‘Pretty special’: KU alumnus excited his former player Dawes is now a Jayhawk

One of the people principally responsible for shaping the basketball career of new Kansas forward Keanu Dawes was a Jayhawk himself. “It was neat when Keanu told me that he was going there,” said Brett Nixon, Dawes’ high school coach at Stratford High in Houston. “Pretty special.” Nixon, though born and raised in Texas, loved […]