Allen Fieldhouse

Many times in the Bill Self era, Kansas men’s basketball has ranked among the national leaders in strength of schedule and even with the Big 12 stiffening its schedule, KU did not let up with its 2011-12 non-conference slate. Ten of Kansas’ 13 non-conference opponents advanced to the 2011 postseason. The Jayhawks could face as many as three defending league regular-season champions and three teams that won their conference tourney titles in 2011. KU will have home-and-home meetings against all nine Big 12 foes in the league’s first-complete round-robin 18-game format since the inception of the conference in 1996-97.

The University of Kansas made Josh Selby's departure official with this press release issued this afternoon: Kansas coach Bill Self confirmed Thursday that freshman guard Josh Selby will enter the 2011 NBA Draft. “When the season was over, Josh, his family and I spoke quite candidly about what he wanted to do,” Self said. “He made it very clear that he wanted to go to Las Vegas and work out to see if he could get more information of his NBA Draft status.

Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self announced the Morris twin forwards Marcus and Markieff Morris they will forego their senior season at KU and enter the 2011 NBA Draft. The twins will sign with agent Tony Dutt of Rivals Sports Group, LLC, based in California. “I am proud of Marcus and Markieff for the development and improvement they made, not only off the court, but on the court in their three years here,” Self said. “They have been an absolute joy to coach and performed at a level to give them the opportunity to leave and enter the NBA draft after three years.

Kansas Jayhawks' junior guard Tyshawn Taylor and sophomore forward Thomas Robinson made KU fans very happy Wednesday by announcing they will stay in Lawrence for another season with the Jayhawks.  Taylor says, “We had a great year, but since the season ended disappointingly, there has been a lot speculation with fans and on the internet on what we were going to do. The bottom line is we’re going to work very hard this offseason and...

After years of offers, KU Basketball may finally play a game in Wichita.  But that doesn't have Shocker fans expecting a showdown. The Jayhawks could play a game at INTRUST bank arena in December, against The University of Southern California Trojans. The teams first met in 2010, and KU beat USC 70-68 in Allen Fieldhouse.  It is USC's turn to host,  but it's venue holds almost 5,000 fewer people than the 15,000 seat Intrust Bank Arena. Shocker fans said they would rather see the hometown team take on KU, instead of a West Coast team.  "It's like, they're snubbing us," said WSU fan Martha Cable.  "It's like, we don't know you guys are there, so we're bringing in another team.

Markieff Morris had 26 points and 15 rebounds and No. 1 Kansas bounced back from a lopsided loss to Kansas State with an 89-63 victory over Colorado, the Buffaloes' 28th straight defeat in Lawrence. Brady Morningstar hit his first four 3-pointers to help the Jayhawks (25-2, 10-2 Big 12) get off to a flying start after their brand-new No. 1 ranking was tarnished Monday night by a shocking 84-68 loss at the home of the unranked Wildcats. Colorado (16-11, 5-7) will go into the Pac-10 next year with a 5-52 record in Allen Fieldhouse.

The victory improved Kansas to 23-1 on the year, including 8-1 in Big 12 play, while Missouri fell to 18-6 and 4-5 in conference action.  The Jayhawks have defeated Missouri 12 straight times in Allen Fieldhouse and have claimed 13 of the last 16 meetings overall. Kansas, the nation’s leading field goal shooting team, hit a blistering 60.7 percent of its shots from the field, including 11 of 19 three-pointers.  KU also dominated the boards grabbing 38 to Missouri’s 21. KU All-America candidate Marcus Morris scored 17 of his game-high 22 points in the second half as he made seven of nine shots.

It seemed like the gap between the KU and K-State programs had closed after the 2009-10 season and with K-State beginning this season as a pre-season top three team in the country. But following a 90-66 Jayhawk drubbing to K-State, it seems like the gap has grown wider. KU (20-1) was good in the first half, great in the second half and the Wildcats (14-8) were simply bad. Shooting only 33 percent from the floor, a dismal 19 percent in the first half. This game was a cathartic release for Kansas and especially Thomas Robinson who endured a terribly tragic three weeks where he lost both his grandparents and his mother, Lisa, and attended her funeral on Thursday.

Third-ranked Kansas sprinted out to a 15-0 lead to open the game and never looked back on its way to a 99-52 win over UMKC Wednesday evening in Allen Fieldhouse. The win improved the Jayhawks to 13-0 for the second-straight season and extended the nation’s longest home court winning streak to 68 games. UMKC dropped to 8-7 with the loss. Senior guard Tyrel Reed got things started for the Jayhawks as he hit a jumper from the wing. Two free throws from freshman guard Josh Selby were followed by a steal and dunk by junior forward Markieff Morris for a quick 6-0 lead before the game was a minute old. Kansas got two more free throws from junior guard Tyshawn Taylor, a steal and dunk from junior forward Marcus Morris, a three from Reed and a lay up from sophomore guard Travis Releford for a 15-0 lead forcing UMKC to call its first of three first-half timeouts with 14:28 to play in the opening frame.

Freshman Josh Selby scored a team-high 21 points, including the game-winning three-pointer with 26 seconds remaining, in his Jayhawk debut to lead Kansas basketball to a 70-68 victory over USC in Allen Fieldhouse Saturday. Kansas improved to 10-0 for the second consecutive year and extended the nation’s longest active home court winning streak to 65 games with the victory. USC fell to 6-5 with the loss. Junior Markieff Morris had 11 points and eight rebounds for KU, while his twin brother Marcus added 11 points and seven rebounds.