A fan favorite during his playing days at the University of Kansas, Jerod Haase received a hero’s welcome on Dec. 3, 2016 — the day he brought his Stanford basketball team to Allen Fieldhouse to face the No. 3-ranked Jayhawks.
Many friends and former classmates approached the 1997 KU graduate during warmups to hug or grasp the hand of the gritty 6-foot-3 former Jayhawk guard, whose teams went 42-0 in an Allen Fieldhouse during his three-year KU career (1995-97).
The usual packed house of 16,300 stood and applauded not only during pre-game introductions of the teams, but during the playing of KU’s pump-up video, which included highlights of Haase in a Jayhawk uniform.