Q U I C K FAC T S General Information
Location. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lawrence, Kan. 66045 Founded. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1866 Enrollment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,718 Nickname. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jayhawks Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Crimson and Blue PMS Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blue 293, Crimson 186 Arena. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allen Fieldhouse Opened . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1955 Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,300 Allen Fieldhouse Press Row Phone . . . . . . . 785.864.5593 Affiliation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NCAA Division I Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Big 12 Chancellor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Bernadette Gray-Little Athletics Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Sheahon Zenger Faculty Athletics Rep. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Jerry Bailey Senior Associate AD/SWA. . . . . . . . . . . . Debbie Van Saun Senior Associate AD (MBB). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sean Lester Special Assistant to the AD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Larry Keating Athletic Department Phone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785.864.3143 Ticket Office Phone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785.864.3141 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .or 800.34HAWKS KU Athletics Website. . . . . . . . . . . . . www.kuathletics.com
History
Seasons of Basketball. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Entering 115th First Season of Basketball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1898-99 All-Time Record. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2070-806 NCAA Tournament Appearances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Last Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2012 NCAA Final Four Appearances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Last Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2012 NIT Appearances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Last Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1969
Basketball Staff
Head Coach. . . . . . . . . . . . . Bill Self (Oklahoma State, ‘85) Record at KU (Seasons) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269-53 (9) Record Overall (Seasons). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476-158 (19) Basketball Office Phone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785.864.3056 Basketball Office Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785.864.5761 Best Time To Contact Self. . . . . . . . . Contact Chris Theisen Administrative Assistant to HC. . . . . . . . Joanie Stephens Asst. Coach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joe Dooley (G. Washington, ‘88) Asst. Coach. . . . . . . . . . . Kurtis Townsend (W. Kentucky, ‘82) Asst. Coach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Norm Roberts (Queens, ‘87) Dir. of Basketball Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Doc Sadler Assistant Director of Basketball Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brennan Bechard Video Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeff Forbes Associate Director of Sports Medicine. . . . . . . Bill Cowgill Assistant AD Sport Performance . . . . . . . . . Andrea Hudy Sr. Assoc. Dir. Academic & Career Counseling/ S-A Support Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scott Ward Assistant AD Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Larry Hare Head Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James Cox Administrative Assistant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tami Hoffman
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Communications
Assoc. AD Creative Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Todd Kober Kober’s email. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tkober@ku.edu Asst. AD Communications (MBB). . . . . . . . . Chris Theisen Theisen’s office phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785.864.3474 Theisen’s cell phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785.331.9356 Theisen’s email. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . theisen@ku.edu Dir. of Football Communications. . . . . . . . . Katy Lonergan Lonergan’s email. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . katyl@ku.edu Assistant Communications Dir.. . . . . . . . . Mike Cummings Cummings’ email. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . mtc@ku.edu Asst. Communications Dir. (MBB). . . . . . . . . . Alissa Bauer Bauer’s email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . anbauer@ku.edu Communications Assistant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brad Gilbert Gilbert’s email. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . brgilbert@ku.edu Photographer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeff Jacobsen Jacobsen’s email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . jacobsen@ku.edu Web Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin McCarty McCarty’s email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kmccarty@ku.edu Graphic Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jackie Berra Berra’s email. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . jberra@ku.edu Office Manager/Pubications Coord.. . . . . . . Erin Penning Penning’s email. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . epenning@ku.edu Mailing Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Commuications Dept. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1651 Naismith Drive, Suite 1400 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lawrence, KS 66045-4069 Main Office Phone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785.864.3417 Fax Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785.864.7944 Credential website. . . . . . . . www.kuathletics.com/media
Team Information
2011-12 Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32-7 (H: 16-0; A: 8-2; N: 8-5) Big 12 Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-2 (H: 9-0; A: 7-2) Big 12 Finish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . First Postseason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NCAA runner-up Final AP Poll Ranking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Final Coaches’ Poll Ranking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Starters Returning/Lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/2 Letterwinners Returning/Lost. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8/5 Newcomers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Media Information
Rock Chalk Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mike Lickert Lickert’s office phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785.864.3929 Originating Radio. . . . . . . . . Jayhawk IMG Radio Network Jayhawk IMG Sports Marketing. . . . . . . . . . . Jason Booker Booker’s office phone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785.312.7555 Visiting radio contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bob Newton Newton’s cell phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785.331.5787 Jayhawk IMG Sports Marketing address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jayhawk IMG Sports Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123 W. 8th Street, Suite 303 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lawrence, KS 66044 Radio Play-by-Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bob Davis Davis’ cell phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785.393.1831 Radio color analyst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Greg Gurley Gurley’s office phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785.864.7943
2012-13 Information
Starters Returning (3) NO PLAYER HT WT CL POS PPG RPG APG 15 Elijah Johnson 6-4 195 Sr. G 10.2 3.2 3.5 24 Travis Releford 6-6 207 Sr. G 8.5 4.2 1.8 5 Jeff Withey 7-0 235 Sr. C 9.0 6.3 3.6* *Blocks per game
Letterwinners Returning (8) NO PLAYER HT WT CL POS PPG RPG APG 21 Christian Garrett 6-3 170 So. G 0.0 0.3 0.1 15 Elijah Johnson 6-4 195 Sr. G 10.2 3.2 3.5 20 Niko Roberts 5-11 175 Jr. G 0.0 0.3 0.4 24 Travis Releford 6-6 207 Sr. G 8.5 4.2 1.8 1 Naadir Tharpe 5-11 170 So. G 0.9 0.3 0.7 4 Justin Wesley 6-8 200 Sr. F 1.2 1.6 5 Jeff Withey 7-0 235 Sr. C 9.0 6.3 3.6* 40 Kevin Young 6-8 185 Sr. F 3.4 3.0 0.6 *Blocks per game
Newcomers (9) NO PLAYER 2 Rio Adams 34 Perry Ellis 33 Landen Lucas 10 Evan Manning 23 Ben McLemore 32 Zach Peters 11 Tyler Self 31 Jamari Traylor 3 Andrew White III
HT WT CL POS PPG RPG APG 6-3 180 Fr. G - - 6-8 225 Fr. F - - 6-10 230 Fr. F - - 6-3 170 Fr. G - - 6-5 185 RFr. G - - 6-9 240 Fr. F - - 6-2 165 Fr. G - - 6-8 220 RFr. F - - 6-6 210 Fr. G - - -
Starters Lost (2) NO PLAYER HT WT CL POS PPG RPG APG 0 Thomas Robinson 6-10 237 Jr. F 17.7 11.9 1.8 10 Tyshawn Taylor 6-3 185 Sr. G 16.6 2.3 4.8 Letterwinners Lost (5) NO PLAYER HT WT CL POS PPG RPG APG 40 Jordan Juenemann 6-3 195 Sr. G 1.3 0.5 0.1 22 Merv Lindsay 6-7 195 Fr. G 0.9 0.3 0.1 0 Thomas Robinson 6-10 237 Jr. F 17.7 11.9 1.8 10 Tyshawn Taylor 6-3 185 Sr. G 16.6 2.3 4.8 2 Conner Teahan 6-6 212 Sr. G 5.5 2.1 1.1