Point guard Naadir Tharpe has decided not to return for his senior season at Kansas. Tharpe and coach Bill Self made the announcement through a statement released by Kansas athletics. Here is the press release: LAWRENCE, Kan. – Junior point guard Naadir Tharpe will not return to the Kansas men’s basketball program for his senior season, […]

Former UConn assistant coach Dave Leitao is relocating again. Tulsa announced Thursday  that Leitao will follow former Missouri head coach Frank Haith to Tulsa and join the coaching staff there. Leitao, a long time assistant under Jim Calhoun at UConn, has been a head coach at Northeastern, Virginia and DePaul. Here’s the Associated Press story […]

The UConn Huskies are headed back to Madison Square Garden and the Big Apple. From the 1988 NIT championship to all those amazing moments in the Big East tournament and most recently a dramatic win over Indiana earlier this season, the Garden has become a favorite stage for the UConn program. Saturday night’s big win […]

If the most recent winter storm leaves you craving some baseball (put me in that category), WHUS has you covered with UConn action from the diamond this weekend. And if you prefer staying in a cold and icy mode, WHUS can handle that too. Don’t you love it when seasons overlap. Of course, the UConn […]

Michigan on the rise in my power rankings for FoxSports.com this week.

Syracuse University wants a new dome. According to The Post-Standard newspaper in Syracuse, University officials are proposing construction of a 44,000 seat building with a retractable roof at a cost of $495 million. Wow. UConn better get going on those Gampel Pavilion renovations. The Carrier Dome opened in 1980. Gampel opened in 1990. Of course, the […]

There hasn’t been much movement in the power rankings the past two or three weeks. The light schedule, brought on by semester exams and college football’s bowl season, is the primary reason. That’s about to change. Things are going to get busy and all things are going to focus on conference schedules. That’s the fun […]

Welcome to my new blog page. If you ever visited my old blog, welcome back. If you are a new reader, welcome to Ken Davis Files. It has been over two years since I’ve written on my own blog. Why? Well, from Sept. 2011 to Sept. 2013, I was busy covering all things related to […]

The shock factor is slowly going away. Reality is starting to set in. Somewhere in the flood of memories and sadness these last three days, I realized I will never be on the receiving end of a Solomon Shrug again – and I’m really going to miss that. If I had been thinking, I would […]