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WR Nick Harwell will be heading to Kansas to play his final season of college football. The 6’1″ 195 lbs Harwell missed part of last season due to a knee injury after leading the MAC in both catches and yards per game. Harwell made a visit to Kansas earlier this week and quickly made the decision to join Jayhawk Nation. Read the rest of this entry »

As TheShiver.com expected, and posted earlier today, Memphis transfer Tarik Black is headed to Kansas.

Kansas head coach Bill Self announced Tarik Black will transfer from Memphis and has signed a grant-in-aid agreement to play men’s basketball at KU.

Black, a 6-foot-9, 245-pound front court player from Memphis, Tenn., received his bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership from Memphis earlier this month and will have one year of eligibility at KU. Read the rest of this entry »

IRIVING, Texas – Kansas’ men’s basketball game at Florida on Dec. 10 will be part of the Big 12/SEC Challenge, the two conferences announced Tuesday. The Big 12/SEC Challenge will begin during the 2013-14 season.

“This will be very good for our league,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “We have a very difficult draw with our game in Gainesville (Florida), but it should be a great preparation game; one that will warrant a lot of national attention. Florida has one of the better rosters in America and has a chance to win it all. Hopefully we’re moving in that direction as well. It will be very exciting with a lot of young players going at each other.” Read the rest of this entry »

LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas men’s basketball annually has one of the toughest schedules in the nation and its 2013-14 non-conference slate will be as competitive as ever with the likes of Duke, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, Georgetown and San Diego State along with several other major conference favorites.

“We’ve always played a schedule that has a great RPI (rating percentage index) and we’ve always played a tough non-conference schedule that prepared us for the league, but this year our schedule will rival any schedule that we’ve ever played,” said Kansas head coach Bill Self who enters his 11th season at KU in 2013-14. “Duke, at Colorado, at Florida, New Mexico, Georgetown, San Diego State, then you throw in the Battle 4 Atlantis and other schools that have experienced success of late – this will certainly be as difficult a schedule, especially when you’re replacing five starters. This is probably not the brightest thing I’ve done since I’ve been here, but it’s a schedule that will force us to get ready at an accelerated pace.” Read the rest of this entry »

LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas coach Bill Self has announced that forward Hunter Mickelson (6-foot-10, 245 pounds), has signed a grant-in-aid agreement to play men’s basketball at KU. A transfer from the University of Arkansas, Mickelson will sit out the 2013-14 season and will have two years eligibility at Kansas.

“Hunter is a young man that we recruited out of high school, offered a scholarship and he chose to stay close to home,” Self said. “He decided after two years at Arkansas that a change would do him good and we’re very excited about the change. Read the rest of this entry »