressure. The Jayhawks' head coach explains in the following interview his philosophy ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2012
Bill Self and the Kansas Jayhawks have won eight straight regular season Big 12 titles. It will be quite a challenge to make it nine in a row. Self did a great job a season ago with a depleted roster. Somehow he led the Jayhawks all the way to the ...
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
Charlie Weis' long career has begun a new chapter as he assumes the head coach position with the Kansas Jayhawks. That's a far cry removed from his previous gigs coaching the Patriots to Super Bowls and then as the head coach at Notre Dame. But Weis sounds refreshed and content ...
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Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Early in Thomas Robinson’s career at Kansas he played only limited minutes as he spent much of his early time with the Jayhawks riding the bench. That all changed this past season in T-Rob’s junior campaign. Robinson enjoyed a breakout season where he became the leader of the Jayhawks and ...
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Thursday, April 5th, 2012
Kentucky hadn't even won the national championship game Monday night and coach John Calipari was already hearing the rumors that after they did win he'd head to the NBA. When the Wildcats did pull it off, winning Calipari his first title and the program's eighth overall, those rumors only escalated.
Calipari ...
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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 ...
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