Just three days after playing 45 minutes in Kansas’ 92-86 double-overtime loss to Houston, Hunter Dickinson will be back in Allen Fieldhouse on Tuesday night for a Big 12 battle against UCF, a team that will have revenge on its mind after losing to KU by 51 points on Jan.
Houston picked up a two-game road sweep in Big 12 Conference play at a pair of the league’s more imposing venues. As a result, the Cougars maintain their hold o
Kansas basketball’s path to a Big 12 regular season title became more difficult Saturday with a loss at home against another contender, Houston.
Here's a look at how the Houston men's basketball team erased a six-point deficit in a handful of seconds to win at Kansas.
Houston coach Kelvin Sampson, in praising his team’s maturity after it beat Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday night, uttered one of his typical aphorisms: “There’s a 94-foot slab of rectangular wood we play on.
The Houston Cougars are one of the hottest teams in college basketball — and they finally picked up a signature victory. Houston (16-3, 8-0) came into Saturday'
KU’s Hunter Dickinson and TCU’s Trazarien White were both tagged with technical fouls for refusing to release the basketball after a hard-fought rebounding battle on Wednesday.
Mayo committed two vital turnovers on inbounds passes off Houston’s full-court press. KU was up two points with 16.6 left in regulation when he was called for a five-second inbounds violation. Two free throws by J’Wan Robert tied it at 66 with 13.9 seconds left. KU turned it over on the Jayhawks’ final possession of regulation.
And then not only did Houston’s pressure force a turnover ... “It’s like a gut punch, and it feels terrible,” Kansas center Hunter Dickinson said. “It feels like we just went to battle for however long, however many minutes we were out there, ...
Are we ready to put Houston in the elite tier of college basketball this season? Auburn and Duke have been staples at the top of our Power Rankings for several weeks, with Iowa State in the mix. And while Tennessee has faded,
Kansas coach Bill Self said the effort against UCF was like everyone was hungover, despite a Kansas win. Zeke Mayo was the standout star in this one, along with Hunter Dickinson. And boy, did Kansas need its two stars to beat UCF 91-87 at home.
Allen Fieldhouse was a vital piece in Kansas men’s basketball’s close 91-87 win over UCF on Tuesday night. The Jayhawks needed the home-court advantage to squeak out a win without