Kansas Basketball

The University of Kansas basketball is widely known by the team nickname of Jayhawks. It is composed of teams from the men’s and women's divisions.
KU basketball, which is short for Kansas University basketball, has seen some impressive performances by both the men's and women's divisions as they managed to snag a few Big 12 conference titles in the past. The Kansas basketball teams are part of the Big 12 conference that is made up of schools from the states located in the Central region of the United States. The University of Kansas basketball program is just one of the twelve members of this conference that encompasses seven states.

The Kansas Jayhawks basketball program has quite an impressive team in the guise of the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team. The KU men's basketball team has gone on to prove their worth in the game in the regular season conference championships, the conference tournament championships and the NCAA National tournament championships. The Kansas Jayhawk basketball team for men has won two NCAA national tournament championships in the past, one in 1952 and another in 1988. The team's titles in the regular conference season cover the years of 1997 and 1998, then again in 2002 and 2003. The Kansas basketball team had a three-peat in the regular conference championships from the years of 2005 until 2007. Conference tournament championships were also claimed by this team in the years 1997, 1998 and 1999, as well as in 2006 and 2007.

One popular rivalry in the Big 12 Conference is the legendary KU vs KSU basketball rivalry. Both universities are in the same state and both are members of the Big 12 conference. This rivalry comes to the forefront when both teams come head to head in the Sunflower Showdown, which is the competition between both universities' athletic programs. This legendary yet friendly rivalry has been a regular feature for basketball fans in the region, since the times when the colleges were still being put up. The two universities have met on the basketball court numerous times in the past with the competition being most intense in the 1950s.

Fans of the Kansas University basketball team can get their KU basketball tickets from the official website of the team. Checking out the Kansas University basketball schedule online will also give these avid followers of the team an idea of when they should purchase their Kansas Jayhawk basketball tickets. With both the KU basketball schedule and the Kansas University basketball tickets easily accessible online, getting your own Kansas basketball tickets for the year is pretty easy.