Third-year Kansas sophomore guard Elmarko Jackson, who tore the patellar tendon in his left knee during a Bill Self basketball camp scrimmage on June 4, 2024, participated full-go in the Jayhawks’ first official practice of the summer session.
The practice took place on Monday morning. KU’s summer session runs until July 25.
“Elmarko is healthy. He’s not 100% as far as rhythm, but he’ll make a big jump (this year),” Self, KU’s 23rd-year hoops coach, said Monday.
Self spoke later Monday at the annual Otto Schnellbacher Golf Classic, sponsored by the Topeka Jayhawk Club and contested at GreatLIFE at Shawnee Country Club in Kansas’ capital city.
Just one player on KU’s current roster of 14 (including four walk-ons) was unable to practice Monday. The walk-ons are waiting to see if they’ll be “grandfathered in” to stay with the program following an upcoming New York judge’s ruling on roster sizes.
Bryson Tiller, a 6-foot-10, 240-pound redshirt freshman from the Overtime Elite program in Atlanta, took part in a light workout on the side. Tiller had surgery on his left ankle last March.
