Ben McLemore

Position: Guard ▪ Height: 6-5 ▪ Weight: 195

School: Kansas
Career: 37 G, 15.9 PPG, 5.2 RPG, 2.0 APG

Consensus All-American: 2013 (2nd Tm)

• 5/17 KC Kingdom: Ben McLemore Speaks About AAU Coach:   Ben McLemore did an extended interview with Sports Illustrated about the situation regarding his former AAU coach Darius...
• 5/5 KC Kingdom: Kansas Jayhawks’ Ben McLemore’s AAU Coach Received Cash Gifts: In a report from Eric Prisbell of USA Today, Darius Cobb, Ben McLemore‘s AAU coach in St. Louis received thousands in cash,...

• 4/30 StoopSports.com: 2013 NBA Mock Draft: Volume 3: Jason Quint- The April 28th deadline for college players to declare for the draft has passed, and with it came a plethora of NBA...
• 4/18 Pickin' Splinters: Should they stay or should they go (now): NCAA’s April 16 withdrawal deadline adds confusion to NBA draft process: While I'm sure the NCAA's intention is to hogtie their best athletes into making a premature, life-altering decision (sarcasm......
• 4/9 KC Kingdom: Ben McLemore Declares for NBA Draft: Ben McLemore announced today he will be leaving Kansas to enter the NBA Draft. “I will remember this place for the rest...
• 4/8 KC Kingdom: Kansas Jayhawk Jeff Withey Named NABC Co-Defensive Player of the Year: The Kansas Jayhawks’ senior 7-footer Jeff Withey was named the National Association of Basketball Coaches’  Co-Defensive...
• 4/5 KC Kingdom: Rio Adams to Stay At Kansas?: Only a few days removed from saying he was leaving Kansas to play closer to home, Rio Adams appears to be having a change of heart....
• 4/1 Pickin' Splinters: Xavier’s Semaj Christon Named To 2013 Kyle Macy Freshman All-America Team: Xavier University freshman guard Semaj Christon has been named to the 2013 Kyle Macy Freshman All-America Team, which was announced...

• 3/30 KC Kingdom: Kansas Jayhawks Suffer Sweet Sixteen Collapse: In the first half against Michigan, Kansas shot 68%, a blistering start unlike their previous two NCAA Tournament games. Going...
• 3/25 KC Kingdom: 2013 NCAA Tournament: Kansas Uses Big Second Half to Defeat North Carolina: For a one seed, Kansas has had its warts, and all of them were on display in the first half of their 70-58 win over North Carolina....
• 3/23 KC Kingdom: NCAA Tournament: Kansas Jayhawks Survive. Advance. Avoid History.: The mostly-KU-friendly crowd at Sprint Center in Kansas City couldn’t have felt comfortable at halftime with the Kansas...
• 3/19 Pickin' Splinters: USBWA announces 2012-13 Men’s All-America Team: A mix of young standout players has been selected to the 2012-13 U.S. Basketball Writers Association All-America Team. Eight of...
• 3/18 KC Kingdom: Kansas Jayhawks Earn #1 Seed; Play In Kansas City: Despite a brutal 3-game losing streak in February that included a loss to an awful TCU Horned Frog team, the Kansas Jayhawks were...
• 3/17 KC Kingdom: Tigers, Wildcats, Jayhawks Await Their NCAA Fate: Selection Sunday is here and with it comes the anti**** of where the local schools will land in the bracket. The good news is...
• 3/16 KC Kingdom: KU Handles K-State To Earn Big XII Title, Possible 1 Seed.: Kansas (29-5) used stifling defense and a second half run to beat K-State (27-7) and win the Big Twelve title. With the win, Kansas...
• 3/15 KC Kingdom: Perry Ellis Has A Big Night; Jayhawks Sweep Cyclones: The Kansas Jayhawks (28-5,14-4) used a big second half to push past the Iowa State Cyclones (22-11,11-7) for the third time this...
• 3/15 KC Kingdom: 2013 Big 12 Preview: Third Round: Tonight should be exciting! The Big 12 basketball Tournament plays its semi final round games tonight in the Spring Center in...
• 3/14 KC Kingdom: Big 12 Tournament 2013: Kansas Jayhawks Easily Dispatch Texas Tech: The Kansas Jayhawks took the first step towards the Big 12 Tournament Championship today, cruising past Texas Tech 91-63 in Kansas...
• 3/12 StoopSports.com: Big 12 Tournament Preview: Jesse Pearlman- If there is one conference that describes the lack of reliability of men’s college basketball this year, it’s...
• 3/12 KC Kingdom: Kansas Jayhawks & Kansas State Wildcats Showered With Big 12 Awards: As expected when two teams share the Big 12 Conference basketball championship, players on those teams enjoy plenty of post season...
• 3/11 KC Kingdom: KC Power Rankings: Race for Top Spot is Tight: It was an odd week for the power rankings as so many teams achieved significant accomplishments with some tinge of disappointment....
• 3/10 KC Kingdom: Jayhawks Lose at Baylor, Still Win Ninth Straight Big 12 Title: This couldn’t have been the plan Bill Self and Kansas had drawn up to win their ninth straight conference championship....
• 3/7 KC Kingdom: KC Headlines: Eric Winston is Gone, Alex Gordon is Grand, Dave Grohl is a God: Former Director of Pro Personnel Ray Farmer has left the Chiefs to become an assistant general manager in Cleveland. The Sporting...
• 3/6 KC Kingdom: Video: Kansas Jayhawk Coach Self Talks NBA And Ben McLemore: Yesterday, the head coach of the Kansas Jayhawks Bill Self spoke with ESPN’s Andy Katz on Katz’ Korner about the likelihood...
• 3/6 KC Kingdom: Big 12 Basketball Weekly Rundown – 03/06/13: The Big 12 Conference basketball championship will be decided on Saturday. This we know that for sure. Just how is a mystery because...
• 3/5 KC Kingdom: Video: Kansas Dunks Its Way To A Win Over Texas Tech: The Kansas Jayhawks had no problem with Texas Tech last night, winning 79-42 in Elijah Johnson, Travis Releford, Jeff Withey,...
• 3/5 KC Kingdom: Kansas Jayhawks Rout Texas Tech on Senior Night: It’s understandable if a group of seniors give years to a basketball program and get a bit tense in front of the hometown...
• 3/4 KC Kingdom: KC Power Rankings: Jayhawks and Wildcats in a Battle for the Top Spot: There is a lot going on in the Kansas City sports scene: The Royals have started spring training, the Chiefs are trying to figure...
• 3/3 KC Kingdom: KC Headlines: K-State Wins, McLemore Goes Off, Tigers Coast, Justin Bieber Had a Very Bad Birthday, A Man Has His Sperm Stolen, And More: Wow, last night was crazy for Kansas State. A buzzer-beater three by an obnoxiously wide open Rodney McGruder vaulted the Wildcats...
• 3/2 KC Kingdom: (Another) Career Day From Ben McLemore Leads Kansas to Victory Over West Virginia: Ben McLemore led the way with a career high 36 points, while Kansas shot 56.7% as a team in a commanding 91-65 victory over West...

