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Gary Bedore (KU basketball reporter)

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Little’s status still up in air
Red-shirt decision will be made before Tuesday’s KSU game
January 9, 2009
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.
Gary Bedore’s KU basketball notebook
January 8, 2009
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.
Marcus Morris on rise
Freshman wants to be full-game player
January 8, 2009
Marcus Morris had a good first half against Siena and hopes to put two good halves together.
Disappearing ‘D’
Saints score at will, throw scare into KU
January 7, 2009
Unranked Siena simply shredded Kansas University’s always-proud defense on Tuesday night in Allen Fieldhouse.
Weighty issues
Guard Collins is at his lowest weight as a Jayhawk
12:00 a.m., January 6, 2009 Updated 09:05 a.m.
Sherron Collins has won his own, personal Battle of the Bulge.
Gary Bedore’s KU basketball notebook
January 6, 2009
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.
Hey, ma! This dunk’s for you
Taylor’s mother on hand for son’s slams in UT victory
12:00 a.m., January 5, 2009 Updated 09:06 a.m.
Mother Jeanell Taylor and other relatives of Kansas University’s Tyshawn Taylor watched as the Jayhawks slammed Tennessee, 92-85.
KU licks Volunteers
Collins sparks KU win
January 4, 2009
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.’
Kansas basketball notebook
January 4, 2009
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.
Pearl radiates energy on court
January 3, 2009
Bruce Pearl most likely will be decked out in a dapper black suit and orange tie for today’s Kansas-Tennessee nonconference basketball clash in Allen Fieldhouse.

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