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Gary Bedore

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Little’s status still up in air

Red-shirt decision will be made before Tuesday’s KSU game

As of noon, Thursday, Mario Little needed to score about 20 tickets for Saturday’s Kansas University-Michigan State basketball game in East Lansing, Mich.

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Marcus Morris on rise

Freshman wants to be full-game player

Marcus Morris had a good first half against Siena and hopes to put two good halves together.

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Kansas University coach Bill Self during an 810-AM radio interview Wednesday was asked about the consistent play of sophomore wing Brady Morningstar, who averages 7.7 points, 2.9 assists and 2.7 rebounds a game. “Kansas won a national championship with a guy named (Jeff) Gueldner. To me, Brady is a lot like Jeff … makes shots when he’s open, guards the other team’s best perimeter player for most of the time,” Self said.

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Disappearing ‘D’

Saints score at will, throw scare into KU

Unranked Siena simply shredded Kansas University’s always-proud defense on Tuesday night in Allen Fieldhouse.

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Weighty issues

Guard Collins is at his lowest weight as a Jayhawk

Sherron Collins has won his own, personal Battle of the Bulge.

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Pete Iorizzo’s blog in the Albany (N.Y.) Times Union details a trip that started with boarding a commercial flight at 5:45 a.m., Eastern time in Albany, and ended with touchdown at 4:30 p.m., at Kansas City International.

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Hey, ma! This dunk’s for you

Taylor’s mother on hand for son's slams in UT victory

Mother Jeanell Taylor and other relatives of Kansas University’s Tyshawn Taylor watched as the Jayhawks slammed Tennessee, 92-85.

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Harrison Barnes, a 6-foot-6 junior forward from Ames (Iowa) High School, attended on an unofficial recruiting visit and sat behind KU’s bench. Before the game, Barnes left his seat to shake hands with Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl, who had wandered to KU’s side of the court to visit with the Jayhawk coaches. KU and Tennessee are on Barnes’ list of schools, with Duke, Iowa, North Carolina and others.

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KU licks Volunteers

Collins sparks KU win

Unable to sleep, Sherron Collins cell-phoned a loved one at 1:15 a.m. Saturday for some soothing words of wisdom: 22-year-old big brother Steve Collins, in Chicago. “I told him I couldn’t stop thinking about the game,” Sherron Collins, Kansas University’s emotional point guard, said. “He said, ‘You will be all right. You’ll do good. You live for these games.’

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Tennessee forward Wayne Chism, who was taken off the court on a stretcher after banging his head and back on the court after going up for a blocked shot in the Volunteers’ last game, practiced Friday and is expected to play today.

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