• 2/27 StoopSports.com: 2013 NBA Mock Draft: Volume 2: Jason Quint- It doesn’t appear that Nerlens Noel’s season-ending ACL tear will mix up the top of the lottery all that much....
• 2/26 KC Kingdom: Kansas Jayhawks’ Elijah Johnson Too Strong For Iowa State’s Magic: Forty minutes doesn’t seem to be enough to contain a Kansas/Iowa State matchup. For the second time this year, Kansas and...
• 2/24 KC Kingdom: Kansas Jayhawks Avenge Loss By Dominating TCU: The first time Kansas faced the TCU Horned Frogs, it took them over seven minutes to get on the scoreboard and they finished with...
• 2/21 KC Kingdom: Kansas Jayhawks Win Wild One in Stillwater in Double Overtime: Naadir Tharpe stepped in after Elijah Johnson fouled out with three minutes left in the first overtime. All he did from there...
• 2/19 KC Kingdom: Kansas Jayhawks To Host Top Recruit Andrew Wiggins: Kansas Jayhawkcoach Bill Self is trying really hard to improve his number two ranked recruiting class for the 2013-2014 season. ...
• 2/17 KC Kingdom: Kansas Romps Texas on a Fun Night in the Phog: After cruising to a win over Kansas State and snapping a three game losing streak, Kansas was able to exhale a bit as Texas came...
• 2/17 KC Kingdom: Kansas Romps Texas on a Fun Night in the Phog: After cruising to a win over Kansas State and snapping a three game losing streak, Kansas was able to exhale a bit as Texas came...
• 2/16 KC Kingdom: Kansas Jayhawks Men’s Basketball Does the Harlem Shake: I need to offer a disclaimer. I’m still not sure I understand this internet meme, but I also can’t help being entertained...
• 2/10 KC Kingdom: Kansas Jayhawks Drop Third Straight; Fanbase Panics: First, the good news. Despite losing at Oklahoma on Saturday, Kansas is still 19-4 this season. Despite their third straight loss,...
• 2/7 KC Kingdom: Kansas Jayhawks Implode Against TCU Horned Frogs: With 12:42 left in the first half, Jamari Traylor made a short jumper after a pass from Ben McLemore. They were the Jayhawks’...
• 2/4 KC Kingdom: The Jayhawks Struggle With Turnovers: Expectations for the Kansas Jayhawks basketball team are always a little unfair.  Kansas fans are tremendously spoiled and tend...
• 2/3 KC Kingdom: Kansas Drops Home Game to Oklahoma State, Snaps Streak: Entering Saturday’s game against the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Kansas Jayhawks had a 33 game winning streak at home. Under...

