Late Night in the Phog is inevitably new to a few first-time Kansas Jayhawks every year, and they get to take in the pageantry that begins every year of KU basketball. “This has always been one of the highlights of each and every team, of each and every year,” KU men’s basketball coach ...

Late Night in the Phog has become a familiar tradition for the Kansas basketball teams and their fans over its decades of existence. This year’s event, though, set for 6:30 p.m. on Friday and featuring all the usual scrimmage action and entertainment, will hold some intrigue, primarily ...

Shakeel Moore felt a pop in his ankle right as he jumped during an offseason pickup game and quickly realized that he wasn’t going to simply play through the injury. “It didn’t hurt, though... but I tried to walk it off, and I couldn’t put much pressure on it,” Moore said. “I ...

Talandra Griffen’s choice of driving music may have had further-reaching consequences than either she or her son could have anticipated. Something about hearing Michael Jackson’s “Off the Wall” in her car made an impact on Rylan Griffen. She used to play it on a daily basis. “I ...

There was a time near the conclusion of the 2023-24 season when, as Kansas coach Bill Self put it, “That was not a very good team we were putting out there at the end.” The Jayhawks were thin from the start of the year but at one point were even missing both of their top two scorers, Kevin ...

For the second season in a row and the fifth overall, the Kansas men’s basketball team will begin the year ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press’ Top 25 poll. The Jayhawks, who received exactly half of the first-place votes from the 60-member panel, will look to convert that mark into a ...

For the second year in a row, the Big 12 Conference’s coaches picked Kansas to win the league and chose KU center Hunter Dickinson as the preseason player of the year. The selections were announced on Thursday afternoon. Dickinson is the first player ever to receive the preseason player of ...