In the final moments in 2025 lets think back through some of the biggest memories on the hardwood for the Kansas Jayhawks. Okay, admittedly, for a school that has such a high bar set the 2025 was not the best season, and I think most will admit to that.
But for now, the only thing Kansas can do is focus on this incoming conference slate. The Big 12 has been receiving a lot of deserved praise for its quality from top to bottom, and rightly so. There really is no off day from here on in for the Jayhawks, if they want to claim their first regular-season Big 12 title since the 2022-23 season.
To further beat the dead horse of just how challenging the Big 12 is, CBS Sports’ Matt Norlander recently released his “Top 25 college basketball stories of 2025, ranked: Florida wins title; Duke, Cooper Flagg fall in Final Four” piece, where one of the most embarrassing results in Kansas history made the list.
When Kansas took to the court against the Baylor Bears at the beginning of February, little did those in the Ferrell Center know that Kansas was going to allow a 60-point second half from the Bears to erase a 19-point halftime lead.
On that day, Baylor notched five double-digit scorers, including Robert Wright, who led all scorers with 24 points on a 9-16 rate from the field.
Now, the funny thing is, there is only one player who still currently plays on the Jayhawks who was a part of that calamitous collapse, and that was freshman Flory Bidunga. Barring Bidunga, every other player has left the team in one way or another.
That loss of course pushed Kansas to a 15-6 record as the Jayhawks would eventually finish with a 21-13 overall record and missed out on a substantial run in the NCAA Tournament with a first-round exit at the hands of the Arkansas Razorbacks in a 79-72 loss.
Kansas will look to jump off to a strong 1-0 start in conference play on January 3rd with an opener against the UCF Golden Knights. Tipoff is set for 1 p.m. CT with streaming available on Peacock.
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