Kansas Jayhawks NCAA Basketball News

Five-time defending Big 12 Conference champion Kansas continues the 2009-10 exhibition season hosting Pittsburg State Tuesday, Nov.

One thing that makes college basketball so enjoyable, yet at the same time so challenging, is that each year the team is different.

After Kansas won the 2008 national title, the starting lineup evacuated like a hurricane hit Lawrence.

LAWRENCE, Kan. a ' When the Kansas Jayhawks host Fort Hays State in an exhibition game Tuesday night, two KU players will stay on the bench.

The college basketball season tips off in less than two weeks, and there are already plenty of storylines involving coaches to keep an eye on.

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

Kansas , as you may have heard, is loaded, the best team in the country. Deep, talented, full of current and future stars, the Jayhawks have the kind of team that would make it tough for the best player at some schools to crack the bench.

Bill Self's Kansas Jayhawks open the season in the top spot in the USA TODAY/ESPN coaches' poll.

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.

For just the sixth time in the history of The Associated Press' preseason All-America balloting, two players from the same school were voted to the team.

Nineteen months after meeting in the 2008 national championship game, Bill Self and John Calipari again are in a class by themselves: Both have assembled teams whose talent surplus is dwarfed only by the oversize expectations of their fans.

All across the country there is the usual fan excitement that accompanies the start of the college basketball season. Then there is the level of fervor raging these days at Kansas and Kentucky, where fan bases of two storied programs are expecting nothing short of near perfection.

Kansas was not supposed to be as good as they were last season. After winning the national championship and having their roster gutted by the NBA in 2008, the Jayhawks were expected to be a middle-tier team with a lot of question marks on their roster.

The 2009-2010 college basketball season can officially start being discussed now that the first batch of preseason rankings are available.

A second University of Kansas basketball player in just over a week has been placed on diversion for drunken driving.The Lawrence city prosecutor's office says 21-year-old Chase Buford must pay $802 in diversion and other court fees.

It was 8 a.m. last Thursday, and even after two cups of coffee I wasn't quite awake.

Kansas basketball senior Sherron Collins , junior Cole Aldrich and freshman Xavier Henry have been named to 50-member Naismith Award Preseason Watch list for 2009-10 the Atlanta Tip-Off Club announced Thursday.

1 ranking in the preseason USA TODAY/ESPN Coaches' Poll "the kiss of death." "Based on what we return and the quality of newcomers that we were able to recruit, I could see why people would think this," he said of the ranking.

Despite a tumultuous offseason that included an on-campus brawl against the school's football team, one of its players being arrested for DWI, and a summer soap opera that left many wondering if star recruit Xavier Henry would ever even arrive in Lawrence, the Kansas men's basketball team enters the 2009-10 season as the favorites to cut down the ...

They're often the players that our eyes drift to the most. They determine the pace of the game, the distribution of the ball, and the angles of passes.

Kansas CITY, MO. - What does it say about Big 12 men's basketball when it can lose the nation's best player - former Oklahoma star Blake Griffin - and still expect the upcoming season to be its strongest ever? What does it say about a conference that has a team such as Iowa State that features a unanimous preseason all-league player and the Big 12 ...