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KU will face Duke in Vegas Showdown

The Kansas men's basketball team will face Duke at Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena on Nov. 26, ESPN Events announced Thursday afternoon. The matchup is part of ESPN's second annual Vegas Showdown, a doubleheader that also features a matchup between Seattle and Furman, and then has Duke hosting ...

Rice transfer Noah Shelby commits to KU, will redshirt

Noah Shelby, a guard with two years of eligibility remaining who previously played at Vanderbilt and Rice, announced Sunday afternoon that he will join the Kansas men's basketball team next season. "I look forward to joining the @KUHoops family," he wrote in a post on X. "Redshirting this ...

What could next season look like for KU’s returning role players?

With the closure of the transfer portal for the spring comes continuity for Kansas, which beyond its three veteran starters also has three players coming back who were on the bench at the end of the 2023-24 season. They will all see their roles become substantially different, however, on a ...

KU men’s basketball adds walk-on from Wichita

The Kansas men's basketball program fleshed out the back end of its roster a bit more on Tuesday when it earned a commitment from Will Thengvall, a 6-foot-4, 185-pound guard from Wichita's Kapaun Mt. Carmel High School who will serve as a walk-on for next year's Jayhawks, per multiple ...

Former Jayhawk Yesufu returns to Big 12

A former Kansas reserve will have the opportunity to face off against the Jayhawks next season. Joe Yesufu, a 6-foot guard from Bolingbrook, Illinois, who was a member of KU's 2021-22 national championship team and started three games the following season, announced Sunday night that he is ...

Reports: Kugel won’t attend KU

Florida transfer wing Riley Kugel will not attend Kansas, according to multiple reports Wednesday afternoon. Matt Norlander of CBS Sports was first to report the news, which follows a comment by KU coach Bill Self in an interview with the NCAA Monday about the prospect of the long-committed ...

Manning added to Colorado basketball staff

Kansas legend Danny Manning will be back in the Big 12 Conference next season. Manning has been hired as an assistant coach at Colorado, where his former KU teammate Tad Boyle is the head coach. The school announced the news Tuesday morning. "I'm very excited to join coach Boyle's staff," ...