Kansas Jayhawks

LAWRENCE | About a year ago, Cole Aldrich was a nervous freshman when Kansas played its first big-name opponent.

LAWRENCE | LaChelda Jacobs scored 18 points and Sade Morris added 17 — all in the second half — leading Kansas to a 76-55 win over Iowa on Tuesday.

Xavier Henry, the No. 3 overall player in the 2009 college basketball recruiting class according to Rivals.com, chose Memphis over Kansas on Tuesday morning in an announcement that aired on ESPNU.

Kansas men's basketball head coach Bill Self met with the media Friday afternoon in Hadl Auditorium to discuss the upcoming CBE Classic championship rounds in which the Jayhawks will play two games at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo., against Washington and then either Florida or Syracuse.

No. 24 Kansas takes a 2-0 record into the championship rounds of the O'Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic Nov. 24 and 25 at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. KU will face Pac-10 foe Washington (2-1) in the semifinal Nov. 24 at 9 p.m. The game will be televised on ESPN2.

The Kansas (2-0) women's basketball team will hit the road for the first time this season when it travels across I-70 to face the Saint Louis (1-2) Billikens on Sunday, Nov. 23. Game time is slated for 4 p.m., in Chaifetz Arena on the Saint Louis University campus. Kansas leads the all-time series with the Billikens 3-1, while KU head coach Bonnie Henrickson is 1-0 versus SLU after last season's 81-55 win in Allen Fieldhouse.

One of the top JC corner prospects in the state of California this year is CCSF CB Dejon Gomes (6-1, 190) and he's got the offers to prove it. He's already set up visits to Big 12 and Conference USA schools and he could see more offers come in before it's all said and done...

He's helped lead one of the top JC programs in the country to the California JUCO playoffs and Mt. San Antonio LB Alfred Rowe (6-3, 215) is a focused man. First and foremost he's got his attention trained on the Mounties' next opponent -- Allan Hancock -- but he's also got his eyes set on earning a D-1 scholarship and that could be just around the corner.

Blake Bell, 2010 quarterback from Wichita-Bishop Carroll Catholic, Kansas, has collected a handful of early scholarship offers. Bell projects to rank as one of the top signal caller prospects in the Midwest and should receive more offers from coast-to-coast.