Kansas’ basketball program, in conjunction with the entire university, will be shipping gear to residents of the flood-ravaged city of Houston on Thursday.
Bill Self’s Jayhawks are responding to University of Houston coach Kelvin Sampson’s Twitter request for all of his coaching counterparts to donate 10 pairs of shoes and 20 shirts to those who lost their belongings in Hurricane Harvey.
“We’ve got every old camp shirt, shoes, shorts. Anything we have we are going to send down that way,” 15th-year KU coach Self said Wednesday night in an interview with The Star. “We’ve got boxes upon boxes.