The Latest Breaking News from Kansas

Purdue, Kentucky and UCLA are among the men's teams pushing for the top line.

AMES, Iowa — Kansas senior guard Ochai Agbaji, who had started 97 consecutive games for Kansas, a stat that ranks No. 8 on KU’s all-time ironman list, was ruled out of Tuesday night’s game against Iowa State on Tuesday morning because of COVID-19 protocols.

The Kansas Jayhawks will meet the Iowa State Cyclones in college basketball action on Tuesday night from the James H. Hilton Coliseum.

When it became apparent late last spring that Sahvir Wheeler and Kentucky were about to join forces, questions about the wisdom of UK bringing in the former Georgia point guard were loud and persistent.

Pass the word: The Cats are back.

Before his team played Kentucky on Saturday night, Kansas coach Bill Self attributed Oscar Tshiebwe’s almost surreal productive play this season to having room to operate around the basket.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — To be honest, I'm not worried about which school has the most all-time wins in college basketball.

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Texas Tech's men's basketball team, which defeated Kansas 75-67 on Jan. 8 in Lubbock, Texas, on Monday night will attempt to become just the third Big 12 Conference team to sweep a regular-season home-and-home series from the Jayhawks in the 19-year Bill Self era.

MANHATTAN, Kan. — Bill Self tried to focus on the Kansas men’s basketball game against Kansas State and nothing else on Saturday afternoon, just two days after the death of his dad, Bill Self Sr.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Only a year after Englishman Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile in May 1954, crashing through an invisible, tantalizing and once-immovable barrier, three men did the same in a single race. Some 1,500 would eventually follow.

The Kansas State men’s basketball team won its second consecutive game against a ranked opponent by defeating No. 23 Texas, 66-65, on Tuesday at the Erwin Center in Austin, Texas.