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#Kansas #KU #Jayhawks #NCAA  Five-star guard Bryce Thompson announced his commitment to Kansas on Tuesday morning, giving the Kansas Jayhawks their first five-star recruit since the 2018 class. Thompson chose Kansas over a final four that included in-state programs Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, along with North Carolina. At different times in the last few months, there were different frontrunners in his recruitment. The Jayhawks were always a contender, and Bill Self has known the Thompson family since coaching Bryce's father, Rod, at Tulsa -- but the NCAA hitting them with a Notice of Allegations earlier this fall raised some questions. Oklahoma had been involved, and Thompson took two official visits to Norman. The strongest push down the stretch came from Oklahoma State, which was hoping the commitment from No. 2 senior Cade Cunningham last week would put the Cowboys over the top. Thompson went to both Oklahoma State and Kansas last week unofficially, and also met with c

#NCAA #Auburn  #Jayhawks #KU #Kansas #Tournament By BRANDON MARCELLO March 22,2019 SALT LAKE CITY — Auburn and Kansas will tip off in primetime in the NCAA Tournament. Auburn and Kansas will begin Saturday at approximately 8:40 p.m. CT on TBS, it was announced Thursday night. The second-round game is set to be the final one of Saturday in the NCAA Tournament, providing Auburn coach Bruce Pearl his wish from earlier in the day when he hoped for more hours to rest after playing five games in the last eight days. "I’m hoping we can somehow get back on Saturday, maybe get a later start time and get some recovery because our team is tired right now," he said. Auburn survived a furious comeback attempt by No. 12 seed New Mexico State to win 78-77 Thursday. It was the Tigers' fifth game in eight days. Kansas advanced with a 87-53 demolition of No. 13 seed Northeastern on Tuesday afternoon. “It is one game, and certainly, you know, sets up a game in which we ha

Blue-chip basketball recruit #BryceThompson, a 6-foot-4, the 180-pound junior combo guard from Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Okla., has embraced a new NCAA rule that allows juniors to take official campus visits. Thompson, the No. 65-rated player in the recruiting Class of 2020 by Rivals.com, whose dad, Rod, played for Kansas coach Bill Self at Tulsa, has completed official visits to Colorado, Arkansas, and Texas A&M. He’s made unofficial visits to Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State and also has Tulsa, TCU, and others on his list of schools. “It’s always good up there. You know Coach Self. What he does speaks for itself. I got to see Late Night in the Phog and all of the crazy fans, so it was good,” Bryce Thompson said in commenting to Rivals.com on his late September visit to KU. Thompson — he’s not yet set a date to visit KU officially — has been called “one of the most dangerous jump shooters in the Class of 2020,” by Eric Bossi of Rivals.com. He