HENRICKSON HIRES AIR FORCE VET AS ASSISTANT: Bonnie Henrickson and the Kansas women’s basketball team announced the hiring of assistant coach Shay Robinson on Sunday. Robinson, replaces Terry Nooner, who took a similar position at Alabama.
Robinson, an Air Force veteran, spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach at the Air Force Academy after serving eight years of active duty in the military.
Doc Sadler is officially headed to Iowa State, and Bill Self says he will move quickly to name a replacement.
Sadler, the former head coach at Nebraska, spent this season as director of basketball operations at Kansas. He will stay in the Big 12 as a f… Continue reading
WU GOLF IN 10TH AFTER FIRST ROUND AT NCAAS: The Washburn golf team is tied for 10th after the first round of the NCAA Midwest/Central Regional Tournament, which took place on Monday in Kenosha, Wis.
WU finished with a 7-over-par 295 team score. Ronnie … Continue reading
Kale Pick is staying at Kansas as an offensive graduate assistant after completing his career as a wide receiver.
Pick, who led KU in receptions as a senior this past season, will work closely with receivers coach Rob Ianello. The Dodge City native cau… Continue reading
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — With four minutes and forty seconds left in Perry Ellis’ career game, Naadir Tharpe looked to throw an entry pass to his smoldering hot freshman.
But the freshman was wise enough to know it wouldn’t end well.
“No, no , no,” Ellis yelled.
Tharpe obliged and swung the ball to Travis Releford on the wing. A few seconds later, Tharpe was in the same situation. But this time Ellis had position and Tharpe had a passing lane.
Mark Mangino is returning to the sideline, three years after his ouster as the coach at Kansas.
Mangino was announced Friday as the new tight ends coach and assistant head coach at Youngstown State, his alma mater. The Penguins are coached by Eric Wolf… Continue reading
LAWRENCE — On Jan. 22, 1974, Digger Phelps brought No. 1-ranked Notre Dame to face Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse.
Basketball fans might not recognize the date, but they’ll know what happened three days earlier.
That day — Jan. 19, 1974 — was the day Phelps and the Irish upset UCLA 71-70 to end the Bruins’ 88-game winning streak.
MANHATTAN — If Kansas’ guard Travis Releford was studying for a test on Kansas State guard Rodney McGruder, he passed with flying colors.
Releford chased Rodney McGruder for the majority of the game, holding the hot-handed senior in check for two points in the first half.
“Starting off the first half I thought I did real well at making him uncomfortable and not letting him get easy looks at the rim,” Releford said.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Jacque Vaughn, a starting point guard at Kansas from 1993-97, has been named the coach of the Orlando Magic.
Vaughn, 37, will be formally introduced at a news conference on Monday. He averaged 9.6 points in his four-year career at K… Continue reading
Larry Brown will speak honestly and say, at 71, he’s not in love with the games.
Brown has coached a million of them in what seems like a million places. He’s had more great basketball jobs than anyone, anywhere — Kansas and UCLA, the Knicks and … Continue reading