The Latest Breaking News from Jayhawks

CHICAGO — If Kansas’ men’s basketball team is to reach the Final Four, the Jayhawks will have to defeat a team that has a former KU player at the lead guard position.

The Jayhawks are the only remaining No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.

It’s Jayhawks-Friars followed by Hurricanes-Cyclones in Friday’s Sweet 16 matchups at the United Center.

CHICAGO — Analytics guru Ken Pomeroy provided Providence College’s men’s basketball team a rallying cry recently when his metrics deemed coach Ed Cooley’s Friars the “luckiest” of the NCAA’s 358 Division I programs.

Plus, which No. 1 seed could be next to go out?

FORT WORTH, Texas — Kansas men's basketball team is headed to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 for the first time since the 2017-18 season.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Kansas, the No. 1-seeded team in the NCAA Tournament Midwest Regional, followed the lead of fellow top seeds Baylor and Gonzaga on Thursday and drilled No. 16 seed Texas Southern 83-56 on Thursday night at Dickies Arena.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Standing in a corridor of the T-Mobile Center after Kansas swamped West Virginia, 87-63, in the Big 12 tournament semifinals, Kansas Jayhawks senior Ochai Agbaji paused to consider the undercurrent of a moment that somehow seemed normal enough but actually was an anguishing few years in…

Bill Self’s team is brimming with confidence after its Big 12 title. But will a region full of talent challenge a Jayhawks squad poised to make a run?