Kansas basketball coach Bill Self misses Big 12 Tournament game vs West Virginia with ‘illness’
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KU's Bill Self (illness) to miss Big 12 tournament game vs. WVU
Bill Self, who led Kansas to the national title last season, will miss his team's quarterfinal matchup against West Virginia in the Big 12 tournament on Thursday due to an illness, per a statement from the school.
Houston returns to No. 1 in men's college basketball poll
The Houston Cougars returned to No. 1 in the AP men's college basketball poll Monday for the third time this season, while Northwestern and Texas A&M barged into the rankings after each had a pair of impressive wins last week.
Deion Sanders wants players focusing on ‘NFL, not the NIL’
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Kansas beats North Carolina to earn its 4th NCAA men's basketball championship
By Eric Levenson, CNN
How the Kansas Jayhawks won the 2022 men's national championship, and what's next for both KU and the North Carolina Tar Heels
Men's college basketball has a new national champion. The Kansas Jayhawks launched a historic comeback to prevail 72-69 over the North Carolina Tar Heels in Monday night's final in New Orleans, the school's fourth national title and second under head coach Bill Self, who also led KU to the 2008 crown. Kansas made history by overcoming the largest halftime deficit ever for a national champion, trailing 40-25 at the break before storming out of the locker room with an 18-6 run that eliminated any notion of a Tar Heels runaway. The previous largest halftime deficit for a champ was 11, attained by the 2001 Duke Blue Devils and 1958 Temple Owls.
Kansas rallies, beats North Carolina 72-69 to win NCAA title
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — What looked like a lost cause turned into one of the sweetest wins ever for Kansas.