And what of Milan Momcilovic who also withdrew from the NBA draft? There was a time that his list included KU...

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Just getting back on the site after about a month. My excuse for my absence is like others... I lost my dad on May 3. At 91, he had plenty of good years and was probably more ready than the rest of us.

He complained of pain (more than normal) in March and April. My mom had a lot of tests lined up. But when he collapsed in his bathroom on April 22 they found his pelvis had a fracture that had been there for a while... and they found lots of lesions, which had weakened the bone. They accelerated the tests and found his skeleton riddled with metastases. Turned out to be advanced metastatic prostate cancer, which is what I was diagnosed with 10 years ago.

How, you ask, did my dad's rapidly rising PSA (7.7 in 2023 to 288, a few days before he died) go undetected?? Apparently his urologist decided it was ok to stop testing his PSA in 2023. By the time his cancer was discovered from the scans, he was dead before the biopsy results came back.

The moral of the story is: GUYS, get your PSA checked regularly and DON'T let a doctor talk you out of it. They are cheap. There is no good reason to not track PSA.

My cancer was not caught early because of a recommendation by the US Preventable Services Task Force ruling in 2012 advising against routine PSA screening for all men. The USPSTF significantly changed its prostate cancer screening guidelines in May 2018. Too late for me and many other men across this country. The harm is incalculable. Still, I've been fortunate to manage it for nearly 10 years with the amazing medical care at a Cancer Center of Excellence.

@approxinfinity said in KU ROSTER 2026-27:

They’ll keep expanding the tournament field dont worry. We can make it past the first weekend soon hahaha

I actually think expansion will lead to more first round upsets and make it harder to advance. The really weak teams get weeded out in the play-in games.

The play-in teams competed pretty well over the years; some getting to the final four (once at our expense)

What do the prediction markets say?

If Stokes committing is Plan A, what is Plan B?

That sucks for Perry. I guess the undertone of a season-ending injury at this point is that it may be career-ending.

(As for the request for the source, I hate to do that, but this is the social-media polluted environment we live in. A player's instagram account is pretty reliable. Facebook is a sea of shite. Given they are both Meta, Insta will probably join Facebook in slop purgatory at some point.)

Did this come from Perry's insta account? if it's from Facebook it's probably fake. That platform is a wasteland of slop.

@FarmerJayhawk

Well, that isn't that a kick in the pants since plenty of YUM's revenue come from franchises started in KS.

@approxinfinity said in KU ROSTER 2026-27:

@DCHawker Louisville has more money than us.

Is this true? Louisville? An Adidas school in the ACC?

If so, that's really frustrating because I thought we were the flagship Adidas school for MBB. Also, ACC doesn't have the media deals that the B1G and SEC have. ACC and B12 should be relatively equal.

So how is it that Louisville has more $$ pull than Kansas? Not saying it's not true-- just wanting to understand.

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in KU ROSTER 2026-27:

The question is always do you take as many players as possible early, or do you wait for some.guys to withdraw from the draft as those are the higher ceiling players and you still absolutely have to have future NBA talent to win championships in college basketball

The latter is the high-risk, high-reward approach without a safety net.

The staff would probably say 'do both' and try to thread the needle. Not sure how realistic that is.

February: The core team was clicking and seemed to be gelling as DP reintegrated into the lineup. Flory and Bryson were playing like Jayhawks for life. Jamari and ElMarko were contributing and seemed poised to be next year's ambassadors as veterans in Self's system. Meanwhile, Kohl wasn't playing and the word was that he was unhappy, Paul was a project, all but forgotten.

April: it's like we've entered the upside-down. Kohl is the only player planning to return. Everyone else has entered the portal and most seem unlikely to return.

Very disorienting state of the program.

I've watched it. It's well done. I think CBS/Paramount picked these programs to follow based on their likelihood of making a deep run in march.

WRT KU, not a whole lot was new for me, but it was interesting to see some behind the scenes.

The documentary picked a player from each program to shadow and that was Darren P for KU and Yaxle L for Michigan. I felt there was striking contrast between these two players-- Yaxel allowed a great deal of transparency and access to his family, while Darren seemed guarded and less personable, with no reference to his family. There was also some interesting parallels / differences between Self and May. Worth a watch.

Last episode drops April 18. Will feature post-season, which should be a rollicking fun ride for Wolverine fans.

I keep hearing that everyone's "gone."

And, yes, the seniors are "gone." And the NBA lottery guys are "gone."

But, correct me if I'm wrong, when a player puts their name in the portal, they aren't "gone". They are saying that they are open to consider another opportunity. Quite frankly, unless you've got a multi-year NIL deal (do these even exist?), it seems like a prudent thing to do.

Yes, it means the staff has to deal with uncertainty and they have to recruit as though players may leave... but presumably they have a relationship and know guys' motivations and whether guys are getting serious offers.

We would all like loyalty to the program, but that's as bygone as the days when companies didn't do layoffs and eliminate jobs on an annual basis.

Am I misunderstanding the situation?

@BShark said in Bill Self:

Yeah they don't care about football at all. KU finally invested there.

Yep.. I don't think UConn's approach is right for KU. But this does illustrate yet another way the playing field in college sports is uneven.

UConn has been hot and cold this year. But Michigan has blown teams away — very good teams — starting in November and December. If prior performance is any indicator, Michigan should win this game by 12-20 points.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7165839/2026/04/02/uconn-women-men-march-madness-financial-nil-comparison/?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

Worth a read about how UConn's finances are doled out to men's vs women's basketball and basketball vs football. Less of a surprise that they are in the FF after reading this.

Maybe possible to isolate factors for a formula...

1. Shots that win (the team was behind or tied) the national championship at or near the buzzer (~3 sec or less)
2. Shots that force any OT in the national championship
3. Shots that win the Regional Finals at or near the buzzer
4. Shots that force any OT in the Regional Finals
5. Shots by underdogs that win NCAA Tournament games at or near the buzzer
   etc...

Some context should also be considered to rank within those categories -- For instance,

1. What kind of shot (3pt, 2pt, free throw?) and how far? (logo? beyond midcourt?)
2. Size of the deficit overcome
3. How little time the winning team led in the game.
4. How many lead changes
5. How high was the probability of winning for the losing team during the game and especially at the end of the game.
6. Number of OTs
   etc....

Given that UConn was 19 down, there were only 2 lead changes and they led less than a minute (~50 seconds), made this game all the more sensational.

Duke's probability of winning peaked at 98.7% with about 1:30 left in the first half. It was 95.3% with 5:03 left in the game. And it was 89.6% with 6 seconds left, when the turnover was committed.

While the UConn win was one for the ages, I think fantastic finishes in a National Championship have to be considered greater than fantastic finishes in lesser games.

The silver lining on Rosario is that he might be more affordable to keep given there is less tape on him. His lack of court time makes it a bit more difficult for another team to throw bags of money at him.

If we kept Flory and Rosario, it would be amazing given the talent that is coming in. I have a good feeling about Luke Barnett -- under the radar but excellent and committed early and has been steadfast. Might be exactly what the team culture needs.

Certainly not out of the realm of possibility that the delay has something to do with the status of Self and the KU program.