• 1/29 KC Kingdom: Kansas Struggles But Survives at West Virginia: In the opening minutes, it seemed like any other Kansas matchup with a .500 team. KU scored 12 points in the first 5:11 of the...
• 1/27 KC Kingdom: Kansas Extends Winning Streak to Seventeen After Win Over Oklahoma: It was more of the same at Allen Fieldhouse during the Kansas Jayhawks 67-54 win over the Oklahoma Sooners. Ben McLemore hit his...
• 1/23 StoopSports.com: 2013 NBA Mock Draft: Volume 1: Jason Quint-  With the College Basketball season heating up and players rising up to the pressures of conference play, it is...
• 1/23 KC Kingdom: Big 12 College Basketball Weekly Rundown: Something unexpected has happened early in the Big 12 Conference college basketball season.  A chasm has grown between the top...
• 1/22 KC Kingdom: Kansas Holds Kansas State at Bay In Manhattan: At the half, Ben McLemore and Rodney McGruder – the leading scorers on the year for both Kansas and Kansas State –...
• 1/22 KC Kingdom: Spradling Surprises the Sooners in Wildcat Win: When the Oklahoma Sooners took the floor on Saturday afternoon in Manhattan, they were surely prepared to have their hands full...
• 1/20 KC Kingdom: Kansas Messes With Texas But Lives to Tell the Tale: They’re not all masterpieces. At one point in the second half of Kansas’s 64-59 win on Saturday at Texas, they turned...
• 1/17 KC Kingdom: McLemore Named Big 12 Player of the Week: It’s becoming old hat around these parts but another player on one of our local teams took home player of the week honors....
• 1/16 KC Kingdom: Big 12 Basketball Weekly Rundown: The Big 12 Conference’s first week with a full slate certainly brought its share of terrific games.  A couple of schools have...
• 1/15 KC Kingdom: Jayhawks Defense Overwhelms Baylor in Victory But Ben McLemore Injures Ankle: With 3:58 left in Kansas’s 61-44 win over Baylor, Ben McLemore nailed a three-pointer to the delight of the home crowd. After...
• 1/12 KC Kingdom: Kansas Keeps Rolling Behind Kevin Young: After one half of play, it looked like the Kansas Jayhawks were in line for a letdown after their thrilling Ben McLemore Leads...
• 1/9 KC Kingdom: Ben McLemore Leads Kansas to Overtime Victory Over Iowa State: Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Kansas needs three to tie, dribbles to the corner, hands it off and hits the shot to go...
• 1/6 KC Kingdom: Kansas Survives Tough Test From Temple: Early in the second half of Kansas’s 69-62 win, Kevin Young made a layup and Travis Releford hit a three pointer to put...

• 12/30 KC Kingdom: Hot Shooting, Good Defense Equal an Easy Kansas Jayhawks Win: Behind the best shooting night of the season so far, the Kansas Jayhawks dominated the American University Eagles on 89-57 Saturday...
• 12/26 KC Kingdom: Rookie of the Week Honors Added to McLemore’s Growing Resume: Not many freshman hit the ground running in college basketball quite like Ben McLemore has for the Jayhawks. Yesterday he added...
• 12/23 KC Kingdom: Ben McLemore Soars in Kansas Win at Ohio State: At one point in Saturday’s win, Ben McLemore shot a jumper from the top of the key that bounced high off the back iron twice...
• 12/19 KC Kingdom: Kansas Dominates Richmond Behind Big Jeff Withey Night: In 2004, Richmond came to Allen Fieldhouse and shocked the Kansas Jayhawks, taking home a 69-68 win. It’s one of just seven...
• 12/16 KC Kingdom: Ben McLemore and Kansas Jayhawks Trample Belmont 89-60: A total team effort led the Kansas Jayhawks to a big 89-60 win over Belmont. Kansas played a consistent game on offense, getting...
• 12/10 KC Kingdom: Just Like Old Times: Kansas Jayhawks Rout Colorado: Kansas scored 20 of the first 25 points in their first matchup with old Big XII rival Colorado since their departure to the Pac-12...
• 12/7 KC Kingdom: Jayhawk’s Withey Big 12 Player of the Week: Easily lost in the chaos of the MLB Winter Meetings and the aftermath of the Jovan Belcher tragedy was the news that Jeff Withey...