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Fresh off the most bountiful feast of the year, 110 college basketball teams suited up for action on Black Friday.

Cole Aldrich had 14 points and 10 rebounds, Tyshawn Taylor added 18 points and No.

It's not every year a big man as gifted as Oakland's Keith Benson comes out of the Summit League and therefore onto the nonconference schedules of schools like Kansas.

Most teams would be in trouble if their two preseason All-Americans combined for only 13 points.

Odds are, not many of the Kansas Jayhawks will know very much about five of their next six opponents.

The University of Central Arkansas has faced a lot of challenges in its five-year transition to NCAA Division I, but none more imposing than the one looming here Thursday night.

Kansas senior Sherron Collins is featured on the 2009-10 College Basketball Preview Issue cover of Sports Illustrated , released this week.

A 23-0 run in the first half lifted Kansas to a 37-15 halftime advantage and the No.

MSU and Kansas both survived upset bids Tuesday night. College basketball's top two teams narrowly avoided upset bids on Tuesday night.

The season-opening win over Hofstra was a little too easy for top-ranked Kansas.

Cole Aldrich had 18 points, 11 rebounds and blocked five shots, helping top-ranked Kansas overcome a sloppy night to hold off Memphis 57-55 in a rematch of the 2008 national championship game Tuesday.

Bill Self coached basketball at the University of Illinois for 102 games and his teams won 78 of them, putting the Illini in a fast-break mode at the beginning of the decade.

Coach John Calipari has taken two previous teams to the Final Four in his career and understands Kentucky fans will expect nothing less.

With the Jayhawks well on their way to what became a 103-45 exhibition drubbing of in-state Div.

Head fashionista: Bill Self That is so last year: 27-8, 14-2 Big 12, NCAA Sweet 16 On the catwalk: G Sherron Collins , C Cole Aldrich Pret-a-Porter: G Xavier Henry Looking all GQ if: This may be the deepest and most talented group Self has coached at KU.

A source close to the Kansas basketball program indicated late Tuesday evening that KU forward Marcus Morris one-handed facial over Pittsburg States Andy Smith in the Jayhawks 103-45 exhibition victory was not the first time Morris had brought the house down with a dunk this week.The source said the other victim was none other than 6-foot-11 KU ...

St. Petersburg Times staff writer Brian Landman previews the men's season. 5 favorite players to watch 1. Ed Davis So., F, North Carolina .

Six months after North Carolina cut down the nets in Detroit, it's time to welcome back the sound of basketballs bouncing, sneakers squeaking and nets swishing to hardwoods across the country.

Until the games start next week there is still one topic that dominates all hoops talk - Kentucky.

Tonight mark's the first night of Basketball for the Kansas men's team, which is ranked pre-season No.