Kansas City native Brandon Rush told himself he wasn’t going to get emotional when he saw his No. 25 jersey unfurled in the rafters at Allen Fieldhouse on Wednesday night.
He nearly couldn’t follow through on that promise.
“Before we started, I was on the bench. I was about to break a tear and stuff like that,” Rush said. “My wife (Ashlee) had to calm me down a little bit.”
Rush became the 28th KU men’s player to have his jersey retired, as the school unveiled a blue No. 25 banner next to teammate Mario Chalmers in the southwest corner of the fieldhouse.